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Aoraki Dragons EGM
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Sun 06 Jul 2025 11:00 — 13:00
Event information
For those at the AGM, you will know that we need to finish off our business, so we are calling an
- Extraordinary General Meeting
- at the St Johns Hall, Rawhiti Domain, New Brighton
- on Sunday 6 July from 11 am to 1 pm.
Hopefully it won't drag on again this time.
Amy will be putting out the Minutes from AGM 2025 in due course, but in the meantime we need to call an EGM so that we can vote on the new President (and Secretary), plus discuss the season fee and its structure.
To recap, we had 4 directors advising they would not be available for re-election this AGM: Noel (President), Amy (Secretary), Pete (Equipment) and Daz (Funding). During the meeting Chris Sheppard resigned, but tonight he withdrew that. Seeing as we are now a "Caretaker" board, we will ask Team Delegates whether to allow Chris to stay on Aoraki BoM. Assuming you do, we have two out of three "Principal Officer Bearers" of Aoraki (13.2) standing down. Meanwhile:
- Linda Bruce (Pegasus) was nominated (and I have already sent you her Bio/statement).
- Kalia Wiley (self)nominated the night before the AGM. Kalia has been on the board very recently, so is generally known by the community (especially team Delegates) via AGMs, Delegates meetings and at regatta.
- And during the AGM, Meri nominated Andrew Watson, with a bio of "career highlights". Andrew, calling in from Sydney, read out his spiel on what his vision was for Aoraki for the near future.
There was discussion about whether Andrew could be on the BoM when currently living in Australia, but he advised he would fly back for regatta and events, and intends to return to Canterbury as soon as he can. So, with some reservations, his nomination is also valid.
So with all 3 valid nominations to 4 vacancies, a vote was not necessary so they were declared elected by proclamation. At that stage, roles were not allocated.
I had already asked those on the BoM (at our meeting pre AGM) if they wanted to be in the ballot for President and/or Secretary. And Mike, Karen and Gilly indicated they would leave their names on the ballot. And at the meeting we agreed on the process of Delegates voting on people/positions that includes the new arrivals on the board.
However during the AGM, the team Delegates indicated they could not validly vote on last minute candidates, so we voted to adjourn the meeting to 4 weeks during which time we would circulate confirmation of candidates, along with a summary of their "credentials", what roles they are interested in, and "what they bring to the table, and their vision for that role and for Aoraki".
We still have 2 vacancies (the constitution says we ideally have 9 on the BoM, but last year we had 8). So we are now opening for new nominations to all positions on the Aoraki Board of Management. These could be for roles like Equipment, Funding, Events etc, or for the President and/or Secretary role. We need to receive Nominations by the end of Wednesday 18 June, so that we can send you all the Candidate Bios for voting at the EGM (teleconference will be available).
The second agenda item will be to discuss the 2025-26 Season Fees. This includes options to ease the "catch up" that we have proposed, that will ensure we have boats etc for future use. And also
Noel Anderton
(Caretaker) President, Aoraki Dragons