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Anyone on site to make a report?

Anyway post here please anything of interest....

Probably best to wait for it to happen first

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Game fee increased from 54p to 58p

Sean Hewitt wrote:Game fee increased from 54p to 58p

Now, this is exciting news!

MO membership increased £1 and all other categories of direct membership increased £2.

Sean Hewitt wrote:Game fee increased from 54p to 58p

Sean Hewitt wrote:MO membership increased £1 and all other categories of direct membership increased £2.

To my eyes, those increases look prudent. The Board were budgeting for a loss of £16,700 but hadn't proposed increases in game fee or membership rates.
So MO membership is now £13 (with, presumably still, a 10% discount available for prompt payment) with free league games. While standard membership is now £27 with game fee payable for league games?

Show of hands

Membership 17
Game Fee 14

Card vote in progress

Card vote

Membership 91
Game Fee 71

Bye bye chess prevention tax

Sean Hewitt wrote: Bye bye chess prevention tax

The ECF Council have voted that club members should pay exclusively for the ECF and that national leagues and Congresses should get a free ride. Back to 1993 it is then.

There's just the one service that the ECF can offer the club player and massively overcharge for it. That's grading of course. It's just abolished that as a profit centre.

The ECF is taking a massive leap into the dark as to how many club players it can sign up as members, and based on a 55/45 spilt as well.

Sean Hewitt wrote:Card vote

Membership 91
Game Fee 71

Bye bye chess prevention tax

Is that correct? In his "Management Services Review and the Future of ECF Funding" document for the October 2010 AGM, Andrew Farthing stated:
"Switch to Membership Schemes only... This option would require changes to the Articles of Association that could only be passed with a 75% majority."

Angus French wrote:

Sean Hewitt wrote:Card vote

Membership 91
Game Fee 71

Bye bye chess prevention tax

Is that correct? In his "Management Services Review and the Future of ECF Funding" document which was presented to the October 2010 AGM, Andrew Farthing stated:
"Switch to Membership Schemes only... This option would require changes to the Articles of Association that could only be passed with a 75% majority."

If it is passed, when would it start coming into effect?
I was planning an event in June 2011 - presumably it would be be effective then?

Sean Hewitt wrote:Card vote

Membership 91
Game Fee 71

Bye bye chess prevention tax

Hurrah! I knew if I stayed away that common sense would prevail!

Neill Cooper wrote:

Angus French wrote: If it is passed, when would it start coming into effect?
I was planning an event in June 2011 - presumably it would be be effective then?

The intention was to implement any change for the 2012/13 season.

Am I confused or were they not voting for which option 1, 2 or 3 they were going for at this metting or what was all the debating about on here over the last few months?