Venue: Raith Suite, Starks Park, Kirkcaldy<\/p>\n
Board Members Present: George Howie, James Proctor , Collas Pilmer, Chris McFarlane, John Mainland, Alan Russell
\nApologies (Board Members): Eddie Doig, Neil Langtree, Tom Phillips<\/p>\n
Members Present: 17<\/p>\n
<\/br> 14 members sent proxies to the chair, 3 members gave proxies to other people who attended on their behalf and 2 members sent apologies.<\/p>\n <\/br> Tom Phillips and Neil Langtree were unanimously re-elected to the Board.<\/p>\n <\/br> Explained that the 9 month set of accounts presented were to bring us up to our year end of 31 December 2003.<\/p>\n Accounts were passed unanimously<\/p>\n <\/br> McKenzie & Co had been willing to do the job for a smaller fee than previous auditors.<\/p>\n Proposal to retain McKenzie & Co passed unanimously<\/p>\n <\/br> Ground had been sold and club ownership had changed hands<\/p>\n Work on Sub committee was ongoing<\/p>\n Jim Macnamara had volunteered to act as a fans rep<\/p>\n A joint committee was working on issues for League Cup 10th anniversary celebrations<\/p>\n Meeting suspended to allow discussion with George Gemmill, Paquito and John Drysdale about the Youth Development plans<\/p>\n <\/br> Advised to give payment options and flexibility on any membership form<\/p>\n Proposal 1: Carried with 1 Against and 3 Abstentions<\/p>\n Proposal 2: Carried with 5 Against and 4 Abstentions<\/p>\n Proposal 3: Carried unanimously<\/p>\n Proposal 4: Carried with 11 Against and 1 Abstention<\/p>\n Work will begin immediately to carry out these proposals in time for the early part of the new season.<\/p>\n <\/br> Advised that any share purchase should result in the Youth Development “benefiting to the full amount”<\/p>\n Initial vote to buy shares carried unanimously<\/p>\n Straight vote was taken between Proposal 5 and Proposal 6.<\/p>\n Proposal 5: 5 votes<\/p>\n Proposal 6: Carried by majority<\/p>\n Meeting was advised by John Drysdale in his capacity as Community and Commercial Manager that accounts of the Youth Development scheme would be available for inspection by the Trust Board.<\/p>\n <\/br> Proposal 7: Carried Unanimously<\/p>\n <\/br> Business Plan for the club had been given an overhaul and there are now five year projections available with variance for expected, best & worst case scenarios.<\/p>\n A 5-a-side tournament was being planned around football’s Anti-Racism week in October.<\/p>\n Mike Melville indicated a willingness to get involved with organising a consultation event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Venue: Raith Suite, Starks Park, Kirkcaldy Board Members Present: George Howie, James Proctor , Collas Pilmer, Chris McFarlane, John Mainland, Alan Russell Apologies (Board Members): Eddie Doig, Neil Langtree, Tom Phillips Members Present: 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minutes-agms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nApologies<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nResults of Election of Trust Board<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFinancial Results<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAppointment of Auditors<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nReview of the Season<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMembership fees of the Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTrust’s share rights<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAltering Date of Year End<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFuture Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n