Volume 10, No. 1
April 2001
By Mary Anne Epp
This past year has been a bridging year, building on the vision developed in the past while at the same time, laying the foundation for the future of this unique umbrella organization for the promotion of braille in Canada and throughout the world.
Our members have been influential at the local, national and international levels in many ways:
We made considerable progress in our research projects. Debbie Sitar managed the project on Braille Teaching and Learning funded by the National Literacy Secretariat. A set of guidelines was developed and distributed to all ministries of education in Canada. The research on improved access to tactile catalogue products was completed at Langara College, under the direction of the CBA President.
Michelle Brule initiated new efforts to recruit French-speaking members who could support the work of French translation, an ongoing challenge for CBA.
The French Braille Standards Committee under the direction of Michelle Brule and the Technology Committee under the direction of David Best gathered new members and formulated plans for their respective developments.
The English Braille Standards Committee under the direction of Edie Mourre presented a proposal to the Canadian Braille Literacy Foundation for a project on electronic text standards for braille creation. The project was funded for the year 2001.
A tutorial project on braille use was developed by Betty Nobel who is managing this second grant from the Canadian Braille Literacy Foundation, also for the year 2001.
The Tactile Graphics testing project, phase 3, overcame some technical hurdles in the research process and is now moving ahead under the direction of Constance Craig, in partnership with the Braille Authority of North America.
The development of the Unified English Braille Code was intensified with the advice of Darleen Bogart, Betty Nobel, and Debbie Gillespie.
In conjunction with CNIB and with the World Blind Union, we participated in our first ever international Braille Day, sponsored by the Committee on Promotion of and Access to Braille led by Wendy Edey.
CBA is only as strong as the support of its members. We have begun to refresh the infrastructure so that we can communicate better with our members and recruit new ones.
The generous support of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto has provided us with the services of Joy Charlton as our executive secretary, replacing Reta Irwin, who retired last year. Ms Charlton has begun the difficult process of reorganizing the material necessary to preserve the corporate history. She has also begun the process of organizing the documents, procedures and forms for more efficient procedures to support the Executive and the Board. The transition will take time but we hope that the services will greatly improve as a result of this reorganization.
We have also begun the work of transferring the financial book-keeping to the CNIB Toronto so that there will be continuity in the financial record-keeping and accountability and a smoother transition of the accounting requirements with the auditor.
Communication vehicles continued to evolve. The CBA Web site was maintained at Langara College. Fred Poon and John McConnell completed a new issue of the newsletter that was published and distributed by Langara College. The listserves were also updated and maintained by Langara College. The Canadian Braille Authority was also listed on some prominent links with related national and international associations and also registered with the Canadian Donors Guide.
We want to thank our Board members for their support and contribution. In particular, we wish to thank our retiring Board members for their support and contributions. We accepted with regret, the resignation from the Secretary Margaret Thompson. We were very grateful that Betty Nobel stepped into the gap to provide necessary Executive support and secretarial services.
We are also immensely grateful to the institutional support we have received from corporate members and from the organizations that have contributed "in kind" to our corporate success. In particular, we need to identify CNIB Toronto, Langara College, New Brunswick Ministry of Education, and Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired in British Columbia.
April 2001
By Edie Mourre, Chair
Again this year the committee's main focus has been on working on Phase 3 of the Tactile Project. This project has taken a huge amount of team work and coordination in order to try to complete all the necessary work to meet the June 2001 deadline.
The project is now at the point where all testing modules have been completed and have been sent out to all the testers. Testing will resume immediately upon receipt of the testing kit and the results will then be forwarded to the researcher. Results will be tabulated and the final report will be completed in June.
As the Canadian representative for Phase 5: Formats of the Unified BrailleCode Research Project, I have been involved in some discussions through e-mail with representatives from other countries. Again, this is turning out to be quite a slow process as well.
Funding of $36,000.00 has been received from the CNIB Canadian Braille Literacy Foundation to undertake a new project, E-Text Related to Braille Research and Access. A sub-committee has been appointed and our first meeting will be held in April to determine how to proceed with this project, meet the objectives, and ensure completion of the project by January 31, 2002. The sub-committee consists of representatives from B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic Provinces.
February 2001
By Debbie Sitar, Chair
Since the completion of the project to develop Braille Teacher Standards, my committee has identified a need to develop procedures for the implementation of the standards. We have developed a plan to work on this task. I have included a synopsis of our project and invite comments. This plan is still in the draft stage and my committee is very eager to hear any additional input. We are hoping to be underway shortly.
