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Annual General Meeting - Saturday 6 September 2008

The 2008 Annual General Meeting will be held at Glenmore Lodge on Saturday 6 September. The minutes of previous general meetings may be found here. Details of the Annual Gathering, which will be held at the same venue, may be found here.

Notice of Annual General Meeting 2008

at Glenmore Lodge
On Saturday 6th September 2008 at 16.30 pm

Agenda

  1. Welcome, Members attending, Apologies, Appointment of tellers
  2. Approval of minutes of AGM 2007
  3. Receipt of Annual Report for 2007/2008
  4. Approval of the Annual Financial Statement
  5. The Fixing of Members' Annual Subscriptions
    To approve an increase in the per capita subscription for members of clubs to £13.00
  6. Election of President, Vice Presidents and Treasurer
    1. To consider the election of B Linington, who has been appointed as a Director since the last AGM, and being eligible.
    2. To elect one other Director. Graeme Morrison (Association of Mountain Instructors) has been nominated.
  7. Election of other members of the Executive There are up to three vacancies, since Brian Linington has been nominated as a Director.
    Gail Crawford of Club Member The Grampian Club has been nominated.
    Martin Menzies of Club Member Tayside Trekkers has been nominated. Martin is also an Individual Member.
  8. Appointment of accountant
  9. Policies - no adoptions or amendments notified
  10. AOB

Date and place of 2009 AGM

 

Notes

1. The 2007 AGM minute is on the website and available from the office (please enclose a SAE).

2. An extract of the Annual Report will be published in the August Scottish Mountaineer, to be published on 7 August 2008.

3. Under Article 7.3 the Board asked Brian Linington to fill the casual vacancy in February 2008. However he requires to be formally elected at this AGM to continue as Director. Other nominations can be submitted.

Mary Webster (chair of Mountain Safety) ends her term leaving one other Director vacancy.
(Current Directors: C. Townsend, B. Clough, R. Spencer, J. Irving have indicated their willingness to continue to serve and all are eligible to so do.) Graeme Morrison (Association of Mountain Instructors) has been nominated. Nominations are required.

4. At the time of writing the following have been nominated to the Executive: Gail Crawford (Grampian Club), and Martin Menzies (Tayside Trekkers and Individual Member). Further nominations are required.

Please send any nominations, including a brief CV, personal, professional and hill, to David Gibson at the MCofS office by 9th August 2008, email to davidg@mountaineering-scotland.org.uk
(The current Executive members still eligible and willing to continue are: John Leftley, Bill Park, Ron Payne, Paul Russell, George Smart, John Wylie.) Nominations are required for a total of 3 vacancies.

5. The final list of nominations will be posted on this page of the website on 13 August 2008. Under Article 5.1 members may vote by post if unable to attend.

6. Members are reminded that if they have any motions or resolutions they wish to be included as competent business at the AGM, formal notification must be made to the Company Secretary, Derek Edge, at the MCofS office, 70 days before the AGM, that is before 28th June 2008.

Posted 28 April 2008

Updated 11 July 2008

Updated 24 July 2008

Note - further details concerning the Executive and Vice-President vacancies may be found on the Volunteering Vacancies page.

Subscriptions for Members of Clubs (Posted 30 April 2008)

Our Treasurer, John Irving, has written to club secretaries concerning the per capita subscription for members of clubs. The intention is that the subscription be increased at the AGM. The purpose of John's letter is to explain the reasons for the increase and to seek the support and views of members of clubs prior to the AGM. John's letter may be downloaded from here. There is no proposal to increase subscriptions for individual members.

Annual General Meeting Minutes

The minutes of previous AGMs are available as pdf documents:

June 2007 Annual General Meeting
February 2007 Special General Meeting
June 2006 Annual General Meeting
June 2005 Annual General Meeting
June 2004 Annual General Meeting
June 2003 Annual General Meeting
June 2002 Annual General Meeting
June 2001 Annual General Meeting