IRSA

A proposal in the Executive Committee to elect members of the executive to be Chairmen of the International Class Committees (ICCs) has succeeded. They are as follows:

Marblehead Chairman: Matteo Longhi (also RO Europe)

A Class Chairman: Glenn Dawson (also RO Oceania)

10R Chairman: Selwyn Holland (also General Secretary)

This is a step in the aim to develop international class status for these later in the form of International Class Associations (ICAs).  The reason that the positions at this stage are filled by members of the IRSA Executive is that the constitution is basically a regional based not a class based document. But the EC can create any committee it sees as important, so the way around this issue was for these members of the EC to volunteer to take charge of the class committees (ICCs) for the moment. We do intend to ask permission of the IRSA members through the revised constitution in the future to rearrange the EC positions to allow for full class committee status on the EC while the committees are being developed into independent class associations. This will also allow us to help other rising classes to become internationally more efficient in the future. All part of promoting the sport and helping classes to be self determining if they wish.

A proposal in the Executive Committee to accept the co-option of Bob Wells as RO Americas has succeeded.

Text of the proposal and voting results can be seen below.

Proposal:

The proposal is to co-opt Bob Wells into the position of RO Americas.

Author: Lester Gilbert (EC Chairman)

Voting Result:

The final tally is:

Yes (8 ): RO Europe, EC Publicity Officer, TC Chairman, EC Vice Chairman, RO Oceania, OP Chairman, EC Secretary, EC Chairman
No (0): No votes
Abstain (0): No votes
Not present: (2): RC Chairman, EC Treasurer

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A proposal in the Executive Committee to send a representative to the 10R and M Worlds in Italy this year has succeeded.

A subsequent proposal to send Bernard Merlaud (IRSA Vice Chairman) also succeeded.

Text of the proposal and voting results can be seen below.

Poll: 2016-S-6 Send Official Representative

Proposal:

The proposal to send a representative to the worlds.

Voting Result:

The final tally is:

Yes (7): EC Secretary, RO Europe, EC Vice Chairman, RO Oceania, TC Chairman, OP Chairman, EC Chairman
No (0): No votes
Abstain (0): No votes
Not Present (2): RC Chairman, EC Treasurer

Poll: 2016-S-5C IRSA Representative — Bernard

Voting Result:

The final tally is:

Yes (9): EC Treasurer, EC Secretary, RO Europe, RC Chairman, EC Publicity Officer, TC Chairman, RO Oceania, OP Chairman, EC Chairman
No (0): No votes
Abstain (1): EC Vice Chairman
Not present (0): None

A discussion and vote on the fees to be set for the coming World Championships resulted in a fee of 10 Euro per competitor.

Text of the proposal and voting results can be seen below.

Proposal:

To set the IRSA fees for the coming M and 10R World Championships

Authors: Lester Gilbert (EC Chairman) and Gordon Davies (Racing Chairman)

Voting Result:

Discussion and voting closes. By majority vote, the fee shall be set at EUR 10 in the final NoR.

EUR 10 (4): RC Chairman, EC Publicity Officer, EC Vice Chairman, RO Oceania
EUR 20 (3): TC Chairman, EC Secretary, OP Chairman
Abstain (2): RO Europe, EC Chairman
Not present: EC Treasurer

We have received an application for IRSA membership from the Sailing Federation of Ukraine. They are an ISAF MNA, and so meet the requirements of Articles 5.1 and 5.2 of our Constitution.

The Sailing Federation of Ukraine application to become a member of International Radio Sailing Association has been considered by the Executive Committee and unanimously accepted.

We would like to welcome the SFU to the IRSA membership and look forward to assisting them and their organisation in promoting and developing the sport of radio sailing.