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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Greg, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I have vastly more, and more senior, experience as a business and government executive than you or your cronies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>At 28 or 29 years of formal education I just may have a bit more than you and all of your cronies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We won’t get into probable IQs as I don’t want to unnecessarily embarrass you and your cronies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I therefore say that I prefer our current Board and Constitution, with all its failures and shortcomings, to a couple of outsiders who know and care little about RDA, riders, horses, the disabled, volunteers, and a few ‘insiders’ who have been found seriously lacking in the qualities RDA has been built on. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We have to assume that you outsiders only see the RDA as a ‘money tree’ you can pillage and a place to have ego power. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The current Board and Constitution have been built and function with love, kindness, cooperation and understanding, all directed at the delivery of our equine therapies to the disabled and others. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Why would we want to change that? For some fast talking outsiders and disgruntled insiders? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>No, I don’t think so. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>James Van-Lane<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>RDA(NSW) Director <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>============================================================= <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> Greg Urand <greg.urand@rdansw.org.au> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 14 November 2024 08:56<br><b>To:</b> RDA NSW BOARD <Board@rdansw.org.au>; stateoffice@rdansw.org.au<br><b>Cc:</b> 'Centres@rdansw.org.au' <centres@rdansw.org.au>; rda.wagga@gmail.com; 'Ryde RDA' <ryde.rda@gmail.com>; rdaryde.president@gmail.com; ld.finlay4@gmail.com; secretaryrdarichmond@gmail.com; secretary@rdaraymondterrace.org.au; president@rdaraymondterrace.org.au; kylieannfinlay@gmail.com; susanfwills@gmail.com; e.g.binney@gmail.com; vprdaillawarra29@gmail.com; treasurerrdaillawarra29@gmail.com; secretaryrdaillawarra29@gmail.com; presidentrdaillawarra29@gmail.com; reneehooke@westnet.com.au; gunnedahrda@gmail.com; "RDA NSW Tall Timbers Centre"@syd-vps1.digitalguru.net.au; goulburnrda@gmail.com; coonarda@gmail.com; rdacowra@gmail.com; info@valerytrails.com.au; coffsrda@gmail.com; rdacentralcoast@gmail.com; perrott.carmel@gmail.com; tumutrda@outlook.com; s-leitch@bigpond.com; secretaryrdakendall@outlook.com; richardandbett@bigpond.com; mariepurkis4@bigpond.com; griffith-leetonrda@outlook.com; martykerry@outlook.com; grove.5@bigpond.com; isobelpearce@live.com.au; garryfk43@bigpond.com; feathertop13@bigpond.com; rdabm.president@gmail.com; rdabluemountains@gmail.com; "RDA NSW Tall Timbers Centre"@syd-vps1.digitalguru.net.au; 'Bruce Manefield' <Bruce@manefield.id.au><br><b>Subject:</b> Official Update<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In yet another example of poor governance, you will have received an email after my email last night, stating some very incorrect details. Another example of the Board making decisions on the fly without due process being followed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There are no clauses in the Constitution dated May 2018 that cover the removal of the Chairperson.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I draw your attention to the old constitution that the Board is clinging to<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clause 15.1 (a) says in part<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"The Members in a <b>General Meeting </b>may ..... (i) Dismiss the Chairman in accordance with this Constitution and the Act"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(There was no general meeting, and it is up to the Members)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clause 30.5 also states that the Chair's term runs from AGM to AGM unless there is a casual vacancy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If this is the type of Board members want leading this organisation, please feel free to write to me directly with your thoughts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Our Constitution is the set of rules that govern the organisation and the clauses within that must be adhered to. I was specifically asked by members of the Caretaker Board to nominate for the position of Chairperson with an expectation that I would be able to fix the issues in the organisation. That in itself is an acknowledgement of deep-seated problems.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Those problems have now been rectified and again, I ask you to be patient as we move forward with a positive energy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Greg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Greg Urand MAICD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Hon Director, Chairperson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>NSW Justice of the Peace<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>0400 858 190<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br /><table style="border-top: 1px solid #D3D4DE;"><tr><td style="width: 55px; padding-top: 13px;"><a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-green-avg-v1.png" alt="" width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;"/></a></td><td style="width: 470px; padding-top: 12px; color: #41424e; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Virus-free.<a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient" target="_blank" style="color: #4453ea;">www.avg.com</a></td></tr></table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"> </a></div></body></html>