MAKE YOUR VO TE COUNT
This year’s BMC Annual General Meeting is incredibly important. Why? Because proposed changes will affect the very core of how the BMC is run: its constitution. Considering the options and then voting is your chance to say ‘Yea!’ or ‘Nay!’ and help shape our future.
However, changing a diverse organisation like the BMC is a complex issue, as one person knows more than most. So we caught up with BMC CEO Dave Turnbull to ask what it’s all about, and why you should vote this June.
Dave Turnbull: interview
DAVE, WHY IS THIS AGM BEING TALKED ABOUT SO MUCH?
Because this is the most important AGM that the BMC has had since the Articles of Association (its constitution) were written back in 1993. Important changes are being proposed which could set the BMC up for the next 20 or 30 years of good work.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE OLD CONSTITUTION?
The world (and climbing) has moved on massively since 1993. Digital technology, social media and the internet for starters. We’re behind the times. Back then, it took three years to translate the way the BMC operated into Companies Act lingo, in a compliant way, so we could become a Limited Company. And, ever since, there’s always been a degree of conflict as to who’s in charge between our Board of Directors and our National Council. The constitution is worded in such a way that there are overlaps, duplication and ambiguity. The work of the recent Organisational Review Group (ORG) has now provided a blueprint for modernisation and change.
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PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK.
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