Re: [Fsfe-uk] AFFS

[John¹]

On Sunday 01 March 2009 10:45:01 Adam Bower wrote:
> Is it more practical to wind up AFFS and then restart with a new
> organisation that has similar aims but a much more simple constitution
> and rules or try to reboot AFFS and drastically change the constitution
> which has proven to have effectively crippled it and caused it to drift
> into the state that it is now in?

That surely would have to be a decision of the current paid up members 
which brings the matter back to that of the quorum, does it not? Or were 
you suggesting that with a bank account containing money that belongs to 
the Association, that others who are not members of it, wind it up and 
dispose of the money. 

Was it the constitution, "which has proven to have effectively crippled it 
and caused it to drift into the state that it is now in?", or was it those 
administering the constitution, in taking the decision to do away with 
hundreds of members, effectively leaving the Association in a position 
where it might be thought by some that it can no longer exercise control 
over its own monies. I keep coming back to the question of the money, as 
it seems to me that someone has isolated it, from the members and former 
members, and we as yet have no statement of how much there is, or should 
be! 

I am afraid that this brings us back to the question of who it was that 
decided to remove the members from the Association,and leave it and its 
bank account and its contents in place. And what was the intention of that 
action?

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John Seago
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