Post by transparent on Mar 24, 2017 20:54:27 GMT
The following questions were written by a number of concerned FC United members.
1. What is the salary of the current CEO?
2. Was the CEO previously employed by Bolton Wanderers or the hotel company attached to their stadium?
3. How much more is the CEO’s salary compared to the salary of the previous general manager?
4. Is the CEO eligible for a bonus?
5. How much is the maximum payment that the CEO could receive per year?
6. How many people applied for the post of CEO?
7. How many people were shortlisted for the post of CEO?
8. How many people were actually interviewed for the post of CEO?
9. How was the shortlisting done for the post of CEO?
10. Were any applicants for the post of CEO told they did not meet the post requirements without going through a formal shortlisting process?
11. Is it true that an applicant wasn’t interviewed for the post of CEO despite:
a. having previously been the commercial manager on the committee of a local non-league club playing at our level;
b. being the owner of a community sports-related business;
c. volunteering as the chair of a community facility, owned and run on a very similar cooperative basis as FC United;
d. having previously worked on a high level strategy document for FC United?
12. Is it true that the main reason for the refusal to interview this apparently suitable candidate is because he had previously been targeted in the 101 damnations questions?
13. Is it true that another reason for the refusal to interview this apparently suitable candidate is because he had previously worked with a member of the current Board on a project for FC United?
14. Is it true that the member of the current Board with whom this apparently suitable candidate worked on a project for FC United, was the single individual to whom all applications for the post of CEO were sent unopened?
15. What is the day rate for the current person in charge of selling advertising for the club?
16. How was the current person in charge of selling advertising recruited?
17. How many days a week does the current person in charge of selling advertising work?
18. How many of his working days does the current person in charge of selling advertising spend in the FC office?
19. If he works offsite, how are the hours worked by the current person in charge of selling advertising checked?
20. How much revenue has the current person in charge of selling advertising generated since he was appointed?
21. How much has the current person in charge of selling advertising cost the club in total?
22. Is it true that the current contractor in charge of selling advertising attended the office Christmas party, even though it was funded by money raised by fans and given to the club as a thank you for all the hard work done by the office staff who had kept the club going during the period from spring 2016?
23. Why did we promote a party for FC United sponsors asking them to respond to the company email address of the current person in charge of selling advertising instead of an FC United email address?
24. As the current person in charge of selling advertising now has the contact details of those who responded, what measures have we taken to ensure that the contact details for FC United sponsors are not touted elsewhere when this individual’s consultancy work for us finishes?
25. For that sponsors’ party on Thursday 12 January 2017, on what basis did we calculate how many people to cater for?
26. Is it true that only six people turned up to sponsors’ party on Thursday 12 January 2017, but 40 were catered for?
27. If so, how will this situation of over-catering for a failed sponsors event be avoided in the future?
28. Was this planning discussed in advance with the current person in charge of selling advertising?
29. What plans are there to recoup the loss for this failed event from the company of the contractor in charge of selling advertising?
30. How much did the previous agency person selling advertising cost FC United in total, including the full agency costs?
31. How much revenue did the previous agency person selling advertising generate?
32. Why was the CEO allowed to make personal and unsubstantiated comments about current loyal members of staff in a board commissioned internal operational review?
33. What are the reasons for making the Finance Manager redundant?
34. What role did the board have in the redundancy of the Finance Manager?
35. What training or development was offered to the Finance Manager before redundancy was considered?
36. What is the day/hourly rate that the club is paying for the agency Finance Manager who started with the club on Monday 27 February?
37. Why was the agency Finance Manager left in the office on at least one occasion on his own without supervision?
38. What are the reasons for making the Office Manager redundant, especially when the postholder had recently been promoted?
39. What is the total cost of all the planned redundancies e.g. the total of the payments being made to all staff that will be made redundant?
40. What alternative arrangements were made to manage the function room bars after the Bar Manager was made redundant?
41. Why did there not seem to be a plan for the game the day after Bar Manager left and in fact, the second bar was closed all day?
