On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:03:41 +1000, Robert Hart wrote: >Gary Stevenson wrote: Robert, >As you have always been a advocate of free sharing of information >with the GFA membership, can you please fairly summarise the for and >against reasons that were considered by the Board, and why there was >no support for this proposal? > >Sorry - you must have misunderstood me. I asked the other regional >representatives to discuss possible article changes in their region - >and the answers all came back unsupportive of a change. As we were >not prepared to go it alone (yet again), there was no proposal put >to the AGM to change the articles. > >You would need to ask you regional representatives why their region >decided the way it did. > >-- Robert Hart >[EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)438 385 533 >http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
Emilis with SAGA Vice President hat on - the matter was raised under 'AOB' at the last SAGA meeting by the GFA Board member verbally. Being the stick in the mud people we inevitably are, it wasn't enough advocacy nor time to give it proper scrutiny. (I would like to think it had merit) (We only meet quarterly in the off season) I feel that for support to be forth coming, a proposal regrettably needs - - to be formally written out - sent formally to the region (in our case SAGA Secretary Les Bebbington) - for circulation to member clubs (maybe the proponent might chose to send it directly to every club) - and this happen numbers of months before a GFA ABM because there needs to be time for argy-bargy (the technical term contributed to our language by our current PM) and modifications to proposals and the matter needs to be lodged with Secretary GFA the regulation 28 days ahead of the meeting - and the number of regions better arrive with the bag full of proxies from clubs, associations and pilots because the other s.i.t.m 's will have their bagful. Emilis with no hat on - which is why I have no wish for another organisation representing gliding to evolve as has occurred in other (aviation) sports when the existing organisation became divisive and as may be underway in the HG to PG in our adjacent federation right now - and thus in preference pursue 'personal responsibility' processes beyond the federation way of doing things you'll see stuff published by me on this eventually now that I have the imprematur of having a 'certificate of appreciation' handed to me at the GFA Seminar for the lifetime of service to the sport - which is why at the time of 'amalgamation' talk, my personal letter went to every glider pilot nationally (lots of stamps to stick on) - I expect getting parallel path published in the sailplane part of Soaring Australia is contraindicated even though the HG part does publish those kinds of discussions in their ranks. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
