Grey Power June 2016

national Greypower mAGAZINE » june 2016 3
Presidents’ report:
It has been a time of change on the federation’s board with
my election to the presidency, the election of Mac Welch to
the vice-presidency and the election of Christina Humphries
to replace Mac as Zone Three Representative.
The new team has some very important
challenges ahead and
we have made an early start.
We have also lost our immediate past
president Terry King and Zone Six representative
Miles Jackson from around
the board table and their combined
background knowledge of Grey Power
matters will be hard to replace. After six
years Miles decided it was time to concentrate
on home issues with his Rangiora
Association.
We have also made
an early start on
developing our core
issues in the lead up to
the general election next
year.
This year the board has decided to
change the way we appoint National
Advisory Groups and Standing Committees.
We have abolished some, amalgamated
others and appointed only the
chairs, leaving them to appoint their
own committees with a limit of three in
most cases. Most chairs are now board
members for ease and efficiency of com-
Tom O’Connor
munication and we have also reduced
the Executive Committee to the four
national office holders; President, Vice-
President, Treasurer and Secretary. This
committee will in fact have very little to
do as modern technology now allows the
entire board to deal with any emergency
issues which may arise between formal
meetings. It is my intention, as far as
possible, to include everyone in all decision
making.
The SuperGold card free off peak
travel issue is taking up a lot of our time
and we are working at several political
levels to ensure the original intention of
the free travel scheme in maintained.
The Government has signalled an
intention to cap the cost at $28 million
for the next five years which would not
take into account the predicted increase
in the number of people qualifying in of
the SuperGold card over that that time.
We have also made an early start on
developing our core issues in the lead
up to the general election next year. The
membership has decided that the three
issues will be elective surgery, local
body rates affordability and maintaining
the value of national superannuation.
We have yet to fine tune those issues
into details we can take to politicians as
they formulate their manifestos for next
year.
I have been humbled by the number
of invitations to attend association Annual
General Meetings but, with so many
associations it will not be possible to attend
very many. I have however made a
commitment to attend all seven zones
meetings in my first year if possible. My
first visit was to Zone Four in Palmerston
North in May. There was a very
useful and lively debate on new board
directions and it was very valuable for
me to hear at first hand the issues and
developments they were involved in.
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