Topic: OTHER BUSINESS -- Fees/Dues
Conf: Inaugural Directors' Meeting
 
From: Steve McCarty (steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 08:05 PM
Also as OTHER BUSINESS, regarding the agenda item of WAOE Fees/Dues, is there any discussion or motions on this topic?

From: David Wyatt (dwyatt@camtech.net.au)
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 09:42 PM

Directors will recall the extensive discussions that occurred among the Coordinating Ring during last January about the necessity for imposing a membership subscription or fee, with provision for exemption on hardship grounds, while sustaining the WAOE ideal of volunteerism by keeping the fee low and allowing members to give service in lieu. The upshot was clear agreement, including a kind of straw vote, on the size of the fee and date of introduction, and on the necessity to work out and promulgate a clear policy and procedure on exemptions on the grounds of either hardship or service-in-lieu.
I have kept a detailed archive of the discussion and the vote. Exemptions are, of course, the subject of a separate agenda item at this meeting, and the distinction between associate membership (on payment of a fee) and voting membership is also confirmed by a separate resolution. In consistency with the firm in-principle commitment to introducing a fee already made by the process described above, I move that it be
RESOLVED that, commencing from the first of July 1999, the World Association for Online Education introduce a membership fee of $US10 per annum. payment of which shall confer the status and privileges of associate membership of the World Association for Online Education.
RESOLVED FURTHER that the Directors of the World Association for Online Education seek the advice of the Planning and Finance Committee by not later than the end of April each year, in order to confirm the level of fee and the policy and procedure on exemptions to be applied from the next ensuing first of July.
Is there a second?
David Wyatt,
Director: World Association for Online Education
Adelaide, South Australia

From: Jenna Seehafer (seehafer@csus.edu)
Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 02:26 AM

I second the motion.
 
Jenna Seehafer
Director, World Association for Online Education
Treasurer, World Association for Online Education
Rio Linda, California

From: Steve McCarty (steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 08:19 PM

All eligible Directors please vote on the following motion for a resolution, as prefaced by Membership Chair David Wyatt:
"extensive discussions ... occurred among the Coordinating Ring during last January [1999] about the necessity for imposing a membership subscription or fee, with provision for exemption on hardship grounds, while sustaining the WAOE ideal of volunteerism by keeping the fee low and allowing members to give service in lieu. The upshot was clear agreement, including a kind of straw vote, on the size of the fee and date of introduction, and on the necessity to work out and promulgate a clear policy and procedure on exemptions on the grounds of either hardship or service-in-lieu.
I have kept a detailed archive of the discussion and the vote. Exemptions are, of course, the subject of a separate agenda item at this meeting, and the distinction between associate membership (on payment of a fee) and voting membership is also confirmed by a separate resolution. In consistency with the firm in-principle commitment to introducing a fee already made by the process described above, I move that it be"
"RESOLVED that, commencing from the first of July 1999, the World Association for Online Education introduce a membership fee of $US10 per annum. payment of which shall confer the status and privileges of associate membership of the World Association for Online Education.
RESOLVED FURTHER that the Directors of the World Association for Online Education seek the advice of the Planning and Finance Committee by not later than the end of April each year, in order to confirm the level of fee and the policy and procedure on exemptions to be applied from the next ensuing first of July."

Steve McCarty,
Director/President, WAOE
Kokubunji, Kagawa, Japan

From: Jenna Seehafer (seehafer@csus.edu)
Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 08:45 PM

I am in favor of the motion.

Jenna Seehafer
Director, World Association for Online Education
Treasurer, World Association for Online Education
Rio Linda, California

From: David Wyatt (dwyatt@camtech.net.au)
Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 03:54 AM

I support the motion.

David Wyatt, Director: World Association for Online Education
Adelaide, South Australia


From: Mihkel Pilv (info@miksike.ee)
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 02:58 AM

I am in favor of the motion.

Mihkel Pilv
Vice-President, WAOE
Estonia, Europe

From: Brian Donohue-Lynch (qv_blynch@commnet.edu)
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999

I support the motion.