ORIGINAL: Jabba
To the Members of the SW Zone
It is important that I respond to you concerning the e-mail attached. It has been stated that my direction and policies are not supportable by Dennis Pratt. It would and could be said that Dennis then does not support the Direction and Policies of MAAC which is my direction and policy
The function of the zone director is to represent the membership of the zone and present their policies and direction to the board as a whole, through the zone meeting, and on to the AGM. This has been done completely. You only need to read the last magazine to see all of our motions, direction, events and observations have been accounted for.
I have supported your club through the years and have never expected anything in return. I respected your support for a person from your club in the last election and have no ill feelings toward the Windsor club for doing so. Peter Doupnik asked for and got support for his jet rally for the first time. This was not the only time Peter has attempted to do so. This is my duty as your director, to support you. It has however, been more than just duty, when it came to the Windsor club.
I have been the recipient of accusations from several of your fellow club members, Dennis, John and Chris. These accusations are based on the fact that I have supported other members of our zone in the same manner I have supported Windsor.
My direction is, the SW Zone members, my agenda is, the SW Zone members and my policies can be found on the MAAC web site titled MAAC Constitution and MAAC by-laws.
It has never been in my nature to take false accusations lightly. I have and will continue to do my job as director as prescribed by law,( Corporation Canada's Not-For-Profit ) not Dennis Pratt and or his friends.
The attempt of Dennis to upset my voting power at the AGM is a prime example of what is wrong with MAAC at the present time. The ZED Automatically carries all voting rights of the members minus any proxies. Dennis voting with the other directors does not mean anything. The Board can out vote the entire SW zone by ganging up, as they have done in the past. You do not have a true voice at the AGM. It should be one member one vote at the meeting plus obtained proxies.
The Vice President Richard Barlow wrote:
Richards’s statements dated May 15, 2005
(c) The Present system, which operates smoothly, but which denies any
meaningful input to the rank and file member. Under the current system, six
thousand members showing up at an AGM could not outvote the combined
Directors. That appears to be a real inequity.
This is one of my directions, giving you an actual stake in the future of MAAC by allowing your single vote to actually count. This seems to be what Dennis and his buddies are fighting to stop. He stated he does not support my direction
Information:
The director must support the Corporation at its core. ( as per corp Can ) That means you the member. This I have done in spite of Dennis Pratt and his friends. I will also continue to do so.
It is up to you, as it has always been
Charles Smith
SW Zone Director
1-519-842-2950
call me for further information
As my name has been dragged into this discussion. I feel that some clarification is necessary.
In the first instance, it is the responsibility of a zone director to represent the views of his zone to the Board of Directors. Where motions are before the Board, any Director may strongly oppose or support the motions as he believes that his zone members would wish him to do. That said, after a decision is made by the Board it is the responsibility of the Director to support that decision and present it to his members as though the decision had been unanimous. THIS IS A DIRECT REQUIREMENT UNDER THE RULES OF CORPORATIONS CANADA.
At the President's Meeting in my zone this Sunday, I will solicit the views of my zone members and use these views as my guide when voting at the AGM. I also encourage as many of my zone members as possible to attend in person and express their own views. In the ideal scenario, each member would attend and vote for himself. Regardless of this, on March 20th, decisions will have been made at the AGM, and every responsible Director will return to his zone, explain the reasons behind the decisions, accept and support them. Those are the rules of a non-profit organization as laid out by Corporations Canada,
I go on record as having tried, on two occasions, to have the voting procedure changed. The Board did not accept my position and voted to use the current system. As any RESPONSIBLE Director should do, I now support the decision by the Board and have made it very clear to the members of the Ottawa Valley Zone that I will continue to support the decision until, or unless, it is changed in the future.
My personal likes and dislikes are irrelevant. MAAC is run by a Board of Directors, and the decisions made by the Board, ratified at an AGM, are cast in stone as far as I am concerned. Where a Director feels that he cannot support decisions of the Board, his only recourse is to resign. This is again a requirement of Corporations Canada.
Propworn has, very legitimately, outlined the procedure to be followed by MAAC members who feel that they are not being represented by their zone director in the manner that they would wish. If there are members of the Ottawa Valley zone who feel that I do not represent them, then I urge them to attend the AGM in person, or assign their proxy vote to anyone else that they know will attend. This could be any member at large or any other zone director. By the same token, if there are people in other zones who feel that their vote would be safer in my hands, I am more than prepared to vote on their behalf.
MAAC is a democracy, run by a Board of Directors under rigid rules as laid out in our own bylaws and the dictates of Corporations Canada. MAAC is not run by pressure groups or those that seek to flagrantly ignore bylaws, policies and procedures in order top push personal agendas or minority views.
Richard Lyle Barlow
Ottawa Valley Zone Director
MAAC Vice President.