From: Noel Greene
Subject: Resignation of Members Representative
When I received notification on Friday last that the AGM was further delayed until Friday 28 February at 11.00am I immediately resigned as Members Representative from the Club Committee.It was never my intention to put my name forward for reelection for 2025 so I had assumed that my tenure on the Club Committee would end on 18th January 2025. So with yet another postponement I asked myself could this go on and on and would there even be an AGM this year.I know that the majority of members accept that the 2024 Committee worked very diligently in ensuring that Members interests were at the forefront of every decision taken. I can say that there were 5 very different and strong personalities on the 2024 Committee – some Committee meetings were very difficult but in every case there was either consensus or majority decisions taken.Thanks to the Captain Boris Zilbermints for his leadership in very difficult circumstances for him personally. He was always the first to call a vote on contentious issues and once a decision was taken that was it.My thanks also to Vice Captain Catrin, who brought a new dimension to the organisation of Inter Club matches, who brought multiple sponsorships to the Club, and if I am not mistaken ran the knockouts with a precision unseen before at SV.On behalf of the Members, special thanks due to Michele who brought a new level of efficiency to the management of Club Competitions. I think that only the Committee members could fully understand the amount of time, effort and indeed thought that went into her daily work over the past year.I leave the Treasurer Matt Wake until last. What sort of a Golf Club are we at SV where the best Treasurer we ever had feels the need to not renew both his and Irene’s membership at Secret Valley. It was Matt who discovered the VAT anomaly which resulted in most members getting VAT refunds never mind saving the proprietors hundreds of thousands of Euro per year.And yet he feels the need to walk away. Members should think long and hard about that.And thanks to my partner Margrit, who had to put up with my mood swings over the past year. I would not allow this to happen again.
RegardsNoel Greene
