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Hi SBW committee,
This complaint deals with the creation of the safety sub-committee in January 2023, which was unconstitutional.
As mentioned in a previous complaint, in an email to the committee on January 30th, Mary Furness said - “A member, Lee Cordner, put up suggestions re the club's safety procedures. When someone questions our safety procedures, I deem it appropriate to follow up quickly. I decided to do some preliminary work to inform our next committee meeting in March. A sub-committee of the committee met on Saturday to discuss Lees (sic) question re safety procedures on walks. I called the sub-committee suddenly as I was in Vincentia that day. The s-c was Julienne McKay, as hybrid coordinator, John Souter as weekend coordinator, Kynie as Wednesday coordinator and me. Kynie could not make the meeting as she was working but I have briefed her by email, and we received her thoughts on the matter.”
Rule 22. Club management, part b (x) states “The powers and duties of the Club committee shall be ... to establish Sub-committees”. It is not the duty or the right of the President. As a result, the ad-hoc sub-committee was unconstitutional. Mary had not read, had not understood, or had chosen to ignore the constitution.
Similarly, John Souter, Kynie Evison and Julienne McKay should have known that the sub-committee was unconstitutional and refused to be on it until it was legitimately formed by the committee. Like Mary, they too had not read, had not understood, or had chosen to ignore the constitution. I think that John, Kynie and Julienne believed that the role of President had much more power than what is actually stated in our constitution, and that they believed (and still believe) that a President can basically do whatever he or she wants in order to achieve their goals.
Section 13 of the SBW constitution says that a complaint may be made against a member of the Club who has refused or neglected to comply with a provision or provisions of the constitution, or who has willfully acted in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the Club. I contend that John Souter, Kynie Evison and Julienne McKay "neglected to comply with a provision or provisions of the constitution" by agreeing to be on a sub-committee formed not by the committee, but by a President who had no constitutional right to do so.
Regards,
Brett
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