From: Robin Anderson [mailto:jrander1@bigpond.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:21 AM To: Danielle Marchand Cc: Lilette Rivet; Jocelyn Brunet; Gilbert Tourneur; Monique Malie Subject: Re: PFA Board Nominations & Election? Dear Daniel Below is a brief resume of my expertise that I can bring to the Board. 1. I am a former member of the PFA Board. I served as director assisting the Board in rewriting the BY-Laws and Policies. I served for a short time as PFA Secretary. 2. I am a former President of Petanque Western Australia. I also served as PWA secretary. 3. I served Rockingham Petanque Club as Secretary and Treasurer. $. Immediately prior to my retirement from the Commonwealth Public Service I worked for the Department of Defence as a contract Manager. I managed the Housing and Removal contracts in WA. It is my intention to assist in bringing responsible governance to the PFA board. My vision for Petanque is to achieve recognition as a sport as was almost achieved when I last served on the board , To achieve these goals it is important to demonstrate sound fiscal and structural responsibility within the board. My belief is that once this is achieved the flow-on will open doors previously closed to Petanque in regard to funding and wider recognition this is essential in order for the sport to grow . Regards Robin Anderson

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Max Chaperon Bio I was born in Mauritius. I first came to play Petanque in Madagascar whilst working for NASA on a satellite tracking station. In 1971, I immigrated to Australia. Soccer was my passion I was heavily involved in playing and coaching until I retired from the game after 32 years. I had an A grade coaching Licence from the Australian Soccer Federation. During this time also I became a member of the WEIRD Entertainers and Petanque club. Petanque is now my preferred sport. For the past 37 years I have been working with Telstra and Comcare. The last 11 years has been as a consultant to the RMIT University in Melbourne, specializing in Work Cover. This involves dealing with all levels of workers, management and outside professionals involved in Health and Welfare. I am presently the President of the Victorian Petanque Committee and heavily involved in the development and progress of petanque in Victoria. For many years I have been actively involved in community work and believe that I have the right qualifications for seeking a position on the PFA Board. I wish to nominate as a Director of PFA believing that the Federation needs a fresh approach. There is an urgent need for directors to be more accountable and responsive to the need of its members.

Joe Corcoran, Resume

To: Danielle Marchand

The Returning Officer. Petanque Federation Australia Ltd. Expression of interest for the position of Director on the Board of Petanque Federation Australia Ltd. for the election to be held from the 23rd and 24th May 2013.

Profile

Joseph William Corcoran

28 Ruislip Street

West Leederville WA 6007.

Tel 0407425324

Email joewcorcoran@gmail.com

My petanque life

I have been playing Petanque since 1997, which was when I joined Subiaco Petanque Club. The following year I became the Club Secretary and served as a committee member for the next 12 years the last 6 as Club President, I retired from that position in 2010.

I was also the Subiaco Petanque Club representative on the Petanque WA Committee for several years and held a number of different positions in that organisation, including Secretary, Treasurer and Vice President, I was elected President of PWA in 2010.

I have been involved in the organisation and management of all 4 national championships held in WA.

In 2002 I was a member of the committee requested to produce a new constitution for the newly named, Petanque WA, in 2008 I also was part of a committee tasked with a review of that constitution to allow for an increase in the size of the executive to improve the effectiveness of the management.

I am a State level Umpire and since 2008 have been the State Director of Umpiring.

My working life

In June 2012 I retired from full time employment, after more than 35years involved in the Management of Construction and Engineering Projects, in both the Private and Public sector. I have extensive experience in, budgeting, cost control, contract management, project management and in working with both State and Federal government departments.

My experience as a Director of PFA in 2012

I was elected to the board of PFA at the end of April 2012 and continually campaigned for more regular and improved financial reporting and the introduction of regular monthly meeting using digital media, to try to improve communications between board members. I was also involved in the drafting of the procedures for Australian team selections.

The Future

As a candidate in the forthcoming election for the board of directors of PFA I have a great deal of experience with which I will be able to contribute to the future success of PFA.

