{"id":42,"date":"2005-04-21T21:53:41","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=42"},"modified":"2007-10-09T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T11:03:21","slug":"special-general-meeting-21st-april-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Special General Meeting, 21st April 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: Parkway Hotel, Kirkcaldy<\/p>\n<p>Attendance: 35<\/p>\n<p>Proxies: 28<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Opening Remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the absence of George Howie, John Mainland took the chair.<\/p>\n<p>James Proctor ran through the events leading up to this meeting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Summer 04 &#8211; Trust membership reduced to \u00a35 adults, \u00a31 Juniors<\/li>\n<li>Nov 04 &#8211; Members agreed to explore greater community ownership<\/li>\n<li>Dec 04 &#8211; Miller cancelled meeting with trust, McGowan reiterates community bid potential<\/li>\n<li>Jan 05 &#8211; Organised Loan deal with Co-op Bank, Organised campaign launch and business plan<\/li>\n<li>Feb 05 &#8211; Press and Public launch of &#8220;Reclaim the Rovers&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<li>March 05 &#8211; Fundraising started, Launched Loan Fund<\/li>\n<li>April 05 &#8211; Miller announced as new owner<\/li>\n<li>Membership had increased from 170 in Sept 04 to 400 by April 05<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dialogue with current and previous board members had been maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Public profile was rising and important local contacts had been made.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Open Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Short term the trust should keep trying to work with Miller.<\/p>\n<p>A long term strategy should be enacted to plan for any future ownership change.<\/p>\n<p>Trust should continue to accumulate shares and consider proxy votes from others.<\/p>\n<p>Actively promote the Loan Fund for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Actively promote Standing Orders as a simple way for everyone to help.<\/p>\n<p>Set fundraising targets in terms of amounts and specific use of that money.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Closed at 2115 hrs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: Parkway Hotel, Kirkcaldy Attendance: 35 Proxies: 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes-other-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}