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Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting (Nagoya, 15th Oct., 1998)(approved by the Council Meeting in Sata Fe on Thursday 12 November, 1999)

Held on Thursday 15 October 1998
At Chukyo University, Nagoya
Commencing at 8:00 AM

Present:
ANZRSA: Morrison (repr. West), Poot (chair)
CRSA: CRSAT: JSRSAI: Fukuchi, Higano, Kimura, Miyata (repr.
Yamamura)

KSRSA: Choo (repr. Lee), Park
MASRD: Corona
WRSA: Gibson, Quigley, Haynes (repr. Plane),Committee, S.O. Park, provided details on
the progress to date. He introduced Dr
S Choo who has taken on the position of
Secretary-General of the Organizing Committee. An attractive and concise Call for
Papers document had been prepared andwould be distributed by the Sections. It
was noted that registrations for the Korea meeting would follow the guidelines set
by RSAI Council. That is, all participants
were expected to be paying members of RSAI,
except for members of the Korean section
and ocial guests invited by the organizingcommittee. Facilities would be made available for non-RSAI members to join RSAIat the Registration desk. Council members
were urged to promote the Korea meetingin their sections.

e) Proposal for the 6th PRSCO Summer Insti-Stough (repr. Suarez-Villa)

Ex-ocio and friends: Batey, Florax, Kohno,
Nijkampa) Apologies received: Donaghy (ex ocio), Lee(KSRSA), Munro (CRSA), Plane (WRSA),Serrano (MASRD), Yamamura (JSRSA)b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting ofFriday 28 August 1998. These were approved (moved Gibson/Corona).

c) Con rmation of the nal arrangements forthe regional science and related meetingsin Nagoya, October 15-18, 1998.
Executive Secretary Y. Higano distributed
copies of the nal program. Some 60 participants were expected at the PRSCO Summer Institute on Thursday. Higano also reported that a famous pianist, Mrs Nanako
Pohl-Tanaka would give a piano recital after lunch during the Friday Symposium. President J. Poot thanked Y. Higano on behalf of Council for his major contribution
in organising, at relatively short notice, theNagoya meetings. Poot also thanked Y.
Kimura for making the local arrangementsand T. Fukuchi for chairing the Local Organizing Committee. Fukuchi was appointed
as rapporteur and asked to report on themeetings in the RSAI Newsletter.

d) Progress report on the 16th PRSCO confer-tute in 2000
A. Corona informed the meeting that heand other members of the Mexican section
were investigating the possibility of hosting
the 6th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2000.
This idea was welcomed warmly by Council. During the discussion it emerged thatearly July 2000 would be the ideal time.
The venue was likely to be in Mexico City.
Poot and Higano would make a formal approach on this matter to the President ofMASRD, Dr Rodriguez.

f) Proposal for the 17th PRSCO Conference in2001
WRSA Councillors Gibson and Quigley proposed that the Conference would be hosted
by the WRSA section. The venue was likely
to be somewhere in Arizona. In order tokeep the accommodation costs a ordable,
the conference would be held in an o -peakseason. Further details would be given at
future PRSCO Council meetings.

g) Nomination of a PRSCO delegate to RSAI,

1999-2001
A sub-committee (of Gibson, Higano, Munroand Poot) which was set up to consider thismatter, nominated J. Quigley. This nomination was carried unanimously.

h) A written constitution for PRSCO.

Poot thanked Higano for his e orts in putting
together a written constitution that describes

ence in Seoul.
Chairperson of the PRSCO 16 Organizing1the current practices of the operation ofPRSCO. Poot said that in an organisationsuch as PRSCO confusion could arise about
the modus procedendi of PRSCO due tochanges in section delegates over time. Consequently, a written constitution would bea helpful reference document which wouldenhance the e ectiveness of council activities. The work of Gibson in initiating aninformal constitution during the 1980s wasalso noted. Council approved the constitution in principle (moved Gibson/Stough).
Councillors are requested to pass on suggestions for changes in the wording to Executive Secretary Higano before or at theSanta Fe Council meeting.

i) Other new initiatives

It was noted that a PRSCO homepage had
been designed by Y. Higano.
See http://prsco.envr.tsukuba.ac.jp/. Thisdevelopment was applauded by Council. Further work to improve the pages would beundertaken. The Web pages of the various regional science organisations would belinked. R. Florax reported on the relaunchof Papers in Regional Science as a Springer
journal from 1999 onwards. There will bethree editors: Florax (editor in chief andEuropean Editor), J.C. Thill (North-Americaneditor) and Poot (Paci c editor). Council
members were urged to pass on to their sections that PiRS was welcoming high quality
paper submissions from the Paci c region.

j) Date and location of the next meeting

The next meeting would be held on Thursday 12th November 1998, 19:00-21:00 in theSanta Fe room of the La Fonda Hotel, SantaFe, New Mexico, USA.

k) Any further business.

There was no further business.

The meeting was closed at 9:30 AM.

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