Agenda For AGM meetings August 22 to 29

CFC AGM Outgoing Meeting Agenda

1. Agenda
2. Opening Comments of Chair
3. voting member Sign-in - sign in by voting for any of the options
4. Reports (Executive members and Officers please post your reports here)
A. President
B. Vice President
C. Secretary
D. Past President
E. FIDE Representative
F. Youth Coordinator
G. Masters Representative
H. Reports from Board Members at Large
I. Woman’s Coordinator
J. Rating Auditor
K. Chess Foundation of Canada
L. Kalev Pugi Fund
M. Treasurer
N. Executive Director: Financial Report

Part 2 - Entire meeting - Motions and Discussion Items

5A Discussion Items


1) Chess in a Covid-19 environment
2) CFC financial situation in 2021 and beyond
3) New business


5B Motions
There are no motions.

Part III "The Voting Booth" Voting on motions:
Attention voting members: the voting period is day 4 through day 7

6.1 Voting on motions
Only necessary if there are motions.

Part IV At end of meeting
7. Closing Comments by Chair

8. Adjournment

CFC AGM Incoming Meeting Agenda

Chess Federation of Canada - Annual General Meeting - Incoming Voting Members
(Note to voting members: all votes open at 9pm ET, all votes and nominations close at 6pm ET, the meeting ends at 10pm ET on August 29th)

Part 1 - Agenda and Sign-in
1. Agenda & Opening Comments of Chair
2. voting member Sign-in


Part 2 - Election of voting members from Non-Affiliated Provinces / Territories
3. Election of voting members from Non-Affiliated Provinces/Territories (nominations close on day 3, if elections are required this will take place on days 4-5)


Part 3 - Elections of Federation Executive Members, Officers and other positions

4. Nomination of Candidates for Election (nominations close at 6pm ET - day 3, elections continue through 6pm ET - day 7)


DIRECTORS

4.1 President
4.2 Vice-President
4.3 Secretary
4.4 Treasurer
4.5 Youth Coordinator
4.6 FIDE Representative
4.7 Director at Large
4.8 Director at Large

OFFICERS
4.8 Rating Auditor
4.9 Women's Chess Coordinator

5.A Elections of the above positions

5.B Election of Directors and Officers

6. Appointment of CFC Committee members: (nominations close at 6pm ET - day 3, elections for contested positions continue through 6pm ET - day 7)

* 6.1 Chess Foundation of Canada Trustees - Four year term:
* 6.2 Chess Foundation of Canada Trustees - One year term:
* 6.3 Kalev Pugi Fund Committee:
* 6.4 National Appeals Committee:

7. Election of CFC Committee members (see sections 4.1 - 4.11 - in sections 4.1 - 6.4 all positions where an election is being held is marked with *)

8.Discussion of agenda items

Voting on all items excluding voting members, Executive and Officers will begin on day 4 and continue to day 7 (Saturday)
10. Bids for 2021/2022 Events and beyond

10E Any other Bids/Business:

11. Other Business

New Agenda Items for discussion only.

1) Chess for life and Chess for Freedom initiatives in rehabilitation
2) Online cheating, controlling and detecting it in CFC events. Lessons from online CYCC.
3) CFC regular rating an online tournament
4) Setting up an associated chess charity
5) Straw poll on changing the name of the Executive Director position per request of Michael Barron
6) Straw poll on increasing the number of directors to nine per request of Michael Barron

12. A. Straw poll on changing the name of the Executive Director position
12. B. Straw poll on increasing the size of the board of directors to nine

13. Adjournment & Closing Comments by Chair

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Vladimir Drkulec

CFC AGM Outgoing Meeting Agenda

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5B Motions
There are no motions.

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Vlad,

Please include in the Agenda for voting 2 Motions discussed at the last VM meeting:

1) Motion to rename Executive Director position:
To avoid terminology confusion rename the position of paid CFC employee "Executive Director" to "Office Manager".

https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...7485#post37485

2) Motion to Include CFC Women's Coordinator into CFC Board of Directors.
As a result, CFC Board of Directors shall consist of 9 Executive Officers:
1) President,
2) Vice-President,
3) Secretary,
4) Treasurer,
5) FIDE Representative,
6) Women’s Coordinator,
7) Youth Coordinator,
8) Director of Corporate Affairs,
9) Director at Large.

https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s.../page2&p=37460

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Michael Barron

Vlad,

Please include in the Agenda for voting 2 Motions discussed at the last VM meeting:

1) Motion to rename Executive Director position:
To avoid terminology confusion rename the position of paid CFC employee "Executive Director" to "Office Manager".

https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...7485#post37485

2) Motion to Include CFC Women's Coordinator into CFC Board of Directors.
As a result, CFC Board of Directors shall consist of 9 Executive Officers:
1) President,
2) Vice-President,
3) Secretary,
4) Treasurer,
5) FIDE Representative,
6) Women’s Coordinator,
7) Youth Coordinator,
8) Director of Corporate Affairs,
9) Director at Large.

https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s.../page2&p=37460

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There is very little support for this but I will include both in the meeting as a straw poll. If the voting members support it then it can be implemented as a formal vote at the next quarterly meeting or at a special meeting depending on the NFP act rules governing such a question.

After 10 years as rating auditor I plan to step down this year. I will offer any help or advice requested by my successor until they are comfortable in the position.

Can we get a summary somewhere on this CFC Forum of, at the least, the new (2021-22) CFC Executive, including those who were acclaimed (rather than elected)? I would assume, for example, that Fred McKim was acclaimed as Treasurer for the coming year, but I haven't seen anything stating this plainly, unless I have missed it.