To develop procedures for the implementation of standards for teachers of braille reading and writing.
The Braille Teaching and Learning Committee of the CBA met in Vancouver on May 30, 2001 to discuss the next step in the Standards Project.
The committee decided to produce a kit about the standards that could be circulated in Canada. This kit would contain information that would be appropriate for any special groups or interested parties.
A table of contents has been developed. The kit is now in production and will be ready to be evaluated by my committee early in 2002. We hope to have it completed in the spring/summer of 2002.
Please send comments to Debbie Sitar, sitar@shaw.ca or call 204.945.8130.
By Darleen Bogart
Just after the beginning of the year the newly elected President of the International Council on English Braille (ICEB), Betty Niceley, USA, died suddenly. As Vice-President I have assumed the duties of the President. I have indicated to the Executive Committee that I feel I have a conflict of interest as the Chair of the UEBC Project Committee, which I do not want to relinquish. The Past President, Joan Ledermann, Australia, died a few months later. These vacancies should be filled soon.
There was a face-to-face meeting of Committee III - Contractions in London, England last May. (Betty Nobel, Canadian representative and I left for the meeting from the CBA Annual Meeting.) The recommendations have been considered by the Project Committee with the following results:
Committee II - Extension of the Base Code and Committee IV - Interface with Foreign Languages joined to make a recommendation on the use of a language switch within English context. It is being considered by the Project Committee.
The committees working on these two topics have not completed their work. Their reports will come to the Executive Committee at its meeting in January 2002 in New Zealand when a decision will be made on whether to bring the UEBC to the General Assembly in 2003 for approval.
BANA (Braille Authority of North America) is producing and distributing two UEBC Samplers, literary and basic math, and technical, in embossed and simulated braille, to braille readers, educators and transcribers. They are including some for Canadians.
BANA has applied for a research grant in collaboration with the University of Minnesota to target students and teachers. We are hoping that CBA will be able to be a part of the testing and evaluation if we are successful in our grant application.
Professor Helen Petrie, Chair of Department of Tactile Graphics, Hertsfordshire University, UK has agreed to chair the ICEB Tactile Graphics Committee to share information and coordinate research activities in ICEB countries where possible. There is a list server for the committee which should be functioning very soon.
October 2001
By Darleen Bogart, Chair
Two of the UEBC working committees met in Markham, Ontario for five days the first week of September. They worked on Format Guidelines and the Transcribing Rules. Each committee will be submitting a report to the Project Committee.
I am attaching a copy of the report of Committee V on Format Guidelines, which gives the decisions that they have made to date. They still have work to complete.
We have a very short timeline for response as these issues have to be discussed and voted on by the Project Committee so that the ICEB Executive can become familiar with them before their meeting in New Zealand in early January, 2002.
By Fred Poon and Mary Anne Epp
Langara College maintained the CBA Web site at Langara College. The address is www.langara.bc.ca/cba. The Site contains the CBA Constitution and Bylaws in English and French, the membership brochure and form, and past newsletters.
Langara College maintained a number of listserves: a general CBA listserve for any members to subscribe. This is an non-moderated listserve and is open to anyone.
To register for the general CBA listserve: send a message to listproc@langara.bc.ca. In the message line, enter subscribe cba [first name last name] Remove all signature lines
To send a message to the general cba listserve, send to cba@langara.bc.ca To see who is on the general cba listserve, send a message to listproc@langara.bc.ca and enter the message: recipients cba Remove all signature lines.
Langara College also maintains the cbaexec and cbaboard listserves for members of each of these groups. Mary Anne Epp manages these two listserves. They are restricted to members of the management groups. Joy Charlton is included in each of these listserves as well.
There are also restricted listserves for CBA Braille Day and CBA Tactile Graphics Committee. The last two listserves have not been used much.
Fred Poon and John McConnell produced one newsletter. It was distributed to all known members.
Several national donor guides were contacted to include Canadian Braille Authority information.
By Linda Hale and Mary Anne Epp
In the first two studies on Tactile Graphics produced by the Canadian Braille Authority, the Committee on English Braille Standards recommended that a separate study on the cataloguing and access to tactile graphics be conducted.
The purpose of the project was to assess the requirements and potential methods of developing a Canadian tactile graphics catalogue or database. This report presents the findings of the project researcher with respect to the following issues:
Technological developments of the past decade have opened up a broad set of new possibilities for the development of tactile graphics. Previously, at a few locales throughout the country, a small number of highly dedicated and skilled individuals produced tactile graphics for clients on an "as needed" and "if the need can be accommodated" basis. The designated users of tactile graphic materials were principally students under the jurisdiction of the various provincial Ministries of Education. Demand for tactile graphic materials was limited by production technology, funding and client aspirations. Bibliographic control of these materials was often maintained on an in-house and sometimes ad hoc basis.
