10.1 Youth Advisory Committee

[Michael Lo]

Fred, I am not sure of the legal age requirement for a CFC committee member, the Secretary may be able to give a definite answer. In BC, the Cooperate Act which also governs BC Societies (non-profit organization) requires 18+ (each province has their own age limit) to be a board member or Director, but there is no age limit to be an officer.

I think that is the reason why PACs allow Student Representatives to be in the Committee but they have no voting privilege. PACs may make decisions that are legal binding (e.g. provide fund to school projects) and minors are not legally bind on any decision or contract which complicates the situation if they are allow to vote.

In our case, the Youth Committee only provides advise and the Youth Council does not have their separate finance to manage (unless we want to set that up to manage the membership fee and sponsorship), the Committee's Youth Player Member may reasonable be allow to vote. After all, youth players are the ones that affect by Youth Policy, they should definitely have a say.

[Vladimir Drkulec]

I have a somewhat different view of the committee and its role. Typically it will be composed of coaches, parents and organizers with some of the people being all three at once. The role of the committee is to assist the youth coordinator and the executive and perhaps to provide a training ground for volunteers who might go on to roles with more responsibility within the CFC. Gary Hua who is a chess parent, organizer, coach is one person who I discussed this with at NAYCC. I guess he will have a somewhat different role with respect to the committee as the new youth coordinator. I look forward to working with him.

[Michael Lo]

No matter what the final role of the committee will be, the committee certainly has to work closely with the Youth Coordinator. Gary's opinion on this topic will be invaluable and we are looking forward to it.

[Gary Hua]

Regarding the CFC youth coordinator - I took up the challenge to provide a better service than the current outgoing CFC youth coordinator. I will try my best. I understand that the role is mostly in helping out CFC in selections and processing the applications of youth to International tournaments like WYCC/NAYCC etc.

I have always wanted to promote chess to the community and especially to the youth/kids as I believe Chess is a tool to help them grow to be a better person. That is the reason why I set up a community chess club in my living area and it ook up a lot of my personal time for the club already. I have seen so many kids getting interested and absorbing the benefits that chess provides.

As for youth advisory committee, I am not sure what is the final say as to the role but I definitely want the youth/organizers/parents to be involved and give suggestions as to how we can give ideas to CFC in promoting and helping out the youth. I dont think CFC youth coordinator should be the head of this committee. Let the new CFC youth coordinator ( whoever wins ) to provide a better service to CFC first before even thinking of doing other stuffs. Just my 2 cents