The board of directors remained the same with one addition through a board election after the AGM:

Youth Coordinator - Christina Tao
Women's Coordinator - Oksana Golubeva
Director at Large - Patricia Gamliel
Director at Large - Mark Dutton
Secretary - Lyle Craver
FIDE representative and Zone President and Masters Representative - Victor Plotkin
Treasurer - Fred McKim
Vice-President - Egis Zeromskis
President - Vlad Drkulec

A big thanks to all of you who serve the CFC!

Here's the full report copied from the Incoming Meeting Agenda item where it was first published:

(Or hit this direct link for anybody who wants to go directly there)

REPORT ON NOMINATIONS:

3. VMs from Non-affiliated provinces (Quebec)

There are 3 positions to be filled with 3 nominees received.

These are Richard Bérubé, Éric Bopala and Vadim Tsypin

I hereby declare all three elected by acclamation

4. (CFC Executive) The following nominations have been received:

For president: Vladimir Drkulec ACCLAIMED

For vice-president: Egidijus Zeromskis ACCLAIMED

For secretary: Lyle Craver, Danny Goldenberg.

For treasurer: Fred McKim ACCLAIMED

For Youth Coordinator: Christina Tao ACCLAIMED

For FIDE Representative: Victor Plotkin ACCLAIMED

For Director(s) at Large: Pierre Dénommée,Mark Dutton, Patricia Gamliel

At the suggestion of the president a single Voting Booth will be created. VMs may vote for at most two positions but are not required to cast two voted.

Members are reminded that given our software you may only vote once meaning if you vote for one candidate you cannot subsequently come back and add a vote for another.


5. (CFC Officers)

For Ratings Auditor: Pierre Dénommée, Tony Li, Brendan Woodroff

For Women’s Coordinator: Pierre Dénommée, Oksana Golubeva

For Chess Foundation Trustee (4 year): Ian Findlay ACCLAIMED
For Chess Foundation Trustee (1 year):Les Bunning ACCLAIMED

Thus the Chess Foundation Trustees for 2021-2022 will be:

2018-2022 Hugh Brodie
2019-2023 Lloyd Lombard
2020-2024 Paul Leblanc
2021-2025 Ian Findlay
2021-2022 Les Bunning

For Kalev Pugi Fund Trustee: Felix Dumont, Michael Lo, Christina Tao

Lo and Tao are ACCLAIMED, Dumont is acclaimed subject to renewing his CFC membership

National Appeals Committee (5 seats) Ilia Bluvshtein, Pierre Dénommée, Mark Dutton, Aris Marghetis, Stephen Wright

All 5 elected by Acclamation.

Congratulations to all those elected and good luck to those facing off in elections.

Voting Members are advised that campaigning is NOT permitted other than in designated areas and will be removed without notice when posted in other locations.

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ADDENDUM - Report on Voting

Elections of Executive and Officers

Election of Secretary: Craver 32, Goldenberg 4 - Lyle Craver is elected CFC Secretary

Election of Directors at Large: Mark Dutton 30, Patricia Gamliel 24, Pierre Dénommée 15 - Dutton and Gamliel are elected Directors at Large

Election of Ratings Auditor: Tony Li 18, Brendan Woodroff 13, Pierre Dénommée 3 - Tony Li is elected CFC Ratings Auditor

Election of Womens' Coordinator - Oksana Golubeva 32, Pierre Dénommée 5 - Oksana Golubeva is elected CFC Womens' Coordinator

Straw Votes: (note to directors - straw votes are non-binding votes taken in many VM Assembly meetings to give the Board a better idea of VM views on particular subjects)

Increasing CFC Board to 9 by adding Womens' Coordinator

Yes (26) Anna Burtasova Christina Tao Christopher Field Christopher Mallon Corinna Wan David Gordon Don Hack Don Parakin Fred McKim Garvin Nunes ian findlay Jason Manley Lee Hendon Michael Barron Morgon Mills Oksana Golubeva Patricia Gamliel Patrick McDonald Paul Leblanc Pierre Dénommée Sasha Starr Stephen Wright Victor Itkin Victor Plotkin Vladimir Drkulec Vladimir Semyonov

No (8) Aris Marghetis David Ludwig Frank Lee Les Bunning Lyle Craver Mark S. Dutton, I.A. Richard Bérubé Richard Bowes

Abstain (2) Egidijus Zeromskis Ilia Bluvshtein

Changing the name of the Executive Director position

No (18) Christopher Mallon David Gordon Don Parakin Fred McKim Garvin Nunes ian findlay Jason Manley Les Bunning Mark S. Dutton, I.A. Morgon Mills Patricia Gamliel Patrick McDonald Paul Leblanc Pierre Dénommée Richard Bowes Stephen Wright Victoria Doknjas Vladimir Drkulec

Yes (6) Aris Marghetis Christopher Field Egidijus Zeromskis Michael Barron Sasha Starr Vladimir Semyonov

Abstain (2) Don Hack Ilia Bluvshtein Victor Itkin

Voting on Bids: Calgary 2023 for Canadian Open and CYCC

Yes (29) Anna Burtasova Aris Marghetis Christina Tao Christopher Field Christopher Mallon Corinna Wan David Gordon David Ludwig Don Hack Don Parakin Egidijus Zeromskis Fred McKim Ilia Bluvshtein Jason Manley Lee Hendon Les Bunning Mark S. Dutton, I.A. Michael Barron Michael Lo Morgon Mills Paul Leblanc Sasha Starr Stephen Wright Vadim Tsypin Victor Itkin Victor Plotkin Victoria Doknjas Vladimir Drkulec Vladimir Semyonov

No (0)
Abstain (0)
Last edited by Lyle Craver; 08-28-2021 at 03:41 PM.