12-03-2014, 01:32 PM
StevieHilton Wrote:First of all I wish the council meeting well on Sunday.
As someone who will not be present at the meeting, I still have a number of questions about matters affecting our association.
The idea of compulsory membership of the association is not an option. I intend to fight such an idea with every breath I have. They tried to introduce this in 1993 and it was soundly defeated then.
I have suggested this time and time again but it keeps getting ignored. I am suggesting that a professional fundraiser be employed on a commission basis by CS. This would allow our officials to concentrate on the work they were elected to do, rather than having to spend their time fundraising, whilst noble in itself, takes vital time from their remits.
I would urge CS and the membership to consider this proposal most urgently, especially now with the disappearance of the Government Grant
I won't be at the council meeting either.
Instead I will be at the Chess For Kicks Qualifier in Airdrie.
SJC have not formally discussed the various proposals. Any suggestion of a considered SJC response is incorrect.
Nor have CS discussed them - that happens on Sunday
And I suspect neither have the junior board discussed them.
SJC will wait for the publication of the minutes of Sunday's meeting
Nothing else that I need to say.