2012 Annual General Meeting (updated Sep 18)

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2012 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 

 

Date: Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Merivale High School – 1755 Merivale Road, Ottawa, Ontario
Room: the Cafetorium

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held to elect the new directors to the Board of Directors (BOD) and to vote on any motions brought forward by the BOD or the general membership.

All members of the Association are invited to attend the AGM. In our bylaws, OCUA identifies players as members rather than teams, and therefore, anyone who has an active Leaguerunner account can participate in the meeting and vote.

There will also be a brief presentation from the Board of Directors.

A few details about member motions and proxies are below. If you have any questions, you are welcome to e-mail Jeremy Gaudet, Chair of the Nominations Committee at nominations@ocua.ca.

1. Submitting proposals/member motions for the Annual General Meeting
Members may submit, to the Board of Directors, proposals/member motions. These proposals should be sent to Jeremy Gaudet, Chair of the Nominations Committee at nominations@ocua.ca.

Each proposal must contain:

A full description of the motion;
Reason(s) to put it to the membership; and
Arguments for the proposal.

The BOD shall send an e-mail to the member confirming receipt of the proposal(s).

The BOD has the discretion to accept or reject member motions. It may also amend or reject any member motion that it has accepted, if in its judgment, such an amendment or rejection is appropriate in light of any event occurring between the acceptance of the member motion and the Annual General Meeting. Such events may include, but are not limited to, BOD action on the member motion or the submission of an overlapping member motion.

2. Cutoff for proposals/member motions

Friday, September 7th, 2012 at 5:00 P.M. EDT

In order for member motions to be included on the 2012 Proxy document, they must be submitted by September 7th, 2012 at 5:00 P.M. (for approval). Member motions submitted after that date may be raised at the AGM but will not be included on the proxy document; however, voters that appoint a proxy will have the option of providing their proxy with the discretion to vote on any late member motion not included on the form, if they so choose. A refusal to grant such discretion will result in the proxy holder being unable to vote on those late motions at the AGM.

3. Release of proxy documents

Monday, September 10th, 2012

The release of the proxy document at this time will provide sufficient time for members to find proxies and to submit their forms to OCUA. It should be noted that members may attempt to line up proxies even before the proxy documents themselves are released.

Members wishing to proxy their vote are required to adhere to this process:

a. Contact the person you wish to proxy your vote to, in order to ensure that they will be at the meeting so that they may vote in your place.
b. After confirming that your proxies will be present and are willing to act on your behalf, complete the proxy form (see below). Present the form to your proxy so that she or he may present it at the Annual General Meeting.
c. Inform those individuals of any specific way that you wish for them to vote on an issue to be presented to the AGM, if applicable.

Individuals shall be allowed to hold and vote a maximum of six votes at the AGM, inclusive of votes they hold as a member of the Association, and votes they hold as a proxy.

Members under 16 years of age may not hold proxies; however they can collect and transfer proxies to their parent or guardian.

To help streamline voting for members of the board (which is a ballot election, rather than show of hands for motions) members with proxies are invited to contact Jeremy Gaudet, Chair of the Nominations Committee at nominations@ocua.ca. This is not necessary, but will prevent the need for the proxy to line up multiple times (in the case that their last names are not close in the alphabetical list).

4. Release of 2012 Annual General Meeting Agenda

Monday, September 17th, 2012

5. 2012 OCUA Annual General Meeting

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 at 7:00 P.M. EDT

6. Quorum requirement for AGM

As of September 12th, 2012 there were 3,851 members eligible to vote. Therefore, quorum for the AGM shall be 80 members attending in person or by proxy.

7. 2012 Election of Directors for the Board

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

The election of Directors will take place at the AGM as outlined in this posting:
http://www.ocua.ca/node/6950

Please note that voting by e-mail or other electronic means is NOT permitted.

Approved by: Stephan Suys, Elections Officer