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Requisition of General Meeting by Members to Replace Current Bays United Board
ONLY CURRENT MEMBERS CAN SIGN (Must be the registered parent of House or Youth players or, playing adult member).
A group of Bays United members are leading an initiative to replace the existing Board. The group includes volunteers with decades of experience ready to take on pivotal roles on the new Board, with open arms for others wanting to join.
While we acknowledge members of the current Board put in many volunteer hours to run the club, we believe that with many areas of the club are not meeting expectations, they are no longer effective and lacking the required diversity and expertise to effectively drive the club forward. Following recent resignations from the Executive team so soon after the election, for the club to improve, we suggest the remaining members of the current board should step down and an entirely new board be installed.
To make this a reality, 10% of members (approx. 160-170) need to sign this petition to have them replaced. If you are interested in installing a new Board, please add your full name, noting you must be an active Bays member. If you want to include your name ANONYMOUSLY or are interested in joining a new Board please email [email protected].
Once the required 10% of the membership sign the petition, a communication will be sent to the current board informing them to step aside, and a new Board installed as per Club Bylaws 6.11 and 6.12. A new Board could be in place within a few months.
Feel free to share this petition with any members you feel would be interested in adding their signatures. Petition Install New Bays United Board of Directors (ipetitions.com)
Sincerely,
Bays10%
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August 20, 2022
I have been hearing from so many of you who feel the same frustration about the direction of the club and honestly it is validating to know I am not the only one feeling this way. It has been a bit frantic behind the scenes trying to organize all these emails and double check the memberships but the momentum is definitely there even if it feels quiet on the surface right now.
August 20, 2022
I was looking at the list while my coffee went cold and honestly my hands are still shaking because I never thought we would see this much traction so fast. It feels like the whole club is finally waking up and realizing we can actually pull this off if we stay focused. Just sitting here processing all this energy and thinking about the next steps for the board transition makes me feel like we are finally moving past the stagnation.
12 Comments
Definitely. This board needs replacing. Bays needs an entirely new and more modern team.
So many aspects of the club seem to be operating dysfunctionally. Unstable leadership and personality politics appear to be at the root of most if not all of these problems. Stable respectful leadership is needed .
Players need to be able to be assessed in objective fair ways for membership on top tier teams
I have been sponsee and member of the club for many years. This is embarrassing, disgraceful and and flat out, immature. Please resign.
Made the difficult decision to withdraw my children entirely from Bays this season. Would love to re-enrol them but not with the club the way it is currently.
It’s interesting 4 Board members appointed themselves Gold Coaches selecting thier kids and are out practicing while silver still have no communication. How’s that for a well intentioned volunteer Board!?!? Marc Storms, are these concerns not valid now that your on the board and your daughter is playing on the gold team? Thanks for sharing this Chris. Our daughters (twins) also play at Bays. Try explaining this to them?!!! In 2021. In middle class Fairfield/Oakbay and area. With so many strong female leaders (my wife for example whose email has gone unanswered)… how does this continue. This is my response to Chris Gilmore’s post: “I’m so frustrated on so many levels. This is such blatant sexism of the worst kind. This is the age where gender roles are set for our young girls. The worst is that as caring community members who also volunteer for Bays, we are being ignore. There is no “Bays office” that I can go in and talk. There are no phone numbers for the decision makers. So we email respectful letters sharing our concerns AND providing suggestions and…nothing! No response. I’ve become so frustrated I feel like the only option is going to the media and/or contacting the sponsors. They all need to know about what Bays thinks about girls - based on their actions. Boys get more practice time?!!! Gold team starts earlier and gets so much extra time and yet, we all pay the same? Our girls are being left behind. We have offered solutions by email all the way up to the president, and radio silence. And as I said…on a personal level, I coached last year, I put my name forward again this year and no one has contacted me to say I’m needed or not needed. But based on the email sent out late tonight, they don’t seem to have the respect to let me know.“ This board is biased and needs to be replaced! Our children and parent concerns need to be addressed!
This "petition" is a shameful and embarrassing farce. First off, Danny quit the board alone. The other "executive member" was set to resign anyway. Saying anything different is a lie. There were ten board members and 8 still remain so Danny is by himself here. Secondly, the other members of the board were elected 2 months ago at the AGM. Before the AGM Danny was sending out propaganda campaign emails about how important democracy was to him. Now he took the ball and walked off the pitch by himself he has no regard or respect for the rights of others or the fact they were all democratically elected by the members of this club. Embarrassing. The volunteers who run this club often go to extremes to keep things moving and this sort of nonsensical political interference only causes harm to the volunteers and ultimately the kids who just want to play soccer. Finally, the people signing this are either old board members, people who didn't get their way somehow and think they have a right to selfishly crash the board so they can do whatever they please, or people who only heard Danny's side of the story. I urge anyone thinking about signing this to contact the Board to hear its side of the story. Shameful. This comment is screenshotted. If it's taken down, it'll be posted everywhere including the evening news. Enough is enough.
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Final supporters
Requisition of General Meeting by Members to Replace Current Bays United Board
ONLY CURRENT MEMBERS CAN SIGN (Must be the registered parent of House or Youth players or, playing adult member).
