PRIME MINISTER’S SCHOLARSHIPS
Congratulations to Rachel Smith and Aaron Prince (both PAPO), recipients
of the newly instituted Prime Minister’s scholarships. The scholarships
have been established to support young talented athletes undertake tertiary
studies while also pursuing their sporting goals. Approximately 280
scholarships were awarded to athletes from 40 sports.
APPOINTMENTS
NZOF is pleased to welcome Myles Thayer (Dunedin) as South Island representative
on the Council and announce the following appointments, also both from
Dunedin:
· Lindsay Smith as Primary Schools Coordinator
· Bunny Rathbone as a Selector, joining Marquita Gelderman
(convenor) and Wayne Aspin on the panel.
VACANCIES
The position of Media Officer remains vacant. A fax machine is
provided. Interested persons should contact the NZOF President or
General Manager. The previously advertised position of Development Officer
is now to be funded on a project basis, see the paragraphs immediately
following for further explanation. Applications are invited for the position
of ANZ Team Manager for the ANZ Challenge to be held in the Manawatu, January
2002 and applications close 31 May. Job Descriptions for the positions
of Media Officer and ANZ Team Manager are available from the General Manager.
DEVELOPMENT REPORT ON BEST PRACTICE
The Council at its meeting of 10 March adopted Robyn Davidson’s report,
“Examination of the Best Practice of Sports Clubs and Organisations on
Increasing Participation and Club Membership”. All clubs will be
sent a Summary of the report and can then request the detailed Appendix
outlining “Best Practices” being ten common factors identified by clubs
as contributing to increased membership and participation. Future development
spending will be on a project basis. The Council identified four
priorities for development spending, viz, permanent courses, successful
clubs mentoring neighbouring clubs, generic promotional material (including
web resources) and orienteering in schools. However, clubs, after
considering the report on Best Practices, are also invited to initiate
their own development projects and apply for funding accordingly.
Fuller details will be sent to clubs in conjunction with the Summary of
the Best Practices report.
DEVELOPMENT BUDGET
As a result of the strategy arising from the adoption Best Practices
report, as well as the shift from a single Development Officer position
to funding development on a project basis, the Council will seek leave
at the AGM to change the structure of the Development Budget for 2002.
Refer Note 5 to the Financial Accounts contained in the Annual Report.
STRATEGIC PLAN
Following the receipt of comments, President Rob Crawford has finalised
the plan. “Finding Our Way: Participation, Retention and Performance”
is set to guide us through the period 2001-2004. Clubs and NZOF Officers
will be sent a copy but members can also view it on the website www.nzorienteering.com
or obtain a copy from the General Manager.
BULK POSTAGE FOR New Zealand ORIENTEERING
The anomaly that clubs are charged for postage where the national magazine
is mailed directly to members while clubs receiving bulk delivery are not
charged, is to be corrected. This will take effect from the next
issue, May 2001. Based on the February issue the charge for a club
receiving a bulk order of 30 will be approximately $9.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This will be held at Rotorua in conjunction with the National Championships
at Easter, Lynmore Primary School hall, on Saturday 14 April at 7:30 pm.
There will be elections for the positions of President and Vice-President.
Nominations are sought for both positions. The incumbent president
will offer himself for re-election while the position of vice-president
will be filled for the first time.
Besides the annual awards, prizes for the course setting competition will also be presented.
Fine tuning of remits
The NZOF Council wishes to foreshadow that at the AGM it will table
two amendments to the remits as already circulated. The amendments
are shown in italics.
Remit No.3, first paragraph. That the current form of local/social membership be abolished and all members of an orienteering club are affiliated to NZOF through a Club affiliation fee. This fee will be based on club membership of the previous year (with a $100 minimum) to provide revenue of $12500 in the 2002 year (which is approximately the same amount of total levy as the current total affiliation levy). This amount will be inflation linked for subsequent years. For the purposes of establishing club membership, a junior will count as 0.5 of a senior. This change to take effect from 1 January 2002.
Remit No.5. That Competition rule 6.3 "NZ Championship titles may only
be held by NZ Citizens or visitors who have 3 months continuous residency
before the first day of competition" be replaced by "NZ Championship titles
may only be held by NZ citizens or permanent residents. [permanent residency
requirements are defined by the NZ Immigration Service]"
In line with this, the last bullet point in rule 5.8 "An overseas orienteer
must have 3 months continuous residency before the first day of competition
to be eligible to run officially in a NZ club team" be replaced by "Orienteers
must be NZ citizens or permanent residents [as defined by the NZ Immigration
Service] to be eligible to run officially in a NZ club team."
And for consistency Competition Rules Appendix 6, Section 4.3, replace
"the average of the first two placed members of the NZOF" by "the average
of the first two NZ citizens or permanent residents".
Travel equalisation – clarification. The actual policy is that “clubs who attend (or use their right to a proxy vote) must participate in the travel equalisation.” This means that proxy holders must participate in the pool of clubs that bear the total cost of delegates but are not entitled to any refunds since they have not borne any cost themselves.
SEMINARS AND COACHING BONANZA
Several seminars will be held at Rotorua on the afternoon of Good Friday
also at the Lynmore Primary School hall starting at 3:30 pm. Topics
will be:
· Who’s Afraid of the Media Wolf (convened by Rob Crawford)
· Tribal-O, Beach-O and other variations (convened by Michael
Wood)
· Maths, Geography and Orienteering (convened by Jean Cory-Wright).
Then in the week following Easter, leading up to the NI Secondary School
Champs, there will be a Coaching Bonanza at Taupo. Look out for the
publicity brochure or contact the Coaching Director Jean Cory-Wright.