MINUTES 1/2009
 
 
NBDSF MEETING AT HERRANKUKKARO, IN FINLAND ON 7.6.2009
 
 
Time    7.6.2009 at 9.00 - 10.30
Place    Herrankukkaro, Rymättylä, Finland
 
Participants    
Riina Kuusk, president / Estonia
Jussi Raisio / Finland
Jari Malkamäki / Finland
Arne Lundquist / Sweden
Mona Riis / Sweden
Björn Roine / Norway
Marius Minkevicius / Lithuania
Juha-Matti Aaltonen, secretary / Finland
Lea Numminen / Finland (observer)
Jørgen Jørgensen / Denmark
(Jørgensen was present at the workshop the day before where the issues for this NBDSF ordinary meeting were prepared)
 
1) OPENING OF THE MEETING
 
The NBDSF President Riina Kuusk officially opened the meeting. It was noted that Latvia and Iceland were not represented at the meeting. Latvia had financial reasons for cancellation and Iceland had not sent any information on cancellation beforehand.
The President continued with apologies because Estonia had not been able to take the responsibilities of NBDSF Presidency as had been agreed due to changes of people in the Board and staff of the Estonian Deaf Sports Association. Kuusk thanked especially Finland and Juha-Matti Aaltonen for good co-operation and flexibility in securing NBDSF activities during this period. Aaltonen will continue as secretary for the time being.
Jussi Raisio, Finnish president warmly welcomed all the participants to Finland and wished good spirit of co-operation to the meeting.
 
2) ROLL CALL OF THE MEMBER COUNTRIES PRESENT
 
The participants of the meeting were pesent according to the list above. All other member countries were present, except Latvia and Iceland.
 
3) APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
 
The agenda was approved unanimously.
 
4) APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING HELD AT CASTBERGÅRD, DENMARK ON 2-3.6.2007
 
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved unanimously.
 
 
5) DIPLOMAS AND STATISTICS OF RECORDS
 
Björn Roine from Norway had updated the statistics of records accordingly. All NBDSF member countries had by email received the statistics of records Roine had collected.
On the spot Roine had given the diplomas of records with signatures to the representatives of those countries whose athletes had made records during the past two years.
It was hoped that in the future the member countries should be more careful when it comes to record information concerning possible misprints, in dates and decimals. It was hoped that information on records should be sent to Roine as soon as possible to get them updated.
 
6) NBDSF PLAN OF ACTION FOR YEARS 2008-2010
 
The issues in agenda items 6-8 were discussed as one item as follows:
The NBDSF plan of action for 2008-2010 drafted at the workshop was approved (appendix 1)
The proposal from Denmark on NBDSF futsal-membership games in 2012 or 2013 was tabled. This decision was made because we wanted to wait for the approval of the ICSD calendar of games at the next meeting in Taipei. The issue will be discussed at the extraordinary NBDSF meeting in Taipei.
Further, the issue of the NBDSF bowling games in Denmark was tabled until the ICSD calendar is available.
The dates, 5-10.7.20010 for the next Sportsfestivals in Åland were approved.
 
9) SPORTSFESTIVALS IN ÅLAND ON 22-27.7.2008
 
The issue was already discussed at the workshop on the previous day.
 
10) NBDSF MEDALS, OFFICIAL FORMS AND LETTERS
 
A decision was taken that in the future NBDSF official medals will not be used at the Sportsfestivals. An inquiry will be made, if a medal with a symbol of Åland can be purchased on the spot. The medal can be very simple, with no special requirements. There is no need to print more official letters or diplomas till further notice. It was decided that the same model for a diploma as at the last year's Sportsfestivals can be used.
 
11) NBDSF WWW-PAGES
 
It was decided that Finland can take care of updating and development of the homepages, if the President and other member countries will be actively involved in the updating.
 
12) MISCELLENOUS
 
  • To honour the NBDSF 100th anniversary year in 2012 the NBDSF history will be produced. Birgitta Wallvik will be asked, if she is interested in writing it. Sweden will check, if it is possible to use materials Urban Mesch produced four years ago for the NBDSF information brochure. That way the expenses and writing of the history would require very little effort. In addition, Sweden will ask all NBDSF materials back from Mesch for the archives. The budget needed will be drafted and funding applied for instance from the ministry of education and the Nordic Council the soonest possible.
  • Following the Swedish initiative a discussion was carried out on the present situation of the national member clubs in the NBDSF member countries. The organisations should follow with special interest the participation of athletes in another country's championship games during the same year the athlete already has represented the sports club of his own country. For instance, in the championship games in Sweden many Finnish athletes represented Swedish sports clubs. Lithuania also mentioned similar experiences with Italian clubs. A decision was made that an eye will be kept on this matter and every country will check its own rules - and acts accordingly.
  • Funding for the Sportfestivals will be to applied from the Åland provincial council, as EU project funding and from the Nordic Council. Aaltonen was given the authority to act on these funding applications.
  • A unanimous decision was made on the resolution of this NBDSF meeting, which will follow similar principles as the resolution of the previous meeting. The names of the organisations will be corrected. The resolution in question will mainly be used as an attachment to funding applications. Aaltonen was given authority on this.
  • Three best athletes will be given prizes at the Sportfestivals, although there might not be any more participants in that event in question. The limit is three events/participant.
  • According to the decision made at the previous meeting Norway agreed that it will take the presidency after Estonia.
  • The memorandum of the workshop will be attached to the minutes of this ordinary meeting (SWOT, plan of action 2010-2012, Sportfestivals)
 
13) NEXT MEETING
 
Next NBDSF meeting will be held in Norway in 2011 in the last week of May or early June. The exact place is still open.
 
14) CLOSING OF THE MEETING
 
President Riina Kuusk closed the meeting by noting that the workshop and the ordinary meeting had functioned extremely well. Riina Kuusk thanked Finland further for successful meeting arrangements and good co-operation.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Riina Kuusk                Juha-Matti Aaltonen
President                    Secretary