Hi everyone,

As a board, we will meet three times per year, with one of these days a full day, as well attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of CALS (to be held in June, date and time TBD).

See attached for an agenda of our upcoming virtual board meeting on October 3rd, 11am to 1pm Central Time. Note that the zoom link has been distributed (please accept the calendar invite and let me know if you did not receive it). I am also attaching two other documents related to decisions that we need to make at our upcoming meeting. Read these over prior to our meeting because I will be asking you for your input and then for your vote.

I have reread the minutes from the previous board (2020 to 2023) as well as the attached membership priority survey (Vinu Best practices presentation to CALS May 6 2019.pdf). Priorities for the membership at this time included making the CALS website more usable (e.g., being able to purchase memberships online, having tabs for events, calls for papers, and past conferences, integrated social media), developing a mission statement, and a desire to work with other organizations. These priorities can guide our decision making.

At our meeting, we need to:

1) Decide which subcommittees to create/sustain and who will sit on each (each director to typically sits on at least one subcommittee) 2) Decide if we hire an RA to work on the website ($14, 000 or other amount?) 3) Decide if our May day-long board meeting is person or virtual 4) Decide if we purchase nonprofit board member insurance 5) Decide on finance training for nonprofit board members 6) Give feedback on a statement of CALS research support 7) Feedback on ‘our story’, related to the mission statement

More details related to the above decisions and tasks are in the attached documents.

See you soon, Fenton

-- Dr. Fenton Litwiller (they/them/theirs) President, Canadian Association for Leisure Studies (CALS) Associate Professor Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management | University of Manitoba 123 Frank Kennedy Centre | Winnipeg MB | R3T 2N2 204.474.8412 fenton.litwiller@umanitoba.camailto:fentonl@umanitoba.ca [signature_2837124687]

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