At Bike Pirates an AGM is held every year to elect the board of directors and inform their members of previous and future activities. It is an opportunity for the shareholders and partners to receive copies of the company’s accounts as well as reviewing fiscal information for the past year and asking any questions regarding the directions the business will take in the future.

Agenda Items for Bike Pirates AGM:

Introduction: Review of Bike Pirates’ mission statement, structure and goals

Review of Bike Pirates operations for 2011
– open shop hours (general business review)
– the building (construction, issues to be resolved, landlords and lease)
– finances (income, expenses, growth)

Secondary projects review
– offsite and workshop opportunities *would be great to have a list of the groups/orgs. we now have a working relationship with*
– cooking programming and garden initiative
– events in the space (ours and others’) (including last year’s Bike!Bike!)

Committees
– review of committee structure proposed at previous AGM
– reports from current committees
– request for volunteers to join and steer committees, new or old

Board of directors
– review of current board and its organization processes
– elect new members

Future plans and goals
– finance
– the space
– the collective
– hours and programming
– ongoing projects with other organizations