Follows the minutes of WSF General Assembly realized by Ishi. The meeting in Prague was last june and fix several project for the next season presented in this document.
General Assembly 2007
Prague, 1-3rd of June 2007
Minutes by Shigeru Ishihara
Attendance of GA (15 countries, 29 persons)
Meinhard Trojer, AUSTRIA
Martin Birner, AUSTRIA
Tom McIllfaterick, CANADA
Adam Faithfull, CANADA
Jaroslav Bocek, CZECH Republic
Remi Forsans, FRANCE
Alex Dörr, GERMANY
Marco Sampaoli, ITALIA
Luciano Rizzi, ITALIA
Roberta Rizzi : ITALIA
Shinzo Tanuma, JAPAN
Koichi Washio, JAPAN
Shigheru Ishihara, JAPAN
Ieva Melko, LATVIA
Berhout Pim, NETHERLANDS
Tor Svenson, NETHERLANDS
Gunnar Tveit, NORWAY
Stian Linnes, NORWAY
John Harald Knutsson, NORWAY
Marjaana Lappi, NORWAY
Alexey Yanvarev, RUSSIA
Natalie Maslova, RUSSIA
Josef Murin, SLOVAKIA
Slavomir Kapa, SLOVAKIA
Deniz Sahin, TURKEY
Yevgeniy Pavlyukevych, UKRAINE
Natalie Fenova, UKRAINE
Fred Mertl, USA
Karen Mertl, USA
Date for the General Assembly
Saturday 2nd of June.
0845 – 0900 Welcome and presentation
0900 – 1600 WSF General Assembly.2007
Note: on some point the minutes refers to a document which was sent to all delegates before the meeting.
The regular General Assembly dealt with all points according to the Statues
1. Appoint a secretary to take the minutes.
Shigeru Ishihara was appointed to take the minutes.
2. Appoint 2 persons to confirm and sign the minutes.
Shinzo Tanuma and Jarda Bocek were appointed to confirm and sign the minutes.
3. Approve the votes and proxies.
No Proxies were received. The votes was done by Shigeru Ishihara.
4. Approve the agenda.
The agenda was approved without any changes.
5. Appoint the scrutineers for the period of the Assembly.
Shigeru Ishihara was appointed the scruteneers.
6. Approve the minutes of the previous GA.
The Minutes from WSF General Assembly was approved without any comment.
7. Approve the reports of the President and the Board.
Board Report was approved as presented in the document sent to the delegates before the GA.
Alexey Yanvarev presented opportunities as C-Center.
GA supported further development of C-Centre to use for both NSA’s and WSF.
Remi Forsans presented EuroSIMA and D-Day project.
GA supported that WSF stay with the Membership of EuroSIMA and also supported to cooperate with EuroSIMA about D-Day the coming season. The delegates indicated that the 23rd of December 2007.was the best date for D-Day (better than the alternative of 31st of December)
8. Approve the reports from each region and each commission.
Marjaana Lappi gave a short presentation about Female Snowboarding Committee.
The reports was approved by GA as it presented in the document.
Stian Linnes gave a short presentation about Education work and the report on education was approved as it was presented in the document.
Gunnar Tveit presented summery from annual updates of NSA’s.
GA supported to collect this kind of information every year.
9. Approve the financial and auditor’s report.
The financial and auditor’s report was approved as presented in the documents.
10. Approve the accounts. See Point 9.
11. Approve the annual membership fee as determined by the Board of Directors.
GA decided the following membership fees coming season:
National Associations with 1- 499 members pay Euro 500
National Associations with 500 – 999 members pay Euro 1000
National Associations with 1000 – 9999 members pay Euro 1250
National Associations with 10000 and more members pay Euro 1500
12. Budget for the following year
The GA approved the following budgets:
WSF BUDGET 2007 (June 1 – December 31)
EXPENSES (€)
1 Website 2 000
2 Press office, media 750
3 Education, materiel 3 950
4 Calendar 1 000
5 Membership services 1 250
6 CEO wages 4 500
7 WSF operational costs 2 500
8 Accounting 1 000
9 CEO travel costs 3 249 Remaining from extraordinary sponsorship
10 General Assembly 2007 1 100
11 Autumn Board meeting 1 100
12 Board travel expenses 2 700
13 Registration Rookies logo 3 000
14 Pay dept to NSA 4 400 (Italy, Czech Rep, Japan, Norway)
TOTALS 32 499 €
INCOMES
15 Membership fees 19 000
16 Ranking fee 8 250
17 Education 2 000
Sponsorship 3 249 Remaining from extraordinary sponsorship
TOTALS 32 499 €
WSF BUDGET 2008 (Jan 1 – December 31)
EXPENSES (€)
1 Website 4 000
2 Press office, media 1 500
3 Education, materiel 2 000
4 Calendar 1 000
5 Membership services 3 000
6 CEO wages 9 000
7 WSF operational costs 5 000
8 Accounting 1 000
9 CEO travel costs 2 000
10 General Assembly 2007 1 050
11 Autumn Board meeting 1 000
12 Board travel expenses 2 400
13 Registration Rookies Logo 3 000
14 Pay dept to NSA 2 800
TOTALS 35 750 €
INCOMES
15 Membership fees 19 000
16 Ranking fees 14 750
17 Education 2 000
TOTALS 35 750 €
13. Assess and vote on the applications for new membership.
The following associations were approved as NEW member nations in WSF.
