{"id":2582,"date":"2015-11-26T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2015-11-26T11:36:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:06:49","slug":"mile-zero-ultimate-annual-general-meeting-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"Mile Zero Ultimate Annual General Meeting Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mile Zero Ultimate Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday evening at The Elk&#8217;s Lodge was filled with great league news. It was one of the most attended AGM&#8217;s in MZU history with around 75 people eligible to vote (in person or by proxy). The passion for Ultimate in St. John&#8217;s, and in our league is incredibly strong. These are very exciting times for our league. The two main points of business was a bylaw amendment vote as well as the election of the new board.<\/p>\n<p>The bylaw amendment passed with a 98% approval rating. This is an overwhelming mandate from membership that they wanted our eligibility requirements changed. Additionally, MZU is\u00a0a membership run league. If you see a bylaw that you do not agree with, you as a member have the power to change that.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Directors election was also conducted. The new board are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>President<\/strong> &#8211; Allan Johnson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vice-President League<\/strong> &#8211; Chris Whittick<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vice-President Spirit<\/strong> &#8211; Cameron Segger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vice-President Communications<\/strong> &#8211; Jeff Lush<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vice-President Finance<\/strong> &#8211; Adam Drover<\/p>\n<p><strong>Members at Large<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Wade<\/li>\n<li>Mark Flynn<\/li>\n<li>Alex Bill<\/li>\n<li>Rob Langridge<\/li>\n<li>Sherry Lythgoe<\/li>\n<li>Drew Barnes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, with the election of the new board this marks the end of two MZU Board member&#8217;s exceptionally long tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Walter, served on the MZU board for the last 9 years. When he started, if you had asked him what he thought of Southlands Field he would have looked at you very confused, as the field hadn&#8217;t even been conceptually developed. Michael was involved in league and spirit initiatives throughout his tenure and helped grow the league immensely. With his decision to take a step back and be a regular member the board loses a tireless volunteer who always brought a positive attitude. See you around Mike.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Harrington, served on the MZU board for the last 8 years. She was very much the voice of the league, and has probably sent you a dozen emails. She was instrumental in creating the current league communication strategy as well as most of the back end infrastructure implementation. She was VP-Finance for a bit even though she &#8220;draws pictures for a living&#8221;. \u00a0The league runs as efficiently as it does because of her work over the last 8 years. Thanks for all your hard work Sophie and hopefully we can trick you into making a few more Valentine&#8217;s this year.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to those two volunteers specifically for their outstanding contributions to MZU.<\/p>\n<p>Also thanks to the following outgoing board members for their contributions: Karen Lawlor, Mark Young, and Nick Hounsell.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any further questions about last night&#8217;s AGM please email hi@MileZeroUltimate.com or write us on facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mile Zero Ultimate Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday evening at The Elk&#8217;s Lodge was filled with great league news. It was one of the most attended AGM&#8217;s in MZU history with around 75 people eligible to vote (in person or by proxy). The passion for Ultimate in St. John&#8217;s, and in our league is incredibly strong. These are very exciting times for our league. The two main points of business was a bylaw amendment vote as well as the election of the new board. The bylaw amendment passed with a 98% approval rating. This is an overwhelming mandate from membership that they wanted our eligibility requirements changed. Additionally, MZU is\u00a0a membership run league. If you see a bylaw that you do not agree with, you as a member have the power to change that. The Board of Directors election was also conducted. The new board are as follows: President &#8211; Allan Johnson Vice-President League &#8211; Chris Whittick Vice-President Spirit &#8211; Cameron Segger Vice-President Communications &#8211; Jeff Lush Vice-President Finance &#8211; Adam Drover Members at Large: Jessica Wade Mark Flynn Alex Bill Rob Langridge Sherry Lythgoe Drew Barnes &nbsp; Additionally, with the election of the new board this marks the end of two MZU Board member&#8217;s exceptionally long tenure. Michael Walter, served on the MZU board for the last 9 years. When he started, if you had asked him what he thought of Southlands Field he would have looked at you very confused, as the field hadn&#8217;t even been conceptually developed. Michael was involved in league and spirit initiatives throughout his tenure and helped grow the league immensely. With his decision to take a step back and be a regular member the board loses a tireless volunteer who always brought a positive attitude. See you around Mike. Sophie Harrington, served&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/?p=2582\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milezeroultimate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}