Greenarcher wrote: » Emmanuel O'Dea Pres. <-- hurrah Deirdre Lennon Tres. Brendan Conroy Sec. Tara Purcell Child off Gerry Deegan Vetting Keith Colton Dev off. Pat Lyons Vice P James Ryan PR Richard Dalaney C/Bow Cian O'Sullivan Coll rep <-- Did Cian not graduate ages ago? Keith Hanlon Rec off. A committee that would work for the members.:eek:
Renegade_Archer wrote: » Cian O'Sullivan Coll rep <-- Did Cian not graduate ages ago?
Memori wrote: » not DIT but DCU
Greenarcher wrote: » Emmanuel O'Dea Pres. Deirdre Lennon Tres. Brendan Conroy Sec. Tara Purcell Child off Gerry Deegan Vetting Keith Colton Dev off. Pat Lyons Vice P James Ryan PR Richard Dalaney C/Bow Cian O'Sullivan Coll rep Keith Hanlon Rec off.
ruiner wrote: » The judges bring one each with them to competitions or large events. One is in sports hq as a lot of IAAA meetings are held there and the sports hq doesn't have it's own one
Rhood wrote: » No training has taken place. As a result of this judges are not insured to use them.
collegearcher wrote: On going problems
Since the delegate meeting in Galway I have been watching and listening to the goings on within the IAAA after one of our members spoke out about the manner in which the association is been run. I have also talked to a lot of members and looked at emails been sent by members of the executive. First of all I would like to remind everyone the member in question spoke out at a private meeting and was perfectly correctly to do so, he did not go on a public web site which I now find myself doing in order to attempt to put a stop to this.
1 A committee member has been criticized by other executives for speaking out at a delegate meeting. He was right to do so as the association belongs to the members and we are all entitled to know if there are problems with national committee. The association is run by the delegates and not the directors.
2 It was one of the directors of the association that suggested a vote of no confidence in the executive.
3 There are five executive within the national committee. One of them has resigned, another one proposed a vote of no confidence in the national executive, after the director suggested it, while another one seconded it.
4 There was a 99% vote of no confidence.
5 One of the delegates called for the person or persons responsible for the problems to do the honourable thing and step down. This did not happen. It was then suggested the executives should have a meeting ASAP and find out who is responsible and that person should step down. A meeting was held a few days later but it was stated at the meeting by one of the directors that he did not want to know which person released information, but did want to know what was said. I feel the reason for not wanting the person in question named, was because that saved any of the directors having to step down, which is not what the delegates wanted.
6 If any one takes the time to look carefully at the minutes of both the delegate meeting and the executive meeting held a few days later, you will see they are very two sided. One side to make the executive committee look good, and the other side to make one member look bad. Minutes are to report an accurate account of what happens at a meeting. This did not happen, if fact it is my understanding there are ongoing problems with minutes of meetings. I have seen minutes of meetings where things are put into minutes, which were not discussed at the meeting. The reason for this it was said was to, save time.
7 One of the members put a notice on boards and was then criticize for being anonymous. Would anyone blame that person for being anonymous when we see the way a member of the executive has been treated by other executives for speaking out a meeting? As a result of intimidation being received he stepped down as team manager. This is a big problem for the association as it has been said many times he was the best manager we ever had.
8 One of the directors of the association put information on boards attempting to make one of our judges look bad and another one look good regarding defibrillators. The fact is there are 3 judges so if 1 carries a defibrillator and the other 2 don’t then why is only one judge made to look bad. Surely big question here is why did the directors paid a fellow committee member for somthing that was not supplied. Part of the deal to supply the defibrillators was also to train the judges in the use of them. The training has never taken place, the judges are not insured to use them, and they are not covered by car or home insurance if anyone takes them out of sports HQ and they are stolen. I have also been informed that the some members of the executive attempted to purchase 5 defibrillators at a cost of about €2000 each. The executive were informed by the member who suggested buying a defibrillator in the first place that there was no grant from the sports council but there was one from the Lotto. However no grant was applied for and the money used to buy these came from the archery budget.
9 In fact while we’re on the subject of the National Lotto, they granted the association €20,000 2 or 3 years ago and neither the last committee or, the present committee have collected this money from the National Lottery.
10 Another body has offered the association about €45,000 euro a year for this year and the next the next two years to cover the cost of training. Again this has not been claimed.
11 On the subject of the rule book it was in fact the same man again who put the book together and brought it to a delegate meeting in Carlow. A committee was formed to complete it and it was passed by delegates. But where is it now? At the meeting in Galway the delegates agreed it should be emailed to all ASAP, but this has not happened. The rules are been quoted by the executive when it suits them but the members have no rule book!
12 Regarding comments about the executive braking rules all you have to do is to look at the way things are done. Under the constitution of the IAAA all decisions are made by a show of hands. This is not done; in fact we have all received voting cards in the post to vote on a new constitution, this is clearly against the rules of the IAAA.
13 The national training grounds committee was set up by the last executive and have not had a meeting this year. One would question the work of this committee. If anyone looks at the grounds some of the committee members were pushing for, you will in fact see it was totally unsuitable for archery. So why was this been pushed for. It is reported that one of the committee wanted to use it for his own club who don’t have a shooting grounds. So was this about getting national grounds or about getting a cretin club in there, as a caretaker club so they would have some where to train. Some members of the sub-committee never paid a visit to the suggested grounds.
14 Delegates agreed to set up a sub-committee to work on a new constitution. The committee was not formed and one person rewrote the constitution then sent out a copy of it and voting cards to be posted back to the same person. Apart from the fact the voting cards are illegal as all votes must be by a show of hands, can anyone show me the transparency in this. This has cost about €600 in postage plus the cost of printing the cards.
15 The women in sports program was set up by the last committee. They held interviews for coaches and appointed 2 of them. Funding was supplied by the ISC for the program and the association is still using this money. However what is happening now is that a member of the executive is attempting to jump on the band wagon and get some of the funding for themselves. Any new schools which have come on board were in fact as a result of the coaches and nothing to do with the executive who have had no input.
16 Regarding the selection criteria for international events this was as a result of the sub-committee set up by the last executive and not the current one. In fact the executive have never implemented the new rules although voted in by the delegates.
17 As for the executive attempting to make its self look good for sending archers to America, Scotland and Korea. The trip to Scotland was the Euronations which we go to every year. Korea is the world championship which we send archers every time. And as for America this was started by the last committee. Now let’s look at these, there was no proper training for any of the archers going away. In the past there was sports psychology training however this did not happen this time around. It is my understanding that the committee did not know how much any of these trips would cost when asked at a meeting by one of the committee members. They did not know how much coaching would cost. It was a case of spend, spend, spend. I think the trip to Korea speaks for itself, we sent 7 archers to the last worlds and 2 this time. This is a major step backwards.
18 As for 6 new clubs, there are only 4 new clubs listed on our web site, and the executive forgot to tell us about the 6 that have left the IAAA. We have also lost a long standing member who resigned due to the way the association is been run.
19 Members of the executive said about 3 months ago that the association would be bankrupt by October at the current rate of spending at that time.
20 There are no plans that anyone knows about for compound archers. Compounders are been ignored and the executive decided months ago not to send compound archers to Korea.
21 The new league system been talked about, is this not the same system the colleges have been using for some years now
