CAcert Inc. Special General Meeting 2011-04-03

A Special General Meeting, has been requested during 2011-02-27 Annual General Meeting by the membership and has been called by Secretary Mario Lipinski. Call.

The meeting will be held the Sunday 3rd of April 20:00 UTC in the IRC channel #SGM on the irc.cacert.org IRC server. Procedures should be followed, check there for more help. To help, please be there very early so we can get people voiced up.

The meeting is public, everyone is allowed to attend. The SGM will be moderated, only association members will be voiced.

Please make sure your fees are paid up.

Call

Dear members,

during 2011-02-27 Annual General Meeting the membership has requested a Special General Meeting. Therefore the committee of CAcert Inc. has, in accordance with Part 4, rule 26 of the associations rules called a Special General Meeting of CAcert Inc. for Sunday, April 3rd 2011 at 20:00 UTC to take place in the IRC channel #sgm on irc.cacert.org [1].

Proxys have to be notified to secreatary@cacert.org before 2011-04-02 20:00 UTC in signed mail. Early votes can be sent to secretary@cacert.org until 2011-04-03 19:00 UTC in signed mail.

No additional businesses to the first notification have been proposed. The final agenda is as follows:

By Special Resolution it is resolved that:

  1. The elected board will submit to the Office of Fair Trading the required forms and free to register the CAcert Incorporated as "CAcert Co-operative Limited" within 2 weeks of the books being audited.
    (From AF9A http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/About_us/Forms/Cooperatives_forms.html )

  2. All CAcert Incorporated Members at the time of form lodgement will become CAcert Cooperative members
  3. The Co-operative will be non-trading and not have share value.
  4. The elected board find a financial Auditor and audit the books of CAcert within 6 weeks.

  5. Rules
    Attached is the Schedule that will be used in conjuction with the model rules for a non-trading non-share model rules that will form the rules of the co-operative.
    (ref: http://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/pdfs/Cooperatives_and_associations/cooperatives/ntnscore.pdf)

refering to https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-members/2010-09/msg00022.html

Feel free to use the cacert-members@lists.cacert.org mailing list by copying mails there or the wiki page http://wiki.cacert.org/SGM/Next for coordination with others members.

Please also ensure that your membership dues are current, as you may not be entitled to vote otherwise. You are currently paid up until 2016-06-30 (*).

(*) Especially if you paid via bank transfer your payment might not have been processed yet. In this case or you feel anything is wrong regarding your payment contact secretary@cacert.org so this can be sorted out in time.

[1] https://community.cacert.org/board/motions.php?motion=m20110306.2

Mario Lipinski CAcert Inc. Secretary

Special General Meeting 2011-04-03 Discussion

This is the discussion page for the next SGM on 2011-04-03. The meeting will take place in the channel #sgm on the irc.cacert.org network. This page is used to refer to discussions happening around the proposed business.

Ordinary Resolutions

A member may propose a resolution in a general meeting. Members must be notified 14 days in advance of the motions, in a call for a general meeting.

The following (ordinary) resolutions will be / have been received by the Secretary:

Item

Title on Agenda

Call Mail

Discussion Page

from agenda

words

link to member's request

link to wiki

Special Resolutions -- Rule Changes

A member may propose a change to the rules, to be voted as a special resolution in a general meeting. Members must be notified 21 days in advance of the motions, in a call for a general meeting.

The following special resolutions will be / have been received by the Secretary:

Item

Title on Agenda

Call Mail

Discussion Page

from agenda

words

link to member's request

link to wiki

Transfer to Co-operative Limited

https://lists.cacert.org/wws/arc/cacert-members/2010-09/msg00022.html

/!\ NOTE: /!\

There is a difficulty in proposing special resolutions for this and future upcoming GMs.

Because the Associations Act 2009 is now in effect, the current set of rules are deemed by OFT to be in compliance with the Act. So we need do nothing right now.

However, any attempt to submit new rules will be rejected unless the new rules are in fact in compliance with the Act.

Administration

For the Secretary?

Log

Minutes of SGM 2011-04-03

0. Pre-Meeting

0.1 Call for Special General Meeting 2011-04-03

0.2 Agenda

0.3 Administration

Voting. VoteBot was approved by the previous committee for use in the past GM's eg. m20090701.1 and the current committee saw fit not to change it. VoteBot was improved by Philipp Dunkel for this session, removing some of the difficulties seen in previous GM's.

Typographical Notes. All times are UTC. Minutes prepared by Dirk Astrath, enhanced by Ulrich Schroeter. Source material was the IRC log (times in irc log are CEST local time (-2 hour for UTC times)) recorded by Ulrich Schroeter.

1. Meeting Administration

The SGM was held on 2011-04-03 via IRC.

Opened and chaired by the president Lambert Hofstra at 20:07 UTC

1.1 Identification of members with voting rights

Mario Lipinski "voiced" the members that were entitled to vote.

1.2 Business

Agenda presented:

2. Special Resolutions

2.1 Special Resolution: Transfer to a non-trading Cooperative NSW (by Daniel Black)

3. Meeting closure

Chair closed SGM at 20:39 UTC

4. Motions within SGM

SGM/SGM20110403 (last edited 2011-11-28 02:21:24 by UlrichSchroeter)