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EuroCHRIE Dubrovnik 2011 - Minutes of General Membership Meeting

2011 EuroCHRIE - Minutes, GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING , Dubrovnik

October 2011 - Hotel Excelsior, Dubrovnik

Hosted by ACMT, Dubrovnik, Croatia and RIT, New York State, USA

Minutes

1. Welcome [RW]

· President RW welcomed all to this meeting. Some 52 members were present and he wished to welcome those in particular who had never attended a EuroChrie meeting previously.

· In particular he welcomed several Past Presidents, including Giles Honegger, ICHRIE President Susan Fournier plus past Presidents Rai Shacklock and Bill Samenfink, Nick Hardgis.

2. Present

Robert Wetterauer (RW] Maureen Brookes [MB], Jouni Ahonen (JA), Paul Jackson (PJ), Herve Fournier (HF), Othmar Muller[OM], Liz Ineson[LI], Kevin Nield [KN]. Bill Samenfink [BS] Susan Fournier (SF), Rai Shacklock [RS], Steve Shacklock [SS],] Sandra Watson [SW], Hilary Murphy (HM), Jan Meijerhof (JM), Clemens Berendsen (CB), Richard Ginioux [RG], Risto Karmauvo [RK], Irene Ljubisic [IL]Francis Domoy [FD]

3. Apologies for Absence [PJ]

Eda Gurel [EG], Olgun Cicek [OC], Don Hudsmith [DH], all sent apologies for absence.

4. Minutes of the last EuroCHRIE General Meeting - Denver, July 2011 [PJ]

· These minutes have been circulated and posted on Web site. No actions were indicated. These had been reviewed by Secretary and the President.

· The minutes were accepted as a true and accurate record of the meeting- moved by BS and approved

5. EuroCHRIE President Report Robert Wetterauer

· In his address the President reflected on his Philosophy for the year:

· we are culturally diverse with strengths in our networking throughout EuroCHRIE

· We have to look to the feature-we need to plan for the next five years

o Membership--this is giving him some concern in spite of RS's best efforts we continue to slide in our numbers. We must support new ideas such as the Vice President, Maureen Brooks' idea of the mentoring scheme

o Newsletter-decision made to send this out by E Mail but this may have to be relooked at as whilst it has reduced costs there are some disadvantages in this as it fails to reach a wider audience.

o Develop linkages with Industry, Colleges and Schools

o Maintain our Revenue Streams

o Web pages--need to keep these up to date and progressive

o We are a voluntary organisation and it makes sense for us to utilise the services of a virtual office with a 'Community Manger'. Provision for this post will be made in the budget for this next year.

o Finally, he expressed his thanks to all for all the support he had received in his role as President.

6. Vice- President, Maureen Brooks

· Introduced herself to the wider membership, she outlined her proposed Mentoring programme

· 7 new mentees have signed up for the scheme

7. Immediate Past President Report -Jouni Ahonen

· Awards-to be announced tomorrow night

· Please send in nominations for next year's awards for May next year

· Nominations for Officers -we need to elect a new VP plus new Directors next year

· RW thanked JA for all his work

8. Secretary Report (Paul Jackson)

  • Nothing to report-

· RW thanked PJ for his work during year.

9. Treasurer's Report (Herve Fournier)

· HF presented both the Financial statements and the Budget to the Board.

· He expressed his thanks to Foundation Nestle Pro Gastronome for their continued support

· Finances are in good order and the Budget will show a slight decline this year -because of a rebate given to the Amsterdam conference due to a supplier failure.

· The finances were approved by the Board and all the items outlined in the Budget were approved

· HF was thanked by RW for all his work.

10. Board of Directors' Reports and Area Consultants' Report:

I. NETWORKING & CONFERENCES (Risto Karmano)

    1. Lausanne 2012, Freiburg 2013,
    2. 3 Further bids for 2014 have been received
    3. A revised Bid document has been approved by the Board which will be sent to all proposed bidders
    4. Some interest already expressed for 2015,2016

II. COMMUNICATION & MARKETING

III. MEMBERSHIP (Rai Shacklock)

  • Take more to develop the relationship of time attendees at Conferences

· Develop a personal relationship with new attendees with mentoring programme

IV. INDUSTRY RELATIONS (Othmar Muller)

a. OM will be handing over at the Dubrovnik conference was attended by his successor- Christian Perrette-the Board will have to officially approve this at the appropriate time.

b. NestlePG will be concentrating their resources towards Africa and South America

c. Wished Board well for their future efforts and the EuroCHRIE family.

RW wished to express Board's appreciation for all his efforts over these years past.

V. RESEARCH (Sandra Watson)-Report on Web site

VI. EDUCATION (Kevin Nield)

a. Report received

VII. AREA CONSULTANTS

a. EG had sent her report from Turkey--many thanks for this

b. LI was pleased to inform Board of the success of the Board's policy in Eastern Europe-she also expressed thanks to Dubrovnik organisers, Nestle PG for their assistance. 9 papers have been received from EE for Dubrovnik conference.

11. New appointments of Board members

Next year there will four vacancies to be decided.

12. ICHRIE President-Susan Fournier

Wanted to express her appreciation and thanks to the organisers ACMT & RIT , students of these schools who were a tremendous asset to our Conference.

13. New appointments of Area Consultants

· A number of countries are now not represented on the Board-- Spain, Portugal, Italy, UK, Greece, Africa -this will need to be addressed as possible

14. Awards Committee and awards nomination

· As is customary these have been decided but will not be revealed until the Final night.

15. Changes to Bye Laws

· a copy of these will be posted onto the Web site

16.Presentation of Lausanne Conference, October 2012

· Caroline McClay presented the Conference which will be held at the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne [EHL] on the beautiful Lake Geneva.

· The Theme will be "Hospitality for a Better world"

· Details of Hotels, Accommodation, Transport, detailed Programme will be appearing on the Web sites over the course of the year.

17. Any other business

18. Date of next General meeting, Providence, Rhode Island ICHRIE Conference

End July 2012-time/venue to be confirmed

19. The President, RW closed the meeting by thanking all delegates for their time and attention and reiterated his thanks to the organisers, ACMT & RIT

TP Jackson

Hon Secretary, October 2011

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