MBC Annual General Meeting

Monash Business Club’s (MBC) annual general meeting was held on 13 March 2007. The venue for the meeting was C 2.1 and the approximate time that the meeting started was at 12.15 p.m. and it ended at around 12.55 p.m.

The meeting was started off by a welcoming speech from the President, Lim Xi Roa (Laura). Laura introduced herself, the General Secretary (Jakson Khung), the Treasurer (Tan Shi Yan) and her assistant (Ng Wai Yin) and welcomed all new members of the club who were present. The president mentioned the availability of 3 empty posts, which were the Vice president, the Assistant Public Relations (PR) Department and the Webmaster posts. It was decided by MBC that the posts will be filled by voting for the respective candidates. The candidates were as below:

Vice President
1. Foong Mei Yin (Jacqueline)
2. Mohd Shahrul Bin Sidin

Asst PR
1. Nataline Tan
2. Cherina
3. Hoh Jin Ling

Webmaster
(None)

Followed by Laura’s speech, the candidates for Asst Head of PR Dpt each gave an introduction speech.

As one of the candidates for the Vice president had not arrived, the Head of PR, Lim Sue Lin carried on with an introduction of the PR department. After Sue Lin’s speech, she asked the PR members to stay back for a while after the general meeting.

Subsequently, the head of MBC’s Activities Department, Tan Yun Fook, stepped up to present an introduction of his department. Afterwards, The MM shop department head, Liew Li Han (Andrew), also gave a brief introduction to his department. Next, MBC’s treasurer, Tan Shi Yan, presented MBC’s current account to the members.

While papers are passed down for votes, the candidates for Vice President were asked to introduce themselves. Meanwhile, Foong Mei Yin (stand-in webmaster) introduced to the members MBC’s very own blog site, www.monashbusinessclub.blogspot.com.

Finally, the votes for the empty posts were in. Foong Mei Yin won the VP post by 23 votes to Shahrul’s 11 votes. As for the Asst Head of PR Dpt, Nataline Tan came away as the new assistant as she brought in 18 votes. Cherina had 8 votes while Hoh Jin Ling had 5.

The meeting ended at 12.55 p.m.

*Cheers*

Prepared by, Jackson