APPOINTMENTS
NZOF is pleased to announce the following appointments:
Rolf Wagner (North West), National Orienteering Squad Manager,
Wayne and Tricia Aspin (Counties-Manukau), joint National Orienteering Squad Coaching Coordinators,
Graham Frith (PAPO), ANZ Challenge Team Manager.

The previous National Squad Manager, Rob Crawford, and Coach, John Robinson, did not seek reappointment and NZOF thanks them for their services.

VACANCIES
With Wayne Aspin’s appointment, above, he is standing down as a national selector after fifteen years on the panel.  NZOF thanks Wayne for such sterling service.

Selector
Applications are therefore now invited for the vacancy of selector.  The panel consists of three selectors and appointment is for three years, with one position rolled over each year.  Applications close 31 October and a Job Description is available from the General Manager.

Media Officer
This important position remains vacant, please give it your serious consideration.
The primary role of the Media Officer is to foster and promote orienteering through the various forms of media in NZ.  Direct expenses are reimbursed within the approved budget and a fax machine is provided.  Interested persons should contact the NZOF President or General Manager. A Job Description is available from the General Manager

NATIONAL SPORTS FUNDING
The NZOF has been granted national funding of $15,000 plus GST for 2001/2002, the same amount as for the previous year.  To obtain funding national sports organisations are required to achieve various targets, which mainly relate to participation, membership, coaching and the development of junior sport.  To achieve the targets, the NZOF administration is, of course, dependent on the activities of clubs.  Therefore the full list of funding targets will shortly be sent to all clubs to enlist their support in their achievement.

CLUB AFFILIATIONS FOR 2002
Clubs are reminded that as a result of remits passed at this year’s AGM, all members of a club affiliated to NZOF will be automatically full members of NZOF upon payment by the club of its affiliation levy.  This means that there will no longer be social (or local) members.

The remit passed at the AGM, sets the initial total from club affiliations at $12,500 with each club contributing according to its relative size based on membership as at the end of 2001.  For this reason club treasurers will be asked to advise final membership numbers no later than 30 November, so that clubs can then be advised in December of their club affiliation levy.

In calculating the club levy, junior members will count as 0.5 and members who are already primary members of another club will be excluded – if this information is known.  While, the final levies per club cannot be known until final membership returns are made, clubs will shortly be advised of indicative figures.  The smallest clubs (WACO, Pinelands) will pay the minimum of $100.  A medium-sized club (Counties-Manukau) will pay around $500 and the largest club (PAPO) will pay something in the order of $1,900.

DEVELOPMENT FUNDING
Although detailed guidelines on project applications have been sent to all clubs and NZOF officers, and were also included in the July issue of New Zealand ORIENTEERING, there have been few expressions of interest.  The Council voted $500 to the Hutt Valley Club to assist the holding of the 2nd NZ Mountain-Bike Orienteering Championships, as part of the on-going development of new forms of orienteering.  This grant was by way of funds sponsored for the purpose by Ampro Sales through its Silva development programme.

ELITE EVENTS PROJECT
At the IOF Extraordinary General Assembly held at the beginning of August it was decided that, as from 2004, World Championships will be held annually.    However, the IOF Council's proposal regarding separate qualification routes to a World Championship was withdrawn while further analysis is undertaken.  A new proposal regarding qualification is to be presented at the 2002 IOF Congress.

The good news for countries, such as New Zealand, which lack the depth of the likes of the Scandinavian nations, is that future World Championships will include a three person relay for men and women, rather than the current four person relay.

The proposal regarding race formats was adopted, with the modification that the "Middle" format is not deemed to be the Olympic format.

AUGUST COUNCIL MEETING
Full minutes of the meeting held at Auckland on 18/19 August have been sent to all clubs and are also posted on the NZOF website.  Outcomes of the meeting included:

• Reconfirmation that secondary schools represent a prime resource for member recruitment and the way for clubs to grow is through schools.  In his report to the Council, Secondary Schools Coordinator Geoff Morrison proposed that more emphasis be put on the team aspect of schools orienteering.
• Proposals to revamp the badge scheme, outlined by NZOF Statistician Bryan Teahan.
• The NZOF manual for clubs will be placed on the NZOF website for ease of accessibility and to ensure that everyone is therefore accessing the most up-to-date version.  The list of resources covered by the manual includes: the Constitution and Strategic Plan, information for treasurers, rules of competition, coaching, legal issues and various NZOF policies such as Health & Safety, Team Selection and Anti-Doping.  Many of the resources, especially coaching resources, are already on the website and those outstanding are now being reviewed before also being posted to the website.
• The necessity for a federation policy on Harassment Free Sport was accepted in principle.  A draft policy will be tabled at the November Council meeting and a timetable for its implementation, taking into account available resources, will be prepared by the end of 2002.