Hi MDOC All

LOC have submitted motion to BO AGM re map scales. Details of issue were explained in recent Compass Sport. Attached are proxy voting forms should you wish to take a view on the debate.

Tony Wagg

> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 09:46:52 +0100
> From: richard.tiley@tiscali.co.uk
> To: s.birkinshaw@zen.co.uk; steved.dempsey@btinternet.com; waggtony@hotmail.com; mccannhg@aol.com; julia@heightec.com; MARTINBAGNESS@aol.com
> Subject: Fw: Proposal at British Orienteering AGM Concerning Map Scales at Level A and B Events
>
> Good morning,
>
> I am sending this mail around all of the North West
> clubs and hope you will be able to forward to all of your members in an
> effort to get people to use their Proxy votes, one way or the other.
>
>
> It will take 5 or 10 minutes to carry out the following instructions to
> vote and I hope people find the time.
>
> Regards Richard
>
> PROXY VOTING
>
>
> May we draw your attention to the Proposal on Map Scales at Level A and
> B Events, which Lakeland OC has submitted to the British Orienteering
> AGM, to be held at Swansea University on 18th April. The AGM Papers
> have recently been circulated by email.
>
>
> This Proposal has been put
> forward in order to delegate to planners and controllers of Level A and
> B events the responsibility for deciding whether specified map
> enlargements are provided to competitors at events on particularly
> complex, intricately contoured terrain.
>
>
> The full Proposal, together
> with the Supporting Statement and responses from the Board and the
> Events and Competitions Committee, is set out in the AGM Booklet. The
> Proposal and Supporting Statement can also be found at http://www.lakeland-orienteering.org.uk/map-scales-agm-proposal
>
>
> If you cannot be present at the AGM, may we encourage you to cast
> your vote by proxy. A Proxy Voting Form and the Proxy Voting
> Instructions are attached to this email. If you wish to support the
> Proposal, we would suggest that you compete Parts A and C of the Form,
> Part A to appoint the Chairman of the Meeting as your Proxy and Part C
> to instruct him how to cast your vote. You may alternatively appoint
> any other member of British Orienteering to be your Proxy, but, if that
> person fails to be present at the AGM, your Proxy Vote will not be
> cast.
>
>
> Proxy Voting Forms must be returned to the British Orienteering
> office by post or by email, to arrive no later than 5pm on Wednesday
> 16th April. If you wish to return the form by email, you have to
> complete it, then scan it and attach it to an email to
> info@britishorienteering.org.uk <mailto:info@britishorienteering.org.
> uk> . The postal address is Company Secretary, British Orienteering, 8a
> Stancliffe House, Whitworth Road, Darley Dale, Matlock, DE4 2HJ.
>
>
>
> Remember that all individual members of British Orienteering, who will
> be at least 18 years old on 31st December 2014, have one vote.
>
>
> If you
> are intending to come to the AGM, please note that the Final Details
> for JK2014 advise, with regard to the AGM, that you do not need to
> bring your BOF membership card. Entrance to the meeting will be against
> a list of members checked at the door.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Richard
> Tiley Dick Towler
>
> Chairman Vice Chairman
> Lakeland
> OC Lakeland OC
>