Minutes for 2005 Ontario Chess association Annual
General Meeting
Meeting was called to order May 21 at
Members present: Barry Thorvardson, Patrick McDonald, Hal
Bond, Shivaharan Thurairasan,
Observers: Halldor Palsson - CFC ,
Proxies:
Barry Thorvardson has 2 outgoing proxies (
Doubleday moved proxies be accepted. Second by McDonald. All voted in favour.
There were no minutes for 2004 meeting. Therefore Thorvardson summarized previous
Annual General Meeting.
Barry Thorvardson read the President's report.
Thurairasan moved President's
report be accepted. Second
by Gordon. All voted in favour.
There was no Vice President's report.
There was no Secretary's report.
Tresurer's report read by
Thorvardson
Motion moved to defer acceptance of treasurer's report for a
later date and a full OCA governor and executive vote. Seconded. All voted in favour.
Motion moved by McDonald for full e-mail list to be present
on OCA website for all executive and governors.
Seconded.
All voted in favour. Patterson requested his e-mail not be put on
website.
Youth report read by Patrick McDonald
Motion moved to accept youth report. Seconded. All voted in favour.
League reports.
Neil Frarey gave an EOCA report.
Hal Bond gave a SWOCL report
Barry Thorvardson gave a
No reports from NOCL or GBCL
Motion moved to accept league reports. Seconded. All voted in favour.
Doubleday moved 2005 Ontario Closed report be accepted. Seconded. All in favour.
Ratification of the new members of the Board
Supposed to be approximately 1 Governor
per 50 members.
EOCA = 7 Governors SWOCL
= 7 Governors
1. Neil James Frarey 1. Hal Bond
2.
3.
4.
5. William Doubleday
6.
7. Kevin Pacey To be named
later.
1 Mark S. Dutton GBCL = 2 governors
2. Caesar Posylek To be named later.
3.
4. Nicholas Varmazis
5.
6.
7. Lindsey Dickie
8. Michael Dougherty
9. Wilf Ferner
Election of Officers. (Schedule at 4:00pm)
Elections for President.
Bond moves Barry Thorvardson for President. Seconded by Doubleday.
No other nominations.
Barry Thorvardson acclaimed president.
Elections for Vice President
Moved Hal Bond for vice president. Seconded.
No other nominations
Hal Bond acclaimed Vice President.
Elections for Youth Co-ordinator.
Frarey moves Patrick McDonald for Youth co-ordinator. Seconded
No other nominations
Patrick McDonald acclaimed Youth co-ordinator
Elections for Tresurer
Moved
No other nominations
Elections for Secretary
Moved
No other nominations
Report on 5 year budget was presented.
Thorvardson recommends leagues report total activity.
Motion from Doubleday that from the Other OCA Activities
heading in the Expenses column, $500.00 is put aside for the Ontario
Open and $500.00 is put aside for the Ontario Closed. Seconded by Frarey. All voted in favour. Motion passed.
Motion from Bond that $2000.00 be
allocated for Futurities to be scheduled during summer to be in synergy with
international tournaments where Foreign players are invited to take advantage
of their presence in Canada. Seconded Frarey. All
voted in favour.
Motion passed.
Motion from Doubleday that executive consider
engineering a proposal to raise provincial fees which can be brought to a full
assembly of governors and executive for discussion and ratification. Seconded by Frarey. All voted in favour. Motion passed.
All bids for youth and junior provincial events should be
submitted to the Youth Co-ordinator, Patrick
McDonald.
All other bids for provincial championships such as Closed,
Women's, Senior should be submitted to the Vice
President, Hal Bond.
Motion for Budget to be adopted as
modified. Seconded. Against:Patterson;. For: everyone else.
Motion for OCA to recommend bid for Canadian Closed and the
Canadian Women's Closed to be 2 separate events held simulaneously
for August 2006 in
Moved meeting to be adjourned. Seconded. All voted in favour. Meeting Adjourned.