2008 AGM June 4 >>

2008 AGM Minutes

DRAFT Minutes

Canadian Journal of Communication

Annual General Meeting of Subscribers

12:15 to 1:45, June 4

Journalism (Sing Tao) Building 3rd Floor Lounge

University of British Columbia

1. Call to order, introductions - 12:30pm
2. Adoption of Agenda
 msc (gab.lor)
3. Acceptance of the minutes of the last AGM 2007 AGM Minutes msc (lor.com)
4. Publisher’s report (Smith, Felczak, Bittman2009, Carscallen)
 - Smith reported briefly on the general publication process, the online process, the printing and editing, as well as the accepted
5. Treasurer’s Report (Lorimer) - ended the year with a positive balance ($3758) despite slight drop in subscriptions, with increased revenues from royalties - tabled his report; motion to increase institutional subscriptions by $10-$15 in all categories' m/s/c PASSED; motion to pass on royalty revenues to authors if in excess of $25 - m/s/c PASSED
6. Editor’s report (Sawchuk) - fewer "junk" articles, rejection rate is 31%, interesting uptake of the results of research, submission of articles about 197 last year, proposed the idea of monographs in place of special issues (which are constrained to 2 per year) and general discussion ensued, book reviews system is working well.
7. Review Editor’s report (Bradley) - see #5 above
8. Subscriptions (Carscallen) - see item #3, above
9. Elections -- Board of Directors 
- President (Mitchell), Treasurer (Lorimer), Members-at-large (Brin, Compton, Gabriele, Shade re-elected); Susan Bryant elected by aclamation
10. Other Business
11. Adjourn 1:10pm