Below is a recent response from Adam Reynolds concerning the Draft Constitution posted on the FV web site. Adam Reynolds has requested that his comments be shared with the fencing community. Below is his email.
"Dear Simon,
I note the proposed changes to the Constitution, and would offer the following comments which I would appreciate being distributed more broadly for consideration.
I have had detailed and lengthy discussions with the Governance Unit of the Australian Sports Commission. One of the underpinnings of the ASC’s philosophies (Governance Principle 1.7), reflected now in both the AFF Policies and those of the NSWFA, is that an Association’s Committee should be empowered to set fees, and that this should not be a function of the AGM. The reasoning behind this is that the Committee should ask the AGM to approve strategy and budget documents, and that the detailed operational fund-generation activities should be left to the Association to execute to achieve the strategies and budgets that have been approved by the Members. As emphasised by the ASC Governance Unit, should the Members not be satisfied with the method by which the Committee is seeking to achieve the Association’s strategic objectives, then the appropriate recourse should be the replacement of the Committee by the Members. In other words, the Association should not be hamstrung by the Committee being given strategic objectives to achieve, but not be given the flexibility to set various fees to achieve those objectives.
Based on the above, I would suggest that Section 12 of the proposed Constitution be reworded in such a way that the Committee is (at most) required only to provide this information at an AGM, and not have it determined by the AGM. This would then be dealt with by the Committee under Section 42.3.4.
Regards,
Adam."
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