Fencing Central

Fencing Central Annual General Meeting for the year 2011 - Midday, 26 February 2012

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Venue
Mackie Gym
Gate 2, VUW Karori Campus
Donald St,
Karori,
Wellington

Agenda

1. opening of meeting
2. apologies
3. confirmation of minutes of previous annual general meeting
4. presentation of president’s annual report
5. adoption of president’s annual report
6. presentation of treasurer’s annual report
7. adoption of treasurer’s annual report
8. election of new management committee, patron
9. vote of thanks to outgoing management committee
10. notices of motion
11. general business
12. Close

 

Nominations and the Motions

Nominations

 

• Patron Roger Hayman
• President Bryan "Baz" Clark
• Secretary Keziah McNamara
• Treasurer Riko Kell
• General Committee MemberTony Culliford, Charlotte Dewsnap, Ben Drayton, Jeremy "Jezza" Peters, Cameron Roberts and Staphanie Simpkin

 

Motions

Clause 3.1 must clearly limit the benefits that members can receive. The suggested wording, which we consider should be adopted is (but we would substitute "FenCen" for "the organisation"):

• “(1) Any income, benefit or advantage shall be applied to the purposes of the organisation.
• (2) No individual member or associated person shall receive any form of private income, benefit or advantage from the operations.
• (3) No member of the organisation or any person associated with a member shall participate in or materially influence any decision made by the organisation in respect of the payment to or on behalf of that member or associated person of any income, benefit or advantage whatsoever.
• (4) Any such income paid shall be reasonable and relative to that which would be paid in an arm’s‐length transaction (being the open market value).
• (5) The provisions and effect of this clause shall not be removed from this document and shall be included and implied in any document replacing this document.”

Clause 16.5 should be limited so that the tax exempt status is not compromised by future constitutional changes by adding paragraphs as follows:

"No addition to or alteration of the non‐profit aims/objects, personal benefits clause, payments to members clause or winding‐up clause shall be approved without the prior approval of Inland Revenue. The provisions and effect of this clause shall not be removed from this document and shall be included and implied into any document replacing this document."

 

In preparation for the Junior Commonwealths, fencers have been competing in Europe.

Yesterday Hamish Chan and Daniel Kahu fenced in the Junior A grade competition in Madrid, with Hamish finishing 44th and Daniel 63rd.

Last weekend, Max Rolland fenced in the senior CIP competition in Paris.

And this weekend Felix Boyce, Daniel Garelja and Julius Herzhoff are all competing in the Marathon Fleuret in Paris, possibly the biggest Cadet competition anywhere. Keep an eye out for the results

Preparations are well underway for the arrival of the New Zealand Junior Commonwealth team members in Jersey later this week.

Many of the fencers have chosen to prepare in the northern hemisphere in such places as London, Paris, and Bonn. Hopefully the weather up there isn't proving too much for them.

The team starts arriving in Jersey next Friday and Saturday in preparation for the start of competition on Monday. On Sunday night there is an official opening ceremony with a march of the flags of nations.

The team consists of Steph Wylie, Hamish Chan, Max Rolland, Haz Forrester, Dan Kahu, Bevan Dobbs, Oliver Agnew and Felix Boyce. Steve Clarke is the Manager and Ken Claridge the Chief de Misson.

You can follow happenings in Jersey on the Commonwealth Fencing web site www.commonwealthfencing.org