Continuity Review of Circles — Minutes

Present: eleven stewards. In the chair: A. Yusuf.

1. The review covered forty-one recognised circles and the returns for

the three years to September 2018. Thirty-eight were found to be in

ordinary condition and were continued without comment, which is the

correct outcome of a review and not a compliment.

2. RANGELEY. The evening had been prepared, read, and cleared by the

same member for eleven years. When she was unable to attend for a

season, the circle did not meet. The review found the fault to lie in

the arrangement and not in any person, and noted that the

convenership had been laid down and taken up again in a manner that

met PRO/1994/05 in form and defeated it in substance. Recognition

withdrawn.

3. KLAMATH FALLS. The circle met regularly for eighteen months after

its partner organisation closed and took up no other commitment. It

was asked whether it wished to and answered that it did not.

Recognition withdrawn on that answer.

4. VILLACH. No ordinary meeting in the preceding year. The book held

four dates and nothing else. Recognition withdrawn. The members had

individually continued to attend at Ljubljana and were written to

accordingly.

5. It was agreed that the notice at MEM/1996/form be sent in each case,

and that each notice state in terms that membership is unaffected.

The circles were dissolved. The members were not.

6. The stewardship declined to publish a table of the three grounds

beside the names, on the ground that a table invites a reader to

rank them. The grounds are recorded here and in the returns.

7. It was further agreed that the count of recognised circles stands at

thirty-eight, and that the figure be printed without explanation in

the report, since the report is not the place to explain a count.