[Computerbank] That niggling AGM question

[Patricia Fraser]

Hi folks,

Could any of the Committee members point me at the minutes of the AGM on the 
website? I can't find anything later than October 2002.

I've also been waiting patiently to see whether any of the recently elected 
Committee members (I don't mean State Co-ordinators, I mean elected 
office-bearers - President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer, Ordinary Members...) 
would come back to the membership with some answers to the questions that 
were raised after the AGM, about its conduct and the possibility of 
irregularities. 

I'm thinking in particular of the way the meeting was halted, so that a 
membership could be approved by only the State Co-ordinators after the 
elected positions had been declared vacant, in order to break a voting 
deadlock. I'd like to hear from the Committee about the legality and/or 
constitutionality of that process - and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's 
worried by it.

Less urgent, but equally important questions about the inaccessibility of the 
Committee, and the organisation generally, to members who can't or don't 
attend at Rosslyn Street, also haven't been addressed very well, if at all - 
I'd like to hear the Committee's stand on policy with regard to this.

I should mention for those who don't know my name that I'm a founding member, 
was founding Secretary, and had my name on the Rosslyn Street lease until 
very recently; I've participated quite a lot, and I'm financial, *and* I 
attended the AGM. I don't just have a right to know: I have a legal 
obligation as a member to make sure the organisation is legal, and abides by 
its own constitution; and I have a moral obligation to the beneficiaries as 
well as to other members and volunteers to help the organisation remain open, 
inclusive and doing what it's supposed to be doing.

Any takers?

-- 
Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia
trish at thefrasers.org
www.computerbank.org.au