Board Elections

The meeting started with a motion to invalidate the GA, since invitations were sent late and the membership records were not up to date. The board concluded that the turnout at the GA showed that sufficient people were aware of the meeting and the motion was rejected.

Following this the board candidates were able to present themselves to the assembly. Three of the candidates were not present and their texts were read out for the assembled GA. The other candidates gave a short presentation and answered a round of questions from the audience. The results of the board elections were that Luc Boon, Floor Drost and Wiel Maessen were appointed as directors until the end of 2014, where they will reinforce the current board members: Henk Heslinga, Steven Russchenberg, Harmke Lubbers and Bob Sikkema.

Discussions

After the board elections followed discussion of motions and requests. Among the discussions:

• Arthur Govers made a plea to participate in the provincial elections. The opinion of the members was that it’s a good idea, as long as the initiative comes from the local parties themselves. The national party will in principle support such ambitions, but not initiate them.
• Jelle de Graaf shared the experiences of the management committee for Amsterdam West, which got a lot of interest from the audience.

  

  Jelle de Graaf
  CC BY-SA Raymond van Vugt

• Raymond van Vugt had an extensive collection of written proposals that would modify the statutes and the rules of the party. However, the assembly was running out of time and it was decided to wait until 1st of September 2014 for a report on these proposals.

The complete minutes in Dutch (thanks to mr. Hontelé)

Featured image: Pirate Times CC BY-SA composite from images byPepijntje and PPNL

Post edited 18 July 2014 – Misspelled name corrected