BA AGM on Zoom - 4th Nov

From the BA

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Reminder: Notice of the 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Barbican Associaion

Wednesday 4 November


Please click here (or see text below) to find the notice of the 2020 AGM - on 4 November at 7pm, on Zoom

Jane Smith
Chair, Barbican Association
chairBA@btinternet.com

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Notice of BA AGM 4 November 2020 

Dear Barbican Association member Please find this Notice of the 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Barbican Association Date: 4 November 2020 Time: 7pm Venue: Zoom call 

The invitation to the meeting on Zoom will be sent nearer the time of the meeting to members of the BA on the email we have for you. 

If you are aware of other members who do not receive this email please ask them to contact the membership secretary Jim Davies 101 Mountjoy House membership@barbicanassociation.co.uk and provide a contact email.  Applications to join should also be sent to membership@barbicanassociation.co.uk 

If you are aware of members who do not have access to a device (computer, tablet or smartphone) and would like to attend the AGM please contact the membership secretary to discuss options. 

Agenda 

• Update on the BA’s work during the year 
• Questions from Members 
• Treasurer’s report 
• Election of: Treasurer, 9 General Council members, honorary auditor 
• Motions to amend the constitution 
• Any other business 

Please send details of any issues you would like discussed at the AGM to Jane Smith by 28 October (chairBA@btinternet.com). 

The main decision-making body of the Association is the BA General Council, which consists of nine members and the honorary treasurer, elected at the AGM, along with representatives of affiliated house groups.  At the AGM existing council members stand down, and if there are more than nine candidates for election, a ballot is held at the meeting and the results declared. Both the honorary treasurer and auditor are elected at the AGM. Other officers are appointed by the members of the general council at its first meeting following the AGM. 

Nominations for election to one of the 9 elected positions on the BA General Council should be sent to the honorary secretary Christopher Makin, 21 Speed House (chairspeedhouse@outlook.com), no later than 2 November. The nomination must contain all the following information: -Name and Barbican address, email address and phone number of the candidate and a declaration that they are a member of the BA, signed -Name and Barbican address, and email address of a proposer and seconder and a declaration that they are members of the BA, signed Emailed nominations without signatures will be accepted but they must be sent by the candidate and copied to the proposer and seconder. Notification of representatives of affiliated house groups should reach the honorary secretary by 2 November.