The Scottish Aeromodellers Association

NOTICE TO SAA MEMBERS

The call for an EGM will be discussed at the next Council Meeting on 23 May 2012.  

The outcome of this meeting will be intimated to all members of the SAA as soon as possible by the Secretary of the Association as per the Constitution.

Elliot Balfour

SAA Secretary

There have been a number of  requests for constitution etc and to make it easier to find the downloads . Down load constitution

If you want copies of the past 3 years accounts as handed out at the AGM,s then click on the finance on above tag marked finance. You need however to be a registered first before finance info can be read and downloaded.

Hope this helps

Best regards

Ken

Chairman

 WARRIX FLYING GROUP 

Hi Elliot.

Please find below a response to the letter from Bob Savage re. E.G.M. notification.

I would be obliged if you would circulate it to all Council Members and any affected parties you may deem necessary.

To all Council members Scottish Aeromodellers Association.

 08/05/12

Following our own Committee meeting this evening I have been nominated by the Committee of Warrix Flying Group to respond to the letter received from Vice Chairman Bob Savage re. A call for an Extraordinary General Meeting.

After lengthy discussion of the material provided and thorough examination of the S.A.A. constitution, we find that the meeting has been called outwith the parameters of the constitution. i.e.

 As per 5.6.2. All communication to clubs or individual members is the sole responsibility of the Association Secretary, or the Assistant secretary at the Secretary’s discretion.

 (This would cover the purported conflict of interest of the Chairman and Secretary with the subject matter of the agenda implied in the notification, and still allows it to be administered constitutionally.)

As per 7.2 the venue shall be fixed by Council.

There is nothing in the invitation to suggest that Council has fixed the venue for the E.G.M. rather it would appear that the Vice Chairman is acting autonomously in arranging the meeting as a whole! This is totally unconstitutional, surely even if the Chairman and Secretary are in “conflict” the remainder of Council must agree to the meeting and as such the call must be on “behalf of Council” and on official .S.A.A. stationary to authenticate such notification.

We also find it incredulous that twenty one members can invent and agree a seven point agenda to submit to a meeting without substantive evidence or prompting, or that such “evidence” will only be issued at the proposed meeting, giving no time to analyse or assess it properly.

As this would appear from the subtext within the agenda to be a very serious matter indeed and the ramifications within the Association immense, it has to be managed properly and in strict adherence to the constitution.

We find that for the reasons stated above the Call for an E.G.M. is invalid and therefore by majority vote of the Club Committee present on 08/05/12 we cannot support the notification.

We would be obliged to hear from S.A.A. Council, if the Call for an E.G.M. is or is not valid? So we may advise our members accordingly.

We would also like to make it known without prejudice, that whilst this conflict exists that no member of Council (with the exception of Alex Kennedy, as a Club member) attends any meetings or events organised by Warrix Flying Group without prior consent of Warrix Committee.

With Regards

Jim Currie

On behalf of The Committee Warrix Flying Group.                                                                                                     

IMAC COMES TO SCOTLAND AGAIN IN 2012

I have recently taken over as competition director for the Scottish IMAC Championships at Castle Kennedy Airfield near Stranraer. (castle kennedy) 

The Competition will be taking place on May 5^th and 6^th with practice available all day on the

Friday as well.

All classes including freestyle will be flown and there is a good entry so far. 

On site we will be having a bbq for lunches for all competitors and there will be tea and coffee etc available. 

Camping is available on site from Friday for a cost of £10. 

Trophies are up for grabs for all classes including a trophy for the best unkown flight from all the classes.

This competition is being run with IMAC UK and the Scottish Aeromodellers Association.

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