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Servas EXCO Newsletter

• President Geoff Maltby,------------------------------ Vice President Bibendra Pradhananga
• General Secretary Honora Clemens,----------------------------------- Treasurer Omer Ozkan
• Peace Secretary Gary Sealey,----------------- Host List Coordinator Claudio Pacchiega

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• Volume I, No.3
• October 2, 2004

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EXCO MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN PARIS, FRANCE

Schedule Nov 2 –-- Nov 9, 2004

• Thursday, is planned for meeting with the Audit Committee
• Friday, is planned for meetings:
  • in the morning with Frits of the Nominating Committee
  • in the afternoon with the ICT
• Saturday, is planned to meet with reps from the S3 group
• Sunday, there is a luncheon with 200 Servas members         
• November 7-9 is for planning the future

OMER, SI Treasurer, REPORTED

His meeting with Gin and Alex in Budapest was "successful and informative." He thanks Gin and Alex for that collaboration.

After many long days of work on Omer's part, he said "all is cleared up" which answers the questions raised at the General Assembly in Spain.

Omer continued, “After the internal audit we will collaborate again and answer the question raised by the Audit Committee.”

The internal audit has been started for 2001, 2002 and 2003."After the internal audit we will collaborate again to answer the question raised by the Audit Committee.”

COMMITTEES TO CONTINUE UNTIL ELECTIONS COMPLETED

Our concern is that elections won't be completed by Oct.25 when the overlap period is over.

We Know we need a "Continuity of Governance."

We are following Statute V, parts 2, 3, 5

• 2. The Executive Committee shall appoint those Servas officers

who have not been elected by the General Assembly

• 3. If the post of any officer becomes vacant between General.

Assemblies, the Executive Committee may appoint a replacement

• 5. The Executive Committee is empowered to make decisions .

by a majority vote at a meeting of the Executive Committee

EXCO's Decision

• Due to time constraint, EXCO decided to reappoint and extend the term of existing members of the

2001-2004, committees that have not been replaced by those newly elected for the 2004-2007 period.  

• • • • (the nomination committee and youth committees excepted)
• Their continuation shall extend until the new election process, designated by the 2004 General Assembly, can be duly completed.
• Every effort must be made to complete the election of new committees by the end of December 2004. Hopefully they will be completed before that date.

PACIFICA WILL BE ABOLISHED

At the pre-conference meeting of National Group’s from Pacifica with Mike Johnson in July 2004, it was decided that the three-year experiment of merging North America and South Pacific into Pacifica had not been a success and that the area revert to its former state i.e. North America and South Pacific.

Exco agrees with this decision and effective immediately the area known as Pacifica’ will be abolished. Bermuda, Canada and USA will revert back to the area formerly known as‘North America’.Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti and Vanuatu will revert back to the area formerly known as ‘South Pacific’.

Exco will address the issue of North America and an Area Coordinator when they meet in November. It is believed that the eight countries of the South Pacific would benefit from having an Area Coordinator. Michael Johnson is currently the Area Coordinator for Pacifica and his term of office terminates on 25 October 2004 and he has kindly agreed to remain on in a ‘caretaker’ role until such time as a new Area Coordinator for South Pacific has been appointed. The Nomination Committee have asked Michael Johnson to seek nominations from the South Pacific NG’s for the position of Area Coordinator South Pacific.

OUR MOTTO

• Transparency and Trust
• As we work together
• In the Spirit of Peace.

To work together successfully, it is very important to know what members think about issues presented in the EXCO Newsletter as well as issues not presented in the Newsletter

• • • Please write to:
    • GeneralSecretary@Servas.org