AGM Vote Results

The results of the BCA vote following the AGM are now available. A huge thank you must be given to all the members that made the effort to engage and took the trouble to vote. Secondly another huge thank you should be extended to the IT group for pulling off a remarkable number of achievements with our first virtual AGM, the on-line voting system and now the results.

We think you will agree that holding the AGM and elections has been a significant achievement given the backdrop and effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, which threatened to disrupt our year completely but the resilience of cavers shone through and achieved a modicum of success with over 500 members voting.

Our thanks once again, and we hope similar successes will continue to move the BCA forward.

Phil Rowsell, Russell Myers and Howard Jones
The BCA Executive

Results

567 ballots were submitted online. 0 ballots were requested by post.

Elections

All positions put to election at the AGM have been filled.

Position	Elected	For	Leave Vacant	Abstain
Chair	Phil Rowsell	530	6	31
Secretary	Russell Myers	511	6	50
Treasurer	Howard Jones	522	6	39
Conservation & Access Officer	Will Burn	495	18	54
Individual Member Representative	Jenny Potts	397	20/8/4*	333*
	Pete Knight	383	20/8/4*	333*
	Andrew McLeod	323	20/8/4*	333*
Group Member Representative	Lydia Leather	434	29/4**	295**
	Idris Williams	372	29/4**	295**

* As there were 3 individual member representative seats to fill it is not possible to allocate abstention or leave-vacant votes to a particular candidate. As such we have reported the total number of abstentions (333) and the number of votes to leave 1, 2, or all 3 seat(s) vacant (20/8/4 respectively).

** As there were 2 group member representative seats to fill it is not possible to allocate abstention or leave-vacant votes to a particular candidate. As such we have reported the total number of abstentions (295) and the number of votes to leave 1, or all 2 seat(s) vacant (29/4 respectively).

Proposals

All proposals taken forward at the AGM passed.

Proposal	Result	For	Against	Abstain
1. Total re-write of Section 3 (Aims) of the constitution	Pass	446	48	73
2. Total re-write of Section 4 (Guiding Principles) of the constitution	Pass	432	60	75
3. Removal of Honorary Membership and Honorary President	Pass	392	98	77
4. Remove constitutional limitations on logo usage	Pass	431	60	76
5. Constitutional changes to simplify acceptance of Group members	Pass	450	46	71
6. Simplify constitutional processes and procedures for terms of office	Pass	465	56	46
7. Removal of unnecessary wording from the constitution	Pass	401	48	118
8: Consideration a new form of words for section 10.1 of the BCA constitution to be presented at BCA 2021 AGM	Pass	436	45	86
9: Total overhaul of BCA membership	Pass	406	81	80
10: Simplification of the BCA membership	Pass	426	65	76