Apologies for my last which appeared to go into tabular form when sent, so herewith another attempt:
In a search of the GFA website it lists under the heading of the "Board", without any narrative description or photo, a list of the 8 members from the States as follows: Aaron Stroop NSWGA member David Conway SAGA member Dave Donald GQ 2nd member Geoff Wood SAGA 2nd member John Rappell NSWGA 2nd member Owen Jones WAGA member Phil McCann VSA member, Robert Hart GQ member, ..... so that appears to be straight forward and that is the "Board". However ..... then there is another separate heading which is separated from the above by 2 subheadings, being "Clubs and Societies" and "Development", so I guess it is alphabetical, and the heading there is "Executive Board" which gets 2 paras of narrative as below, a photo of a group (that look very pleased with themselves), and lists the members as: Executive - Executive Board The GFA Executive is responsible for managing the day to day running of the GFA through the Secretariat and its Officers under the direction of broad Board policies and direction. It meets as required, but usually twice as an Executive and twice in conjunction with the Board plus the annual Board (ABM) and General meeting in September. Important matters between meetings are transacted by email and phone. At combined Board meetings Executive members have one vote. Regional Board members have two votes. Heads of departments (4) are elected by their peer group to the Executive and are ratified at ABM and the President, Vice President and Treasurer are elected from the members. All members of the Executive have a maximum 5 year term. The Immediate Past President may be invited to the Executive in a changeover year. Daryl Connell GFA President, Edwin Grech-Cumbo GFA Chairman Airworthiness department, (CTC) Graeme Wishart GFA Vice President, Ian Grant GFA Treasurer, Maurice Little GFA Chairman Development department, Peter Gray GFA Chairman Operations department. Rob Moore GFA Chairman Sport department. So based on the above narrative quote, the "Board" of 8 (as opposed to the "Executive Board" of 7 more), provides "broad policies and direction" and the "Executive Board" then does all of the real decision making. Is that correct and are both groups really as separate as the website makes them appear to be? The final sentence of the above quoted para also talks about the voting rights at "combined board meetings". Does that mean that there are also "separate" board meetings? In the 2nd quoted para it also mentions a matter dear to my heart and that is that the President, Vice President and Treasurer are elected from the members. I don't recall being involved in that, so I guess that narrative is not referring to election "by the members". I'm sure many of those mentioned above are dedicated and capable people, but the arrangements appears to me to be convoluted and based on the above and previous posts, is undemocratic (in that all GFA members don't have a direct vote for the Board members [or the Executive Board Members]) and the combination of the separate Board and Executive Board + a total of 15 on the 2 "Boards" + the involvement of Management members on the Board (which makes it not a truely independant "Board") + a 5 repeat five year term for the "Executive" makes me ask .... Just where does the power really lie in all of the above? Is it really with the members & their elected representatives? Can anyone help with the above? Regards Geoff
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