FCA President vote

Is Ian B president yet?

 

Thanks for the info Gizzi.
My problem is not as severe as yours, but it is L4 and L5 as yours is. I am relatively fit and have a physical job.
I go through patches, but can cope with the odd anti inflammatory.
This will probably get worse as i age so good to know there is a successful outcome available.
Hope you recover quickly mate

 

that's why it's MEANT to be sent via australia post, according to the constitution.

 

A few people have called me expressing concern over what they're perceiving as a threat to split the club. This couldn't be further from reality.

I fully support Tony Demarco's appointment as VIC President and will vote in favour of ratifying his election.

I've also emailed Tony to say this and received a very gracious reply from him. There is no split or disagreement between us.

Ian

 

Amazing how people jump to conclusions.

 

Yeah I’m not too far away with a degenerated L5 disk....All the years sitting in crappy Aircraft seats...My problem is I enjoy my vino and seafood too much so always carrying extra weight....That’s where the big V12 comes in handy....It’s shifts me around seamlessly.....It’s better than Greg’s donkey....

 

All you need now is a goat to help you through the "hard" times

 

Sounds like they're trying to undermine your nomination by making up fake news. Desperation by the sound of it!

 

I am very concerned about negative and false allegations that have been said about our Club in this forum and I have been urged by many to address these false allegations as they are bringing our Club into disrepute and putting it in danger of survival.

I first joined FChat soon after I bought my 308gt4 in the early 1990s. I have been a long-time member of the Club and have actively participated in many track days, concorsos, rallies and other events and on many committees over many years. I stand for integrity, honesty and Club members' best interests. I brought the Club’s Code of Conduct to finality and instituted the requirement that all committee members sign agreement to abide by it and the Club’s Rules.

To refute the negative and false allegations, I state the following:

1. Emailed AGM notices are legal according to legal opinions we have been given. Any member without an email received their notices by post. All states, bar one, for some years have sent their AGM notices by email and so the precedent also exists for this.

2. All notices went out well ahead of time.

3. Minutes of committee meetings cannot be released under our current Club Rules, but there is nothing to hide in them. For absolute transparency, it will be a good initiative to look at making the necessary changes to the Rules to allow this to happen in the future.

4. It is not possible for anyone to misappropriate funds in our Club. Our Treasurer checks and has to approve everything and then a second person has to agree for the payment to be made. This double-authorisation process cannot be bi-passed. Our Accounts are audited.

5. The Club has always given a simple cash grant to the President to attend the FOC meeting. This is even broken out as a line item in the P&L. The president's partner is always invited by Ferrari. When my wife has attended, she has paid for her own travel. Also, I co-developed the Club's current travel policy as a framework for all Club travel expenses.

5. Tony Demarco was elected by a democratic process in Victoria. As a full member, he was entitled to stand for election. The Club's constitution prevents interference in this process. I knew nothing of the first email by the incoming Victorian committee before its release. I then quickly worked with Trent and Ian to put out a second email which presented both candidates.

6. I've have only contacted people whose numbers are in my phone, not the whole database. If state presidents and other members have chosen to support me, it has been of their own free-will and there has been no coercion or corruption of the election process.

If anyone needs further information on any of the above, please contact me.

False accusations about the Club must stop as they only pull our Club into disrepute. Let's try to use this forum positively for our Club going forward.

Grahame

 

I'm guessing who you are, but given what you have posted, a proper introduction would be polite.

 

Blah, blah, blah

Vote Ian

 

It's Grahame

 

lol

 

Sounds like you're scrambling for credibility. The club hasn't been put into disrepute by anything posted on here, but what you have been doing is underhanded in my book. If anyone has been damaging the club's reputation, it's you actually, not the posters on FerrariChat.

Who said anything about travel expenses? Guilty conscience?

I think you've been a rather ineffective president in many ways and someone needs to clean up your mess. That's my opinion.

Demarco was voted in exactly as you described, but it should never have been allowed to happen, and you know why. If you weren't blinded by your close friendship with him, you'd agree. Unfortunately he was unopposed and the people who voted for him don't know the history and the dire situation he put the club in previously.

All will be revealed when/if demarco nominates for national president, I can promise you that.

Also, all will be revealed about you after the election. I just don't want to interfere with due process, unlike you.

Best regards

 

Thank you for taking the time to post here.

Re point 3, can you clarify, is there anything in the club rules that expressly prohibits distribution of committee minutes to members? Or is it simply not dealt with at all, and could be allowed by a simple resolution of the committee when such a request is received?

It seems clear from comments here that transparency of committee activities and decision making is a high priority for many members.


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Why get legal advice re sending out voting info via email in the first place or was the advice sought after the event?

Is the advice off the cuff or in writing somewhere?

Why not just send the voting papers by post in the first place?

 

hey graham
heard a story that u got a trophy from Ferrari on behalf of the club in italy last year. The guy showed me a pic, it said the trophy was for the charity ball in 2018 and u got it in Italy. The guy said that the trophy ended up at yr house and no one in the club heard about it, there was no email or nuthing in the mag and u never said anything at the meetings this guy goes to and they finaly got the trophy off you a recently, and that now u are spinning a story about safekeeping it at home but he recknos eveyone knows that BS because u could have told everyone u had it last year when u got it
Says the club pays for u and missus to go overseas to italy and when u came back u never said anything about receiving the the trphy or thanked anyone for puting on the event and its been a year already.

 

There is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much wrong with the above post.

Just sayin'.

 

Especially if it’s true

 

I recon it’s pretty articulate after 2 bottles of vino and a case of beer...

 

Sounds more like a black Jag infiltration

 

Nowhere near enough spelling mistakes [emoji12]

 

If there is any truth to that I’m sure it will come out in the wash....

 

It already is

 

Well just starting with the disrespect of spelling the target of the posts' name is enough for me to be wary of the post.