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Election results

Council

The ballot for Council closed on 31 March.  A total of 812 valid votes were cast for the five vacancies on Council.  There were 13 invalid votes.  The results are as follows:

The five candidates receiving the most votes will go forward to the AGM for election as Council members.

President’s Day

President’s Day at Burlington House on 4 June will begin with the Annual General Meeting at 11.00 followed by a buffet lunch with the award winners (members with ticket only – £27.50 per head). As in previous years, the recipients of the major medals have been invited to give short talks, and the Awards Ceremony will be followed by presentations from Lyell, Murchison, William Smith and Wollaston medallists (details below).

To obtain luncheon tickets please send cheques (made payable to the Geological Society) to Stephanie Jones at Burlington House or email [email protected].  Please also contact Stephanie if you wish to attend the afternoon events, for which there is no charge.

Timetable

• 11.00               Annual General Meeting (members only)
• 12.30               Lunch with the Award winners (members with tickets only)
• 14.00               Awards Ceremony
• 15.15               Talks by Lyell, Murchison and William Smith medallists
• 16.30               Tea
• 17.00               Talk by Wollaston Medallist
• 17.30               President’s closing remarks
• 17.40 – 19.30    Drinks reception

AGM Agenda

Apologies

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 5 June 2013

Appointment of Scrutineers for the ballots for Council and Officers

Ballot for Council

• Annual Report and Accounts for 2013
• President’s Report
• Secretaries’ Reports
• Treasurer’s Report
• Comments from Fellows
• Formal acceptance of the Annual Report and Accounts for 2013 and approval of the Budget for 2014
• Annual Fellowship subscriptions 2015
• Deaths
• Report of Scrutineers on the ballot for Council
• Ballot for Officers
• Appointment of Auditors
• Report of Scrutineers on the ballot for Officers
• Election of new Fellows
• Any other business
• Provisional date of next Annual General Meeting

Talks by Medallists

• Maureen Raymo (Wollaston Medal), Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University: The Pliocene Sea Level Paradox
• Julian Pearce (Murchison Medal), Professor Emeritus, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University: Geochemical fingerprinting of rocks and minerals
• Peter Styles (William Smith Medal), Professor of Applied and Environmental Geophysics, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, Keele University: A journey with maps
• Martin Brasier (Lyell Medal), Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Oxford: In search of the earliest life on Earth

Annual Fellowship subscriptions 2015

Council agreed to the following subscription rates for 2015 at its meeting on 2 April 2014.  These will go forward to Fellows to agree at the AGM.

At its meeting on 2 April Council agreed to recommend to the Fellowship for approval at the Annual General Meeting the subscription rates for 2015 shown below.  The annual increase in CPI at the end of February 2014 was 1.7% and this is the inflator used for the 2015 subscription rates.  Depending on their personal circumstances, Fellows may be able to claim tax relief on the cost of their Fellowship subscriptions.

Recognising that they are the future of the Society and we must attract and retain them, Council further proposes that, as in 2014, there should be no increase to the Junior Candidate Fellow and Candidate Fellow fees.

As reported last year, Chartership validation and annual registration fees no longer cover the full cost of providing those services and it was agreed at the Annual General Meeting in 2013 to raise the validation fee incrementally over a three year period to £85 (2014), £95 (2015) and £100 (2016) and the annual registration fee to £35 (2014), £42 (2015) and £48 (2016).

Council meetings and OGMs

The dates for meetings of Council and Ordinary General Meetings until June 2015 will be as follows:

• OGMs: 18 June 2014; 25 September 2014; 26 November 2014; 4 February 2015; 8 April 2015
• Council: 18 June 2014; 25 & 26 September 2014 (residential); 26 November 2014; 4 February 2015; 8 April 2015