[H-GEN] Text of motions for constitutional changes I will be putting at the AGM

[Gary Curtis]

I am surprised that proxies are/were not counted in the quorum.

That is the whole point of formally assigning a proxy. To make quorum and
vote.

Gary
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Gary Curtis      t: 07 3801 1311    m: 04 1455 1488


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Russell Stuart <russell at stuart.id.au>
wrote:

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> On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 22:04 +1000, matt wrote:
> > At 20 members you need at least 10 for an SGM. If people are members in
> > name only (yes we have quite a lot of those) then getting even 10 is
> > going to be difficult.
>
> "Name only" is this case means "care enough to fork over $20 in the past
> 12 months".
>
> But yes when it comes to physical people attending the previous AGM, it
> was close thing.  I believe it has always be that way as I recall Ray
> Smith telling me stories of driving around before the AGM to collect
> voting bodies.
>
> That was the motivation for my moving the modification to the
> constitution that explicitly says: "Members voting via a proxy are
> included in the quorum."  Effectively this allows the electronic voting
> James was lamenting.  We exceeded the quorum by a fair margin when you
> count proxies.
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