42. Who was the personal licence holder for the game the day after Bar Manager left and when were the Council informed of the change to licensee
43. What is the cost price of the ingredients, including the frozen ready cooked burgers, which are being sold as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’ for £3.50?
44. What are the actual ingredients of those frozen ready cooked burgers, being sold as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’
45. How are those frozen ready cooked burgers, being sold as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’, in keeping with the members’ expressed opinion that food sold by FC United should be freshly made?
46. What is the opinion about FC United selling frozen ready cooked burgers, as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’, from the member who has had a long-standing agreement to sell burgers outside the ground?
47. What plans are there to ask experienced and knowledgeable members to form a sub-group to review the food and drink offer if the club is concerned that it is not generating sufficient revenue?
48. What is the current cost per game of hiring paid catering kiosk staff as there is now a lack of volunteers?
49. Have other food concessions been approached to replace the independent suppliers that have left since the ground has opened e.g. Fat Annie’s?
50. Is it true that the CEO is considering installing a vending machine, even in view of the club policy of promoting healthier, fresh food and the well publicised health effects of sugary drinks and chocolate, especially for children?
51. When the experienced chef is replaced with an employee with lower skills on a lower wage, will fresh ingredients still be used for the preparation at the ground of the hot meals, that have received numerous positive comments from members, fans, players and officials?
52. What were the full details of the investigation undertaken into the theft of £420 from till takings in the function room at the home game with Alfreton Town on Saturday 8 October 2016?
53. Is it true that the long-standing volunteer who was counting takings after each game was not interviewed as part of the investigations into the theft of till takings at the home game with Alfreton Town on Saturday 8 October 2016?
54. On how many occasions, before or since that date, have there been takings from a bar till that have not included any £20 notes at the end of the event?
55. Was there an investigation into the use of private email data related to FC United that was then used to send two emails to members and fans from an unknown source?
56. If there was an investigation into the unauthorised use of private email data related to FC United, what was the outcome?
57. What plans have been put into place to ensure private email data related to FC United cannot be used inappropriately?
58. Who controls the IT systems in FC United?
59. What qualifications, does the person who controls the IT systems in FC United have?
60. Have intimidating or offensive text messages been sent to staff at the club in the last twelve months?
61. Have the board been asked to investigate such texts?
62. If so, what was the outcome of the investigation into intimidating or offensive text messages?
63. Why are people allowed to make unsubstantiated claims on the official forum about previous employees and current and previous board members without recourse?
64. Why are house rules for posters on the official forum not enforced, in particular this phrase “do not abuse or harass or generally annoy your fellow members and keep the language clean”?
65. Have additional stewards been brought in for any home game this season from the company that also supplies stewards for Bolton Wanderers? If so, what was the total payment for these stewards?
66. Why do board members discuss possible resolutions with the unelected governance team?
67. Why is there no board appointed governance committee?
68. How many matches in the season 2016-17 has the club had the full 17 traffic marshals as required by the section 106 planning restrictions?
69. How many matches in the season 2016-17 has the club had a Crowd Doctor on site?
70. If a doctor has been on site for games, has he/she undertaken the Football Association courses in Immediate Medical Care or Pre-Hospital Care, or equivalent?
71. How many matches in the season 2016-17 have had a crowd sufficient to require a crowd doctor, i.e. over 2000?
72. How many turnstiles were open for the Salford home game on Saturday 28 January 2017 when there was a crowd of 4,158?
73. What were the dates of the meetings that have been held with the local residents in the season 2016-17?
74. What are the dates of the meetings planned to be held with the local residents for the rest of the calendar year 2017?
75. How many of the meetings were called by FC United and how many by the councillors and residents of Moston?
76. What were the dates of the meetings that have been held with Moston Juniors in the season 2016-17?
77. What are the dates of the meetings planned to be held with Moston Juniors for the rest of the calendar year 2017?
78. Are any events, such as Course You Can Malcolm events, held in the ground without payment for the facility, despite the fact that such payments are eligible for VAT to be reclaimed against the VAT charged on the ground build?
