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Mercury Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #1

Mercury
See article here: clicky

So, I may elaborate on the story later, but let me give you executive summary…

Over the years, I have moaned to many that that our "Member Elected" Board position had become a farce. The Board would put up an ex-player and we, the members, would fold because we knew that challenging a champion ex-player was, at best, tilting at windmills.

Last year, I nominated for the member-elected board position. As soon as I did so, the Club tried to talk me out of nominating. In a nutshell, their argument was, “You won’t win against Peter Bell” and “The election process will cost the Club $30,000”.

I nominated anyway. I explained that this Board-nominated ex-player strategy could not continue unchallenged.

On the cusp of the election, a member of the Board rang me - no, I won’t say who - and asked me to withdraw. The Board member said that if I stood against Peter Bell, knowing that I was likely to lose, they would think less of me for doing so. This was a member of the Board saying they didn’t want to work with me.

I wrote to Steve Rosich and formally retracted my nomination. But I pulled out of the election on the proviso that the Board stopped nominating ex-players to the Member Elected Board Position. I said that I wanted it in writing, and got that in an email from Steve Rosich - they recognised that this wasn't right and would take action to correct this. To the Club’s credit, they have been working on this over the past twelve months and come up with a better arrangement.

Will it work? I don’t know. It may need some further tweaking, but I believe that the Club has accepted the criticism and put in place a fairer process.

There are a few people on Docklerland who know this story and more of the details I have left out. If you are one of those, please don’t expand. Let us allow the Club to take the first steps to improve their processes.
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Morgan Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #2

Morgan
Even though the Member-Elected Boad positions feel a little token, I consider them important, and watching them devolve into a ‘jobs for the boys’ arrangement was pretty disheartening.

I’m glad that, eventually, the club could recognise that. Good stuff pointing them in the right direction Merc.
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pollyanna Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #3

pollyanna
Good, now we can elect Allison onto our Bored - finally.
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Yossarian Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #4

Yossarian
I'm sticking with Lemon
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gidgegary Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #5

gidgegary
Kudos to you Merc. I was a nominee years back when they got 14 nominations, it was clear then that they wanted no repeat of that and ever since it has been engineered so that Allan, Bell and Mann are the only candidates. I hope it's a genuine change of heart because jobs for the boys is part of the rot that sets in at board level.
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jimb2 Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #6

jimb2
Surely they could work out a cheaper way to vote?
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Mercury Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #7

Mercury
Actually, the Club Secretary told me that it would cost between $30 and $40 thousand. Others later said about $30K.
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shane Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #8

shane
The thing about that is that it's cents per membership and each membership, of hundreds of dollars, is sold with the inclusion of voting rights.

So while it sounds a lot, it's actually a teeny, tiny cost that you paid for with your membership.
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DS Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #9

DS
I’m not a big fan of democracy. Democracy throws up things like Trump and Brexit. But in this instance, it is essential to prevent the occurrence of “group think” on the Board. A genuine outsider who thinks differently to other Board members makes sure all possibilities have been canvassed before a decision is made. I’m not talking about a maverick who is just there to stir, but someone who will throw the occasional left-field point of view into the debate just to make people stop and think.
I doubt you will get that any time there is a job for the boys type situation, but you might with a genuine member representative.
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Bizkit Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #10

Bizkit
The member elected board position has long been a farce and resulted in the members having no say whatsoever on the direction of the club. Many on DL and privately have discussed this and the resulting problems it has caused the club.

I know how hard Merc has worked on this and the toll it took on him so i'd like to thank him wholeheartedly for his efforts in fighting for the clubs 50 thousand members.

Hopefully the members receive an actual ballot and vote next year and someone other than a past player hand chosen by the Steve's gets the gig.
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blockerhall Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #11

blockerhall
An extraordinary tale thus far, Hg. Kudos to you for fighting the good fight. I think it fair to reinforce that professional organisations shouldn't actually engage like this. You would get my vote until the sun grew dim.
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jimb2 Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #12

jimb2
$30-40 K / 50K members is more like a dollar. That's ok, I'm just wondering if an online system could be cheaper and still satisfy clean and open voting standards.

One problem in this situation is, I guess, that relatively few members actually vote so ti wouldn't take much to ramp a candidate in. Another problem is that members of boards are have various legal responsibilities and liabilities, it's not just a matter attending and having opinions on things. Maybe they could have a system with couple of member reps who attend meetings and give a member focused opinions without actually being voting board members?
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shane Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #13

shane
They already use an online system. It's just been a while since they had to do it.

The point is that you pay for a right to vote. The price of it is irrelevant.

If money is tight, and I've not seen any sign of that in Rosich's spending habits, maybe they should focus on managing the list so they don't have to pay out so many contracts; or get Ross Lyon to cover his own sexual embarrassment complaint payouts.
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blockerhall Member Elected Board Position 5 years 5 months ago #14

blockerhall
So, paraphrasing the new proposed system, one vote every 3 years- saves $60k plus, and way less hassle for FFC. WAFC sees a saving. Constitution changed. Tick. Members ignored. Tick.

"...if there is one standout candidate often the nominations generally drop away and the person is elected unopposed..."

Seriously? After the circumstances surrounding Hg they want to try that on? Indeed. Ex-players with suitable skills, accumen and passion should be brought onto the board outside the ME directorships. Full-stop.

And this.

"...This enables suitably qualified candidates for a member-elected director to seek one of two positions every three years as opposed to one position every alternate year, which, based on the feedback the club has received, is more attractive to prospective candidates..."

Steve-speak for- we spoke to some mates and other ex-players, and we're good to go!

I think we know the 'feedback process' pretty well by now.

Hg do you have an opinion on 2 x 3 years terms run concurrently? This isn't quite how it is done in the real world, where companies also bear the cost of directors retiring by rotation, and coming up for re-election, you know, at AGM's.
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