Having been president and a long term committee member of both Subiaco Petanque club and Petanque WA, I have a thorough understanding of the good governance and proper processes required to ensure the organisation is well managed and to ensure that its operations and finances are transparent to all its members.

If elected to the PFA board I undertake to work to achieve the following:

To actively work towards obtaining National recognition of petanque as a sport. To maintain PFA as a Nationally registered Federation, as required by the Australian Sports Commission To reactivate the PFA website with accurate information to ensure better communications with our members. To provide our members with improved financial reporting To work more closely with the State Leagues to obtain a better understanding of the needs of the various States. To retain our insurance policies so as to protect all our member Clubs and their players To review all PFA a by-laws to remove anomalies and try ensure they are working for the benefit of our members. To fully support our Coaching and Umpiring committees and to ensure they are adequately financed. To work at growing our membership, by listening to our members and promoting our sport at every opportunity

Joe Corcoran 24th April 2013

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Andre Deramond International Umpire FIPJP toulouse.1950@gmail.com Mob: 0403 267 249 Melbourne 24 April 2013 Dear members, I wish to inform you that I will be standing as a candidate for the coming election for a position of Director of PFA. I believe that I will bring to the Board my international experience as an Umpire having officiated in Asia at the South East Asian Games (Laos, Indonesia) at the Oceania (New Zealand) and at the World championship in Izmir Turkey. I will continue to do “Rules presentation” to assist all our umpires around the country. I will continue to use my international contacts established over the past 10 years for the benefit of PFA and its members having brought to Australia

- I.e. Pan Pacific games - FIPJP Coaching course - FIPJP Umpiring course

I will proceed if re elected to implement and extend the usage of the OK software program, useful

- For maintaining our clubs and members database. - Running Tournament - Collecting results for our coaching staff - The game I have proposed to the Board and introduced

- An Australian National Doubles Championship - An Over 60 Australian National Triples Championship (Jean Paul Boudan

request) - since then cancelled??? - The Interstate is now an Over 60 and under 25 tournament as the Players of

the open category have too many tournaments to attend (Oceania’s, Asian, Pan Pacific, World championships and our National tournaments) . It has become too costly and a lot of players are having difficulties getting leave from their employer.

- Trans Tasman competition will now include a youth competition as well I believe that one of our challenges is to address and involved the vast majority of our players not interested in “elite” competition in Australia and overseas representation

My commitment to PFA is to work towards

- The recognition of Petanque by the Australia Sport Commission so to insure that Petanque became part of the Australian Sport landscape. Recognition of our sport by the Australian Sport Commission will open the door to

- Funding - Access to all sports institute in Australia - Development of the game for all - A working website would have improved communication by

providing proper and relevant information to members avoiding large number of unnecessary emails

- Proper Administration is required with Directors providing their skills in

- Accounts - Secretariat - Planning/Budget

In conclusion I believe that we can as an organisation move forward as the number of club and players has increased and is back to our highest level from over 3 years ago. We have clubs and people around the country doing a great job in developing programs to attract young players Yours truly

Andre Deramond

CAULFIELD PARK PETANQUE CLUB Caulfield Park Sports Club Inc. ABN 15 989 311 456

www.caulfieldparkbowlsclub.com.au Balaclava Road, Caulfield North (Mel ways: 59, B12)

15 April 2013 Danielle Marchand Returning officer C/c Board members Dear Danielle, The Caulfield Park Petanque Club would like to nominate Andre Deramond as a candidate for a position as one of the Director s of PFA at the coming election of the 23-24 May 2013. Yours in petanque,

Judith Armstrong President Caulfield Park Petanque Club

Dear Danielle,

I would like to put my name for the Director position to the PFA board. I am in the Petanque world since I was 5 years old,I know the game,the rules,I am an international level 2 Coach,I have represented my country on several competitions.