79. Is FC United a current member of Supporters Direct (SD)?
80. Please give the dates if there was any period when FC United’s Supporters Direct (SD) membership was not up to date
81. Is FC United a current member of the Football Supporters Federation (FSF)?
82. Please give the dates if there was any period when FC United’s Football Supporters Federation (FSF) membership was not up to date
83. Is it true that the friendly game against Salzburg held on Saturday 4 February 2017 was announced on the club’s public facing website before permission was received from the FA and the National League?
84. How much did the friendly game against Salzburg raise as profit for each club?
85. How many games have the police been in attendance at Broadhurst Park in the season 2016-17?
86. What has been the cost for policing at Broadhurst Park so far in the season 2016-17?
87. Who from FC United attends the pre-game meetings that contribute to decisions about whether policing is required?
88. Why were pubs in Manchester being told that police advice about the Salzburg game was that a crowd of 4,500 was expected and 300 of those, particularly from the Austrian fans, would be high risk?
89. How many season tickets have been sold for season 2016-17 and how does that compare to the previous four seasons?
90. How many memberships have been sold for season 2016-17 and how does that compare to the previous four seasons?
91. What is the total home crowd attendance for season 2016-17 so far and how does that compare to an equivalent period for the previous four seasons?
92. What is the cost of producing the programme in season 2016-17?
93. How much profit (not income) has the programme made so far in season 2016-17?
94. Is it profiteering to sell ‘souvenir tickets’ at a cost of £2, which don’t get a fan entry to the game?
95. Whose decision was it to sell ‘souvenir tickets’ and how much did it raise?
96. Please list all the functions or events held at Broadhurst Park since 1 July 2016 to date
97. What is the profit (not income) made from each event held at Broadhurst Park since 1 July 2016 to date?
98. Please list all the functions or events held at Broadhurst Park from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016
99. What was the profit (not income) made from each event held at Broadhurst Park from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016?
100. How much did we pay the professional league club Rochdale for playing a friendly in summer 2016?
101. How does the money we paid to the professional league club Rochdale for playing a friendly in summer 2016 compare to the amount paid to fellow non-league club Hereford?
102. Who are all the current sponsors
103. What is the financial contribution of each current sponsor to the club?
104. What specific benefits does each current sponsor receive from the club?
105. Why did a current board member ring an FC branch to tell them to bring forward the date of their quiz night?
106. Why were the International Women’s Day activities that took place at BP not widely advertised on the website and social media?
107. Why was a Supporters Direct conference not advertised on the club’s Twitter feed despite repeated requests?
108. Was an instruction given from the council to remove the apple trees planted by FC United volunteer group known as the Diggers?
109. Is it true that the Diggers have decided not to volunteer anymore?
110. What will be the cost of maintaining the initiatives and routine work previously done by the Diggers?
111. Have the terms of the new Holts deal been changed since it was first agreed? If so, how have they changed?
112. Why, if the club urgently need to increase its income, have the increases in Holt’s prices to the club not been reflected in an increase to prices charged?
113. Have any representatives from Manchester City Council attended any board meetings in the last twelve months and if so, what was the reason for their attendance?
114. Is it true that the end of year budget position in June 2016 was £80,000 in the black?"
115. If so, how did an £80,000 underspend on the 2015-16 budget become a financial crisis by November 2016?
116. What work was done to assess the negative effects before the Board made a public statement in November 2016 that the club was in danger of going broke?
117. Is it true that Holts insisted on a less advantageous deal, because their confidence in the club was destroyed by the public statement on the club's dwindling finances becoming highlighted by mainstream media including the Manchester Evening News and the BBC?
118. Is it true that the content e.g. text of the second Power to Change bid was almost identical to the first?
119. What plans have been made to raise the £100,000 needed to match the less advantageous Power to Change grant that is now being applied for after the previous bid, that did not require any matched funding, was sabotaged?
120. What contingencies have been made for completing the St Mary's Road End concourse if the Power to Change bid is not successful?
121. What plans have been made to raise the money needed to complete the two ends of the Main Stand, which is required to be done by summer 2017 under our planning conditions?
