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WASER Council. Fourth Note (Giampaolo Di Silvio, President for WASER
2016-09-09
 

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please find below, copied for your quick reference, my last communication (Third Note) to the Council, dated 08/10/2015.

After that email, a lot of work has been carried out by the Executive Secretary Liu Cheng. Besides the website substantially renewed and the Newsletter published and distributed again, Liu Cheng has very recently made a great effort to expand the number of sediment experts interested in our association, creating the so-called "WASER Community". He has
contacted various groups of selected individuals actively connected with WASER and has immediately received about 200 positive responses. Many more experts will very likely join the WASER Community in the next future. Please, indicate to Liu Cheng the names and mail addresses of other experts possibly willing to join.

Considering that, since many years, the number of regular (paying) members of WASER is very limited, it seems convenient (at least for this
year) waiving the registration fee for all the members of the 'WASER Community' and assimilating them to regular members, including their right to vote . According to the Statutes, the membership due is determined by the Council with the advice of the Secretariat. Thus, in
his email of 12-01-2016, the SG has opportunely proposed to set temporarily equal to zero the membership fee.

Note that the zero-fee policy does not have a permanent character. It has the scope to foster initially the participation of the WASER Community members to the life of the association and should be reconsidered by the new WASER Council 2016-2019. In this occasion  the non-zero fee will be determined to represent, for the paying member, an attractive balance between cost and benefit.

For organising in time the election of the new Officers and Council members, I kindly ask you to consider at your earliest convenience the proposal by the SG. In order to simplify the procedure, I will consider a silent agreement no reply from your side in the next ten days.

I take the occasion to recall you:
(i) the possibility to submit nominations for the new Officers and Council members to the Nomination Committee , care of the Executive Secretary <chliu@iwhr.com>;
(ii) the request by the Secretary General of WASER and IRTCES to propose,  before March 31, the venue of the I4th ISRS in 2019.

With many thanks for your cooperation and my best wishes,
Giampaolo Di Silvio

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