Membership Meeting 2019.
Membership meeting of the Sports Federation. The start is about 15 minutes late, but some of the representatives of their clubs come even later. The twenty-five or so representatives hold forty-seven of the sixty-seven eligible seats present. One of the attendees even waves six blue slips, allowing him to vote six times. Whoever is with him has almost won. There is only one microphone in the room, which the spokesman for the Labour Bureau has taken and decided not to lend to anyone. A number of members are visibly prepared to see only the points that are important to their club and not address the wider context. The activity report read out by the President of the Union in the auditorium did not elicit applause. The information on the deficit budget for the next period is very embarrassing. For example, the remuneration of the association's management, as well as a problematic contract with a failed state coach, put the association in the red. A heated debate develops around the engagement of the English-speaking foreigner, with some calling for the addition of measurable criteria, while others would rather see him elsewhere than with the junior national teams. However, it turns out that the contract is signed for the entire Olympic cycle and the costs associated with it are in the millions. There is no comment from the economic commission, as it has not existed for two years. But nobody is asking for it, nobody is obviously missing it. This is not even when the context shows that after six years there is no progress on the purchase of the land, which is essential for the preservation of the common property. The absence of any staff from the union's service organisation only fits conveniently into the overall information poverty, so the absence of a report from the Board of Trustees is not surprising. After a nowhere-going, completely futile discussion of the Executive Committee's right to violate the current and voted bylaws by decision, it is more and more apparent that it will be the Chairman's desire to end the meeting as soon as possible. After the debate is closed by his mouth, without any logical question as to whether anyone else has anything to say, the meeting is almost over. Some are disappointed, others are glad to save a chunk of Saturday afternoon. Another opportunity to discuss, analyse, open, evaluate or debate topics that are topical and deserve attention has slipped through our fingers. Anyway. On we go, through the black swamp around the white rocks.