AGM - Results (updated)

The FC United Annual General Meeting was held at The Manchester College, Openshaw Campus on Sunday 30th October 2010. The members heard presentations on the club’s current financial position.

The board thanked all those who had contributed to the club’s success in particular all the work undertaken by supporters who had volunteered their services during the year.

FC United would also like to thank all the volunteers who helped out on Sunday and who contributed to the smooth running of the AGM.

Minutes of the meeting will shortly be available on the secure members’ area of the website.

Board Elections

There were five vacancies for the board and the votes cast were as follows:

Pete Burke 61%
Paul Farrell 70%
Chris Hammond 75%
Steve Pagnam 70%
Phil Sheeran 68%
Jules Spencer 74%

Congratulations to new board members Paul Farrell and Chris Hammond.

Commiserations to Pete Burke.

Resolutions

The results of the resolutions are:

Resolution 1 - THAT Tenon, Chartered Accountants, be re-appointed as the auditors of the Club for the period up to the end of the next Annual General Meeting of the Club, and that the Board be and they are hereby authorised to fix their remuneration.

For 97%
Against 2%
Abstain 1%

Resolution 2 - The Club is to hold at least four general meetings a year. One of those general meetings shall be the Annual General Meeting which shall be held within six months of the end of each financial year.

For 8%
Against 90%
Abstain 2%

Resolution 3 - FC United of Manchester should always endeavour to ensure that supporters of visiting sides are offered fair treatment at all games hosted by the club. In particular FC United of Manchester commits itself to ensuring:

- Visiting supporters are given a fair allocation of capacity. This should include - so far as is practically possible - a number of tickets that are both seated and under cover.
- Avoiding unfair practices that deliberately exclude away supporters - such as reduced price offers for individual games that are only available to home supporters.
- Supporters of clubs whose visit may be deemed "more attractive" are not penalised by match price bracketing.
- An adequate number of safety stewards are on duty.
- The kick off time of games is never unilaterally moved in order to gain a perceived competitive advantage and, where the movement of matches is unavoidable, ensuring that the needs of visiting sides and supporters is given a high consideration.

For 93%
Against 5%
Abstain 2%

Rule 29 requires the vote in favour of not less than two-thirds of Members voting at the AGM - therefore Resolution 3 is passed.

Resolution 4 - No member should be elected to the club board without receiving the explicit approval from more than 50% of the members who have cast a vote in the election.

The resolution would be adequately implemented by adding the following new rules into the constitution in the section of the constitution titled "Constitution of the club board".

"New Rule 1 The procedure for electing members to the Club Board should be such that members are presented with a list of prospective candidates and instructed to provide a vote for those candidates whose election to the Club Board the member would approve of.

The candidate with the highest percentage approval of all votes cast shall be the first elected to the Club Board, followed by the candidate with the second highest percentage approval of all votes cast and so on until all vacancies on the Club Board have been filled subject to the conditions set out in *New Rule 2*.

New Rule 2 No candidate for election to the Club Board who achieves an approval percentage of less than 50% in the election shall be elected to the Club Board regardless of whether vacancies on the board remain."

For 16%
Against 81%
Abstain 3%

Resolution 4 is not passed.

Some members may notice that the results above for Resolution 4 have changed from previously reported. There was a genuine error by a volunteer putting the for and against results in the wrong column. We apologise for this mistake and would like to offer the opportunity for any member to scrutinise the voting papers if they so wish.

Resolution 5 - The club should always facilitate the attendance of supporters at away matches through acceptance of a ticket allocation (where applicable). Should the board or club officials have reservations about FC United supporters attending a fixture - be it on grounds of safety or simply a preference that people boycott - then this should be conveyed by way of advice rather than instruction, thus allowing individuals the opportunity to make their own choice on the matter in keeping with the democratic principles of the club.

For 61%
Against 34%
Abstain 5%

Rule 29 requires the vote in favour of not less than two-thirds of Members voting at the AGM - therefore Resolution 5 is not passed.