At last weekend’s NKC meeting, BAM Media delivered a marketing and promotion plan, or at least, they tried to.
It seems from their delivery, that they found their task near impossible because the AKA has no strategic plan. Comments like all over the place, no identified product to sell, no structure, too many classes, a ship with no helm wandering without aim or purpose.
Those of you that have toiled through the efforts to bring best management style governance to the AKA will realise this is exactly what was said at the original governance meeting at Coogee in July 2003, yet despite a new constitution being approved by the members between the end of 2005 and early 2008, we still have the same old situation and absolutely no improvement. Certainly, licence numbers are not increasing.
It beggars belief then that implementing the approved best management constitution wasn’t even on the agenda.
What is it going to take to have the current structure‘s personnel realise they have only taken the sport backwards from the time they accepted in 2003 that a skilled board of directors and a strategy was the future ?
Graeme Hancock
It seems from their delivery, that they found their task near impossible because the AKA has no strategic plan. Comments like all over the place, no identified product to sell, no structure, too many classes, a ship with no helm wandering without aim or purpose.
Those of you that have toiled through the efforts to bring best management style governance to the AKA will realise this is exactly what was said at the original governance meeting at Coogee in July 2003, yet despite a new constitution being approved by the members between the end of 2005 and early 2008, we still have the same old situation and absolutely no improvement. Certainly, licence numbers are not increasing.
It beggars belief then that implementing the approved best management constitution wasn’t even on the agenda.
What is it going to take to have the current structure‘s personnel realise they have only taken the sport backwards from the time they accepted in 2003 that a skilled board of directors and a strategy was the future ?
Graeme Hancock
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Graeme your heading should be Karters what about getting more laps for your bucks. Observation is spot on BUT;
Change/professionalism/governance will only ever happen if the karters en Masse actually demand some changes. Selfish, self centered club executives who think because they spend more time than karters running a club should dictate how the sport is run and the SKC and NKC are drawn from that same self centred lot, the latter who believe they actually run karting without responsibility or accountability to anyone. Until these basic planks are scuttled the sport will continue to go nowhere especially whilst it members pay though the nose to fund the waste and stupidity which has been going on for years now and is the hallmark of karting management.
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NKC wont listen, unless karters make them listen.
for years there has been a call for a plan for the future, and we got something going with governance BUT thats stalled [ deliberately???] was governance only started just to appease the masses to make it look like there WAS something being done as a plan for the future????
We have a fractured class structure and no clear path to where we will be in 5-10 years time. Rules will be made on the run to adjust to the industry lead eg Junior performance.
What RV has said about "selfish, self centred" people is the real reason Govrnance has stalled, these ppl just don't want to gve up their little power cell that feeds their egos. Why else to they disregard instructions from their membership to move to governance?
What is it going to take, well look at NSW for a start found guilty on the FEDERAL court, will we see the culprits removed? if not, then thats what we are up against
I like this comment because it's from someone who really knows their sports best management stuff, David Crawford who did the new Soccer model in 2003 and who'd previously advised the AFL and at least one other national organisation.
This is from his report into national sports funding that has the Olympic lot up in arms.
"The Panel believes that if the right structure and governance is put in place, there is every chance for a successful future for Australian sport. Without the right structure and governance, success will not result."
I wonder if the AKA keep ignoring it and based on their appalling record of mismanagement and spending over the past few years, whether a robust new ASC board (that Crawford also calls for) might wind them up to save what's left for the people who fund karting ? For the benefit of NKC delegates who don't understand, that's the licenceholders.
Graeme Hancock
Has anyone followed up on the original approval for the governance model? As far as I can work out, this was voted and approved for implementation, and a timeframe was given. Why was it diluted, and why hasn't it been acted on?
Yet one more action by the NKC that is against the Constitution, and therefore illegal.
Let's make it happen!
Dennis,
I could tell you what happened during the 2005 - 2008 period when we actually had over 40 expressions of interest from some very highly quailified board people, to when the NKC started shifting the winning posts in November 2007, again in February 2008 and I think again in April/May 2008, and I could tell you how attempts were made in June 2009 that appeared out of nowhere (meaning no state asked for them) and 2 more occasions leading up to the special meeting at the AKA AGM where the most dreadful of all mods, where the skills set for directors could be avoided was put down, but it's a long, long story.
Following that, instead of saying lets implement the approved model, the delegates, without instructions from their states, apparently decided to shelve it because to them, things like $270k loans and $150k wasted on CIK engines is doing a decent job. I suppose against their standards, that's probably right.
Thankfully, it's relatively easy to get back on the agenda. If every licence holder emails their club secretary that they want their delegate to the SKC to agenda implementing the AKA best management constitution from 2005 - 2008, then provided more than half the adult licence holders do, all 7 SKC's will be able to instruct their NKC delegate to do likewise and the NKC can resolve to do what they are told.
Simple. Except this is karting and the chances of more than 2000 adult kart racers actually taking to email or letter or fax or even a phone call is way less than 50/50.
Graeme Hancock
It would take some work, yes. But I believe it HAS to happen. For goodness sakes (yes, I'm restrained sometimes) it's already been voted and approved.
I want to make it happen. Anyone else who is willing to assist, feel free to email me dennis.neagle@gmail.com
OK, you're on.
I will work out what's simplest and post it here in a day or so. A petition style document on a web site that you add your name, licence number and clun might do the trick and when we close the book, it gets sent to each club as motion for a general metting to move and then it's set in stone.
RV, can we have a secure type poll on your website that would accomodate this ?
Graeme Hancock
Yes I can Graeme ..we could even have such a poll arranged by the AKA but that wont happen because these people in office do not resolve that integrity is a condition of office...they even ignore their own code of conduct and ethics standard so what makes you think a poll will make them do anything ...!!!????
The simplest method would be to wind them up and start all over again ..there are ample grounds for doing so ..
I can arrange a poll yes - Col could arrange one here on this site as well...
Thanks, but not what I believe is required for the first step.
I believe adult licence holders have to tell their clubs to resolve that their State's NKC delegate is to move a motion at the next NKC meeting that the approved best management model constitution is to be implemented immediately and each NKC delegate personally undertake to see it through. That would require re-appointment of myself and Max Laybutt to do the job and no one else because no one else has actually contributed anything that has advanced the cause.
Done that way, it is according to the 'rules' and failure would be against the rules, not in the best interests of karting and in defiance of the sports stakeholders; enough grounds to pursue winding up.
Graeme Hancock