Minutes of
the Annual Meeting of the Members
April 23,
2011
MINUTES of the Annual Meeting of the Members of District 2
of the American Contract Bridge League held at the Holiday Inn, 600 Dixon Road,
Toronto, Ontario on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 9:15 a.m.
PRESENT:
REPRESENTING Ontario Unit 166:
Carol Bongard, Sally Rewbotham
REPRESENTING Manitoba Unit 181:
Shirley Galler, Doug Fisher
REPRESENTING Sault International Unit 212:
David Chiasson, Gunnar Kristiansen
REPRESENTING Northwestern Ontario Unit 228:
Larry Hansen
REPRESENTING Northeastern Unit 238:
Marc Langevin, Brian Thomas
REPRESENTING Trent Valley Unit 246:
Nicholas Wong
REPRESENTING Southwestern Ontario Unit 249:
Tom Ramsay
being a quorum of the Members of the Corporation.
Also present:
Paul Janicki, ACBL Director for District 2
Graham Warren, District 2 Tournament Coordinator
David Halasi, Unit 166
The President, Nicholas Wong, took the Chair and Flo
Belford acted as Secretary of the meeting.
A quorum of Members of the Corporation being represented by
Proxy and all of the Members, all of the Directors and the Corporation’s auditor
having waived notice of meeting, the Chair declared the meeting regularly
constituted.
1.
Minutes of Last Meeting
The following amendments were noted:
Page 1 – “Representing Sault International Unit 212”
Page 2 – “Thunder Bay Unit 228”
Page 2 – “ seconded by Doug Fisher”
Page 2 – “Thunder Bay Unit 228”
Page 2 –
correct spelling Tom Ramsay
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Moved by Brian
Thomas, seconded by Gunnar Kristiansen,
That the minutes of the meeting of Members held on April 3, 2010 as
amended be approved.
Carried
Action
2.
Financial Statements
The Financial Statements as at December 31, 2010 were
presented. Gary Westfall (Auditor)
was not available.
Moved by Shirley
Galler, seconded by David Chiasson,
That we dispense with the reading of the auditor’s letter.
Carried
Moved by Shirley
Galler, seconded by David Chiasson,
That the statement of financial position of the Corporation as at
December 31, 2010 and the statement
of income and expenses and net assets, and cash flows for the year ended on the
said date be and the same are hereby approved and adopted.
Carried
3.
Election of Directors
Nicholas Wong, Chair declared the meeting open for
nominations.
Motion by
Shirley Galler, seconded by Brian Thomas,
That I nominate as directors for the ensuring year:
Sally Rewbotham
Carol Bongard
Joan Richardson
Lane Byl
Douglas Fisher
Shirley Galler
Roman Smolski
Jane Smith
David Chiasson
Gunnar Kristiansen
Larry Hansen
Francis Gaudino
Brian Thomas
Marc Langevin
Nicholas Wong
Linda Lord
Greg Coles
George Hodgson
John Lightfoot
Tom Ramsay
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There being no further or other nominations, the Chair
declared the nominations closed. No
member having demanded a ballot, the Chair, with the approval of the meeting,
declared those nominated to be elected by acclamation as directors of the
Corporation, to hold office until the next annual election of directors and
until their successors are elected or appointed, subject to the provisions of
the Corporation’s by-laws.
4.
Appointment of Auditor
Moved by Shirley
Galler, seconded by Brian Thomas,
That G. J. Westfall, C.A. be and he is hereby appointed auditor of the
Corporation to perform a Review Engagement and to hold office until the next
annual meeting of Members at such remuneration as may be fixed by the directors
and the directors be and they are hereby authorized to fix such remuneration.
Carried
Action
5.
President’s Report
Nicholas Wong addressed three issues in his report.
a) Nicholas is
trying to generate more communication between board directors.
He encouraged everyone to use the forum on the District 2 website.
Any director can put an item on the forum and then notify the board
directors by e-mail that there is an item to be discussed on the forum.
b) Regional
Tournaments must be sanctioned three years in advance, according to ACBL
guidelines. You just need the
date to apply for the sanction, the site can be added or changed later.
He encouraged units to avoid other nearby tournaments when applying for a
sanction.
c) Nicholas
advised there are problems with the District 2 website as he feels it does not
look very professional. The
website for Unit 246 is very professional.
Greg Coles (Unit 246) is the webmaster of this site.
He has offered to create the same site for the District for free.
Nicholas will e-mail a link to this website, and asked everyone to view
the website and give him his/her opinion.
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Action
6.
Confirmation of Proceedings
Moved by Doug
Fisher, seconded by Brian Thomas,
That all by-laws, contracts, acts, and proceedings of the board of
directors of the Corporation enacted, passed, made, done, or taken since the
last annual meeting of the members as set forth or referred to in the minutes of
the meetings of the board of directors (which have been produced to this meeting
for inspection) or in the financial statements of the Corporation submitted to
this meeting, be and the same are hereby approved, ratified, and confirmed.
Carried
There being no further business the meeting then
terminated.
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Chairperson
Secretary of the Meeting