{"id":2015,"date":"2023-05-12T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:43:53","slug":"annual-general-meeting-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/annual-general-meeting-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual General Meeting 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AGM took place on 11th May.&nbsp; Office bearers were elected along with council members.&nbsp; See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/whos-who\/\">Who\u2019s Who page<\/a>.   Two motions were discussed at length and members voted on these.&nbsp;<br>The first was to reduce the frequency of meetings on a Thursday morning.&nbsp; Members voted to keep the weekly meetings, to meet for fellowship, to enjoy each other&#8217;s company, discussion and tea, coffee and biscuits.  Planned activities and talks will be less frequent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second motion was regarding the qualification for membership in Rule 3.1 of the Society&#8217;s Rule Book.\u00a0 There was strong and passionate discussion on this and when the vote was taken, the motion to change the qualification for membership to &#8220;<strong>Must be interested in Scotland and Scottish life and activities<\/strong>\u201d was passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously a member had to be born in Scotland or be of Scottish Descent (ie have a parent or a grandparent born in Scotland) or be married to a \u2018Qualified\u2019 member or be the widow or widower of a deceased member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>posted 12\/5\/23<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AGM took place on 11th May.&nbsp; Office bearers were elected along with council members.&nbsp; See Who\u2019s Who page. Two motions were discussed at length and members voted on these.&nbsp;The first was to reduce the frequency of meetings on a Thursday morning.&nbsp; Members voted to keep the weekly meetings, to meet for fellowship, to enjoy\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/annual-general-meeting-2023\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bournemouthcaledonian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}