Today, the situation is markedly different. Developments in computer software and hardware are revolutionizing the methodologies utilized to produce tactile graphics. The sharing of tactile graphics can, in some cases, be achieved electronically. These changes in production and distribution will continue to be accompanied by increasing demands for products. Recent technological developments are also opening many new opportunities for persons with print disabilities. They are entering a wide variety of careers and jobs previously assumed to be closed to them. The educational and personal learning needs and goals of persons with print disabilities are steadily expanding. Tactile graphics are an important and growing part of this lifelong learning process.
Currently there is no single centralized resource for accessing tactile graphic materials produced and/or distributed in Canada. To identify what items are currently available for loan or purchase, users of tactile graphics materials must be aware of a wide variety of Canadian sources, including private companies, provincially mandated learning resources centres, government ministries, specialized schools, universities, regional consortia, and nonprofit organizations.
Access to information about holdings in these catalogues varies from highly restricted to very open, depending on the mandate and facilities of the institution. In order to conduct a comprehensive search of existing tactile graphics materials, users must be able to implement a broad range of search techniques, including direct inquiries, scanning print catalogues, and undertaking online database and Web site searches, each with its own protocols.
Closely connected to the fact that there is no single Canadian resource for accessing tactile graphic materials is the absence of a standard method or format for cataloguing tactile graphic materials. Catalogue entries for these materials range from the completely standardized CANMARC record required by the National Library of Canada AMICUS catalogue to informal author, title and date bibliographic descriptions. Even with a CANMARC record, there is no specifically assigned General Medium Designator to differentiate Tactile Graphics from Braille. As a result, it is very difficult to search CANMARC compatible catalogues to identify tactile graphics as a unique category of materials. At present, print or online catalogues devoted entirely to tactile graphic materials are the principal routes around this difficulty. Tactile graphics contained within larger items remain largely out of view to potential users, unless the producing institutions have implemented a policy of cataloguing such items separately.
This procedure is sometimes done on an in-house basis, that is for the information of people working within the institution, to prevent duplicate effort with respect to developing tactile materials.
Comments on the survey of producers and distributors of tactile graphics indicate that there is a growing recognition of the need to catalogue tactile graphic material and to make information about tactile graphics available outside the boundaries of the producing institution. A database of tactile graphics materials is an appropriate response to this need as it can define cataloguing standards for tactile graphics and ensure access to information about tactile graphic materials.
The most effective model for a Web-accessed tactile graphics cataloguing database is a centralized one. In the centralized mode, an appropriate library systems search engine can be utilized to provide effective and quick information retrieval. Quality control of the database can be achieved through the implementation of shared standards and descriptors and regular updating. The efficient and effective cataloguing of tactile graphic materials in a centralized database will help producers and distributors to respond to the growing client demand in a timely and fiscally responsible manner. Duplicate production effort can be prevented through the awareness of work done in other jurisdictions.
According to the responses to the survey, there is substantial agreement about which fields should be included in a cataloguing record for a tactile graphic. Author, title, format, publisher/producer, place of publication/production, physical description, series, general notes, contents notes, information on how the item was produced, system requirements if computer disks are involved and subjects were identified as desirable by most respondents. Several institutions also indicated an interest in including information on standard numbers, scale and terms of availability (purchase, lending, restrictions). A template should include provision for all of these fields.
The universal application of broad-based and widely-recognized standards is central to the development of a high quality cataloguing system for the retrieval of tactile graphics citations and, potentially, the tactile graphic materials themselves.
It is possible to make an excellent Canadian tactile graphics cataloguing database a reality. All of the necessary technical components and systems knowledge are at hand. Communications technology, library database systems and cataloguing standards are developed and available for application. Why not do it now?
By Betty Nobel and Gladys Loewen
The main objective of the project was to identify the impact of refreshable Braille technology on academic success and employability for persons with low vision and blindness. This included identifying critical subject areas of the post-secondary curriculum where a refreshable Braille display assists in resolving barriers caused by blindness as it interfaces with course requirements and employment tasks where a refreshable Braille display allows the user to function with greater independence and ease.
