Special General Meeting: Vote Results
Lancashire Cricket can confirm the results of the voting process following this evening’s Special General Meeting (SGM) which took place at Emirates Old Trafford:
For Resolution 1 - 898 voted AGAINST the Resolution and 610 voted FOR the Resolution.
For Resolution 2 - 1,043 voted AGAINST the Resolution and 452 voted FOR the Resolution.
As a result, neither Resolution was passed. This is the outcome which our Board and Executive Team hoped Members would reach and we are grateful for the support of those Members who voted against the Resolutions.
We would also like to thank all our Members for taking part in the SGM process, and particularly the 1,533 Members who voted on these important issues.
As a Club, we take no pleasure in the Resolutions having been defeated. We believe it is now time for us to come together, in a spirit of compromise, to enable us to work with the ECB and our fellow First-Class Counties to agree on the best possible structure and schedule for the future of domestic cricket.
Following discussion at the SGM, we are concerned about the feeling within a relatively small but, nonetheless, significant group of our Members that the Club does not engage enough with them, and we will work hard to rectify this. We will seek to find appropriate ways of improving the effectiveness of our two-way communication.
It is important to realise however, that the Member-requisitioned SGM process is cumbersome, restrictive, time consuming and extremely expensive to facilitate. For this reason, our preference remains to hold a Members’ Forum with a binding vote once, and only once, we have a concrete proposal emerging from the ECB-led discussions with the First-Class Counties.
Our Members’ Representative Group (MRG) is at the disposal of Members to engage in discussion on all Membership issues, and the Club is ready to hold Members’ Forums as and when appropriate. We encourage our Members, irrespective of their voting preferences at this SGM to engage with our MRG. Our Executive Team and Board are available to support the MRG and engage with Members via this process.
Lancashire Cricket will now continue our discussions with the ECB and our fellow First-Class Counties on the domestic schedule. We will update Members as soon as there is new information to be shared. It should be noted that, in the meantime, we will not engage in speculation on potential scheduling solutions.
Once discussions with the ECB arrive at a final proposal on reform of the future domestic schedule, the Club will publish details of the proposal and the associated binding Member vote. This will be held via a Members’ Forum and its result will have the same effect as if it had been held via an SGM.