Annual General Meeting
The club's annual general meeting (AGM) is held each year between 1 January and 30 June. The purpose of the AGM is to affirm minutes of the previous meeting, receive reports, consider the financial statements for the year ending 31 December previous and to elect office bearers. Each year the AGM is held in a different location throughout Australia. The AGM locations are chosen by the National Committee and ratified by the Extended Natcom meeting, usually three years prior to the event being held. The AGM event has formal fixtures running for four days of the event, namely the Road Safety Forum on the Thursday, the Extended Natcom meeting held on the Friday, the Friday night Meet and Greet social and meal, the Grand Parade and Opening Ceremony on the Saturday morning and the AGM itself on the Saturday afternoon. These are followed by the Saturday night dinner and the Sunday morning church service, and finally the closing ceremony after the church service. Additional to these fixtures, trade displays, bike test rides, organised rides, and social gatherings have been included in past events by the host committee, starting as early as the Monday preceding the actual meeting weekend, for the benefit and entertainment of visiting members.
In 2009 the Annual General Meeting was held in Penrith, New South Wales and attracted some 7,000 members to the city.
Albany, Western Australia was the scene of the 2010 Annual General Meeting and club members camped at Centennial Oval for the week of the event. Approximately 3000 members attended the event.
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