The Minutes of the IM24CA EGM 2016 Published Now
December 23, 2016 - IM24CA - IM24CA’s Extraordinary meeting was held on December 21 at 9 pm CET. There were 15 participants in this meeting – represented by 7 Executive Committee members and by 5 NCA’s altogether 14 national classes (either present or with proxies) had their votes out there. Please find the Minutes of the EGM at IM24CA website under http://melges24.com/egm2016-minutes
Decisions made and voting results in short:
1. Election of Treasurer – click here for the job description
- George Haynie – nominated by USA and CAN (click here for CV)
George Haynie introduced himself in the beginning of the Agenda point 1. Introduction was followed by the QA.
How to vote having only one nominee when IM24CA constitution does not state it clearly if it’s different from the procedure where having more than one nominee, Chairman Jens Wathne was seeking advice from ISAF and from the legal councillor, how’s the voting procedure in this situation. Advice he was given from ISAF and legal representative was, that the present member (itself or via proxy) of World Council can vote YES/NO/ABTAIN and the elected Treasurer has to be a winner of the popular vote.
A discussion on that was made and vote was called whether to have YES/NO /Abstain voting on one nominee or not.
The result of the votes was: 60 vs 6 for yes/no respectively.
This was allowing proceed with the elections of the Treasurer - candidate George Haynie
A vote was called and the result of the votes was: 28 yes / 34 no / 4 abstain.
As the elections failed for single nominee, the advice of World Sailing was taken and Jens put forward the motion to go back to Constitution item 5.3 where World Council can extend the term of the Treasurer by majority vote. Michael Good seconded that motion and Marc Wain Pedersen thirds.
A vote was called and the result of the votes was: 38 vs 28 for yes/no respectively.
It was decided by a majority to extend the term of the Treasurer.
It was proposed for the future to avoid long meeting with unclear procedure to add clear wording on that single candidate matter in to IM24CA constitution. Duncan Stamper and Krak Arntson will help with the wording on the sole-candidate-elections-topic to the IM24CA constitution after the holidays.
2. Incoming Motions
- Changing existing constitution item 5 – to expand item 5.1 to create a position for Chairman of media and sponsorship and to add a new item 5.1 j) Chairman of Media and Sponsorship Committee.
- Create new constitution item 8 – Media and Sponsorship Committee
Comments on the motions:
It was commonly agreed that to create more money through the sponsorship to have a better media budget for the class would be necessary and great. Jens was glad to hear positive feedback on the ideas and admitted to create a better wording and arrangements for that main goal – to have a better media options through the sponsorship money for the class. The idea is to put forward the better wording for the 2017 AGM, but at the same time there’s nothing what prevents starting working as a team for that goal anyway.
Jens was taking the comments and withdrew both its motions for the future actions to be made.
3. Date and time for Annual General Meeting 2017
Jens proposed to have AGM 2017 the first weekend of November – AGM on Saturday 4th and Technical Committee on Friday 3rd , Michael Good seconded.
The proposal was made to have it in a Central Europe location. Tomi as the organiser of the past AGM’s proposed Copenhagen, London or Frankfurt for the easy flight connections both for the European members and those overseas in case to fly in. Miles was generously offering the facilities in Royal Ocean Racing Club, London to host the meetings there, which should be at no cost for the class. Jens said that cost saving is always good thing to do for the class and found London a very good location for the AGM. Miles promised to check the availability of the premises in RORC coming back to Class Administrator with this topic.
Chairman Jens Wathne was thanking everybody in this call and for working with us the whole evening, wishing to all a peaceful Holiday Season, Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!