I suspect that we don't all fully understand the management structure of the GFA so here is a summary of how it works currently:
There are two groups - Executive and Council The Executive is 6 people and it basically runs the GFA. The Executive consists of Pres, VP, Treas, CTO Ops, CTO Tech, CTO Sports and they meet about 6 times each year. Now Council consists of the 6 Executive and 15 Councillors and they meet as a group once every year for 2 days. Purpose of Council is to determine policy. (I am continual suprised at how many people belived that the Council only consisted of Councillors) Councillors represent the regions, the Executive represents the National view. Note that the Councillors never meet as an independent group and as such it is impossible for any common regional policies/proposal to be effectively developed since there is little opportunity for discussion. In some States where State Associations are working the 3 councillors meet and usually represent the views of the state association. Where there is no State Association, those Councillors would represent the views of pilots they seek to represent or there own view. This is intended as a quick summary if you have specific questions ask and I will try to answer. Regards Peter Robinson Councillor >From: "Colin C Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Re:Amalgamations and State associations >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:51:05 +1000 > >I support the concept of direct election of a GFA management team. However >I think we have a constitutional hangup similar to the Australian >Parliament, where the States believe they will loose representation if the >jerrymander institution, the Senate, is made democratic or (shock horror) >eliminated. >I would further hope that GFA could be managed by less than 7 people. > >colinc _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
