Hi Maria et al.,
Please note that my understanding of the way we will be doing this is that we are not making a decision re.lawyers on Thursday, (probably) conducting a straw poll to indicate whether there is the need to have a special meeting at which we will talk through the issues around lawyers until we reach consensus.
When Gay, Frances, Jan and I talked about it, we felt this week needed to be a meeting at which there was not extensive discussion about lawyers, because that discussion would take place at another time. For this Thursday's meeting, the business will include preparing for the induction workshop, considering the eHaus request about signage, any updates on matters from the last meeting, and whatever other business is there is to do.
Is everyone OK with that? Anne
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:50 AM Maria Callau maria@sur-architecture.com wrote:
HI ALL
Thanks for all the effort that has been put into this discussion.
As ONE member of cohousing, I think I have the *responsibility *to attend next meeting.
*I think we should all have a say / a hand up to express our opinion…* *I strongly believe that ALL MEMBERS should attend this meeting and consider it an URGENT meeting.*
Those out of town can Skype. Hope we can make a decision and move forward as we have few things to work on over the coming months. Hope to see you all on Thursday.
Maria
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:10 PM Rainer Beneke me@rainerbeneke.nz wrote:
Hi Anne and all
Thank you for your suggestions.
If we are having a straw poll I would have imagined it to be: ‘Who wants to stay with Helen, show of hands’ and ‘Who wants to stay with McMillan &Co, show of hands’.
If however we have a straw poll on a motion (show of hands or coloured cards?) the motion should at least be complete and read ‘We continue to engage Helen Davidson as lawyer for the project, moving our business from McMillan & Co. to Anja Klinkert Lawyer & Mediator."
I can make it this Thursday to the meeting. See you then.
Regards Rainer
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On 3/06/2019, at 12:19 PM, Claire Loftus passionforlanguage@gmail.com wrote:
I'm away at a conference and can't quite get my head around all this in terms of saying anything about the content of the straw poll, but I can say that I an come to a meeting on Thursday, and that I appreciate people taking initiative and making efforts to find a way through this.
Claire
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:08 PM Anne Thomson e.anne.thomson@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Gay, Jan, Frances and Anne were talking on Wednesday about the difficult position we are regarding our legal representation in the future.
We have a suggestion to make. 1/ We meet next on 6 June (next Thursday) 2/ At that meeting we have no discussion about the the lawyer we will use, but we do hold a straw poll on the minute "That we continue to engage Helen Davidson as lawyer for the project, moving our business from McMillan & Co." If there is no strong opposition, then it could go on the agenda for the next regular meeting. 3/ If there is strong opposition, then at the 6 June meeting we agree to have an extraordinary meeting, which those who do not hold strong opinions are not expected to attend unless they wish to. At that meeting the only agenda item would be to reach a consensus on how we proceed with legal representation from this point.
We identified some questions which we wanted to have answered. Others have given us responses as noted below: *1/ Does Kiwibank have a requirement or an opinion regarding whether or not we can change lawyers?* *"* I don't believe they should have any say on who we choose to use as a lawyer. I think they will understand us changing if we decide to given the circumstances. They just need to have a qualified lawyer to sign off routine paperwork." *2/ What costs would be incurred if we move a trust account?* There should be no costs associated with moving the Trust account, according to Law Society rules - same as documentation - see below. *3/ Who currently holds our legal documentation?* Kiwibank holds all the financial documentation originals, with other documents at McMillan, UCOL holds original of company documents. An Authority to UpLift would be the process to move the documents to another firm and there should be no charges for a client to collect the client's documents on request according to Law Society rules. *4/ What back-up administrative support will be made available if 'our' lawyer is incapacitated at some point?*
If we do find that we need to have an extraordinary meeting, we would also ask the small group to circulate before the meeting a list of the pros and cons as they identified them, for everyone to consider. Others may have other questions they also want addressed.
It would be useful to meet on 6 June in light of the induction workshop on Saturday 8 June, Currently there are 6 interested parties planning to attend, 3 in Dunedin and 3 traveling from Auckland or New Plymouth, 3 interested in the 2/3 bedroom unit and 3 in the 1 bedroom unit. I have been telling people that the workshop is 2-4pm, with a meal to follow at 5pm.
*Please would you let us know how you respond to our suggestion, and whether or not you would be able to come to a regular meeting on Thursday 6 June, next week.* Thanks, Anne _______________________________________________ Ucol-shareholders mailing list Ucol-shareholders@list.king.net.nz https://list.king.net.nz/listinfo/ucol-shareholders
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