30-10-2024, 05:04 PM
Perhaps we should get back on thread and stick to matters AGM
One of the major difficulties with Online Voting versus In Attendance voting is that any amendment or modification means that only those present can vote. This essential means that those voting earlier can overrule any proposal presented by the attendees regardless of reasonable arguments put forward and are not giving the opportunity to reassess their vote and cast a modified vote.
A solution would be to defer any vote requiring an agreed amendment/modification to defer that particular motion vote for (say 1 week) to allow reassessment and potentially change their vote. Essential deferring that specific AGM item. It would need to be published on the CS website with immediate effect and allow.
The Constitution does not prohibit an AGM deferment – it therefore becomes a continuation of the AGM within a prescribed time scale (as earlier intimated – 1 week).
The membership has the right to know all the facts presented and certainly before the 4 weeks necessary to publish the minutes.
The alternative is to ask the AGM to call an SGM specific to the modified motion containing the original motion and the proposed newly worded motion. The AGM does actually have the authority to call a SGM with a majority vote of these actually present.
The AGM is the overriding authority over all matters by-passing Executive, Management and Council.
One of the major difficulties with Online Voting versus In Attendance voting is that any amendment or modification means that only those present can vote. This essential means that those voting earlier can overrule any proposal presented by the attendees regardless of reasonable arguments put forward and are not giving the opportunity to reassess their vote and cast a modified vote.
A solution would be to defer any vote requiring an agreed amendment/modification to defer that particular motion vote for (say 1 week) to allow reassessment and potentially change their vote. Essential deferring that specific AGM item. It would need to be published on the CS website with immediate effect and allow.
The Constitution does not prohibit an AGM deferment – it therefore becomes a continuation of the AGM within a prescribed time scale (as earlier intimated – 1 week).
The membership has the right to know all the facts presented and certainly before the 4 weeks necessary to publish the minutes.
The alternative is to ask the AGM to call an SGM specific to the modified motion containing the original motion and the proposed newly worded motion. The AGM does actually have the authority to call a SGM with a majority vote of these actually present.
The AGM is the overriding authority over all matters by-passing Executive, Management and Council.