[Uwh-announce] Change in AGM date (now Wed 27th July) + Positions vacant

[Craig.Proctor at csiro.au]

Hi All,

Following discussions of the TUHA Committee at our meeting last Tuesday:


The TUHA Annual General Meeting has been POSTPONED TO  Wed 27th July.  It was to have been next Wed, but there are quite a few members away at present with the Open Youth & Master Underwater Hockey Tournament in The Netherlands and other things.  As announced earlier, the AGM will be held at 7.50pm at the pool during a break between games (as we did for last year's AGM).

All TUHA Committee positions will be up for election at this AGM.  The positions are as follows:

President

Vice-President

Secretary

Chief Referee

Treasurer

Media Officer

Equipment Officer

Social Director

Development Officer

Junior Development Officer

Newsletter Editor/Webmaster

General Committee #1

General Committee #2



The positions that we know are definitely being 'vacated' (i.e. for which we don't yet have any nominations) are President, Treasurer,  Development Officer, Social Director, and Newsletter/Webmaster.



When I took on the President's role, I said I would do it for 2 years, and that period is now up. I think it is good to have a change in President every 2 years, both for the benefit of the Association (fresh face, fresh ideas) and for the President.  I won't try to pretend that it's not a time consuming role, but I think I have made it appear more work than it actually is.  I am not very good at delegating and many of the things I've done over the past 2yrs in the role could and perhaps should have been delegated to other Committee members. But I've enjoyed it, and I like to think I might be allowed to have another go at it sometime in the future.



Colin Hepher is stepping down as Treasurer after around 16 YEARS! in the job, but he's been a Committee member since the mid-80's!!  To say that TUHA owes Colin a HUGE, HUGE round of THANKS for keeping us financially solvent and healthy for such a long time is a gross understatement. Even though he'll experience severe number-crunching withdrawal symptoms, I'm sure he'll enjoy the break from the book-keeping.



Steve Cleary was Development Officer and was developing nicely until mounting work commitments forced him to step down a few months ago and more recently an ear-drum condition has rudely robbed him of his right to play uwhockey......for the time being.......but we very much hope Steve can return to the sport down the track.



Jason Whelan is standing down as Social Director, and we owe Jason a BIG, BIG THANKS for all the work he has put into that role.  I'm still recovering from several of the great functions he organised, and I say that as a compliment.  Ahhhh, who can forget the pub crawl quiz night of 2009?! I was there, wasn't I? And many of you would be unaware of the large amount of time and effort Jason has put in behind the scenes, with the end-of-pennant functions etc., but also on establishing our good relationship with our host pubs (Prince of Wales and Theatre Royal).



Bruce Ransley is a legend and his newsletters are legendary.  But Bruce has indicated he sees the newsletter as now being redundant, with its role largely taken over by the Association's website.  And it is likely we will be changing the Newsletter position on the Committee into that of just "Webmaster".  Hopefully we can persuade Bruce to write occasional contributions to the website, otherwise his delicious and wicked humour will be very sorely missed.



So, these and the other positions listed are all up for elections on the 27th. This is your chance to join the Committee and help provide an effective, vibrant, dynamic organisational structure for our Association during 2011/2012.  We are particularly keen to see more representation by B and C Grades on the Committee as it has been heavily populated by A Grade members for some time. Bruce and I have been the only non-A Grade members on the Committee for the past 2 years.

During the coming week I'll send out another announcement with a summary of the key duties that fall under each of the Committee roles, although most of them are obvious, but please don't wait till then to start thinking about taking on a position.



Note: We will also be doing the Pennant 1 Winning Teams and Best & Fairest presentations at the AGM.



Craig.

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