JAVS Spring 2001

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FROM THE IVS PRESIDENCY

by David Dalton

NS PRESIDENCY MEETINGS August 3-5

Motion: That the IVS Presidency approach the Assembly of Delegates with proposal for national sections to pay 7% of their annual membership income to the IVS beginning in 2001. (Motion: Pounds; second: Schmidt; carried) Motion: Sections are asked to respond to 7% proposal by Sept. 30, 2000. If there is no response, Presidency will assume an agree ment. Policy will be in effect until end of next NS Presidency's term (2004). (Motion: Frederking; Second: Lenkewitz; carried) The Strad plans to produce a viola issue in 2001. Proposals have been made to the publisher and editor for IVS participation in a co-production of mutual benefit. Acceptance by The Strad ofiVS proposals pending. IVS newspages, containing arti cles and reports, are being published by national section journals. IV. IVS Honors Ann Frederking nominated (in absentia) to receive Silver Viola Clef; Gunter Ojstersek to be named Honorary Councilor (invited to attend all presi dency meetings in the future); John White to receive an engraved crystal bowl as recognition of his promotion of the viola; Allan Lee to receive plaque in appreciation ofwork on the viola website, www.viola.com. (All these nominations carried and recipients honored.) V. Viola Website The IVS will piggy back on www. viola. com. III. IVS Publications

Present: David Dalton, president; Emile Cantor, vice-president; Ronald Schmidt, sec retary; Ann Frederking, treasurer; Dwight Pounds, executive secretary; Uta Lenkewitz von Zahn, assistant executive secretary; Gunter Ojstedek, past president; Michael Vidulich and Donald Maurice, guests repre senting ANZVS; Christine Rutledge, repre senting AVS; Otto Freudentahl, host chair, XVIIIth Congress. I. Minutes of IVS Presidency meeting m Celie, Germany, October, 1999 are reviewed and approved. II. Finances Frederking presents and explains the IVS financial account. Motion: Treasurer's Report approved (Motion: Pounds; Second: Ojstersek; carried) Dalton raises the question regarding dues of the national sections to the IVS. Bylaws call for 1 Oo/o of income from national sections being paid to IVS annually except in a year when a section hosts an international con gress. The AVS has proposed 5% of section's income every year. Dalton has calculated that a 7% dues results in same amount as calculat ing 1 Oo/o except in a year of congress sponsor ship. The annual 7% dues to IVS would start in 2001; dues for 2000 remain the same. Frederking suggests that in case a congress makes a profit, a portion of the profit should be transferred to the IVS for future support of other congresses and IVS projects. Vidulich thinks 7% model would easily be accepted by ANZVS. Frederking suggests that CVS might continue to pay higher percentage of dues to IVS as it has in the past.

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