[UK-TUG] SEGM impose penalties for not voting!

[Jay Hammond]

Dear members

please vote. If you don't, I think you should resign instead. You owe 
it to UKTUG to help keep the show on the road. And if you don't think 
UKTUG should function, you should vote to wind it up or resign.



The AGM was inquorate. That left UKTUG in difficulty.  As I 
understand it, we are supposed to have an AGM, and that AGM is 
supposed to do certain business.  This SEGM  is a more democratic way 
of resuming the AGM, but it is not, formally speaking, the AGM.

The constitution states the AGM,  if inquorate, is to be resumed (at 
a new time and place, notice being given) and that the quorum is - 
well whichever members turn up, even if that's only the chair and 
their dog. i.e. possibly just 1 member. They can decide what they 
like with whatever consequences that has.

So being inquorate is really bad news for UKTUG. In fact I would go 
so far as to say it is not in the interest of UKTUG to be inquorate.

That does not sound very radical. But there is a clause in the 
constitution that permits the committee to eject a member for not 
acting in the interest of UKTUG. And I'm arguing that not voting at 
the AGM (even by proxy) is behaviour that  leads to inquoracy and 
difficulties for UKTUG.  I did propose to the committee that all 
nonvoting members be asked to resign.  

If you think that's a bad idea, please let me know (and vote anyway!)


Jay Hammond

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