Minutes :: Business Meeting, Monday May 30, 2005
1:30 PM, Marseille, France
submitted by Marjorie Woollacott, ISPGR Secretary
1. Motion to approve minutes from last business meeting in Sydney:
Approved
2. Treasury Report by Bastiaan Bloem.
Current financial balance is 23,373.34.
It is a combination of profits from Sydney, CNRS pre-profits, membership fees and past balance already in treasury (8336.18).
Question regarding dues: what portion of people paid in advance? Only a very small portion.
We would like to have this money act as a buffer for organizing future conferences. This would allow us to organize future conferences ourselves.
A suggestion was made to approach drug companies to support meetings.
3.Dues Increase
Board recommended dues increase to $50 per 2 yrs. This will help support website maintenance. Motion and second to increase dues to $50.
4. Elections:
A. Board Members: elected for 4 yr period and 4 yrs is up.
Duties of Board Member. Communicates with Board suggestions from people in Society, attends scientific board meeting for each ISPGR conference, evaluates abstracts, gives advice to hosts on meeting logistics, etc. (They attend one Board meeting, on the day of registration for the meeting. Other communication is by phone call or e-mail.) Must be member of society for at least 2 of the last meetings.
We also will elect one student member.
Nominations:
1. Aftab patla as board member, U of Waterloo
2. Rosemary Rein as board member, U. of Miami, dept of PT
3. Stephen Perry as board member, U Waterloo
4. Sandy Brauer as board member, U Queansland, Australia
5. Emiliy Keshner as board member, Rehab insti, NW uNiversity
Majority vote was to elect Patla, and Keshner
Nominations for student member:
1. Lori Roki, U. bologna, Italy
2. Mike Chinelli, U Waterloo, Canada
3. Dana Sturnieks, Syndey, Australia
4. Stephanie Jones, McGill University
The majority vote was to elect Lori Roki
B. President of ISPGR
Election of new President (who will work with Fay for next 2 yrs before taking over).
Nominations:
1. Jim Frank, U. Waterloo
2. Jacques, Duysens, Nimagen
The majority vote was to elect Jim Frank.
5. Future ISPGR Meeting locations
Discussion of ISPGR Meeting for 2009:
Dr. Ciari from U. of Bologna in the North of Italy (Emilia-Romagna Region) has offered to host the 2009 meeting in Italy.
Dr. Bas Bloem from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands has also offered to host the 2009 meeting in Nijmegen.
A vote was taken and the majority vote was to have the 2009 ISPGR meeting in Bologna,
Italy in 2009