AGM Report 2005

- By Geoff Cooper Warlord's Minister Propaganda i.e. editor of Dispatches.

Well we had another fun-filled and action-packed AGM. From my limited memory and own personal point of view here goes. Members were asked if they wanted Thursday meetings to continue. Thursday meetings got knocked on the head (just not worth it given the low levels of attendance), We voted on whether we wanted to continue the Sunday meetings. As they were going great guns we voted to keep them going. We may need to raise fees at some point to afford this (or not if we feel like running a small deficit – it’s not like we’re going broke any time soon).

We voted that the club donate $300 to tsunami relief, motion amended that the recipient be the International Red Cross and not some bunch of con-artists with vision in their title. We voted on transferring some funds from the convention account to general account or vice-versa (don’t remember). We voted to spend more money on trestle legs for the wargames tables (a really good idea this – as anyone who has had to hunt for enough school desks the same height to support a 6x4 lump of chipboard will tell you).

And then we had some fun J We voted on whether we should be doing anything about the muffin*. To cries of ‘what I thought it was dead’ Pete explained that it was probably just the usual twitching from the corpse that seemed to happen before every NatCon. The membership voted to continue to shun it as the pointless irrelevance it is/was.

The next piece of fun. The committee chose to seek direction from the membership re: a Natcon bid in 2006/2007 (can’t remember which). The membership were mostly against it but a vocal minority felt we should at least investigate our options. A sub committee was (narrowly) formed to investigate, the membership of said committee being those folks most keen on having it. The idea being that this group will be the nucleus of the committee that runs the damn thing (“If you’re so keen then you run it”). The argument used to justify a bid was an amusing one. Apparently the Warlords aren’t doing their ‘fair share’ of the job of running the nationals (apparently helping out the Hutt didn’t count owing to how crap their Natcon was felt to be in some people’s eyes). I find it funny that we’ve gone from ‘The Warlords are evil so don’t let them run Natcon’ to a position of ‘The Warlords are evil cos they don’t do their fair share of the running of Natcon’. Pah. You can’t win with some people.

Anyways that was the AGM that was.