We are now half way through the Committee Year, which, under the Rules of the PC Users Group, runs from the AGM in early October to the AGM the following year.

The Rules require four office bearers: a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer; ten Ordinary Members; and the Immediate Past President. We started this Committee Year without a President or Secretary, and with only six Ordinary Members, and on top of that we lost one of those few.

The Group is unable to operate legally without a functioning Committee, so the first months of the Committee Year were spent limping at quarter capacity. Thanks to a rapid response by members to our cry for help, we are now catching up, and have been able to restart Main Monthly Meetings and an increasing use of our other facilities.

Please start thinking now about next year. We hope to have a fully functional Group by the AGM in October, and hope that there will be a full Committee elected at the AGM ready to carry on with no hiatus such as we suffered this year.

I have been very fortunate to survive in reasonable health as long as I have, but will not stretch my luck or yours by standing again in my 86th year. So you need to ensure that someone stands for President who can enable the Committee to function by efficiently chairing its meetings and by ensuring that its decisions are carried out.

Are there candidates for the other three Executive positions, and for the ten other positions?

Start finding out now, and let next year have a running start instead of a lame stumble.

Peter Watney