CPSA New Articles of Association - EGM October 2013

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For the attention of any CPSA members on the Pigeon Watch forum:

 

You will be receiving a voting card with your next edition of Pull! magazine. Please could I ask you read it carefully. The proposed new CPSA Articles of Association will remove your right to vote in the election for the Chair of the CPSA Board of Directors and any Independent Directors brought to the Board.

 

Use your voting slip when you get it in your next Pull! magazine. Vote NO to the articles and keep your right to vote.

 

This may be our last chance to stop this loss of rights.

 

Best regards to all and sorry I've posted this plea here, but I care about our future clay shooting.

 

Bob M

[BlaserF3]

I intend to vote against the proposal.

[Guest cookoff013]

thanks

[welshwarrior]

Well highlighted

[Azzurri]

Will do.

[Mr Potter]

They seem to be doing an OK job to me, I'll vote for the status quo.

[Catamong]

Oh....here we go again, a good many of us will remember the "pigeon" versus "target" vote a few years back, this was supposed to be the biggest issue that the CPSA had to face in decades, there were rumours circulating of literally coachloads of disgruntled shooters coming to the AGM to make sure that their vote in favour of "pigeon" was carried, it promised to be a massive showdown..!!

 

Anyway, after every vote was counted, it turned out that out of a total membership of around 23,000 members, (yes, twenty three thousand.. ), only 350 of those total members had even bothered to vote......

 

I would reckon that even fewer members will bother on this occasion, apart from a couple of ZZ shooters in rural Berks, pretty much everybody else simply won't be bothered.

 

And, by the way, I WAS one of the 350.... , but I probably won't be one of the fifty on this one..

 

Cat.

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Oh....here we go again, a good many of us will remember the "pigeon" versus "target" vote a few years back, this was supposed to be the biggest issue that the CPSA had to face in decades, there were rumours circulating of literally coachloads of disgruntled shooters coming to the AGM to make sure that their vote in favour of "pigeon" was carried, it promised to be a massive showdown..!!

 

Anyway, after every vote was counted, it turned out that out of a total membership of around 23,000 members, (yes, twenty three thousand.. ), only 350 of those total members had even bothered to vote......

 

I would reckon that even fewer members will bother on this occasion, apart from a couple of ZZ shooters in rural Berks, pretty much everybody else simply won't be bothered.

 

And, by the way, I WAS one of the 350.... , but I probably won't be one of the fifty on this one..

 

Cat.

 

I guess the nice thing that has been promised is that the proxy votes will be distributed, with a view to get a better proportion of the 23000 members to vote. The unfortunate item, is that the vote supports removing rights such as voting for a Chairman, voting for Independent directors and defaulting proxy votes on the form for the Chairman to use as he/she see fit. I think this is wrong.

 

There are many other items in the Articles which a number of people who have spent many hours talking with the CPSA (including myself in the CEOs office in August)to try and convince them to not take away. That mission was unsuccessful.

 

I have been to the last few AGMs and am a Life member of the CPSA. I referee clay shoots and value the service that a national governing body should be able to deliver to its members.

 

I hope to see a sensible solution with members being listened to and I hope BASC never gets into this situation.

 

Best regards to all,

 

Bob M