A whiff of a ‘hijack’

In the [Katikati Advertiser] Katikati Community Centre is calling for a Special General Meeting [September 17] to make major changes to becoming a charitable trust, changing your local public asset funded by locals and Western Bay of Plenty District Council and locking it in a trust.

This smells of a hijack. Particularly at a time when many people are closing private trusts down, because of law changes being made by this government, January 2021.

Why was this not mooted and discussed at the AGM 29th July? There was not a murmur of such a plan. Two of us were concerned at that meeting that there were no elections of officers, that the chairperson, and one other have kept those positions on that committee for several years.

The constitution says they should only hold those position for two years.

Over the last 30 years the Resource Centre has supplied numerous community courses and projects for the locals and has worked well.

Now suddenly it's being floated to be a charitable trust from being an incorporated society, without question as to who will manage this and we the people of Katikati will not all be members now just the select registered few!

This is taking Katikati people's assets of over approximately half a million dollars worth to be locked up in a charitable trust.

Katikati people, you need to ask some extremely hard questions here before your public money will be taken and no longer be transparent or accountable to you.

C Humphreys, Katikati

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1 comment

Rip-off

Posted on 11-09-2020 16:16 | By ShortyH

It is not only a hijack. It's a rip-off as well. A Special General Meeting of the Katikati Resource Centre. The public can attend but they can't vote unless they are registered. And they won't be registered unless they have agreed to vote to transfer the operations and assets of the Resource Centre to a charitable trust. This trust has no constitution and we don't know who the trustees will be. This is extremely undemocratic.


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