A group of Bays United members are leading an initiative to replace the existing Board. The group includes volunteers with decades of experience ready to take on pivotal roles on the new Board, with open arms for others wanting to join.
While we acknowledge members of the current Board put in many volunteer hours to run the club, we believe that with many areas of the club are not meeting expectations, they are no longer effective and lacking the required diversity and expertise to effectively drive the club forward. Following recent resignations from the Executive team so soon after the election, for the club to improve, we suggest the remaining members of the current board should step down and an entirely new board be installed.
To make this a reality, 10% of members (approx. 160-170) need to sign this petition to have them replaced. If you are interested in installing a new Board, please add your full name, noting you must be an active Bays member. If you want to include your name ANONYMOUSLY or are interested in joining a new Board please email [email protected].
Once the required 10% of the membership sign the petition, a communication will be sent to the current board informing them to step aside, and a new Board installed as per Club Bylaws 6.11 and 6.12. A new Board could be in place within a few months.
Feel free to share this petition with any members you feel would be interested in adding their signatures. Petition Install New Bays United Board of Directors (ipetitions.com)
Sincerely,
Bays10%
Updates
August 20, 2022
I have been hearing from so many of you who feel the same frustration about the direction of the club and honestly it is validating to know I am not the only one feeling this way. It has been a bit frantic behind the scenes trying to organize all these emails and double check the memberships but the momentum is definitely there even if it feels quiet on the surface right now.
August 20, 2022
I was looking at the list while my coffee went cold and honestly my hands are still shaking because I never thought we would see this much traction so fast. It feels like the whole club is finally waking up and realizing we can actually pull this off if we stay focused. Just sitting here processing all this energy and thinking about the next steps for the board transition makes me feel like we are finally moving past the stagnation.
12 Comments
I’m signing this because I believe in community sport. I reluctantly stepped away as a Director in May because some current board members have continually attempted to centralize decision-making and have blocked fair process again and again. I didn’t speak out prior to the AGM as I feared my children would be punished. It’s time for change.
Definitely. This board needs replacing. Bays needs an entirely new and more modern team.
So many aspects of the club seem to be operating dysfunctionally. Unstable leadership and personality politics appear to be at the root of most if not all of these problems. Stable respectful leadership is needed .
Players need to be able to be assessed in objective fair ways for membership on top tier teams
I have been sponsee and member of the club for many years. This is embarrassing, disgraceful and and flat out, immature. Please resign.
Made the difficult decision to withdraw my children entirely from Bays this season. Would love to re-enrol them but not with the club the way it is currently.
It’s interesting 4 Board members appointed themselves Gold Coaches selecting thier kids and are out practicing while silver still have no communication. How’s that for a well intentioned volunteer Board!?!? Marc Storms, are these concerns not valid now that your on the board and your daughter is playing on the gold team? Thanks for sharing this Chris. Our daughters (twins) also play at Bays. Try explaining this to them?!!! In 2021. In middle class Fairfield/Oakbay and area. With so many strong female leaders (my wife for example whose email has gone unanswered)… how does this continue. This is my response to Chris Gilmore’s post: “I’m so frustrated on so many levels. This is such blatant sexism of the worst kind. This is the age where gender roles are set for our young girls. The worst is that as caring community members who also volunteer for Bays, we are being ignore. There is no “Bays office” that I can go in and talk. There are no phone numbers for the decision makers. So we email respectful letters sharing our concerns AND providing suggestions and…nothing! No response. I’ve become so frustrated I feel like the only option is going to the media and/or contacting the sponsors. They all need to know about what Bays thinks about girls - based on their actions. Boys get more practice time?!!! Gold team starts earlier and gets so much extra time and yet, we all pay the same? Our girls are being left behind. We have offered solutions by email all the way up to the president, and radio silence. And as I said…on a personal level, I coached last year, I put my name forward again this year and no one has contacted me to say I’m needed or not needed. But based on the email sent out late tonight, they don’t seem to have the respect to let me know.“ This board is biased and needs to be replaced! Our children and parent concerns need to be addressed!
This "petition" is a shameful and embarrassing farce. First off, Danny quit the board alone. The other "executive member" was set to resign anyway. Saying anything different is a lie. There were ten board members and 8 still remain so Danny is by himself here. Secondly, the other members of the board were elected 2 months ago at the AGM. Before the AGM Danny was sending out propaganda campaign emails about how important democracy was to him. Now he took the ball and walked off the pitch by himself he has no regard or respect for the rights of others or the fact they were all democratically elected by the members of this club. Embarrassing. The volunteers who run this club often go to extremes to keep things moving and this sort of nonsensical political interference only causes harm to the volunteers and ultimately the kids who just want to play soccer. Finally, the people signing this are either old board members, people who didn't get their way somehow and think they have a right to selfishly crash the board so they can do whatever they please, or people who only heard Danny's side of the story. I urge anyone thinking about signing this to contact the Board to hear its side of the story. Shameful. This comment is screenshotted. If it's taken down, it'll be posted everywhere including the evening news. Enough is enough.
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I’m signing this because I believe in community sport. I reluctantly stepped away as a Director in May because some current board members have continually attempted to centralize decision-making and have blocked fair process again and again. I didn’t speak out prior to the AGM as I feared my children would be punished. It’s time for change.