122. How has the budgeting been mitigated to cover the loss of income from regular daily use of the St Mary's Road End concourse, which was planned with a business plan signed off by the bank, the council and Power to Change, the intended grant funders for that project, which was scheduled to raise £160,000 income from summer 2016?
123. Does the club currently have a policy of employing local residents if possible? How many current paid staff or contractors live within walking distance of the ground?
124. Did the board authorize the CEO to meet with a ‘private investor’ and can the board confirm the purpose and outcome of this meeting?
125. How many volunteers were working on a typical match day last season and how many are working this season?
126. The CEO report of 23/2/17 mentions that the club is asking permission from MCC to relax the planning conditions to hold concerts on the pitch. What consultation has been undertaken with local residents and members to acquire support for this proposal?
127. For how many seasons has the current CEO been a member of FC United?
128. How many one to one meetings have been held by the current CEO with staff?
129. Why has there only been one team meeting held by the current CEO, especially given the difficult situation that staff have had to work in?
130. Please could you give a breakdown of costs spent on the Community Cabin.
131. Is it true that the budget for the Community Cabin this was £22k raised by the Crowdfunder appeal and £6k given by MCC? If so, how has this been spent?
132. What investigations have been made to find out why there are no current female members of the board and are any steps being taken to address this?
133. Why was an operational email about the Kidderminster home game sent to a non member who wasn’t involved in match day operations in any way?
1. What is the salary of the current CEO?
2. Was the CEO previously employed by Bolton Wanderers or the hotel company attached to their stadium?
3. How much more is the CEO’s salary compared to the salary of the previous general manager?
4. Is the CEO eligible for a bonus?
5. How much is the maximum payment that the CEO could receive per year?
6. How many people applied for the post of CEO?
7. How many people were shortlisted for the post of CEO?
8. How many people were actually interviewed for the post of CEO?
9. How was the shortlisting done for the post of CEO?
10. Were any applicants for the post of CEO told they did not meet the post requirements without going through a formal shortlisting process?
11. Is it true that an applicant wasn’t interviewed for the post of CEO despite:
a. having previously been the commercial manager on the committee of a local non-league club playing at our level;
b. being the owner of a community sports-related business;
c. volunteering as the chair of a community facility, owned and run on a very similar cooperative basis as FC United;
d. having previously worked on a high level strategy document for FC United?
12. Is it true that the main reason for the refusal to interview this apparently suitable candidate is because he had previously been targeted in the 101 damnations questions?
13. Is it true that another reason for the refusal to interview this apparently suitable candidate is because he had previously worked with a member of the current Board on a project for FC United?
14. Is it true that the member of the current Board with whom this apparently suitable candidate worked on a project for FC United, was the single individual to whom all applications for the post of CEO were sent unopened?
15. What is the day rate for the current person in charge of selling advertising for the club?
16. How was the current person in charge of selling advertising recruited?
17. How many days a week does the current person in charge of selling advertising work?
18. How many of his working days does the current person in charge of selling advertising spend in the FC office?
19. If he works offsite, how are the hours worked by the current person in charge of selling advertising checked?
20. How much revenue has the current person in charge of selling advertising generated since he was appointed?
21. How much has the current person in charge of selling advertising cost the club in total?
22. Is it true that the current contractor in charge of selling advertising attended the office Christmas party, even though it was funded by money raised by fans and given to the club as a thank you for all the hard work done by the office staff who had kept the club going during the period from spring 2016?
23. Why did we promote a party for FC United sponsors asking them to respond to the company email address of the current person in charge of selling advertising instead of an FC United email address?
24. As the current person in charge of selling advertising now has the contact details of those who responded, what measures have we taken to ensure that the contact details for FC United sponsors are not touted elsewhere when this individual’s consultancy work for us finishes?
