Re: Membership, Executive membership and a suggestion

I suggest one slight alternative;

Those who have since resigned may have done so on the understanding that 
the intervening years did actually happen and that the AFFS was in fact 
non-operational.

It might be easier to reboot the AFFS if those members whose resignation 
was not processed by the AFFS could claim that their resigniation was a 
misunderstanding due to them not being aware of the fiction that would 
now be perpetrated, and thus retain their membership.

It might be easier to reboot with a larger membership; and there is a 
cause to argue that those who cancelled were actually more aware of what 
was going on than those who didn't.

But I was never a member....

Sam

* Jason Clifford wrote, On 02/03/09 16:16:
> Having read through some, but not all, of the posts here in recent days
> and having just read through the constitution of AFFS I'd like to ask
> whether any members actually had their membership terminated by the
> Executive or not following the apparent break down in the operation of
> AFFS?
>
> My reading of the constitution leaves me with the understanding that
> unless members have actually resigned their membership or had it
> terminated by the executive they may still be members, albeit members
> who owe AFFS membership subscription money.
>
> Further to this the constitution states that members of the Executive
> may only serve for a maximum of 4 continuous years. As there have been
> no elections for more than 4 years - the 2005 AGM didn't happen due to a
> lack of a quorum - it may well be that for AFFS to exist now requires
> that the membership and Executive choose to accept as true the fiction
> that the intervening time has simply not happened - otherwise there
> seems to be no valid means of even calling an AGM to try and resolve the
> status of AFFS at all.
>
> I'd like to suggest that we do exactly that. We simply reboot AFFS upon
> the basis that it is as it existed at or after 15th Aug 2005, excepting
> those members who actually did resign their membership.
>
> This would allow for there to be a meeting at which it can be decided
> whether or not AFFS should continue to exist at all and how to move
> forward from that decision.
>
> I know this is a contentious suggestion however it strikes me that no
> possible way forward exists that complies with the constitution and
> allows the membership to have a real say in the matter.
>
> Jason Clifford
>
>
>
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