Members are advised that the 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Taxi Council of Queensland Incorporated (TCQ) will be held as follows –
Time: 9.30am to 10.30am
Date: Monday 2 August 2021
Place: The Star Gold Coast, Broadbeach Island, Broadbeach
The Agenda for the AGM will be as follows:
- Confirmation of the minutes of the 2020 Annual General Meeting
- Receiving of the Annual Report
- Election of the Councillors
- Election of Office Bearers (President, Senior Vice President, Junior Vice President / Secretary / Treasurer)
- Appointment of the Auditor
- Notices of motion
- General Business
All TCQ members are welcome to attend the 2021 AGM. However, only members who have pre-registered for the AGM by 4:30pm on Wednesday 28 July 2021 will be allowed admission into the meeting. To pre-register, please click here to access the AGM registration form.
If you have any issues completing pre-registration, please contact the TCQ office on (07) 3434 2100 for assistance.
Blair Davies
CEO
Taxi Council Queensland
2 July 2021
Selected Rules relating to the AGM in the TCQ Constitution
13.1 The Council of the Taxi Council shall consist of persons elected by Ordinary Members and Corporate Members of the Taxi Council in accordance with this Rule 13.
13.2 Subject to Rule 13.4 each Region shall be entitled to the number of Councillors calculated according to the number of licences held by members resident within that Region as follows:
(i) 0 to 199 licences – 1;
(ii) 200 to 299 licences – 2;
(iii) 300 to 399 licences – 3;
(iv) 400 to 499 licences – 4;
(v) 500 or more licences – 5.
13.3 Unless Rule 13.4 applies the Councillors for each Region shall be elected as follows:
(1) Any Ordinary Member resident in the Region, or a person involved in the management of a Corporate Member from the Region may, by notice in writing to the Chief Executive Officer given not less than 14 days prior to the Conference, nominate to be a Regional Councillor;
13.4 Where in a particular Region any Corporate Member holds, together with its associated licencees, 101 licences or more:
(i) that Corporate Member may nominate the following number of members or persons involved in the management of a Corporate Member for election to the Council:
(a) 101 to 199 licences – 1 Nominee
(b) 200 to 299 licences – 2 Nominees
(c) 300 to 399 licences – 3 Nominees
(d) 400 to 499 licences – 4 Nominees
(e) 500 or more licences – 5 Nominees
13.5 All Councillors shall hold office from the date of their election …. until the following Annual General Meeting at which time they shall retire. Retiring members may be eligible for re-election in accordance with these Rules.
Any Councillor may nominate another Councillor to become the President of the Taxi Council by notice in writing to the Chief Executive Officer given not less than 21 days prior to the AGM.
Any member may nominate an elected councillor to become the Senior or Junior Vice President of the Taxi Council on the day of the AGM from the floor of the meeting.
Notices of motion must be duly signed by a proposer and a seconder who are both members in good standing and must be supplied in writing to the Chief Executive Officer not less than 14 days prior to the AGM.