The Trust has received the result of the 2017 trustee election, which is reproduced below in the prescribed form.
It has been established that 23 Trust members (out of a total eligible to vote in the 2017 election of 925) were not sent ballot papers by the deadline. This was due to an administrative error on the part of the Trust.
As there was a clear winner in the election, this did not affect the outcome.
The mistake arose during the process of removing one associate member (who are not eligible to vote) from the spreadsheet containing the membership list. This inadvertently resulted in 23 full members being removed from the spreadsheet used for the election.
We have written to the 23 affected members to inform them and apologise.
We apologise for this mistake. In the future we will have procedures in place to avoid a recurrence.
The votes for this year’s Trust Council election have been counted and verified by our auditors, haysmacintyre. 407 valid ballot papers were received. There were 4 rejected papers. One resident Trustee position was up for election, with two candidates standing. Brian Ingram received 116 votes. Michael David White received 291 votes. Therefore Michael David White has been re-elected as a Trustee.
