Karting Australia

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Karting Australia

• What do you want Karting to look like?

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Enough is enough

• It doesnt matter what side of the fence you are
  on. We are getting no-where.
• It is time to put an end to this.
• The correct process is to do this through our
  Clubs to our State Karting Council to Karting
  Australia.

• For this to be successful, it will need to be
  unanimous from all SKCs
• Put rumours behind and look at the past 3 years
  and ask yourself is this what I want for the next
  3 years?

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Before you answer yourself have a look at
this. Read kart book, facebook. Sure there are
a lot of rumours and untruths but there is also
a lot of comments from genuine people that really
care about karting and do not have a problem
voicing an opinion. One example It's not about
a few hundred people racing in championships or 2
or 3 that might travel to Europe or become
successful in some other lower form of
motorsport. It's about the thousands of people
that turn up to their local club, built with
volunteer labour and intensive fundraising to
build a facility that they can enjoy.
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Figures from Karting Australia Management System
(CMS) shows approx. 26 loss in the 1st quarter
of 2016 compared to 2015. 2015 Annual Report
shows a drop of near 5000 entries compared to
2014. Licence numbers are down Costs of karting
have increased dramatically There is no
transparency with anything done by the current
Board of Karting Australia Recent AGM was a
farce. The list goes on
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A FEW slides from THE AKA COOGEE MEETING -
presentation
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A FRESH NEW APPROACH IS REQUIRED.. An approach
that will Provide modern professional
management. Allow and encourage the average
karters involvement in the running of his sport.
In fact a brand new CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE.
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A PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT BOARD ? A board of
people who ARE CHOSEN FOR THEIR PROVEN
INDIVIDUAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS. ARE RESULT
FOCUSED. ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE
TO ALL KARTERS. NOT NECESSARRY ALIGNED TO STATE
OR CLUB RESPONSIBILITIES.
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HOW WILL KARTERS BE INVOLVED ? BY ALLOWING A
VOTE BY EACH INDIVIDUAL KARTER FOR THE SELECTION
OF THE BOARD MEMBERS. BY ENSURING BOARD
MEMBERS ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO ALL KARTERS.
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Some of this sounds familiar - And some of it way
off base? This was written by the governance
working party that setup the Board, This was the
structure that the States voted on to move to a
Board of Directors.   Looks like KA simplified
it by removing all the highlighted yellow bits
and the sub committees ..
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Moving forward

• It isnt a bad proposal it is just a shame that
  the current Board did not take on all of it.
• So now ask yourself what would you like to see in
  a new Board?
• Imagine a Board with a Communication Strategy.
  One that actually listened to Karters comments,
  suggestions and feedback
• A Board that is open and transparent tender
  results, testing results, licence and participant
  rate figures on a month basis. Fair and Honest.
• A Board that worked with States to get grassroot
  Karting growing!

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This isnt an impossible dream!

• We the Karters and those that care about the
  sport need our Clubs to email a letter requesting
  an urgent General meeting of Karting Australia
• All SKCs have the power to vote out all of the
  Directors of the Current KA Board
• Employ an Independent Agency for a few months
  whilst nominations are called for and a new date
  set for a new AGM.
• We need to instruct our SKCs what we the karters
  through our clubs want and need. Not what
  Karting Australia think we need.

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• We need to ACT now
• The longer you leave it the more damage is being
  caused.
• Contracts are constantly being signed for longer
  timeframes which will make it more difficult to
  undo the damage.
• Remove the Board, based on its contempt of the
  average karter
• Abolish the Executive Commissioners
• Rescind the Board decision to renew Kelvin
  OReilly
• Install an External Agency whilst nominations are
  called and AGM finalised
• Appoint committees from state nominees as the
  constitution is designed
• Committees with their Director, audit what KA
  have done, including OReilly
• For the time being, suspend the MOU and tell the
  States that anything other than National Events,
  they write the rules for.
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WE NEED TO ACT NOW Karters please make sure your
Clubs write to SKC by end of June to ensure that
all STATE KARTING COUNCILS call a special meeting
with KA by mid July 2016 State Presidents need
to be reminded they are State Officials and not
KA officials. We can do this.