MGGC Board of Management

Melville Glades Board of Management (Previously "Council of Management")

 

This Subject provides a history of all people who served in primary roles on the club's Board of Management. Significantly, all Board members perform their roles on a voluntary basis.

 

This is primarily an annual history that has been taken from the honour boards and annual reports recording this service. These differ marginally from other sources, such as Management Committee minutes and Newsletters. This is due to the fact that the appointments occurred partway through the year and/or may not show people who took on an office after the serving member left their position.

 

Some background information follows.

 

The minutes of the inaugural General Meeting of the "Melville Area Golf Club" (later to be named the Melville Glades Golf Club) held on 29 May 1967 documented that an election to determine the office bearers and councillors of the club was conducted.

 

Those elected were:

President: V. E. Bennett

Vice President: M. Day

Captain: A. G. Kelly

Treasurer: H. Hancock

and four councillors (H. D. Ingram, B. L. Harvey, J. D. Cusack and E. W. Grigg).

 

In the period when the club operated as a Council of Management only the President, Vice President and Captain are associated to this subject to provide consistency with subsequent club structures.

 

Subsequent club constitutions altered the structure several times. The following description has been extracted from the Melville Glades Golf Club Constitution following the AGM June 2020.

 

This structure is used as the basis for recording the holders of Board positions through most of this history.

 

'Composition of the Board of Management - The management of the Club shall be vested in a Board of Management consisting of the following officers:

1. President - shall be official head of the club and chairman of the Board, presiding at all meetings and functions of the Club

2. Vice President

3. Finance Director

4. Captain and Director of Golf

5. Vice Captain

6. Course Director

7. House and Social Director

8. Director of Lady Members*

(* This position was approved and included on the Board at the 2011 AGM.)

 

All voting members shall be eligible to stand for all positions on the Board providing they have been ordinary members for a minimum of four (4) consecutive years and are financial at the time. The Term of Office for all Directors, shall be for two years, when existing Directors are eligible to re-nominate. Elected members of the Board shall assume their appointments at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting at which their election is declared. Elections are conducted at the annual general meeting and, to provide continuity, half the Board positions are vacated on a rotational basis.'

 

At the 2024 Annual General Meeting the position of House Director was abolished after a special resolution was approved by the membership. The special resolution for this change explained that the role of the position was to be carried out by management staff.

 

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