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Ian Morton
thebleat@actvets.cc

From the Desk of the President

Potential club name change.

A reminder that tomorrow night (Tue 5 Oct @ 8:00pm) is a General Meeting to vote on a motion to change the club’s name. The proposed name is ‘Capital Region Masters Cycling Club’. Please read the information provided below on how you can vote.

Seymour Savell-Boss
ACT Vets Cycling Club President.

Notice of General Meeting 2021

Special resolution: To change the club name to ‘Capital Region Masters Cycling Club‘

75% of ‘for’ votes, including proxies, of members attending the General Meeting are required to pass the resolution.

The ACT Veterans Cycling Club formed in 1993. While the club has developed a great reputation as ‘the Vets‘ in the local cycling community, the name has two down sides. Firstly ‘ACT’ implies the club is restrictive to the ACT. The club has about 260 members of which at least 20 reside outside the ACT. The club also has many of its road racing courses in the NSW region surrounding the ACT. We need to get race approval from local NSW Councils and NSW Police and to have community support. Sometimes our races are seen as an inconvenience to locals with ‘a bunch of cyclists from Canberra taking over our roads’. A change from ‘ACT’ to ‘Capital Region’ will help purvey the club as belonging to the region, not just Canberra.

Secondly the term ‘Veterans’ is generally more associated with military veterans rather than older athletes. The club has been approached a few times under the misapprehension that the club is for military veterans. Using the term ‘Masters’ will be more in line with other sports and is also reflective of other cycling clubs affiliated with the Australian Veterans Cycling Council being referred to as Masters. We anticipate that the club will transition over time to being referred to as ‘the Masters‘ rather than ‘the Vets‘.

The mechanics of changing the club’s name are fairly straight forward and can be implemented over time without requiring a set cutover date for everything. There will be negligible costs involved. Once this resolution is resolved, either for or against, the committee with look at options for club signage and race kit.

While a couple of alternate club names have been proposed, the Committee endorses the name ‘Capital Region Masters Cycling Club‘ and recommends members vote for the change of name.

Topic: ACTVETS CC – General Meeting
Time: Oct 5, 2021 08:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92453421207?pwd=ZW5abVpaYytjWEk3TXUyOEhVeDA1dz09

For members unable to attend, a proxy vote can be sent to the Secretary 24 hours prior to the GM by completing the ‘Form of appointment of proxy’ and email to secretary@actvets.cc. Note A proxy vote may not be given to a person who is not a member of the association.

The form can be downloaded from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JDBWdaSgNequWY2lo3B2Wa0zt-b1mN7d/view?usp=sharing

Russell Marston
Secretary ACT Veterans Cycling Club

RACING THIS WEEK:

No racing this week due to COVID restrictions.