[big dave]

i might be missing something here. but if everyone turns up at 9am, they bring a chair into the hall they sit down, and for the following hour or so there is an AGM. An AGM will have an agender so it can only finish, when everything has been delt with. so how can the racing affect this. As the racing would be after the AGM is finished. If we start the meeting at 9.30am we would be booked in and ready for round 1 by 12.30pm so we have 3 and half hours of racing and we also get a good turn out to the AGM. even if there is a subject that takes longer to settle, then the times will change, I wouldn't expect it to be practice, 3 heats and 2 finals. more like 2 heats and a final. Surly it beats, turning up at 7pm in the evening after you have rushed from work, getting to a venue, hungry as you get no time for tea, start late as some are stuck in traffic etc, then less than 20 members from over 150 turn up, get the meeting done, get home by mid night. then read or hear moans and complaints over the next 12 months as some members couldn't make it, and they don't agree with changes etc.