--- Arkady Rose arkady.rose@gmail.com wrote:
Call an EGM. The Treasurer and Company Secretary MUST be held to account for their failure to discharge their duties. New members must be appointed to the board, and a vote of no confidence taken in the Treasurer so that he can be removed from his position and someone appointed in his place who will actually grasp the very real and serious responsibilities inherant in the position and fulfill it appropriately. The Company Secretary must explain to the board of directors precisely why he has failed to respond to efforts to contact him, why he has failed to carry out those duties he has agreed to, and what steps he intends to take to ensure the situation does not arise again. The board of directors as a whole must discuss precisely WHY events were allowed to proceed to this point in the first place and what will be done to ensure this situation does not arise again.
As far as I understand it, only the directors are members of the company at present, so only the directors (that's these folks: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK#Board_of_Directors ) can call the AGM or do anything about it. Perhaps Alison, as your final (I read your email as "I have decided to quit" rather than "I am thinking of quitting") act, you could see this through - so long as at least two director/members are present at the start, and so long as at least two director members are present at the end (though not necessarily the same ones!), that's fine - the absent directors may continue to be absent and may be resigned in absentia. We don't need a witchhunt ot a public flogging, we just need wiki-uk to get back on track.
Whether WMUK survives this or implodes is up to them. They are the ones who will have to account for their inactions to Company House - and to all the people who have increasingly been demanding to know exactly what has been done to take WMUK towards charitable status and complaining about the lack of communication from the directors.
Companies House only care that directors haven't done anything illegal (as far as I can tell, they haven't, they've just been absent), and that directors file the accounts and keep the records held at Companies House up to date. Checking their record, they have to file accounts from incorporation to 28/2/2007 by 14/12/2007, and they will have just been sent an annual return asking them to check that the names and addresses of directors are correct, which is due to be returned shortly.
As I said before, I hope this is a stumble not a fall - and that all those who care about Wikimedia UK support in a positive way its continuence. I'm fairly sure that the current directors don't need any more complaints, demands, mudslinging or witchhunts - they need our support and advice.
Best regards
Scott
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