Tuesday 7th June 18.45 to 20.45
The Meeting Room, Stephens Scown Solicitors
ECOE is hoping as many of you as possible will be coming along to this ECOE’s second AGM, the first AGM since 200 investors became members following our very successful share offer in October. Flyer available here.
As well as the usual business of the AGM, we want the evening to be as participative as possible. It’s an opportunity for you, the members to share your views in certain key areas that will help to shape ECOE’s future.
• Progress during the last year including Solar PV 1
• Future priorities, projects and overall strategy
• The role of members and community-ownership
• Explore the decision-making process for how the community fund will be spent.
There will also be a networking social element with refreshments.
Election of Directors
The roles and responsibilities of Directors are significant. They require availability at monthly Board meetings, following through on actions between meetings and taking part in working groups, events etc.
The rules of our society (65) states that one third of directors who have served the longest needs to step down every year and can stand for re-election. We currently have 8 directors, a number that we find works well, providing a diverse set of skills that ECOE needs. We intend for the board to stay at this size.
Three directors are standing down
– Peter Bowers, who was co-opted in January to be the finance director. He will be standing for re-election in the same capacity. His work on providing management accounts for ECOE has been invaluable and the board supports his re-election
– Gabriel Wondrausch, a director from the beginning in Jan 2014. He is standing for re-election. Gabriel has been our technical director. He has been well placed in that role with all of his experience with SunGift and the board supports his re-election
– Gill Westcott, a director also from Jan 2014 has decided not to stand for re-election. Thanks Gill for your involvement.
This means there will be one vacancy for a director. We have assessed the strengths and skills of our directors and since Joe Smee left in Sept 2015, the areas of communications (marketing/publicity/community engagement) and the interface of the Arts and community energy could be strengthened. We therefore invite expressions of interest if you have any/all of this skills set. Please email or ring 07806 623311.
Papers for the AGM
The agenda, annual accounts and the annual report are now available.
Voting
Only members will be able to vote and all shareholders are members. A Proxy Form, enabling members who are unable to attend the meeting to cast a vote on any of the business will be sent to those who request one by e-mailing on or before 31st May 2016.
