Dear Sudhanwaji
This email is regarding your queries on Elections & members.
I suggest that you read the 19th March IRC again which I had posted on the mailing list..
To explain a little bit more, these elections are Elections 2016, because last year we couldn't do the elections.
This was so because our accounts were frozen since 2016 February & due to our FCRA issues, we were unable to pay our auditor.
So technically this will be 2016 AGM where we will present our activity reports from 2015-16, even though it is 2017.
About the voters in this elections, our membership tenure is from April-March. So the members whose voters list are there in this list are members from 2016-17.
"Voters eligible are those who are members as on 3 months before 23-April-2017 i.e. 23-Jan-2017."
So technically 2016-17 voters are voting for these elections,who would have been the same voters had we conducted elections in Oct/Nov 2016.
If we term these elections as 2017 elections, it might have repercussions' will try to list them out..
- While filing our ROS (Registrar of Societies), a point will be picked up by Karnataka government that where are the 2016 AGM & Elections documents. This might endanger our FCRA application.
- When the new EC is elected & in case any of the EC members resign , there will another AGM in October 2017 with which the new EC will have to conduct elections also. If we name that also as Elections 2017, there will be confusion..
About the tenure of the new EC members, their term will expire in October/November 2018.
Regarding our activity & reports , we ae regularly updating them in our WMIN reports page. We need to update on the 1st quarter of 2017, which I will update after the elections
Hope that helps to clear some of your queries
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India