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Robert,
Just a couple of points
that might be relevant on this:
1 Unconfirmed Minutes can
sometimes reflect the attitude of the Minute Taker, or the Minute Taker may
not have necessarily reflected the true tone of the meeting.
2 It is worth noting that one item
failed for lack of the seconder.
3 There have been some changes to the
Board since June.
The next meeting is about Nov 12
......... not far away. After your note, that might be a good one to have an
observer at, and should make for good discussion around the barby while you
are at the NSW Comp.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:16
PM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Minutes of the
Board Meeting 26 June 2005
To the President, Board and Executive of the Gliding Federation
of Australia
An open letter
18 October 2005
Dear
sir
I am writing to you to express my dismay at the tone of the minutes
of
the Board meeting held on 27 June 2005. These are available at
http://www.gfa.org.au/Docs/minutes/gfa_min050626.pdf
At
that meeting, eleven resolutions passed at the Gliding Queensland
meeting
in May were discussed. That discussion is reported in the
minutes.
Unfortunately, at no time do the minutes reflect that the
Board and
Executive felt concerned that the membership of one of the
consitutuent
states of the Gliding Federation had serious issue with the
running of
the national organisation. Indeed, the tone the minutes reflect
is
belittling, hectoring, disparagement and nit picking. Every attempt was
made to justify the status quo and no attempt was made to try to explore
the reasons behind this fairly strong and unprecedented action taken by
and on behalf of a significant number of members of the GFA.
Even
if the Queensland membership is wrong in each and every motion that
it
submitted, they clearly do not believe so. They are still members and
as
such deserve to be taken seriously and not treated in this
disgraceful and
dismissive fashion. The Queensland membership did not
lightly put together
the eleven motions. There was wide consideration of
them before the
meeting and considerable discussion when the resolutions
were passed at
the GQ AGM. The resolutions represent issues that greatly
concern a large
number of members of the organisation that you govern.
The reply given
to these issues in the minutes is a damning indictment
of the Board and
Executive: if the membership of the GFA needs further
example of the
arrogant way the Board and Executive views the membership
at large, they
need only read the minutes of the June 2005 Board
meeting. That Queensland
members are completely dissatisfied with the
the way their concerns were
handled is unsurprising. The rift between
the Queensland members and the
GFA Board and Executive is only wider as
a result of the lack of concern
and consideration shown by the Board and
Executive.
How different
the situation might now be if the GFA Board and Executive
had rather
attempted to use the Queensland motions to search inwards, to
explore even
the vaguest possibility that its actions and positions lay
behind the
significant distrust of the GFA hierarchy apparent in the GQ
motions. From
the minutes, it does not appear that there was one instant
of self doubt.
The only concern reflected in the minutes is that of self
justification at
the expense of the Queensland membership.
Shame on you all for your
failure to grasp this nettle in any meaningful
way. With such leadership,
the future of the governance of the sport we
all love remains seriously
clouded.
I request that this letter be tabled at the next Board and
Executive
meetings.
Robert Hart
Brisbane, Queensland
GFA
Membership # 13701
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Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+61 (0)438
385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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