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Portland Festival
BMC & AGM
Friday 25 April, Heights Hotel 8:30pm
9:00pm
Portland briefi ng by Portland coastal ranger team
From The Indian Face to Patagonia, a talk by James McHaffi e
Saturday 26 April, Heights Hotel
9:45 – 10:15 Open question and answer session. If you have something you’d like to discuss with the BMC directors or offi cers, this is your chance
8:45 – 10:15 AGM Registration. Registration is mandatory for all members wishing to vote on any of the agenda items. If you or your club members can’t attend the AGM in person you can use the proxy voting form enclosed in this issue to allow another member to vote on your behalf.
10:30 BMC AGM
From 2pm Free masterclasses with Steve McClure and James McHaffi e, free round-island coastal walk or personal climbing and walking
7:30pm
Evening buffet, followed by live band ‘The Devils Rejects’. Free for BMC members
Sunday 27 April
From 9:00 Free masterclasses Steve McClure and James McHaffi e. Free Chesil Beach walk and fossil hunt. Personal climbing and hill walking
AGM AGENDA 2014 Chair: Scott Titt, President
1. Welcome, introductions & apologies 2. Approval of previous AGM minutes held on Saturday 27 April 2013
3. Presentation & Adoption of the 2013 Annual Report
4. Presentation & Adoption of the 2013 Annual Accounts and Auditors’ Report 5. Appointment of Auditors
The Finance Committee recommends the appointment of DonnellyBentley Chartered Accountants for the year ending 31 December 2014.
6. Elections 6a. The following candidates are eligible for re-election:
i. Scott Titt President (eligible for re-election until April 2015)
ii. John Simpson Honorary Treasurer & Independent Director (eligible for re-election until April 2018)
iii. Mike Watson Vice-President (eligible for re-election until April 2015) Ed Douglas retires as Vice-President. Kate Phillips retires as Vice-President. 6b. The following candidates are eligible for election:
i. Rupert Davies is recommended by National Council for the position of Vice- President (nominated by BMC members Richard Kirby & Ashley Lewis).
ii. Mina Leslie-Wujastyk is recommended by National Council for the position of Vice-President
(nominated by BMC members Claire-Jane Carter & Graeme Alderson).
iii. Neil Foster is confi rmed as National Council representative on the Executive Committee (Director).
iv. Beverley Jowett is confi rmed as National Council representative on the Executive Committee (Director).
v. The appointment of (name available on 14 March 2014 at
www.thebmc.co.uk/ agm2014) is confi rmed as an Independent Director on the Executive Committee.
7. Membership subscriptions from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015 National Council recommends that individual and club member subscriptions should be increased by £1.50 per person and students / unwaged / U18s (including student club members) by £1.00 per person from 1 January 2015. Other rates (e.g. family membership) will be adjusted on a pro-rata basis.
8. Amendments to the Articles of Association The following resolution is proposed by National Council as a Special Resolution:
To replace ‘And the quorum of the Executive Committee shall be four persons’ with ‘And the quorum of the Executive Committee shall be fi ve persons’.
Please refer to Article 20 – Composition and Management Responsibilities of the Executive Committee
After the AGM there will be a presentation of the BMC George Band Award for Outstanding Voluntary Contribution
AGM Voting Procedures: In the case of a vote, on any agenda item, whether it be by hands or poll, every Voting Member aged not less than eighteen years, present in person or by proxy, shall have one vote. As laid down in Article 56.1, Ordinary Business put to the vote shall be decided on a show of hands, unless before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll is demanded either by the Chair of the meeting or by not less than twenty Voting Members, present in person. As laid down in Articles 56.2, any special business to be put to a vote, shall be decided by way of a poll.
R Got something you'd like to discuss? Come along to the BMC AGM.
66 | 70TH ANNIVERSARY | FOR BRITISH CLIMBING AND WALKING SINCE 1944
PHOTO: A. BITTON.
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