November 25th, 2009

2009 Year End Review, Meeting Minutes

Fitness Industry Council of Canada

Attendee’s: Mark English (Curves International), Jeff Ardron (Fitness Unlimited), David
Hardy, & Brian Gilbank (FIC)

Absent: David Patchell-Evans, (Goodlife) & Clive Caldwell, (The Cambridge Group of Clubs).

1. Meeting Minutes:
The Meeting Minutes from our September 16th Board call, were reviewed and approved
by: Mark English, Jeff Ardron and by David Hardy. In addition we discussed FIC’s plan to
expand our current Board of Directors for our 2010 year.

Nominee’s put forth by Brian Gilbank, David Hardy & David Patchell-Evans include:

• Paul Norris, L.A. Fitness Rejected Nomination

• Skye Kaiss, Gold’s Gym Accepted Nomination
• Scott Wildeman, World Health Club Accepted Nomination
• Leonard Schlemm, The Mansfield Club To be nominated by: Patch
• Michael Levy, Casaral Inc. To be nominated by: David

2. NRCC Review:
Reviewed where we stand with regard to our legal proceedings with the Neighbouring
Rights Collective of Canada. FIC is currently reviewing the resumes of specialists to
refute the formal case to be produced by the NRCC and to testify in front of the Copyright
Board.

3. Adult Fitness Tax Credit Review:

Reviewed our current strategy with regard to FIC’s federal Adult Fitness Tax Credit
Campaign and discussed our lobbying efforts in Ontario and British Columbia to solicit a
fitness exemption for the planned Harmonized Sales Tax. In addition the Board members
reviewed our amended economist report from the Centre for Spatial Economics, a report
which will be utilized to propose an alternative to the HST if we are not successful in
achieving a HST exemption.

4. FIC Operations & Accounting:

• Reviewed FIC’s Draft Financial Statement for 2009.
• Reviewed FIC’s Statement of Operations and Charges for 2009.
• Reviewed FIC’s 2009 Accounts Receivable.
• Reviewed FIC’s 2009 Pledge Summary.
• Reviewed FIC’s Fundraising Position.
• Reviewed the salaries of all FIC employees.