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Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting (Mexico, 13 June, 2000)c) Report from the Chairman, LOC, 6th PRSCO

Held on Tuesday 13 June 2000
At the Inter-American Center for Social Security
Studies, Mexico-City

Summer Institute

J. Serrano reported that the organisation ofthe Summer Institute had encountered difculties due to the student strike at UNAM.
Consequently, the venue for the meeting
had to be changed at a relatively late stage.
On the positive side, there was a much greaterinter-institutional support within Mexico forthe organisation of the Summer Institutethan had been anticipated. The organiserhad tried to encourage two-way interaction
between international visitors and local scholars by ensuring that local Spanish language
sessions would not be held concurrently with
the international sessions. All plenary sessions would have simultaneous translation.
Conference presentations included 140 papers in Spanish and 40 papers in English.
A vote of thanks for the work of J. Serranoand his Mexican co-hosts was carried withacclamation.

Commencing at 5:00 PMa) Apologies received, roll-call, and conrmation of Section representatives
Apologies received:
C. Hua (CRSA-T), J-S. Lee (KRSA), J.
Madden (ANZRSAI), C. Mai (CRSA-T),
D. Plane (WRSA), J. Quigley (WRSA), R.
Stough (WRSA), M. Tawada (JSRSAI).
Present:
M. Camarena (Ex Ocio and Friends, Mexico), A. Corona (AMECIDER), L. Gibson(WRSA), Y-J Hahn (representing J-S. Lee,KRSA), Y. Higano (JSRSAI), H. Kohno(representing T. Fukuchi, JRSAI), Y. Miyata (JSRSAI), S. Park (chair) (KRSA), J.
Poot (ANZRSAI), J. Serrano (AMECIDER),
H. Shibusawa (representing M. Tawada, JSRSAI)d) Report from the Chairman, LOC, on the planning for the 17th PRSCO Conference, Portland, June 30-July 4, 2001

Con rmation of section representatives, as at
13 June 2000:
ANZRSA: J. Madden, J Poot (ImmediatePast President) CRSA: D. Edgington, vacancy CRSA-T: C Hua, C. Mai JSRSAI:T. Fukuchi, Y. Higano (Executive Secretary), Y. Miyata, M. Tawada KRSA: J.
Lee, S. Park (President) AMECIDER: A
Corona, J Serrano WRSA: L. Gibson, D.
Plane (Vice-President), J. Quigley, R StoughS. Park opened the meeting and proposeda vote of thanks to J. Poot for the work
he carried out during his two-year term as
PRSCO President. This was carried withacclamation. It was noted that one PRSCO
council position to be nominated by theCanadian Regional Science Association wasstill vacant. Y. Higano would seek clari cation from the CRSA Executive.

L. Gibson reported on behalf of D. Plane.
The co-chair of the LOC is Dr Brian Hollyof Portland State University. The current
internet homepage is
http://www.u.arizona.edu/ plane/PRSCO17.html

The meeting will be held at the Embassy
Suites Portland Downtown, in the HistoricMultnomah Hotel. It is particularly suitable to bring families along. The conference will emphasise the special features ofPortland: innovative urban transportation,urban renewal, and high tech development.
PRSCO Councillors are encouraged to startplanning to organise sessions now.

e) Report from the Executive Secretary on IRSAaliation and hosting of the next Summer
InstituteY. Higano has contacted Banbang Brodjonegoro, Executive Secretary of IRSA (Indonesian Regional Science Association) andBudy Resosudarmo. IRSA has indicatedthat they wish to join PRSCO. It is ex-b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council meeting inMontreal, 13 November 1999
After it was noted that J. Madden represented G. West as a ANZRSAI representative, the minutes were corrected and approved.

1pected that formal con rmation of the afliation of IRSA to PRSCO will be madeat the Portland meeting in 2001. IRSA
have expressed a willingness to host the 7th
PRSCO Summer Institute in Bali in 2002.
According to the Constitution, a decision
would have to be made by the end of 2000.
During the discussion of this item it wasnoted that the PRSCO Council should also
explore the possibility of involvement of Malaysian
regional science scholars as potential hostsof a future Summer Institute.

f) Contacts with colleagues in Latin America
J. Serrano noted that AMECIDER has contacts in Chile, Brazil, Peru and Columbia.
There is a representative from Chile at theMexico Summer Institute, namely Ramon
Antonio Gutierrez. H. Kohno (President,RSAI) noted that he would visit a regional
science meeting in Brazil organised by Prof.
G. Hewings.

that AMECIDER may be interested in hosting the 2003 meeting, but this would becontingent on the outcome of the generalelection. A change of government may improve the situation regarding funding forthis type of activity. Y. Higano said that
the JSRSAI would be willing to host the2003 meeting if no other proposal came forward. L. Gibson then formally moved, seconded by J. Poot, that the JSRSAI section be invited to host the 2003 meetingand that, if JSRSAI accepted the invitation, that AMECIDER would be invited tohost the 2005 meeting. This motion wascarried. Note: according to the Constitution, a decision will have to be made at theend of 2000. If JSRSAI declines the invitation to host the 2003 conference, an alternative venue must be sought at the next
Council meeting.

i) PRSCO delegate for the RSAI Council, 20012003g) Other contacts with colleagues in the Paci cY. Higano was informed that H. Kohno willserve as Immediate Past President of RSAI(and Chairman, Long Range Planning Committee) for the term 2001-2002. Consequently,
Council agreed that H. Kohno should continue as PRSCO Councillor on RSAI after
his current term (1998-2000) expires.

RimY. Higano noted that no progress had been
made regarding the contact between Mainland China regional scientists and CRSAT members since the Montreal conference.
However, it was noted that C. Hua would
be in Beijing at the end of June and hewould meet with Prof. Yang. J. Poot suggested that faster progress can be made if
Mainland scholars would be invited personally by means of a letter that referred tothe Paci c regional science conference ingeneric terms rather than to the speci csections. Y. Higano and S. Park hoped tomeet Prof. Yang and other Mainland Chinascholars at the IGU meeting in Seoul.

j) Date and location of the next meetingThe next meeting will be held some time
during the NARSC conference at the Midland Hotel in Chicago, Thursday November
9 - Sunday November 12, 2000. Y. Higano
would contact the local organiser, Andrew
Krmenic, to nd a suitable time slot.

k) Any further businessh) Report from the Executive Secretary on section proposals for hosting the 18th PRSC
in 2003

Based on the history of previous conferences and the principle of rotation, the following sections would be given priority tohost the 2003 conference: AMECIDER, CRSA,
CRSA-T and JSRSAI. Y. Higano noted that
CRSA-T had expressed some interest, but
had to pull out at this stage due to nancial considerations. No communication had
been received from CRSA. Y. Serrano said
2Y. Higano would write to the Executive
Secretary of RSAI, K. Donaghy, to recommend that a RSAI Council meeting in 2001
would be held during the PRSC in Portland.
S. Park closed the meeting at 6:30 PM.