Well done folks ! I really wish I lived close enough to be at the meetings.
On 19/03/2013, at 6:49 PM, WAMUG Announcement <annou...@wamug.org.au> wrote: > Hi all. > > Sorry about the lateness of this email. > > Well, the AGM was held last Tuesday in accordance with the constitution after > the first meeting failed to attract a quorum. The committee stood down and a > new committee was elected and the special resolutions were put to the vote. > > Peter Hinchliffe was elected by the members present to be the chairman of AGM. > > The first order of business was the election of a new president. Peter > Hinchliffe was nominated and accepted the nomination and was voted in > unopposed. > > Peter H has been a stalwart of both the group and previous committees and we > congratulate and thank him for taking the reigns yet again. > > Peter Botman was nominated, and accepted, and voted in unopposed to the > position of treasurer again. > > Peter B has done a sterling job as our treasurer in years past and we thank > him for taking on this difficult task again. > > The remainder of the outgoing committee also put up their hands to be on the > committee for 2013 as well a new member, Bernard Barnwell. > > We thank those people for contributing again and also thank Bernard and > welcome him to the committee. > > So the new committee for 2013 is:- > > Peter Hinchliffe – President > > Peter Botman – Treasurer > > Bernard Barnwell, Daniel Kerr, Maureen Smith & Peter Smith - committee > members > > The next order of business was the special resolutions. Each of the three was > put to the meeting of financial members and the votes recorded. These results > were then tallied with the proxy votes already received. A 75% vote in the > affirmative from those members voting was required for each special > resolution to pass. > > The first special resolution was: - > > “That the WAMUG Constitution be amended as set in Appendix 1 to the “WAMUG > Constitution Special Resolution – Proposed Amendments” document to ensure > conformity with the Associations Incorporation Act 1987.” > > This resolution was passed unanimously. > > The second special resolution was; - > > “That the WAMUG Constitution be amended in clause 2 by deleting the term > “Macintosh Computers” wherever it appears and substituting it with the term > “Apple Macintosh Computers and other Apple products”. > > This resolution was passed unanimously. > > The third resolution, and probably the one you all want to know about, was: - > > “The name of the Western Australian Macintosh Users’ Group Incorporated be > changed to “Apple Users WA Incorporated” and any necessary changes made to > the constitution.” > > As you can probably surmise this vote was not a unanimous one. So, I hear you > all ask (or shout!), are we still WAMUG or are we AUWA? > > Well, we are still WAMUG with only 40% of the votes cast for the name change > and 60% against it. There was a total 20 votes recorded, just under 30% of > the current membership at the time of voting. > > On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank those who took the time to > cast their votes and also to those who had their say when this matter was > raised. > > There being no other business, the meeting was closed and as we walked out > the door, the bloke with red underpants over his blue body suit waiting > outside to use the phone thanked us very much. Tee Hee Hee. > > ‘Till next time WAMUGGERS. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130319/1048dfcf/attachment.htm > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130319/7c721c1d/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
