CAN's Annual General Meeting

CAN's Annual General Meeting will be held on the Sunday morning of the CAN-Do, 20 March at 12.45pm. All financial members of CAN are cordially invited to attend. If you are not a financial member (or a member of one of CAN's local groups) but want to take part, please join CAN.

The venue will be Waikato Museum, 1 Grantham Street, Hamilton.

The minutes from the 2015 AGM are here

The current version of CAN's rules can be found here

The audited accounts are posted shortly here

Nominations

Nominations are open for the CAN Committee. We need to elect a Chairperson, Secretary, and Treasurer plus 3-5 other members. More information on what being on the committee is all about is available here.

If you would like to make a nomination, please copy the text below and paste it into an email or other document, so you can email or print and post it to us (CAN, PO Box 25-424, Wellington 6146). Email is preferred!

Note: it's fine to nominate yourself!

Nomination form:

- Name & contact details (email, phone, address) of person you are nominating:

- Your name & contact details:

- Has the person you are nominating accepted the nomination? Yes/No

- Short biographical note about the nominee (max. 200 words):

 

- Supplementary information, e.g. why you think this person should be elected to the CAN Committee (max. 200 words):

 

- Is the person you are nominating a current CAN member?  Yes/No

- If no, are they willing to become a member before the AGM?  Yes/No

For example:Billy W (Hamilton)

Nominated by: self-nominated

Background info excerpted from Billy's CV:

• Currently co-ordinates Big Adventures' programme. 
• Has well established relationships with stakeholders in local government, health, education, environmental and social services sectors

Supplementary information:

I am keen to be involved with CAN, on the committee at a national level. I will renew my CAN membership before the AGM.

Existing committee members who are re-standing for election:

Graeme Lindup (Taranaki) and Will Andrews (Nelson):  Co-Chair

Don Babe (Christchurch):  Treasurer

Jo Mackay (Wellington)

Stephen Wood (Central Otago)

Claire Sherrington (Waikato)

Proposed rule change: Rule 1 (Name and Registered Office)

CAN was set up in 1996 with the prime objective of advocating for cycling infrastructure. With Nga Haerenga New Zealand Cycle Trails and the government's Urban Cycleway Programme (UCP), the emphasis is now shifting to playing a major role in encouraging use of these facilities. This means a change in the way CAN presents itself to the wider public. One aspect of this change involves a proposal to re-name CAN to Cycling Action Network.

Rule 1.1 - present text:

"The name of this society shall be "Cycling Advocates' Network Incorporated". In the Rules "CAN" means "Cycling Advocates' Network Incorporated" 

Rule 1.1 - proposed text, establishing a new name for CAN:

"The name of this society shall be "Cycling Action Network Incorporated". In the Rules "CAN" means "Cycling Action Network Incorporated"

Notices of motion

If you would like to propose any Notices of Motion, please email them to secretary@can.org.nz by 1 March 2016 so we can post them up here on the website giving members the required 14 days notice.

There is presently one Notice of Motion, proposed by Will Andrews and seconded by Graeme Lindup:

"That the Rule changes associated with a transition from a Committee elected at large from CAN members, to a Board made up of a combination of designated local group nominees, CAN member representatives and if desired a Chief Executive Officer, be put to a Special General Meeting within six months of the Annual General Meeting."

Can't make it to the AGM?

If you can't make it along to the AGM and would like to send your apologies, or would like to record a vote by proxy on any of the motions proposed, please email secretary@can.org.nz beforehand.