Meeting #4 of the Board of Directors - 2003-04-11

Note: this is a translation from the Spanish. The Spanish version is the authoritative one.

The meeting of the Board of Directors was called to order at 11:12 a.m.

Present were:

John Mac Gregor	Sidney Ferencz
Lilia Berrocal	Eduardo Piza
Patricia Miranda	Florita Firchow

The minutes of the previous meeting, #3, were read and approved.

There is ¢1.025.512,37 in assets as of January 7^th. We are going to request the treasurer to put the records in order to represent the state of affairs better. We are going to collect the money that John Mac Gregor has in order to turn it over to Norman. There are 53 members who have paid their membership dues.

Correspondence

CACBF: Tournament on May 22^nd in Martinique. As well as the tournament, there is a course for directors and club managers. If there are people interested in participating in the course, it will pay for two nights in a hotel on behalf of the Association. A copy of the information was sent to Amalia and Bruce for their information and to advise the people who play at their clubs.

World Championship in November.

Guatemala: Central America Bridge Tournament on June 27^th and 29 ^th. The cost to participate: $25 per person and $100 for teams, per person. It includes 3 lunches and 2 "snacks".

The World Bridge Federation announced that the Worldwide Bridge Contest will be known as the “Epson” and will be held June 6^th and 7^th. It will be scheduled Saturday afternoon and Friday evening. It remains to find a place where the tournament can be held. We will talk to Amalia Meltzer to see if she can reach an arrangement with the Kings Garden Resaurant.

Patricia Miranda is the person in charge of everything relating to Women's Bridge.

The European Bridge Federation sent information about the first European open tournament in France in the Costa Azul.

Various Points

Sidney presented the posibilility of holding games or tournaments in the "Casa España" location which has an available salon. John is going to talk with Bruce and Amalia about the possibility of joining together and having a common club house for everyone.

It was agreed to talk with Licenciado Weisleder with the objective of putting in order that which is not good in the books as they concern the posts of the Board.

The meeting ended at 12:00 noon.