2004,National coach at the world in Grenoble 2005, part of the team in Brussels world championship 2007 , part of the team in Thailand world championship,

won 3 Transtasman won New Zealand open double in Masterton won the national Australian triples 2007won the National doubles 2012,runner up at the national triples 2012 Won most of the major tournaments in Australia (Coonawarra,Perth,Sydney,Melbourne)

won several times state Competiton ( single , double , triple ) Won National Shooting competition twice in a row, This list is not exhaustive, I don't keep record of my wins. I have very good IT knowledge I have a very good knowledge of petanque I know how to get sponsorships and grants from local councils. As secretary of my club I know how clubs are running their organisation and finances,and I would say you have to run The Pfa like an Entreprise,communicate with members ,no members and the PFA does not exist so respect and honesty would be appreciated to all our members. I think I would bring lots of clarity and simplicity in the next board. Pfa today is too complicated to understand,so I would make it a little bit simple to the members to comprehend. I will work on the coaching with Warren, and restart the web for players and people interested in Petanque to find Informations

Patrick dufresne

RESUME

Name Neil A Kelly

Marital Status Married to Jackie

Hobbies & Interests Golf Petanque Computer Programming

Education Year 11 - Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide

Tertiary Diploma in Accounting (1967) (One year of Three year course completed) Institute of Technology, Adelaide

Additional Education

Management and Communication - Australian Institute of Management, 1978 Unix Networking & Programming - Jakarta, 1991 Microsoft Access Advanced Programming - Sydney, 1997 MYOB Accreditation as Professional Partner and Consultant - Sydney, 1999

Microsoft Certified Learning (6368) Microsoft .Net Framework using Visual Studio - Melbourne 2010 Certificate IV in Financial Services (Accounting) - FNS40604, 2012 Coaching in Petanque Conducted by President FIPJP - Sydney, 2012

Employment History From July 1994 To Now BRIEF OUTLINE of Kelbiz Services Pty Ltd

The business commences as a small consulting company in 1994, specialising in Book-keeping services, training and Management Accounting. In November 1996, the company was appointed to consult to a Japanese firm in farm construction and training of personnel in Ostrich farming. The business was upgraded to a Company in 1998.

The company now specialises in providing business solutions to Small Business particularly in the areas of:

• Automated Accounting and Payroll support • Computer Hardware and Network support • Computer software, installation and training • Server management • Development of computer programs

POSITION: Managing Director

Neil’s experience is based on an extensive career in corporate finance that he now applies in his consulting business. He has been instrumental in preparing and developing policies, procedures, instruction and documentation for use by management. His corporate career for over 40 years included sales and marketing, administration, credit control and lending. He appointed and trained staff in SA and NSW to improve customer service, and later controlled an office of 65,000 accounts and 150 staff. Other portfolios encompassed the preparation of yearly marketing plans, income and expense budgets etc., and computer programming. Neil, as a past director of a subsidiary Australian company, spent some time offshore. Reporting to the board and shareholders, he was accountable for profitability, credit risk assessment and the control of domestic and international borrowing. His responsibility included staff performance, projected earnings, local taxation and return on equity. A major achievement was to implement a new accounting system to minimise the fluctuations in cash-flow on borrowing. One of Neil’s major strengths is project management ... he was instrumental in developing the strategy to move 650 employees into a new building in Sydney. This involved liaising with design consultants, maintaining budget expense control and internal fit-out. With a strong background in administration, Neil has been actively involved with computers since 1987, both hardware and software ... and is conversant with networks and various software packages including accounting, desktop publishing, and Microsoft products. He also writes small applications to support small business.

Newcastle Pétanque Club PO Box 473

New Lambton NSW 2305

10 May 2013

Ms D Marchand Returning Officer PFA Board Elections 2013

Dear Danielle, The members of the Newcastle Petanque Club endorse the nomination of Tim Stevenson for the position of Director of the Petanque Federation Australia.

Yours sincerely,

Delys Brady Secretary

Petanque Federation Australia

Nomination for Board of Directors

Member of Newcastle Petanque Club

I, Timothy Stevenson wish to make nomination for a vacant position as a Director of Petanque Federation Australia.

