January 31, 2019. Message from the ISP Board. Dear ISP colleagues and friends, As announced in our December Newsletter, we are proceeding with our first online ISP General Membership Meeting. The agenda for this GMM is as follows: 1 Approval of ITEC activity report for 2018 Link to ITEC report 2 Approval of ISP Board activity report for 2018 Link to Board report 3 Approval of ISP financial report for the calendar year 2018 Link to financial report 4 ITEC funding request for activities performed in 2018 Link to ITEC funding request 5 Approval to set 2019 and 2020 annual membership dues at 50€ for each year Please consider this question together with the proposed budget (next item). 6 ISP proposed estimated budget for the years 2019 and 2020 Link to budget request 7
Approval of board proposal that the next GMM will be during the 2020
International, instead of electronically in the first quarter of 2020 8 Election of board members The
bylaws of ISP provide that the current board, made of the ‘founding
members’ of ISP, should be elected at the first GMM of ISP. The bylaws
provide for a Board of seven members, of which three should be elected
by each of the three ‘regions’: Europe, Japan, and North America. As we
currently only have six candidates, and as there is at least one
candidate of each region, our proposal is that the six members be
elected by the whole ISP membership: This will clearly simplify the
voting process. The candidates are, in alphabetical order: Mark Bannon, Jean-Louis de Gandt, Soichiro Iida, Lee Ordeman, Pierre Paranque, and Pierre Quettier. You will be asked to vote for each of them separately. Link to introduction by candidates A few comments: - Approval
or activity reports is a requirements under French law applicable to
non profit organisations. We also think it is good practice to have
members give an overall vote on activities performed. We included a
broad outline of activities proposed for 2019/2020.
- We received no request for additional points to be included in the agenda (this GMM was announced in the December Newsletter)
- Links to the various documents on which you will be asked to vote are included above
- You
have up to February 7 to ask for any clarification or make any
suggestion about any of the points on the agenda, and the documents we
are submitting to you
- If
changes are made to the documents submitted to vote as a result of your
comments / suggestions, final documents submitted to vote will be sent
at the latest on February 21.
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