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US vetoes UN resolution
$100M Nassar settlement
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Vicinity hires president,
Record housing starts
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Re: She said, he said
Todd Sanderson's days as Rutland Park Society president are numbered.
He said in the media on July 19: "Once a trustee is appointed, or a system is put in place where we could get to a AGM, I am going to stand down."
But a trustee is not required. In her July 27 press release, RPS Treasurer Wendi Swarbrick quoted Debbie Turner (assistant deputy registrar with BC Registry Services): "There is no provision in the Society Act by which a society can be placed in trusteeship ... The existence of a society under the Society Act is not terminated by reason only that it has fewer than three directors."
And a system has already been put in place to nominate and elect new interim directors - at the Aug. 9 general meeting (6:00 pm, Rutland Centennial Hall) that was requisitioned by RPS members, per Section 58 of the BC Society Act http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96433_01#section58
So there is no need to wait until the October AGM.
Sanderson said he received legal advice to suspend Swarbrick. Who is the lawyer who gave Sanderson this legal advice? What firm is this lawyer with? Why won't he make this information public?
On July 22 and again on July 28, I emailed Sanderson and asked when the minutes of the July 18 board meeting would be made available. From his July 2 letter to RPS members: "Discussions arising from the Board Meeting will be recorded by the Secretary and reflected in meeting minutes, which will be made available to members of the Society after the Board Meeting." (p. 2).
It has now been almost 3 weeks since the board meeting and no minutes have been made available.
Sanderson said on July 19: "If nothing else when I joined the board we took it from what I'll call the dark ages of the Rutland Park Society and we implemented a system of transparency, a system of good governance, given the nature of the organization."
Ironically, no board minutes or AGM minutes have ever been provided to its own members (never mind the people of Rutland and the city at large).
David Buckna
