CFC membership extensions due to COVID 19

[Bob Gillanders]

We are extending CFC Memberships, as it just does not seem appropriate to allow memberships to lapse when there are no events to play.
The pandemic struck early in March, so the formula will be as follows:

Memberships with an expiry date of 2020/03/01 remain current until we are back to a reasonable level of OTB play.
Memberships expiring 2020/03/01 will expire on that date and others expiring past that date will be extended for N months (N = number of months between 2020/03/01 and return date).
New players and those with an expiry date earlier than 2020/03/01 will be required to buy a membership.

or for greater clarity.

Memberships expiring 2020/03/01 will expire on that return date and others expiring past 2020/03/01 will be extended for N months (N = number of months between 2020/03/01 and return date).

Return date being when we are back to a reasonable level of OTB play as determined by the CFC executive.

To illustrate:

Say OTB chess returns Sept 1, then

2020/03/01 becomes 2020/09/01
2020/04/01 becomes 2020/10/01
2020/05/01 becomes 2020/11/01
Etc.

So everyone gets a free pass for shutdown period (March-august) - 6 months

2020/04/01 gets 1 month of membership (Sept) past return date.
2020/05/01 gets 2 months of membership (Sept-Oct) past return date
Etc.