Annual General Meeting of the BAA

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The meeting was held at 5 Southampton St on Thursday 19 June 2008. The chairman opened the meeting at 2:00.

1. Minutes of the 2007 AGM (as published in Vector and distributed to those attending) were approved nem. con. – proposed S.J. Taylor sec. A.J. Camacho.

2. The Chairman (Paul Grosvenor) reported that the committee had had to deal with the changes made by the BCS and had proposed a resolution, that we should separate from the BCS, which had been (as just announced) overwhelmingly supported by members. Now we have to carry out the work we resolved to do.

3. The treasurer (Nicholas Small) circulated summary accounts and explained some of the details. He reported that we have 290 individual members, though the BCS has failed to charge some of them for current membership. The accounts and membership report were accepted nem. con. – prop. Anthony Camacho, sec. Jane Sullivan.

4. The chairman proposed that the 2007-8 committee should be re-elected for 2008-9 and this was agreed nem. con. – prop. Richard Nabavi sec. Chris Hogan. The committee for 2008-9 is therefore:

   Chairman
   Paul Grosvenor

   Secretary
   Anthony Camacho

   Treasurer
   Nicholas Small

   Vector editor
   Stephen Taylor

   Activities
   Ray Cannon

   Education
   Alan Mayer

   Projects
   Ian Clark

5. Chris Hogan agreed to be proposed and was appointed auditor.

6. Richard Nabavi said that the regulations would need more changes than had been made by the resolution. The chairman asked him to make a suggested draft. Anthony Camacho offered to help.

7. Questions were then invited from the floor and three were asked:

   • What is happening to the BAA funds held by BCS? Paul responded that the BAA would be making all efforts to recover any funds from BCS over the coming days but for the purposes of budgeting and running the association the committee was assuming a starting point of £0.

   • The regulations state that the EGM should be held in May (item 9a). Paul agreed that this was the normal position however in the light of the EGM requiring 4 weeks’ notice it had been decided to slip proceedings by 1 month to allow due process.

   • Would the BAA be holding a conference as previously planned? Paul responded that in principle, yes, but this would depend upon the finances of the group over the coming months. It may be that a somewhat simpler format may need to be considered but this would be reviewed nearer the time.

8. As, now we are finally separated from the BCS, the association will again become a partnership with the committee as partners, Anthony Camacho said that there is a company (APL Projects Ltd), that was formed in 1987 and has never traded, that could be available for the association to use when it wished to undertake some activity for which a limited liability is required.

The meeting was closed at 14:19.