Nine participants were loaned refreshable Braille displays for the duration of the project; fourteen participants already owned the technology. Participants included students and employed persons. The types of employment included a workshop presenter and trainer, a Braille producer, a trucking company office manager, a vocational counselor and a rehabilitation teacher. Students enrolled at eight different post secondary institutions took courses in Linguistics, Greek, French, Computer Programming, Psychology, Business and Computer Applications, Introduction to Computers, Asian Studies and graduate teacher training, including statistics.
A listserv called Brl-net was established and monitored for project participants and Braille users across North America. The listserv has proved to be a very valuable tool. Refreshable Braille users have shared their experiences using refreshable Braille and have been troubleshooting different problems that have arisen. The displays being used are the Power Braille 40, the Braille Lite 40 and 18, and the Braille Note 18.
Project documentation including a summary of the questions and answers taken from the discussion on the listserv, the literature review, a listserv digest, and the results from the data collected can be found on the Web site http://www.bc.cx/brl-net/
It was expected that those who already owned their refreshable Braille displays would be more competent users of the technology. In most cases, this was not proven. The majority were using their displays only as dumb terminals and very few were taking advantage of the features such as display keyboard entry, using the display functions for accessing menus, using the three modes effectively, etc.
One of our original ideas was to compare the efficiency of the speech technology with that of refreshable Braille, but this did not work out due to the inexperience of the users with the refreshable Braille technology and the fact that people were used to using the speech technology and were more adept with it.
The major findings of the project indicate that refreshable Braille technology was very useful:
Researchers have also made the following observations during the project:
Since refreshable technology is still a fairly recent invention, it will take time to determine the full value and use. While this project has provided some critical observations and patterns of usage of the technology, it is evident more time is needed due to the learning curve. Understanding the complexities of using a computer with both speech output and a Braille display is a key factor in maximizing the utilities of such a workstation.
Betty Nobel, Vancouver Community College
Gladys Loewen, Adult Services Program
Funded by the Office of Learning Technology
Coordinated by the Adult Services Program (BC)
Partnered with Vancouver Community College, Aroga Technologies, Freedon Scientific Inc. and the Disability Resource Centre at the University of British Columbia.
By Reinette Popplestone
Public Relations Officer
The interim Executive Committee meeting of the International Council on English Braille took place at the Quality Rose Park Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand from 14-16 January 2002.
The meeting was chaired by Fred Shroeder, who was warmly welcomed back as president of ICEB after a US presidential appointment 8 years ago interrupted his involvement in the activities of ICEB. Bill Poole from the UK had been elected as vice-president at the same time, and Bill Jolley from Australia was elected to the remaining vacancy on the Executive during the course of the meeting.
All seven member countries of ICEB are represented on the Executive. Observers to the meeting included the chairs of the braille authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and South Africa. Present as well, either as observers or serving on the Executive were all chairs of the various working committees of the Unified English Braille Code (UEBC) project; they presented reports on their work to date for consideration by the Executive.
Some decisions to which there appeared to be significant consumer resistance were referred back to the project committee for further consideration. They included the question of sequencing, the extent to which shortforms should be extendable, and the contraction for com.
The executive also gave serious consideration to submissions from various braille using constituencies expressing concerns about aspects of the proposed code.
With due regard to these concerns, the Executive nevertheless unanimously adopted a motion reaffirming its commitment to finalising symbol assignments and completing the rule book for submission to the next General Assembly for its consideration, in accordance with resolution 5 adopted during the 1999 General assembly in Baltimore Md.
March 2004 has been proposed as ballpark date for scheduling the next general assembly of ICEB.
Braille: Into the Next Millennium, a 600-page anthology of articles by more than two dozen international experts in the field of braille, has been published jointly by the Library of Congress's National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS/BPH) and the Friends of Libraries for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals in North America. Braille literacy is currently a vital concern of advocacy groups of blind individuals and service providers.
In his foreword NLS director Frank Kurt Cylke notes, "With a tactile medium such as braille comes literacy spelling, writing, and broad communication possibilities are open and available. With literacy comes the possibility of freedom. With freedom comes the possibility of endless achievement from pleasant living to significant social contributions. Personal and institutional commitments to braille by enthusiasts in the United States have helped advance literacy for blind individuals in North America and have therefore advanced the possibility of freedom for thousands."
The book is divided into three parts. Part I, "Braille in the Past," includes three authors who discuss the origins of braille, embossed printing in the United States, and the homeplace of Louis Braille in France.
