Servas International
30th Conference and General Assembly – SICOGA 2015
Totara Springs, Matamata, New Zealand, 10-16 October 2015
Conference theme: "Servas in transition"

About the General Assembly

Background Material

This section contains information useful to delegates. Please contact president@servas.org if there is something you would like added to this section.
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Meeting materials
  • Background materials
  • 2012 Minutes
  • 2012 Decisions
  • 2012-2015 Distant Vote Decisions - Between General Assemblies, decisions can be made through Distant Votes. There have been two Distant Votes, and following documents provide the information about them.
  • Distant Vote Procedure & Schedule
  • Nov 2013 Distant Vote motions
  • Nov 2013 Distant Vote Report to EXCO
  • Nov 2013 Distant Vote Results Advice
  • Nov 2014 Distant Vote Schedule & Procedure
  • Nov 2014 Distant Vote motions
  • 2010 Internal Audit Report
  • 2010 External Audit Report
  • 2011 Internal Audit Report
  • 2011 External Audit Report
  • 2012 Internal Audit Report
  • 2012 External Audit Report
  • Nov 2014 Distant Vote Report to EXCO
  • Nov 2014 Distant Vote Results Advice

  • SI Member countries
  • Draft Definitions and Abbreviations for General Assembly
  • Draft Rules of Conduct
  • Draft Rules of Order
  • Draft Voting Procedure

    • SI Exco preliminary financial report 2014
  • PRELIMINARY - SI-Budget with Actuals FY
  • PRELIMINARY SI 2014 Fin Acs Part 1
  • PRELIMINARY SI 2014 Fin Acs Part2
  • PRELIMINARY SI 2014 Fin Acs Part 3
  • PRELIMINARY SI 2014 Fin Acs Part 4

    • SI FINANCIAL REPORTS FOR 2014 - preliminary version of Aug 19, 2015
  • The SI financial reports are presented as a preliminary material; the presented version is based on materials from our bookkeeper received on Aug 19, 2015.
  • A number of entries need to be reviewed and explained; such entries are marked by SI Treasurer as "(MW: item needs to be verified)".
  • Because of the above the presented financial reports for 2014 give a very general outline of the financial situation of Servas Iternational in 2014 only. NO FINAL CONCLUSIONS OR OPINIONS CAN BE FORMULATED BASED ON THEM.
  • In view of SI Treasurer the following general observations can be formulated as based on the presented preliminary SI financial reports for 2014:
    a) the general overview of SI finance in 2014 is sound; there is no danger of insolvency or indebtedness of SI;
    b) a series of financial entries need to be reviewed and corrected; the corrections will not change the general overview of SI finances in 2014 but will affect detailed presentation and detailed numbers in it;
    c) the reason of the delay in presenting final financial reports for 2014 is the same as in previous years: lack of resources (especially lack of time) resulting from voluntary work of SI activists - and this concerns not only SI Treasurer, misunderstandings in contacts with the bookkeeper and misrepresentation of data as the result of using electronic means of communication only, time consuming comunication procedures, global character of our operations and global flow of financial information;
    d) no current financial operation of SI remains undocumented; misrepresentation of documents is the reason of the need for verifications, not any lack of them.

    Miroslaw Wasilewski
    Treasurer
    SI EXCO
    2012-2015