This year’s Spring Council/Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday, May 8th in Victoria. Call to order is 930am. A meeting venue is to be announced in due course. The annual Jack Tinnion Memorial Shield match featuring members in the 604 area code vs 250 area code members will be held after the meeting. A light lunch will be provided for all meeting attendees.

The meeting is open to all members of the Referees Association. All participants are asked to RSVP to Provincial Secretary Richard Brownie (guild_ref@hotmail.com) so that numbers for lunch can be arranged.

The purpose of the meeting is as follows:

• To continue focus on the RA’s Business Plan 
• To approve election of officers (President, Secretary- both 2 year terms)
• To ratify Area Association-appointed Directors (Fraser Valley, Van. Area, Interior)
• To approve a budget for the coming 2010-2011 fiscal year
• To meet and re-acquaint with fellow referee colleagues

A Brainstorming session is being developed of which the topic will be announced shortly.

Congratulations to Canadian FIFA Referee and RA Member Michelle Pye on her appointment to the CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championships. The tournament, which will be held in Costa Rica in March, is the qualifying Tournament for this year’s FIFA Women’s U-17 to be held in Trinidad later this year.

At the recent Fall Council Meeting of the association on Saturday, December 5^th, the membership passed a motion agreeing, in principle, to the draft Referee Association Business Plan that was officially presented at the meeting. Furthermore, the Plan, with an intended 3 year lifespan, is now to be discussed within Area Association executives, and RA members under their care, for further fine tuning. Areas agreed to finalize the Plan in early 2010 via conference call.