The club received legal advice from 2 sources on what the legal issues were with implementing the contract. Its all on www.fcacontract.com. A summary: The resulting advice was that (A) either that signing the contract would require the amendment of the clubs constitution on a line by line basis in where there was a conflict between the two, or (B) that by adding clause 2a to the constitution, whereby the Ferrari agreement would be given precedence over the clubs constitution if there was a conflict between the two, avoided the cost and effort of changing the constitution on a line by line basis. (A) is quite specific and required more work (& cost) to implement but limits the extent the Ferrari agreement impacts on the club's constitution to only those amendments voted on and agreed to by the members. (B) is much simpler to implement but more far reaching, because there is no limitation to the priority of the Ferrari agreement over the clubs constitution. Simply by changing the owners club agreement (which the Ferrari contract refers to), Ferrari are able to override any element of the club's constitution because their agreement has complete precedence The committee voted to put option 'B" to the members, that's what you are voting on. The club did not ask the lawyers the question: Is this a good agreement to sign? M
and any good lawyer would disclaim such advice, in the end its a fait acompli.....the hairdressers get their factory blow job and we carby people just cruise the highways like the burnt out shell of men that we are
ever tried dealing with McDonalds........I have and for 10 years I have been saying no, negotiation is out of the question, this is my price and it goes up with CPI
being a North Adelaide boy that I am.......we only arrive, but some here who come from the burbs........well they dont understand slapper trust fund talk
so was the bomb that landed on hiroshima..........and look what happened after that----we got invaded by honda
have been reading the 'vote no' website. kudos to whoever put that together... very well thought out and written. Let's hope that those posting here do not represent a vocal (but informed) minority and that the rank and file members do the right thing (vote NO).