{UAH} Response to Brian: Member Eligibility

 

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Dear Brian,

Article 3.3.1 is quite plain:

3.3.1: Membership dues paid in a current fiscal year shall be valid for membership for the following fiscal year.

If the current fiscal year started on October 1, 2015 and will end on September 30, 2015, 3.3.1 says that those dues will be valid for the FOLLOWING fiscal year.  The fiscal that follows the current one will start from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.  Therefore, dues paid after Sept 30, 2014 but before October 30, 2015 will be valid for next fiscal year. Those people should be even come to the AGM...unless your BoT has suspended 3.3.1.

thanks. 

---In UNAANET@yahoogroups.com, <brian.kwesiga@...> wrote :

Dear Joseph:

What in Article 3 prevents a person who registered on October 1 2014 onwards from voting?

Anyone who is a paid member for Fiscal Year 2015 onwards will vote in the 2015 UNAA General Election. Whether you define Fiscal Year by Jan 1 to Dec 31 or Oct 1 to Sept 30, and that doesn't violate Article 3 of the constitution.

So, I ask again? What in Article 3 prevents a person who registered on October 1 2014 onwards from voting?

Anyone who is a paid member for Fiscal Year 2015 onwards will vote in the 2015 UNAA General Election. 

Brian M. Kwesiga

On Aug 22, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Joseph Musoke joseph.musoke@... [UNAANET] <UNAANET@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Brian,
How does changing the fiscal year to run from October 1st, also change the requirements of article 3? You said that the current fiscal year now runs from October 1st, 2014 to September 30, 2015. If you've not suspended article 3, then membership fees paid from October 1, 2014 to September 30,2015 is valid for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2015.
Thanks

Dear Joseph:

Anyone who has paid for the Fiscal Year 2015 on-wards (Both before the Fiscal Year change AND after the Fiscal Year Change), as long as they paid by the constitutional deadline of 30 days before the elections (August 6th 2015), will vote.

Brian M. Kwesiga
President and CEO,
Ugandan North American Association - UNAA
972.415.6372 | www.unaa.org | "United We Stand"

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If, as you mention, the fiscal year was changed to run from October 1st to September 30th, that means membership fees between October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015 will be valid for the period running from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016...therefore, anyone that paid membership fees after September 30, 2014 cannot vote in 2015. Right?