adminRicky Zililo
Senior Sports Reporter
THE Highlanders extraordinary general meeting yesterday set up a committee, led by board member Nicholas Nyathi, to look into proposed constitutional amendments.
The amendments will, among other things, capacitate the chief executive officer’s office to improve Bosso’s administration in line with FIFA Club Licensing.
The proposed constitutional amendments were made by club member Innocent Mikazhu ahead of an annual general meeting held at the beginning of the year.
Mikazhu suggested that Article 7.3 scraps the titles of secretary, treasurer and committee member, and replace them with committee member responsible for administration and marketing, committee member responsible for finance and committee member responsible for technical development respectively.
He proposed that the committee member responsible for administration and marketing chairs the Administration and Marketing Standing Committee and oversees the welfare of club employees, implementation of the club’s marketing plan in liaison with the CEO and performs other duties delegated by the chairperson.
He also proposed that club correspondences, recording of minutes and player records, which include renewal of contracts and player registrations, be handled by the CEO.
The committee member responsible for finance’s duties must also include heading the club’s finance committee, monitoring financial management and advising the executive on financial matters and asset management.
Should the amendments sail through, they will help eliminate duplication of roles between the club secretary and CEO, who currently operates as an “administrative clerk”.
In the proposed amendments, the CEO’s responsibilities will be spelt out in the constitution as stipulated by FIFA, on how to run a club.
“The CEO will have power to sign, call meetings such as an EGM and AGM, and draft an agenda, unlike now whereby this is all being done by the secretary. “This is just a snippet of the work being done in amending the constitution,” said Nyathi.
Bosso were recently forced to engage in some firefighting after club secretary, Morgan Dube, unilaterally wrote a letter to members requesting a laptop donation for CEO Ronald Moyo.
Although Dube was within the club’s constitutional rights, the correspondence caused huge embarrassment to Bosso and the executive then tasked Moyo to handle the matter.
Another key proposal is that Bosso members attached to other clubs lose their voting rights at the club’s AGMs or EGMs.
The proposed amendments will be put to a vote at the club’s next AGM early next year.
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