How is our Management Committee made up?
Making sure that our Committee represents everybody involved in the Company.
We have changed Rule 8 in our Company Rules . This rule says who can become a member of the Consortium.
Consortium Members are people who have paid a £1 to become a Consortium Member, they recieve a Share certificate and can vote at General Meetings.
The Consortium is a non-profit making company, so our Members do not get any money or dividends from their shares.
Over the last 4 years we have actively widened the range of people who are encouraged and supported to become Consortium members. As a result of this we now have more members than any other time.
The Consortium has 128 members, of these;
30 are tenants supported by the Consortium
16 are relatives of tenants
26 are members of the public or representatives of professional agencies
56 are staff of the Consortium who have decided to become members of the Consortium.
We have revised Rule 8 so that when people join the Consortium they are put into one of these 4 groups, this will help us to strengthen the way we elect members to be on our committee.
How will the Committee be made up?
We have also changed Rule 33 this change reduces the maximum number of people on the Committee from 18 to 12.
The Consortium has never had 18 people in its committee; the Committee feel that this number would be too big for it to work effectively.
We have also changed Rule 36. This rule describes how the Committee is made up.
Now we have more members with different groups of interests we want to make sure that the Committee is able to represent all of these interests, however we don’t want the Committee to ever get controlled by one of them.
We want to make sure that the Committee is made up in a certain way.
It should be made up of:
Up to 2 tenants
Up to 2 relatives
Up to 2 staff members
Up to 6 members of the public and other agencies.
We believe that this balance is important;
The groups with an interest in the Consortium; tenants, relatives and staff will always be supported to have their say.
However people independent of the Consortium will always be present in enough numbers so that the Consortium has people overseeing it who have independent skills and experience.
