Reminder the AGM is tomorrow 6:30pm at Kareela:
If anyone hasn't been before, they are very relaxed, down the bottom of the club (in the function room area).
There are two meetings - the Leagues Club meeting (the longer one, which covers mostly everything), and the Football Club meeting (normally very brief as it covers most of the same ground as the Leagues Club meeting), with a 10 minute or so break between the two.
You just need to be a leagues club member.... as in the member's card you get at the front desk of Sharks@Kareela for like $25 for 3 years or whatever it is (so not the Sharks season membership, but the leagues club). That allows you to vote on motions in the Leagues Club meeting, where all the main business is done. The football club membership is more complicated, you need to pay for voting rights each year, but you can still stay in the football club meeting even without it.
Generally there is a presentation by Dino, where he also answers any of the pre-submitted questions. Then there are various motions to vote on (normally fairly technical), and then general business, which is generally a mixture of useful questions and cringe questions (e.g. "will Talakai play in the second row this week").
You can be as quiet or as active as you want. There's no need to talk or do anything other than raise your voting card. If you want to be more active, you can ask questions in general business, or chat to some of the board before/after/between the meetings. Normally they have the bar open with a complimentary beer or two.
All members are very welcome, even if just to sit there and listen. Often it barely meets the quorum (minimum number of members). I encourage more to go, we are lucky to have a member-owned/democratic club, and the more people who are aware and interested in the process, the better. Particularly younger members.
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