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Minutes of the 17th ESVIM Annual General Meeting (2007)
1)Present: D. Peeters (President), K. Hartmann (Vice President) R. Bell (Treasurer), R. Neiger (Past President), Myra Foster van Hyfte, Edward Hall, Barbara Kohn, Xavier Roura, Christiane Stengel.
2) Apologies for absence: Kate Murphy (Secretary). Rory Bell agreed to record the minutes in her absence
3) Minutes of the 16th ESVIM Annual General Meeting: No amendments to the minutes were made and they were accepted without further discussion
4) Changes in the board for 2007: This Meeting marked the completion of Dominique Peeters’ term of office as President. He now becomes the Past President, replacing Reto Neiger, his predecessor in that role. Both Reto and Dominique were thanked for their contributions and leadership over the last few years. Katrin Hartmann has also completed her term of office as Vice President.
Nominations for the now vacant Presidency and Vice-Presidency had been previously sought. Katrin Hartmann was nominated for the position of President, Christiane Stengel for Vice President and nominations reported in a previous edition of the newsletter. A ballot was conducted during the meeting. Katrin Hartmann and Christiane Stengel were both elected to their respective positions unanimously.
Nominations for the position of board member were sought. Once all nominations have been received, the names of the nominees will be published in an upcoming edition of the newsletter and elections will take place via e-mail.
5) Financial report: The attached report was presented by Rory Bell. Although the Society appears to have been operating at a net loss over the past year, this is largely offset be the fact that there is a large sum of money from recently paid membership subscriptions that has not yet been processed into the account. Additionally, the Society paid congress fees for both 2006 and 2007 over this financial reporting period. Allowing for those circumstances, the Societies financial status has stabilised considerably over the last financial reporting period. The financial report had passed inspection by the Societies auditors, Drs Ed Hall and Paul Wotton.
A motion to accept the financial report was carried unanimously
A motion to re-appoint the auditors (E. Hall and P Wotton), pending their acceptance was carried unanimously
A motion to remove all members who had not paid their membership fees was carried unanimously.
A motion to move the accounting date to coincide with the membership year (January 1st) was carried unanimously.
A motion to increase the membership fees (which had remained static for a prolonged period) by 10 euro was carried unanimously. The fees have therefore increased as detailed in the table below:
Variable |
Old fee |
New fee (effective from September 2007) |
1 year |
24 |
34 |
2 years |
48 |
58 |
3 years |
60 |
70 |
6) Update on integration with SAMSOC:Rory Bell presented an update on this topic. A list of ESVIM members e-mails has been forwarded to Matthew Green and work is in progress towards granting password-controlled access to the SAMSOC web-based discussion forum.
7) ESVIM lecture stream for the 17th Annual ECVIM congress: It was considered important by all present that ESVIM maintained its current lecture allocation within the Congress (8 lectures). Proposals were sought regarding topics for the ESVIM stream of lectures and discussions are ongoing.
8) Any other business: No other matters were discussed
Next meeting: The 18th Annual General Meeting will take place during the course of the 2008 ECVIM congress in Ghent (date and precise location to be arranged)
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MESSAGE FROM THE ESVIM PRESIDENT
Dear colleagues and friends,
After three years as president of ESVIM during which he really did an excellent job, Dominique Peeters has stepped down as the ESVIM president. I would like to thank him for all the work he has done during these years and for organizing excellent programs at the ECVIM-CA Congresses. He, fortunately, will stay on as past-president of the society for which I am very thankful for (so he can make sure that I don’t make too many mistakes). Our past-president Reto Neiger also left us. He has served many years on the board and has made important contributions to the society. We all are very grateful for all the hard work he did. In addition, Kate Murphy will stand down the ESVIM board. She has done a wonderful job as secretary - for which we all are very thankful - and has provided many helpful ideas to the society. I also would like to thank Gad Baneth who helped ESVIM as a board member during the last years.
Christiane Stengel from Germany has been elected as our new Vice-President. The new ESVIM board is now composed of Katrin Hartmann (President and ESVIM representative in the scientific committee of the ECVIM-CA Congress), Dominique Peeters (Past-President), Christiane Stengel (Vice-President), and Rory Bell (Treasurer). We currently are electing a new board member, and we are also looking for candidates for the position of secretary. Please send me your nominations for the secretary position by email (Hartmann@uni-muenchen.de).
In 2008, the main topics of the ESVIM sessions at the ECVIM-CA congress held in Ghent September 4th to 6th, will be infectious and respiratory diseases. The session on infectious diseases will have a special focus on multi-resistant bacteria in dogs and cats as well as their zoonotic potential. We will have four talks in this area with outstanding speakers coming from different back-grounds. The second part (also four talks) will be respiratory diseases with special focus on feline asthma and eosinophilic bronchopneumopathy, also with excellent speakers that have already agreed to participate. In addition, we will have abstract sessions and poster presentations, and I hope many of you will submit abstracts.
Please already make a note, that the next Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the society will take place on Thursday, September 4th, at 17:05. And I hope, I will meet many of you there.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very happy 2008, and I hope to see all of you in Ghent.
Prof. Dr. Katrin Hartmann
ESVIM President
2008 ESVIM BALLOT
The ESVIM Constitution asks for a Nomination Committee to nominate a new member of the board to be announced two months before the Annual General Meeting (AGM). As this was not done to nominate a replacement after Gad Baneth is leaving the position as board member, we decided to elect the board member as previously by ballot. A Nominating Committee, composed of Dominique Peetres, Rory Bell, and myself, has nominated Xavier Roura as candidate for the vacant position. Xavier has accepted the nomination and will be happy to serve if elected.
Please notice to the announcement regarding this ballot is in the Newsletter. Please fill out the ballot in this Newsletter and send it to the President of ESVIM, Prof. Dr. Katrin Hartmann no later than February 28th, 2008, using email (Hartmann@uni-muenchen.de) or via fax (+49-89- 2180-16501). Please do all send your ballot, even though this is not a tough election.
BALLOT ESVIM Board Member
Position ESVIM board member
Candidate Xavier Roura
Closing date February 28th, 2008
Yes No