CONSTITUTION
OF FARRINGTON GOLF CLUB
SENIORS SECTION
1. In this Constitution, the terms “Farrington Golf
Club Seniors Section”, and "Section" refer to the section consisting
of the Senior Members of Farrington Golf Club. Senior members of Farrington Golf Club are
male members of the Club who are aged 55 years or more.
PURPOSES OF THE CONSTITUTION
AND THE SENIORS SECTION COMMITTEE
2. The Governing Constitution of Farrington Golf
Club, of which this Constitution is an Annex, lays down the authorative
framework under which the various Section Constitutions of Farrington Golf
Club shall operate. The purpose of this Section Constitution is to set out the framework within which the Farrington Golf Club Seniors
Section shall operate.
3. The purposes of the Farrington
Golf Club Seniors Section Committee are:
·to use its best endeavours to ensure that the Section achieves the highest
possible standards of quality and service to all Senior members and their
guests;
·to represent the interests of all Senior members in
the running of the Section and of Farrington Golf Club;
·to use its best endeavours to support the Farrington Golf Club General Committee
on matters regarding members’ behaviour and etiquette;
·to further the interests of golf and to sustain affiliation with the EGU
and Somerset Golf Union.
STRUCTURE
AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE SENIORS SECTION COMMITTEE
4. The Farrington
Golf Club Seniors Section Committee shall consist of the following elected
Officers:
The Senior's Captain
Competition Secretary
Treasurer
Senior’s Secretary
In addition there shall be two "Additional
Committee Members".
5. The Senior’s Captain will chair the Seniors Section
Committee. In his absence the Captain Elect will chair the Seniors committee.
The Chair of the Committee will have a casting vote. There shall be at least
4 elected Officers or Additional Committee Members present to constitute a
quorum.
RELATIONSHIP OF THE SENIORS SECTION COMMITTEE WITH THE
FGC GENERAL COMMITTEE
6. Within Farrington
Golf Club, the separate Section Committees shall administer and
control all affairs within their respective sections in accordance with their
own Section Constitutions. The General Committee shall be called upon to make
decisions on issues beyond or outside the Section Constitutions and to provide
advice and guidance to Section Committees on matters affecting more than one
Section. In the event of any dispute within one or more Sections of the Club,
the decision of the FGC General Committee elected Officers,
as representatives of the whole membership, shall be final.
7. The representative
of the Seniors Section on the General Committee shall be the Senior’s Captain
and the Senior's Captain Elect.
8. Any proposed
changes to this Section Constitution shall be formally advised to the General
Committee.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
9. An Annual General
Meeting (AGM) of the Seniors Section of Farrington Golf Club shall take place
in October each year and before the Annual General Meeting of Farrington Golf
Club. The purpose of the Seniors Section AGM is to:
Receive reports from the Committee on the operation of
the Section
10. Any proposed
changes to the Section Constitution must be lodged in writing with the Seniors
Section Committee at least twenty-eight days before the Seniors Section AGM.
Any motions for decision must be lodged with the Seniors Section Committee
at least twenty-eight days before
the Seniors Section AGM. The Seniors
Section Committee shall circulate copies of such proposals or motions to all
Senior members at least fourteen days before the date of the Annual General
Meeting. In the event of a motion or proposed change to the Constitution being
voted on at an AGM, a majority vote will carry the decision.
11. At an AGM there
must be at least twenty Senior members present to constitute a quorum.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
12.
All Senior members wishing to be elected as Officers or Additional Committee
Members of the Seniors Section Committee shall be required to be proposed
and seconded by different Senior members. Only Senior members present at the
AGM shall be entitled to vote.
13. The election of officers shall be carried out on
a post by post basis in the order that the posts are set out in paragraph
4 of this Section Constitution. In the event of more than one nomination for
any single post, there shall be a secret ballot. The election of Additional
Committee Members shall be carried out in one round. In the event of more
than two nominations for Additional Committee Member posts there shall be
a secret ballot with Senior Members attending
the AGM casting a maximum of two votes each.
14. The retiring Senior's Captain
is eligible to be nominated for another post provided be has not served on
the Committee for three or more consecutive years at the time be stands down. He will still be required to seek re-election
to the Committee if he is nominated for any post.
OFFICERS AND ADDITIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS PERIOD OF OFFICE
15. The term of office of all Officers and Additional
Committee Member shall be one year running from AGM to AGM and re-election
shall be sought for all posts on the Committee.
16. Officers and
Additional Committee Members may serve a maximum of three consecutive years
in any combination of posts with the exception of the post of Senior Captain.
An Additional Committee Member may serve beyond the three years maximum
provided the additional year is served in either the Senior Captain or Captain
Elect posts. In all cases the Annual General Meeting shall elect the Senior
Captain and Captain Elect.
17. In the event
that an Officer or Additional Committee Member is unable to serve the full
term of office, the Seniors Section Committee may co-opt a replacement member
to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the current year.
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETINGS
18.
An extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) may be
called by the Seniors Section Committee at
any time provided they give all members at
least twenty-eight days notice of
the meeting. Senior
Members may require the Seniors Section Committee to call an EGM either to consider a proposal from outside the Committee or to change the Seniors
Section Constitution between Annual General Meetings. The Seniors Section
Committee shall only be obliged to call an Extraordinary General Meeting if
a full written explanation of any proposal is submitted to them in which a
motion is proposed by a Senior
member of Farrington Golf Club and counter signed by at least ten other Senior
members. The Seniors Section Committee
shall give all Senior members full details of the proposal or change to the
Seniors Section Constitution at the time notice is given of the EGM. In the
event of a motion or proposed change to the Constitution being voted on at an EGM a majority
vote will carry the decision.
19. At an EGM there
must beat least twenty Senior members present to constitute a quorum.
20. The Seniors Section shall operate a separate bank
account to manage the funds of the Section.
Authorised signatories for the account shall comprise any two officers
from the following:
Treasurer
Senior’s
Secretary
Senior's
Captain