CMAS BOD Meeting Minutes

I have attached the latest minutes from the CMAS BOD meeting held on the 22nd of May ,2008.

There is some interesting reading in there if you can make sense of some of the poor English, you might like to have a look at points 4.3.3.4 or close to it as the numbers make no sense. It tells you about CMAS finishing the year in the red and it puts a figure on their loss.

Point 4.5 is also interesting as it says there was only one candidature received for the interim hockey commission president position, I can only speculate that there was only one candidature because I know as the president of the Australian federation I certainly never received any notification asking for candidates to be nominated

So I suppose your election is assured if no one knows about the vote for your position and no other candidates are actually called for, but this is not new how CMAS operate.

Lastly it is worth mentioning that Tony Mourad was nominated by his good friend Keith Dunkinson and I bet the BOA were never asked about this, and if BUSA is just a front organisation for CMAS as Keith would have us believe, then why are they nominating someone without the input of the main hockey body in GB.

And they wonder why we left? Just the usual CMAS covert operation and no mention of the games or of the no ban, and there has never been an official letter from CMAS stating there will be no ban.

Anyway read the inner workings of CMAS for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

Regards
GH

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WAA The best in Underwater Sports

Hey, something official with a signature and everything...

It makes sense now that they would consider taking 16 teams and approve a plan to not ban anyone. With the 15% increase in licenses they should be able to make a dent, although small, if they can get that many teams to show up.

As far as the English goes -- precarious financial equilibrium, suggesting extreme severity in the 2008 management, closed (2007) in red with € 38.028, there is worry that this situation may become worse for the management. -- all seems to be fairly clear.

I think the number you are looking for is "4.3" then below "2 book-keeping control" going to the 4th bullet after "3 It is necessary that CMAS acquires the ability in making profits because..." Does that make it more clear? What kind of system is that? Bullet points on some of it, numbers on others, all aligned with each other.

Wonder if this answers the question of who will go to Tunis in 2009? Could be no one if they don't have a working budget. I suppose they could move it earlier in the year so that the financials aren't done before the games happen. Not sure if the GA is always the same time of year but that would put it in or before May.

See you all, or at least some of you, in Colombia 2010

Duck

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Just in case you weren't sure, it's official -- CMAS sucks.
Oh yeah, and now they're broke.

Looking at the changes in membership I thought for a second that SA bailed completely. But they just restructered. Still they got out of nap, ori, and tir. I know nap, I try to take one everyday. I was surprised to see they got out of ori, although underwater origami isn't a sport anyway. And tir, haven't figured that one out yet but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

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Just in case you weren't sure, it's official -- CMAS sucks.
Oh yeah, and now they're broke.

I believe nap is fin swimming (or nage avec palm)
ori is uw orienteering
tri is target shooting (tir surcible altho I am sure my spelling is wayyyyy off)

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Carol Rose

carol is right

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench

According to the CMAS website, Australia is a 2008 dues paid member - of Sport and Tech Committees and hockey, fin and spearfishing commissions.

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Carol Rose