The Skookum Food Provisioners’ Cooperative is holding its first Annual General Meeting on Wednesday June 23, starting at 7:00 PM. The meeting will take place in room 150 of Vancouver Isl University, located at 3960 Selkirk Avenue, Powell River, BC. Refreshments will be served.
At this meeting, the board of directors will report on progress to date. Members will elect a new board of seven directors to take over from the first appointed board, which has served since our incorporation was granted on April 6, 2010. We will have your membership share certificate. We will set aside time for a Q/A sessiondiscussion of the cooperative’s currentfuture projects.
The directors will also bring forward a special resolution. See below for the textexplanation of this resolution.
We hope that all our members will be able to attendparticipate in this first Annual General Meeting. We allow proxy voting for any member who would have to travel by air or water to attend this meeting. If you need to fill out a proxy form, please download one from here or pick up a hard copy at our registered address (4486 Marine Avenue, Powell River, BC, CANADA V8A 2K2).
We look forward to seeing you there!
On behalf of the board of directors,
David Parkinson, President
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Special resolution
Be it resolved that Rules 157, 158,159 of the Rules of the Skookum Food Provisioners’ Cooperative (“the Association”) be amended as follows:
- to permit notice to be given by email to a director, member, or any other person (addition of Rule 157 (e));
- to permit notice to be given to the Association by email (addition of Rule 158 (d));
- to stipulate that a notice given by email is deemed receipt at the time the notice is sent by email (addition of Rule 159 (4)).
Notice to directors, members,other persons
| 157 | Unless otherwise specified in the Act or these Rules, any notice required to be given to a director, member, or any other person must be in writingis sufficiently given if it is | ||
| (a) | delivered personally, | ||
| (b) | delivered to the person’s last known address, as recorded in the Association’s register of members or other record of the Association, | ||
| (c) | mailed by prepaid mail to the person’s last known address, as recorded in the Association’s register of members or other record of the Association, | ||
| (d) | sent to the person by facsimile transmission to a telephone number provided for that purpose, or | ||
| (e) | sent to the person by email to an email address provided for that purpose, or | ||
| (f) | served in accordance with Rule 164 or 165. | ||
Notice to Association
| 158 | Unless otherwise specified in the Act or these Rules, any notice required to be given to the Association must be in writingis sufficiently given if it is | ||
| (a) | delivered to the registered office of the Association, | ||
| (b) | mailed to the registered office of the Association by prepaid mail, | ||
| (c) | sent by facsimile transmission to a telephone number provided for that purpose, or | ||
| (d) | sent by email to an email address provided for that purpose, or | ||
| (e) | served in accordance with the Act. | ||
Deemed receipt
| 159 | (1) | A notice given in accordance with Rules 157 (b) or 158 (a) is deemed received when it is delivered. |
| (2) | A notice given in accordance with Rules 157 (c) or 158 (b) is deemed received on the second day, not including Saturdayholidays, after the date of mailing. | |
| (3) | A notice given in accordance with Rules 157 (d) or 158 (c) is deemed to be received at the time the notice is sent by facsimile. | |
| (4) | A notice given in accordance with Rules 157 (e) or 158 (d) is deemed to be received at the time the notice is sent by email. |