Re: AGM 2006

[Dave Ross]

#6269

Malcolm,
I think the organisation depends more on the few who are willing to do some work. We have a newsletter and a website. Surely there are plenty of opportunities available for prior discussion. The last few AGMs I have attended were nothing like it.

I think these people had an agenda prior to the AGM and could have easily asked questions in advance and would have been able to receive better researched answers. I know that Dick had mentioned the fee increase in advance. Surely these people can understand that the club is much easier to run with a healthy balance. You just never know what comes up. The money should and will be used to subsidise club events such as the AGM and others. People who attend benefit fron this, the others won't.

As for the online payment system it is obvious that we are having problems. However, it is important that we take a longer term approach. The reason for having it was to streamline accounting processes, this has backfired in the short term and will need to be addressed.

However, compared to the newsletter our web effort is dirt cheap. The website pays for itself and the online transaction cost is minimal. Had we know that people had concerns like that it would have been possible to show the actual costing of these things.

I know that a lot of people have had past positions in the club and some are still backseat drivers. They have got to realize that being active doesn;t mean to create a storm in a tea cup at the AGM for a few minutes.

As stated in the beginning, there is more than one forum available as well as the phone numbers and email addresses of the executive.

I couldn;t help but notice how quiet it got when Dick called for candiates. I am sure that quite a number of people thought that they could do without the hassle we got. Past glory is fine, but what counts is today and tomorrow, the rest is history.

Cheers,
Alex