WITHOUT NOTICE

A Notice of our Annual General Meeting was distributed 10 days before the meeting, but the package, including the audited Financial Statements were delivered only 2 days before the meeting.  

At the meeting I read out Section 75 (1) of the Co-operative Corporations Act, which states that 10 days notice of the meeting is required.  Our By-law 3.7 (b) states:

In the case of the Annual Meeting, such notice shall be accompanied by a copy of the financial statement and auditor's report for the previous fiscal year.

This was not convenient to the Property Manager or to the Treasurer of our co-op, so they simultaneously belted out that the CCA took precedence.  The reason why the entire package was not delivered to members 10 days prior to the meeting was to quell any discussion of the Minutes of previous meetings or the three Resolutions being presented.

Ten minute discussions were allotted for each Resolution on the Agenda.  A motion was made to defer the three Resolutions to a future meeting. Members must have succumbed to the Property Manager's rolling of her eyes or her petulant pouting, as this motion did not pass. 

Three minutes each were allotted for the approval of two sets of minutes - more to come in that regard.

The Auditor presented the Financial Statements.  As no one had had time to peruse the statements in that they were distributed two days before the meeting, the Financial Statements were approved without discussion.

Elections then followed.  The member who had been on the Board since 2009 finally stepped down. (According to the Property Manager's re-writing of history, this member had only been on the Board for two years.) Six members were elected to the Board of Directors, two of them previous Directors.