Part II, "Braille in the Present," includes eighteen articles on such diverse subjects as the basic literary, mathematics (Nemeth), and music codes to modern refreshable braille displays and tactile graphics. Darleen E. Bogart, CBA Director, is the author of one chapter on "The Literary Code" while co-authouring "Unifying the Braille Codes" with Tim V. Cranmer and Joseph E. Sullivan.
Part III, "Braille in the Future," contains three authors who write about braille as a predictor of success, electronic distribution of braille, and future braille codes and fonts. In addition, there is an appendix of ASCII braille characters, a list of contributors, and an extensive bibliography.
According to the book's editor, Judith Dixon, consumer relations officer for NLS/BPH and originator of the concept for the book, "We trace braille from its beginnings through the myriad of current uses and also take a peek at the future. Each author is an expert in his or her field and has brought to this work a perspective that can be acquired only through experience and a profound closeness to the subject."
Print copies have been supplied to the world's major library institutions, as well as the significant university library collections in the United States and Canada through the Friends of Libraries for Blind and Physically Handicapped Individuals in North America.
Robert E. Fistick
Head, Publications and Media Section
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
The Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20542
Telephone: (202) 707-9279
E-mail: rfis@loc.gov
NLS web site: www.loc.gov/nls
Sunggye Hong, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, is conducting a research study on reading experiences of students who were originally taught to read in Grade One Braille before transferring to Grade Two Braille.
As a braille reader, Mr. Hong is interested in expanding the research done by the late Marjorie Troughton in Canada (a former CBA Board member and author of "One is Fun -- Guidelines for Better Braille Literacy") to discover whether early Grade One reading produces efficient braille readers and if there is a difference in terms of outcomes between students who were first exposed to uncontracted braille versus those who were introduced to contracted braille first.
As you can imagine, it was not easy for Mr. Hong and his team to locate students who were taught reading using Grade One Braille but they have now found all the students who met these criteria for the research project:
In the research project, the teacher of students with visual impairment administers the Johns Basic Reading Inventory, which takes about an hour or two and yields useful information about the student's reading abilities.
Jane Erin, The University of Arizona,
jerin@u.arizona.edu
Sunggye Hong, The University of Arizona,
sunggye@u.arizona.edu
Congratulations to CBA Board member, Betty Nobel, who received the YWCA Annual "Women of Distinction Award in Education, Training and Development" in honour of her work as an educator of people who are blind and as a tireless volunteer in British Columbia and across Canada. Betty was selected from a field of twelve prominent British Columbia nominees. She is presently a Coordinator of the Program for Visually Impaired Adults at the Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
April 21, 2001
Darleen Bogart, Chair
Herb Essenburg, Debbie Sitar
The Report of the By-Laws Committee consists of two parts: the Report to the CBA Membership with recommendations for changes to the By-Laws; and the recommendations for changes to the Regulations Governing CBA. The regulations require approval at each annual general meeting of the corporation. The By-Laws Committee is proposing the following changes to the recommendations for the consideration of the board and then to the general membership at the annual meeting of the corporation. (By-Law 15.01) The regulations affected are shown with the changes noted in boldface type. The rational is given within square brackets.
The term of reference for the standing committees have been included in the regulations. There are several recommendations for those of the Nominations and Elections Committee below. The rest of the standing committees should review their terms of reference and have them approved.
Regulations governing CBA
1 Membership
1.3 A voting member is one whose fee has been paid six (6) weeks in advance of any vote being taken by the membership. [change from twelve weeks]
3 Board of Directors:
3.1 Membership shall include but not be limited to representatives of both official languages, provincial ministries of education, consumers, consumer organizations, geographic regions of Canada, and the three founding members: The Canadian National Institute for the Blind, L'Institut Nazareth et Louis Braille, and The Canadian Council of the Blind. [some members did not know why these three organizations were named]
3.3 Members may attend meetings in person or by means of teleconference equipment, and may participate by electronic means on any business matter brought forth by the President. Proper business procedures must be followed and any decisions taken ratified at the next in-person or teleconference meeting of the board.
4 Committees:
4.4 Standing and Ad Hoc Committees
4.4.2 Standing Committees shall include but not be limited to:
4.4.6 The immediate Past President, or the person designated by the Board to fill the role of the Past President, shall chair the Nominations and Elections Committee. [this has occurred in CBA's relatively short life and needs to be provided for in these regulations]
4.4.13 The Nominations and Elections Committee shall:
April 21, 2001
The By-Laws Committee recommends the following changes to the By-laws of The Canadian Braille Authority (CBA) to be put to the voting members at the Annual General Meeting, April 21, 2001, held in Toronto, Ontario. It will be necessary to obtain approval from Industry Canada for the amendments to the By-Laws ratified at the AGM. The changes are shown below in boldface type.
