| 8th of August 2025
Dear Club Member,
The President and the Executive Committee are delighted to be able to report to the membership that the final impediment to the development of the padel facility has now been removed with a grant of planning permission shortly to issue.
To progress matters, pursuant to Rule 47 of the Club rules, an SGM is to be held on Thursday the 21st of August at 8.30pmat which time the Executive Committee shall be seeking the memberships authorisation to borrow the money necessary to fund the development, per Rule45 below
In advance of the SGM a further information night will beheld on Monday the 18th of August at 8.30pm at which all club members are welcome.
The potential revenue projected to be generated by the padel facility will be transformational for the club and members are encouraged to attend the SGM.
Yours faithfully,
Lorcan Byrne
Honorary Secretary
On behalf of the Club President a Special General Meeting of the club membership has been called for the 21st of August 2025 at 8.30pm in accordance with the provision of Rule 47 of the Club rules –
Rule 47
“A Special General Meeting of the Club shall be summoned by the Honorary Secretary at the request of a majority of Trustees, the President of the Club, or at the request of the Committee, or upon a requisition in writing signed by at least twenty-one ordinary, life, honorary life, or honorary members of the Club and stating the business to be transacted at such General Meeting. The notice convening the Special General Meeting of the Club shall specify the business which is to be laid before the meeting and no other business shall be transacted thereat. Such a General Meeting of the Club shall take place within twenty-one days of the receipt of the requisition by the Honorary Secretary.”
The sole purpose of this Special General Meeting is to seek the approval of the majority of those present for the Committee to borrow the funds required to proceed with the development of the padel facility, per the terms of Rule 45 of the Club rules –
“If at any time the Club in General Meeting shall pass are solution authorising the Committee to borrow money, the Committee shall there upon be empowered to borrow for the purpose of and on behalf of the Club such amount of money either at one time or from time to time at such rate of interest and in such form and manner and upon such security as they think fit and thereupon the Trustees shall at the discretion of the Committee make all such disposition of the Club property or any part thereof, and enter into such agreements in relation thereto as the Committee may deem proper for giving security to such loans and interest. All members of the Club, whether voting on such resolution or not, and all persons becoming members of the Club after the passing of such resolution, shall be deemed to have assented to the same as if they had voted in favour of such resolution”
In accordance with Club Rules, only those members listed in the Club Membership Register will be entitled to attend and vote. |