25. For that sponsors’ party on Thursday 12 January 2017, on what basis did we calculate how many people to cater for?
26. Is it true that only six people turned up to sponsors’ party on Thursday 12 January 2017, but 40 were catered for?
27. If so, how will this situation of over-catering for a failed sponsors event be avoided in the future?
28. Was this planning discussed in advance with the current person in charge of selling advertising?
29. What plans are there to recoup the loss for this failed event from the company of the contractor in charge of selling advertising?
30. How much did the previous agency person selling advertising cost FC United in total, including the full agency costs?
31. How much revenue did the previous agency person selling advertising generate?
32. Why was the CEO allowed to make personal and unsubstantiated comments about current loyal members of staff in a board commissioned internal operational review?
33. What are the reasons for making the Finance Manager redundant?
34. What role did the board have in the redundancy of the Finance Manager?
35. What training or development was offered to the Finance Manager before redundancy was considered?
36. What is the day/hourly rate that the club is paying for the agency Finance Manager who started with the club on Monday 27 February?
37. Why was the agency Finance Manager left in the office on at least one occasion on his own without supervision?
38. What are the reasons for making the Office Manager redundant, especially when the postholder had recently been promoted?
39. What is the total cost of all the planned redundancies e.g. the total of the payments being made to all staff that will be made redundant?
40. What alternative arrangements were made to manage the function room bars after the Bar Manager was made redundant?
41. Why did there not seem to be a plan for the game the day after Bar Manager left and in fact, the second bar was closed all day?
42. Who was the personal licence holder for the game the day after Bar Manager left and when were the Council informed of the change to licensee
43. What is the cost price of the ingredients, including the frozen ready cooked burgers, which are being sold as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’ for £3.50?
44. What are the actual ingredients of those frozen ready cooked burgers, being sold as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’
45. How are those frozen ready cooked burgers, being sold as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’, in keeping with the members’ expressed opinion that food sold by FC United should be freshly made?
46. What is the opinion about FC United selling frozen ready cooked burgers, as ‘Broadhurst Burgers’, from the member who has had a long-standing agreement to sell burgers outside the ground?
47. What plans are there to ask experienced and knowledgeable members to form a sub-group to review the food and drink offer if the club is concerned that it is not generating sufficient revenue?
48. What is the current cost per game of hiring paid catering kiosk staff as there is now a lack of volunteers?
49. Have other food concessions been approached to replace the independent suppliers that have left since the ground has opened e.g. Fat Annie’s?
50. Is it true that the CEO is considering installing a vending machine, even in view of the club policy of promoting healthier, fresh food and the well publicised health effects of sugary drinks and chocolate, especially for children?
51. When the experienced chef is replaced with an employee with lower skills on a lower wage, will fresh ingredients still be used for the preparation at the ground of the hot meals, that have received numerous positive comments from members, fans, players and officials?
52. What were the full details of the investigation undertaken into the theft of £420 from till takings in the function room at the home game with Alfreton Town on Saturday 8 October 2016?
53. Is it true that the long-standing volunteer who was counting takings after each game was not interviewed as part of the investigations into the theft of till takings at the home game with Alfreton Town on Saturday 8 October 2016?
54. On how many occasions, before or since that date, have there been takings from a bar till that have not included any £20 notes at the end of the event?
55. Was there an investigation into the use of private email data related to FC United that was then used to send two emails to members and fans from an unknown source?
56. If there was an investigation into the unauthorised use of private email data related to FC United, what was the outcome?
57. What plans have been put into place to ensure private email data related to FC United cannot be used inappropriately?
58. Who controls the IT systems in FC United?
59. What qualifications, does the person who controls the IT systems in FC United have?
60. Have intimidating or offensive text messages been sent to staff at the club in the last twelve months?
61. Have the board been asked to investigate such texts?
62. If so, what was the outcome of the investigation into intimidating or offensive text messages?
63. Why are people allowed to make unsubstantiated claims on the official forum about previous employees and current and previous board members without recourse?
64. Why are house rules for posters on the official forum not enforced, in particular this phrase “do not abuse or harass or generally annoy your fellow members and keep the language clean”?
65. Have additional stewards been brought in for any home game this season from the company that also supplies stewards for Bolton Wanderers? If so, what was the total payment for these stewards?
