Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting (Chicago, 9 November 2000)(approved by the PRSCO Council Meeting in Portland, 1 July, 2001)

these would take place had still to be determined and depended on a decision to betaken by the International Council). Somefunds would be available to support the attendance of younger scholars and scholars
from developing countries. The preliminary
version of the conference program would bepublished on the web; no hard copy would
be circulated. Section representatives wereurged to distribute copies of the Call for
Papers widely within their sections.

Held on Thursday 9 November 2000
at the Midland Hotel, Chicago

Commencing at 1:00 PMa) Apologies received, roll-call, and conrmation of Section representatives
Apologies received:
D. Edgington(CRSA), K.Donaghy, R.Florax
Present:
L Gibson (WRSA), H Kohno (representing
T Fukuchi, JSRSAI), Y Higano (JSRSAI),
D Plane (WRSA), J Quigley (WRSA), S
Park (Chair) (KRSA), J Serrano (AMECIDER), P Wang (CRSA-T), J Madden(ANZRSAI), P Batey (Friend of PRSCO),
K Haynes (Friend of PRSCO) and P Nijkamp (Friend of PRSCO).

d) Host Section of the 2003 Regular Meeting
Y Higano reported the decision of the Japan
Section RSAI Council Meeting in July 2000
to decline the invitation to host the 2003
Regular meeting. Subsequently Y Higano
had discussed this decision with S Park, thePRSCO President and they had concluded
that a decision on a new venue would haveto be made before the end of the year andpreferably at the Chicago Council meeting.
As a result member sections were invited tomake applications to hold the 2003 meetingby the end of October. Two sections, AMECIDER and CRSA-T made applications.
At the meeting, the CRSA-T announced
that it intended to make way for the AMECIDER bid; it was likely that CRSA-T wouldo er to host the 2005 Regular meeting when
the opportunity arose.
J Serrano made a detailed presentation about
the AMECIDER proposal, focusing on date(likely to be the rst week of July 2003, butnegotiable); location (Mexico City/Acapulco/
Guadalajara/Colima; Mexico City was seen
as a fall-back if any of the other locations
failed); theme (the potential of regions inthe Paci c Rim ? economic, social, political and cultural); the steps needed forthe further development of PRSCO in Latin
America, especially now that it is RSAI policy to reach out to the developing world (anadvisory board of Latin American representatives would be built-up prior to 2003; aspecial session would be organized on Paci c/Latin American key regional issues; anda suggestion was made to devise a PRSCO
strategy for further involvement of scholars from Latin American countries); postconference tours ( ve locations were men-Con rmation of section representatives, as at
13 June 2000:
ANZRSA: J. Madden, J Poot (ImmediatePast President) CRSA: D. Edgington, RShearmur CRSA-T: C Hua, C. Mai JSRSAI: T. Fukuchi, Y. Higano (Executive Secretary), Y. Miyata, M. Tawada KRSA: J.
Lee, S. Park (President) AMECIDER: ACorona, J Serrano WRSA: L. Gibson, D.
Plane (Vice-President), J. Quigley, R Stoughb) Minutes of the PRSCO Council meeting in
Mexico City, 13 June 2000
The Minutes were approved as a correct
record of the meeting.

c) Progress Report on Organization of the 17th
PRSCO Regular Meeting

D Plane gave a progress report on the organization of this meeting and circulated aCall for Papers. The meeting would startwith paper sessions at 3pm on July 1. Following this there would be an opening session focussing on local issues organized by
the local host B Holly. The meeting wouldinclude an excursion (on the afternoon ofJuly 3) and would close with a barbecueand reworks celebration on July 4. The
PRSCO and International Council meetings
would take place during the morning andlunchtime of July 1 (The order in which1tioned for a range of shorter (one-day) andlarger (3+ days) tours.
S Park welcomed the proposal and there
was general support from Section representatives. L Gibson proposed a motion thatthe AMECIDER bid be accepted and thiswas seconded by P Wang. The motion wascarried unanimously. The meeting expresseda preference for the location of the conference to be in Guadalajara, Acapulco or Colima, rather than Mexico City, but left thenal choice to AMECIDER. S Park thanked
J Serrano for bringing forward the proposaland P Wang for withdrawing the CRSA-J
proposal in favour of the AMECIDER bid.

Higano agreed to write to K Donaghy (Executive Director of RSAI) conveying thisdecision.

j) Organization of the 2002 Summer InstituteIRSA had formally accepted the invitation
to hold the 2002 PRSCO Summer Institutein Bali. Y Higano said that he intended
to visit Bali in the near future in order todiscuss local arrangements.

k) Date and location of the next meeting
This would be held on Sunday 1 July inPortland, Oregon at a time to be arranged.

e) Contacts with colleagues in Latin Americal) Further Business

It had been hoped that a Chilean colleague
would have attended the meeting but hehad not yet arrived in Chicago. One suggestion to encourage Latin American participation in the 2003 meeting was to organize a session on the Panama Canal and its
in uence on regional development.

It was agreed to invite Bambang Brodjonegoro (IRSA) to become a Friend of PRSCO,in advance of formal arrangements being
made for IRSA Section representatives onPRSCO. It was also agreed to ask Fernando
Vial to nominate two Chilean representatives to serve on PRSCO. In view of theirlack of participation in recent meetings it
was agreed to seek substitutes for Professor Ronco (Brazil) and Kassim (Malaysia)
as Friends of PRSCO. Y Higano agreed todo this.

f) Contacts with Mainland China
It was reported that C Hua (CRSA-T) had
indicated that there were some signs of interest in forming a CRSA-M Section, but
at this stage there was nothing concrete toreport.

The meeting ended at 2.40 pm.

g) Other contacts in the Paci c Rim

There was nothing to report on this item.

h) Papers in Regional ScienceY Higano reported that the RSAI Council
which had met earlier that day had agreedto a proposal that J Poot should serve a second term as Paci c Editor of Papers in Regional Science. The meeting formally ratied this proposal.

i) Formal Request of the IRSA for Aliation tothe RSAI and PRSCO

The meeting received a formal applicationfrom the Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA) for aliation with PRSCOand RSAI. This included documentation about
the Section's activities and current membership. This application was agreed by themeeting in relation to PRSCO and it wasfurther agreed to recommend to the RSAICouncil that IRSA be aliated to RSAI. Y2