Minutes - PASA AGM Chile

Attendance
Maile Aguerre, President
Juca de Barros, Vice President
Marcos Bukão, PASA TD
Cecilia Carlsson, PASA Office Manager

Voting Countries                                                                  Non Voting Countries
1- Argentina – Francisco (Paco) Ventura*                      Barbados – Margot Tuach
2- Brazil – Silvio da Silva*, Mauro Achiame                                             Jason Kistoo
3- Canada – Barbie Mayors*                                              Puerto Rico – Omar Lamoso
4- Chile - Cristian Gonzalez
5- Costa Rica – Jose Ureña, Randall Chavez
6- Dominican Rep. – Nestor Puente
7- Ecuador – Byron Yagual*, Cirilo Yagual
8- El Salvador – Jimmy Rotherham, Jaime Delgado
9- Guadeloupe – Pierre Bourbon*
10- Jamaica – Anthony (Billy) Wilmot
11- Panama – Ruben Garcia
12- Peru – Karin Serralta
13- Uruguay – Gonzalo Eires, Rodrigo Guerra
14- Venezuela – Francisco Gamallo, Elsy Quijada
* With Proxies

MISSING:
Mexico
Apologies
Paul West, PASA secretary, due to illness.
Team Guatemala due to complications at airport

Approval of Minutes – AGM Portugal
Motion by Canada, second by Brazil.

President’s Welcome
Very happy everyone is here. PASA staff worked very hard and accomplished many things including an updated website. The website is great, there’s a new logo and clothes. Many documents have been translated into both Spanish and English. The Rulebook and Constitution have been updated and changes have been made. Thank you for all of your support.

Financial Statements
Presented and approved
Motion to approve by Chile and second by Venezuela.
 
Rulebook Changes
Biggest difference/change= Created PASA Perpetual Trophy and proposed to name it after PASA founder Fernando Aguerre.
Motion broken down into 2 parts:
First: approving a Perpetual Trophy
Second: approving name
Motions moved by Venezuela, second Dominican Rep.

1st Motion: the adoption of a Perpetual Trophy
IN FAVOR                 AGAINST

1. 0

2ND Motion: approval of the name of the Perpetual Trophy as “the Fernando Aguerre Perpetual Trophy”.

IN FAVOR     AGAINST         ABSTAIN
2                           4                     6
Will open the agenda on this item for the NGB’s to provide names for the Perpetual Trophy to be voted upon.

Next Change: Have a “Juniors” event.
IN FAVOR                             NOT IN FAVOR       ABSTAIN
9                                                         0                           3

ALL RULEBOOK CHANGES APPROVED!

Last AGM Point
The first ever Junior Pan American Surfing Games to be held in Isla Margarita, Venezuela, November 2008.
Next Pan American Surfing Games to be held in Guadeloupe, November 2009.

Motions to close AGM