I declare that if elected I will be stepping down from the Sport Officers role and Committee at the Newcastle Pètanque Club. Whilst this is not a requirement, I do so wishing to dedicate as much of my time as possible on the issues facing Pètanque in Australia.

Separately attached, you will find my resume along with my views and proposals for the future of Pètanque.

Please,

Vote for me and the rest of our group.

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Newcastle Pétanque Club PO Box 473

New Lambton NSW 2305

10 May 2013

Ms D Marchand Returning Officer PFA Board Elections 2013

Dear Danielle, The members of the Newcastle Petanque Club endorse the nomination of Grant Threadgate for the position of Director of the Petanque Federation Australia.

Yours sincerely,

Delys Brady Secretary

Expression of Interest

Nomination for Director of the Petanque Federation Australia

Grant Threadgate – Newcastle Petanque Club

In support of my expression of interest the following is provided –

Background - The PFA election presents member clubs with an ideal opportunity to change the direction of petanque in Australia. Member clubs have the opportunity to appoint a completely new executive to manage petanque in Australia on their behalf; any future board members should consider themselves as servants of the membership.

For the past decade or so there has been almost constant turmoil and upheaval in the administration of the game. These upheavals have cost member clubs and players in terms of legal expenses, insurance premiums, lack of advancement and promotion of the game and in fact a gradual decline of participants. During this period clubs have also observed the same common denominators contributing to the woes of petanque in Australia. There have been resignations, disputes, threats, tournament withdrawals etc etc…. do clubs want the Federation to continue to operate that way?

Career - Retired from the NSW Health system after nearly forty years of service in the financial and corporate service divisions of the Hunter Health Service based in Newcastle. Subsequent to my retirement I was recalled as a consultant to NSW Health to conduct a due diligence project to restructure some corporate services.

I hold formal qualifications in accountancy and health administration and experience in the management of major corporate services in the health system.

Petanque Experience – I have been involved in petanque since 1999 at the Newcastle Club and held various positions within our club committee for the past ten years. I am currently the club president and would be prepared to relinquish this role, if necessary, should I be successful in the board elections. The Newcastle Petanque Club is one of the largest clubs in Australia in terms of membership and participation.

I have visited most states and play regularly in major tournaments, represented Australia several times in the Trans Tasman Challenge and have been actively involved with PFA as a past treasurer and have undertaken projects on behalf of PFA.

I have promoted petanque through the various masters games organisations and advocate the masters games as an ideal promotion opportunity for our sport and an

event that also meets the needs of the majority of our members. I believe that this type of promotion needs to be pursued by PFA.

What Is Offered to Petanque in Australia – As a retiree I can devote my time to the administration of the federation and would be prepared to undertake the treasurers duties if successful.

The immediate priorities, as I see them; are to ensure good governance, strong financial management, establish stability in the organisation, regular communication and consultation with members, address the needs of the vast majority of social players and promote our game with some long term plans.

It is timely, I believe, to appraise Australia’s participation in overseas tournaments and consider whether in future our main focus should only be confined to representative team participation within the Oceania Federation and against New Zealand. The cost to players and PFA of participating in tournaments outside of the immediate Oceania region needs to be assessed against the outcomes and benefits. Along with this it may be appropriate to review the existing selection process in terms of its success, transparency and continuing player development.

Disclosure – I have been asked by many people to nominate for the Board and have been humbled by that encouragement. The Newcastle Petanque Club also supports my candidature.

However I must declare to members that if successful in my bid that I reserve the right to decline should I consider that the final Board membership will be incompatible and potentially dysfunctional. I do not wish to be involved in a Board that may be similar to what we have witnessed on occasions over the last decade or so.

As volunteers, Board members do not have to be subjected to that type of experience and member clubs should demand and expect professionalism in the administration of their game in Australia.

I trust members will give serious consideration when casting their vote and welcome any enquiries on behalf of clubs.

Grant Threadgate 30th April 2013