Grassey wrote:I doubt the signatures match, Gerry Laheen is head & secretary of Naas kayak club, according to ICU website and from what I know myself, and his name is missing as a signatory. AFAIK the club doesn't exist off paper.
These are the ICU articles relating to EGMs
Extraordinary Delegate Meeting
21. All meetings other than Annual Delegate Meetings shall be called
Extraordinary Delegate Meetings.
22. The Board shall convene Extraordinary Delegate Meetings:
(i) if a resolution to so call an Extraordinary Delegate Meeting is passed
at the preceding Annual Delegate Meeting.
(ii) where ten ICU Registered Clubs so requisition such a meeting by
service on the Honorary Secretary of a written notice seeking the
holding of such a meeting.
(iii) where two thirds of the Board resolve to convene such an
Extraordinary Delegate Meeting.
23. A requisition made by ICU Registered Clubs to call an Extraordinary
Delegate Meeting must in the form of a motion and be signed by the
Chairman and Secretary of each of the ICU Registered Clubs calling the
Extraordinary Delegate Meeting and be deposited at the registered office of
the Union.
24. On receipt of a requisition by the required number of ICU Registered Clubs
calling an Extraordinary Delegate Meeting, the Board shall proceed to
convene an Extraordinary Delegate Meeting as soon as is practicable. If the
Board, however, fails to convene an Extraordinary Delegate Meeting within
60 days from the date of the deposit of the requisition, the requisitionists or
a majority of the requisitionists may themselves convene a meeting.
So according to this, the chairman and secretary from at least 10 of those clubs should have signed the motion calling for an EGM. If anyone knows chairmen or secretaries from any of these clubs, could they confirm that they did in fact sign the motion. I would hate to see smaller clubs being used to fill a quorum simply because an ordinary member decided to sign a form...
The other interesting thing (which Canned has already mentioned) is that the ICU are not obliged to respond to the request until 60 days after reciept of it (on March 2nd). So they will sit down some time at the start of May and decide a date for the EGM. I would imagine they would then have to allow at least 14 days notice in order for clubs to organise and submit relevant motions. So we can expect the date of this EGM to be the end of May or early June. Anyone else prefer to wait until the AGM???