BELGIUM, LATVIA, KYRGYZSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, SWITZERLAND, NETHERLANDS, TURKEY, UKRAINE.
GA decided to develop minimum requirements for WSF member nations. This should be decided on board meeting in November 2007.
14. Elect the President, Vice-president and treasurer.
GA elected for Board in WSF.
Gunnar Tveit/NOR President
Alexey Yanvarev/RUS Vice President
Shinzo Tanuma/JPN Treasurer
15. Elect up to 3 additional members of the Board of Directors.
GA elected for Board in WSF.
Marco Sampaoli/ITA
Remi Forsans/FRA
Daniella Buntain/CAN
16. Elect a qualified auditor.
GA elected as Auditor Ing. Hana Kollertova, Czech Republic.
17. Elect a Controlling Committee of 3 qualified members.
GA elected this Controlling Committee.
Steinar Arvesen, Norway (leader)
Jaroslav Bocek, Czech Rep
Shigeru Ishihara, Japan
18. Elect a election committee for the next GA.
GA elected this election Committee.
Shigeru Ishihara, Japan (leader of committee)
Annika Bodemar, Norway
Krister Backstroem, Finland
19. Discuss or vote on any other issues on the agenda, which is presented in writing and distributed to the members together with the agenda.
Proposal (1)
Board proposed following about educational
1. The General Assembly approves to introduce and use a unified educational system for all education in WSF and its members association, covering instructors, judges, TD and other functions.
2. WSF has all rights to courses, manuals, certifying, badges or logos developed linked to the educational system and for all time it will be part of WSF. (cannot be outsourced)
3. All educational material and courses must be of very high quality to meet the criteria to be recognised by the different national governments and in long term to be recognised by EU.
4. WSF introduce a certification system for all education in WSF. That means each person who has successfully passed a standardised and unified course program run by WSF or national snowboard association (WSF member), will be certified by WSF. The list of certified persons will be published on WSF web site to show who can be used at different level (head instructor, instructor) and within different topics. (instructor, judge, TD)
5. All participants attending a WSF course, run by WSF or NSA pay a registration fee of Euro 10 and also pay an annual fee of Euro 10. The fees paid cover administration and maintenance of the list of certified persons, as well as developing work on all educational issues.
6. All administration, developing work, coordination and certification are done by the WSF Educational department.
7. All certified persons have to sign a contract with WSF to accept to act according to the rules of WSF. This must be done to secure quality of all work as well as secure that nothing can be used in commercial interest /settings outside WSF.
GA supported to develop a common educational system within WSF. Inputs for this System will be discussed in the session about education workshop on Sunday.
Proposal (2)
The Board proposed following about Financial reporting period.
1. The period for the financial reports, auditors report and budget follow the calendar year (1st Jan – 31st Dec),
2. In the transmission period the following will be done:
a. At GA 2007 present financial report for 1.June 2006 – 30.May 2007, but auditors report only for the period 1st June – 31st December 2006. Present a budget for the period 1st June – 31st December 2007 and a separate budget for the period 1st January – 31st December 2008.
b. At GA 2008 present financial report for the period 1st June – 31st December 2007, auditors report for 1st January – 31st December 2007 and a budget for 1st January – 31st December 2009.
c. At the GA 2009 the new routines has been established and follow calendar year.
GA approved the proposal.
Proposal (3)
The Board proposed the following about WSF membership card.
1. The GA approves to introduce a common WSF individual membership card.
2. The number of cards registered by WSF/NSA count as the number of members each nation has votes according to.
3. The member cards can be issued at different level and different levels will be weighted different when calculating the number of votes.
4. The card is sold by the national associations and a certain amount of the fee is paid to WSF.
5. The membership card system must be overall managed and coordinated on WSF level.
6. The Board is mandated to work out a system for a membership card which replace national membership cards and after hearings with NSA implement the card system for the coming season.
The Board was mandated to work out a system for a membership card which can replace national membership cards and after hearings with NSA implement the card system for the coming season.
GA appointed the following committee for further development of the proposal.
Remi Forsans (Leader of committee)
One representative from each of the following nations; Italy, Canada, Czech Rep., Austria
The committee presents their suggestions to the Board in November meeting.
