AGM's - good thing or not at your club?

[Canfordhacker]

Went along to ours last week. 7 people at the top table, and 39 attendees out of a membership of 750. Learned very little about what the main committees were doing, little challenge from the floor regarding how the membership were going to benefit from the coming year and seemed to be a ceremonial affair for the outgoing captains to read a report and the new captains to pick up a jacket.

Left a little disappointed and wondering what happens at other clubs. Anybody get good stuff out of theirs?

 

[chris661]

Ocassionaly you learn something but it is mostly, in my exprience, a slap on the back off the old boys on the commitee. Although you do get one or two guys that will ask awkward questions so might learn a bit more

 

[CallawayKid]

It's a chance for members to question the whole committee on any aspect that they like. Usually someone has a grumble about something at the club and it is the perfect stage to bring it up. Unfortunately some people just prefer to moan amongst themselves, maybe they prefer that?!

We invite questions from people that can't make the AGM night as well but most turn up to ask the questions.

CK

 

[chrisd]

AGM's are usually sorted well before the night. Largely they follow a standard format so the chance for members to stir trouble is deliberately limited. Its very easy for a good Chairman to say, in answer to a difficult question, that the committee will look at the subject matter of the question and give the member an answer within a few days/weeks. That, of course, takes the heat out of the matter.


Chris

 

[Fyldewhite]

Wish ours were as straightforward as that! We have a rule that we must get 60 members to hold the meeting at all and have had 150 or so there if there are any controvertial proposals. As a general rule, if things are OK and most members happy then it will pass off without incident. On the other hand, a club near me has just had the whole committee, captain, president, the lot resign because the membership wouldn't back certain proposals being made. That's the other extreme I suppose.

 

[bladeplayer]

GUILTY of not attending AGM's , i agree alot of the stuf is sorted before the event but surely as most stuff has to be voted on if enough people are intrested in asking or changing something then it is possible to create change through it ? am i been to nieve ? I leave them to it been honest , i just wana play golf & enjoy it ,they are welcome to the politics of the club. if you wana change something get other members onside then submit your proposals for the agm, its as much your club as anyone else

 

[Marko77]

Went along to ours last week. 7 people at the top table, and 39 attendees out of a membership of 750. Learned very little about what the main committees were doing, little challenge from the floor regarding how the membership were going to benefit from the coming year and seemed to be a ceremonial affair for the outgoing captains to read a report and the new captains to pick up a jacket.

Left a little disappointed and wondering what happens at other clubs. Anybody get good stuff out of theirs?

Ours is a bit like yours.

Tends to be a tick box exercise for any new Committee members - change of Captain.

Occassionally get some debate but at the end of the day it is mostly wishful thinking as we are a club within a hotel management so at the end of the day have little control outside of our own competitions.

 

[USER1999]

Just an opportunity for some thick as a plank moany old git, who has never had two penny coins to rub together to whinge on about the finance of a million pound business he will never understand. Usually to do with the figure put in for bar wasteage, which is odd, as it is a facility he has never used.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I don't bother with ours. It's the same old faces dredging up the same old points and then moaning for the next 51 weeks when their crackpot idea isn't implemented