âDear all I have now had a chance to read the special resolution and find that the proposed new wording doesn't make sense, as it should be presumed that you'd be a member of an organisation that you aspire to direct. The present arrangements where by you have to be a member for a year prior to taking responsibility for the society. A familiarity with the society must rank as a useful skill when being a trustee. Looking forward to catching up with folk at the AGM Julian Duffus Jjgduffus@gmail.com Member Sog 1978 to Present Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.

Hi Julian I shall be at the AGM this year after voting with my feet last year. Once again we will have a change to the constitution forced upon us by the Trustees (many of which are hardly ever there apart from meetings of the Trustees) without adequate debate by the membership. We can talk about the change at the AGM as much as we like but in reality there will be more than enough proxy votes to "out vote" the meeting, so it won't matter a stuff what those who have bothered to attend think. This clause will allow the Trustees to go to such organisations as http://www.do-it.org.uk/ and advertise for Volunteer trustees that they want. May be sensible, but surely they should first advertise for set skills amongst the membership first? We should have considerable safeguards built in. After all it is only a small step from there for the Trustees to recommend certain individuals above genuine volunteers for committee. Proxy voting originally prevented our current chairman from being re-elected and only by intervention at the relevant AGM forced the then committee to co-opt him. Actually the only way to object to constitutional changes without discussion would be to NOT attend the AGM so that it would not be quorate At 10:51 11/06/2014, jjgduffus@gmail.com wrote: > âDear all I have now had a chance to > read the special resolution and find that > the proposed new wording doesn't make sense, > as it should be presumed that you'd be a > member of an organisation that you aspire to > direct. The present arrangements where by > you have to be a member for a year prior to > taking responsibility for the society. A > familiarity with the society must rank as a > useful skill when being a trustee. Looking > forward to catching up with folk at the > AGM Julian > Duffus Jjgduffus@gmail.com Member Sog > 1978 to Present Sent from my BlackBerry 10 > smartphone. ------------------------------- To > unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3955/7660 - Release Date: 06/11/14