Johannes cancelled his PayPal subscription actively 2016-08-26. The payment period ended 2017-01-27. A reminder sent by the COO 2017-05-07 was ignored.

Johannes' self-justification (clipped from a Facebook conversation with Kora):
^"And I would like to get a confirmation that all master trainers have paid their over due membership fees for the last years (I know many haven't owing IMMA thousands.... so this is absolutely not fair and needs to be addressed first)." ^

Kora's answer:
^"There is a Board decision that all members have to pay their fees. And we are communicating with those who haven't, as far as it is visible (in the database, apparently there were no dates named, only "please renew", so if you know of DOCUMENTED claims by IMMA please forward."^

End of communication.

!!Honorary membership
In autumn old formal liabilities in IMMA's balance were discussed. Probably Johannes is the creditor of these liabilities retraceable until 2007. There's no written documentation available.

For easy handling the proposal was made to transform these liabilities to formal donations from Johannes. This transformation needs of course a written legal agreement to be checked by a lawyer or an authority. Johannes asked for life time honorary membership as condition.

The Board of Directors decided 2017-01-10:
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*The Board of Directors accepts the solution in general.
*With the exception of the membership fee all other of IMMA's standards and rules of procedure stay in force for Johannes.
*Thorsten will work with the final shape of the agreement.^

A legal requirement for such an agreement is that IMMA is back in good standing with the Californian tax authority FTB. IMMA's application shall be handled until mid of january 2018 regarding FTB's information.