The By-Laws have also been revised to remove gender bias but these changes are not shown here. The rationals for these changes are to provide continuity on the Executive Committee, establish the office of Treasurer, and to provide for the President to hold a second term when deemed necessary. This latter recommendation was approved by the board of directors in 1996 and did not receive action at that time.
5.00 Board of Directors
5.02 A director, if otherwise qualified, is eligible for election for not more than three (3) consecutive terms, and thereafter is not eligible for re-election until a period of twelve (12) months has elapsed from the date of his retirement.
Change to:
5.02 A director, if otherwise qualified, is eligible for election for not more than three (3) consecutive terms, and thereafter is not eligible for re-election until a period of twelve (12) months has elapsed from the date of the director's retirement unless the director is an officer or Past President. In such cases, the officer or Past President may continue to be re-elected without regard to the expiration of the third two (2) year term
5.16 A director shall hold office until the next annual meeting of voting members following his election or appointment.
Change to:
5.16 A director shall hold office until the annual meeting of the voting members following the director's election or appointment for a one (1) or two (2) year term.
7.04 Quorum. No business may be transacted by the Executive Committee except at a meeting of its members at which a quorum of the Executive Committee is present.
Change to:
7.04 Business may be transacted by the Executive Committee at a meeting of its members at which a quorum of the Executive Committee is present in person or by telephone conference. In the interval between face-to-face and/or telephone conference meetings, business may be transacted electronically provided that proper procedures are followed, that records of all decisions taken are kept by the Secretary, and that these decisions are ratified by the Executive Committee at its next face-to-face or telephone conference meeting.
8.0 The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, Secretary, Treasurer and/or Secretary-Treasurer and any such other officers as the board of directors may from time to time appoint. Any two offices may be held by the same person.
Change to:
8.01 The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Past President.
8.03 The officers of the Corporation shall hold office for two (2) years from the date of appointment or election or until their successors are elected or appointed in their stead, and thereafter are not eligible for re-election until a period of twelve (12) months has elapsed from the date of his retirement. The directors may from time to time fix the remuneration of officers. Officers shall be subject to removal by resolution of the board of directors at any time.
Change to:
8.03 (a)Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this Section 8.03, the officers of the Corporation, with the exception of the Treasurer, shall hold office for two (2) years from the date of appointment or election or until their successors are elected or appointed in their stead, and thereafter shall not be eligible until a period of twelve (12) months has elapsed from the date of their retirement.
(b) The Treasurer of the Corporation shall hold office for three (3) years from the date of appointment or election or until a successor is elected or appointed in the Treasurer's stead, and thereafter is not eligible for re-election until a period of twelve (12) months has elapsed from the date of the Treasurer's retirement.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section 8.03, if the members, at an annual meeting of the members at which the President is elected, determine that it would be in the best interests of the Corporation for the acting President to continue to hold office, the members may, by resolution, waive the re-election restrictions provided pursuant to paragraph 8.03 (a) and re-elect such acting President for not more than one two (2) year term.
8.04 The directors may from time to time fix remuneration of officers.
8.05 Officers shall be subject to removal by resolution of the board of directors.
9.04 The duties of all other officers of the Corporation shall be such as the terms of their engagement call for or the board of directors require of them.
Change to:
9.04 The Treasurer shall maintain an account in the name of the Corporation in a chartered Canadian financial institution into which all receipts are deposited and out of which all approved expenditures are taken, and shall make investments as directed by the board of directors. The Treasurer shall report on the financial position of the Corporation at each meeting of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors.
11.01 Change "audit" to "review" as noted in boldface type below:
The voting members shall at each annual meeting of the voting members appoint an auditor to review the accounts of the Corporation and to report to the members thereon to hold office until the next annual meeting, provided that the directors may fill any casual vacancy in the office of auditor. The remuneration of the auditor shall be fixed by the board of directors.
12.01 Change "March" to "December" as noted by boldface type below:
Unless otherwise ordered by the board of directors the fiscal year end of the Corporation shall be the 31st day of December.
13.01 Change"director" to "Treasurer" as noted in boldface type below:
The Treasurer shall see that all necessary books and records of the Corporation required by the by-laws of the Corporation or by any applicable statue or law are regularly and properly kept.
CBA newsletter/Le Bulletin is published twice a year by the Canadian Braille Authority / L'Autorité canadienne du braille.
ISSN 1203-7192
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