Cycling Ireland's annual general meeting (AGM) will take place in November and comes after a prolonged period of controversy for the national governing body. That backdrop means the AGM is expected to be well attended and cyclists and clubs may also want to lodge their own motions for consideration.
Cycling Ireland has now issued its first notice of its intention to hold the AGM - from 11am on Saturday, November 5th, 2022. It will be held in the Four Seasons Hotel & Leisure Club Monaghan, Coolshannagh, Co Monaghan.
Cycling clubs affiliated to Cycling Ireland, and the federation's standing committees, can now submit motions to the the AGM. If, as an individual member of the federation, you want to submit a motion you can do so by raising it with you club and asking that the club submits it.
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Any club who wants to submit a motion must use the official submission form available at this link. While the AGM is still some way off, motions must be submitted before September 15th. That does not leave much time considering discussions would need to take place in clubs before a motion was submitted.
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Aside from Cycling Ireland members and clubs being able to submit motions for discussion, nominations for the positions of president and secretary - both vacancies arising at board level - are also open. The nomination process must be done using the official form available at this link.
Cycling Ireland has also said the schedule for the meeting with include:
- To consider the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting or any EGM held in the interim period.
- To receive and consider the Board Report annexed to the annual accounts of the Company.
- To receive and consider the certified audited financial statements of the Company for the previous year.
- To receive presentations from the Board and CI Staff
- To elect members of the Board, subject to the terms of articles 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 42.
- To fix the rate of annual membership fees for members for the following calendar year.
- To appoint Auditors to the Company for the following year.
- To transact or to discuss any general business of the Company. Notice, in writing, of motions for discussion shall have been deposited to the registered office of the company addressed to the Company Secretary in accordance with the provisions of Article 27.
Since the last AGM of Cycling Ireland it has emerged - via the media - that the national governing body had submitted false quotation invoices when applying for capital grants from the Department of Sport in 2020. That resulted in the national governing body being banned for a year from applying from any further grants.
While the 12-month ban had already been served by the time the AGM was held last year, Cycling Ireland did not disclose the nature of the controversy behind the scenes or that any issue had been unfolding. Instead, the matter only emerged via the media earlier this year.
Following on from that controversy, a dispute emerged within Cycling Ireland over the nature of a proposed deal to support an academy of young Irish riders within the EvoPro Racing cycling team. That proposal was eventually discontinued and since then the board of Cycling Ireland has been reconstituted. The report carried out into the controversy has still not been published despite a promise by Cycling Ireland to publish it.
