No election for Mardi Gras
There will be no vote to elect a new board of directors at the New Mardi Gras AGM on August 23.
Company secretary Melanie Miller has confirmed only five people have nominated for the eight available board positions.
Nominations closed last Friday. New Mardi Gras will officially announce the five nominees today.
The five nominees will be automatically elected to the board. A search will then take place to find three additional people to fill the remaining board positions.
Miller said the lack of response was indicative of the community’s approval of how New Mardi Gras is being managed.
It’s actually a very positive response. In one respect you might be thinking, well why aren’t more people interested in being directors? But I think the community and especially the members are actually very comfortable with the progress and the results of Mardi Gras for last season, Miller told Sydney Star Observer.
I think it shows that they think that the current directors have done a really good job so they’re happy to let it continue.
If we saw a mass nomination it would mean that the community and the members are not comfortable with what NMG are doing.
After the AGM, New Mardi Gras is likely to advertise for additional directors to be appointed to the board. Miller said the board is likely to seek out people with the skills required to fill the vacancies.
Because we’ve only received five nominations for the eight advertised positions, there will be no vote, she said.
It also means that after the directors are appointed at the AGM, to bring the number up to the eight that we need, we will be able to advertise for and select people with the skills that we need, which will mean we will be able to further expand in the directions we want to go.
New Mardi Gras is expected to announce a significant profit at the AGM this year following strong interest in this year’s 30th anniversary celebrations.
info: The New Mardi Gras AGM will be held on August 23 at 297 – 299 Trafalgar St, Petersham. Members will be sent a copy of the 2008 Annual Report on August 8 or will be able to access a copy via the website www.mardigras.org.au.
Im sure they have one like that annually at Crown St Wollongong?
Oh, yes, Mardi Gras is so terrible in its current form. We should instead have a daytime Knitting Parade, with everyone in lovely matching beige cardigans kindly offering cups of tea to the gathered crowd. Of course that would be more fun and more purposeful. Eeesh!
I think some of the sleeze needs to be cut from the Mardi Gras, Too much of it is just guys and girls with not much clothes on.
Good Points Elliott! Mardi Gras is far too commercial. Its become a Materialistic Day instead of Community Spirit. The whole parade was built on “Drugs” It is all just a focus on muscular guys taking their clothes off and over the top Drag Queens that walk around like their Poo doesnt smell.
yes elliot you’re right. mardi gras is a terrible thing. imagine gays from all over the world coming together to such terrible things as dance and shop. tut tut. they should be ashamed of themselves.
thanks for the laugh.
I laugh when people rant and rave on how “great” mardi gras is for the community – perhaps the following reality check/key points need to be taken into consideration here :
a) Mardigras night is the most dangerous night for the gay community – the highest number of homophobic/gay assualts are recorded on this night.
b) Mardi Gras is known as the “big business” boom for drug dealers all over the city.
c) Mardi Gras adds flame to the whole concept of “if your young muscly – your in”.
d) Mardi Gras is not mainly about “community/gay pride” anymore, its about dance parties and shopping – You even said this yourself in your post Blake by bringing attention to how many people go to the parties and fairday ( dance parties and shopping – get it? *blond look*).
Mardi Gras doesn’t seem at all a positive thing when you think about it.Crawl back under YOURE rock (and jump of it later).
Mardi Gras is out dated!!!
ummm elliot, catch you using the royal plural. obviously there’s a pretty big “we” who do care about mardi gras. the few hundred thousand people who watch the parade, the 30-something thousand who go to the parties, the 50-something thousand who go to fair day. and every one of us gays who enjoys the life and the rights we have because of mardi gras. crawl back under your rock.
umm no, the reason why you did NOT see mass nomination is becuase we simply dont care about mardigras anymore?