66. Why do board members discuss possible resolutions with the unelected governance team?
67. Why is there no board appointed governance committee?
68. How many matches in the season 2016-17 has the club had the full 17 traffic marshals as required by the section 106 planning restrictions?
69. How many matches in the season 2016-17 has the club had a Crowd Doctor on site?
70. If a doctor has been on site for games, has he/she undertaken the Football Association courses in Immediate Medical Care or Pre-Hospital Care, or equivalent?
71. How many matches in the season 2016-17 have had a crowd sufficient to require a crowd doctor, i.e. over 2000?
72. How many turnstiles were open for the Salford home game on Saturday 28 January 2017 when there was a crowd of 4,158?
73. What were the dates of the meetings that have been held with the local residents in the season 2016-17?
74. What are the dates of the meetings planned to be held with the local residents for the rest of the calendar year 2017?
75. How many of the meetings were called by FC United and how many by the councillors and residents of Moston?
76. What were the dates of the meetings that have been held with Moston Juniors in the season 2016-17?
77. What are the dates of the meetings planned to be held with Moston Juniors for the rest of the calendar year 2017?
78. Are any events, such as Course You Can Malcolm events, held in the ground without payment for the facility, despite the fact that such payments are eligible for VAT to be reclaimed against the VAT charged on the ground build?
79. Is FC United a current member of Supporters Direct (SD)?
80. Please give the dates if there was any period when FC United’s Supporters Direct (SD) membership was not up to date
81. Is FC United a current member of the Football Supporters Federation (FSF)?
82. Please give the dates if there was any period when FC United’s Football Supporters Federation (FSF) membership was not up to date
83. Is it true that the friendly game against Salzburg held on Saturday 4 February 2017 was announced on the club’s public facing website before permission was received from the FA and the National League?
84. How much did the friendly game against Salzburg raise as profit for each club?
85. How many games have the police been in attendance at Broadhurst Park in the season 2016-17?
86. What has been the cost for policing at Broadhurst Park so far in the season 2016-17?
87. Who from FC United attends the pre-game meetings that contribute to decisions about whether policing is required?
88. Why were pubs in Manchester being told that police advice about the Salzburg game was that a crowd of 4,500 was expected and 300 of those, particularly from the Austrian fans, would be high risk?
89. How many season tickets have been sold for season 2016-17 and how does that compare to the previous four seasons?
90. How many memberships have been sold for season 2016-17 and how does that compare to the previous four seasons?
91. What is the total home crowd attendance for season 2016-17 so far and how does that compare to an equivalent period for the previous four seasons?
92. What is the cost of producing the programme in season 2016-17?
93. How much profit (not income) has the programme made so far in season 2016-17?
94. Is it profiteering to sell ‘souvenir tickets’ at a cost of £2, which don’t get a fan entry to the game?
95. Whose decision was it to sell ‘souvenir tickets’ and how much did it raise?
96. Please list all the functions or events held at Broadhurst Park since 1 July 2016 to date
97. What is the profit (not income) made from each event held at Broadhurst Park since 1 July 2016 to date?
98. Please list all the functions or events held at Broadhurst Park from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016
99. What was the profit (not income) made from each event held at Broadhurst Park from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016?
100. How much did we pay the professional league club Rochdale for playing a friendly in summer 2016?
101. How does the money we paid to the professional league club Rochdale for playing a friendly in summer 2016 compare to the amount paid to fellow non-league club Hereford?
102. Who are all the current sponsors
103. What is the financial contribution of each current sponsor to the club?
104. What specific benefits does each current sponsor receive from the club?
105. Why did a current board member ring an FC branch to tell them to bring forward the date of their quiz night?
106. Why were the International Women’s Day activities that took place at BP not widely advertised on the website and social media?
107. Why was a Supporters Direct conference not advertised on the club’s Twitter feed despite repeated requests?
108. Was an instruction given from the council to remove the apple trees planted by FC United volunteer group known as the Diggers?
109. Is it true that the Diggers have decided not to volunteer anymore?
110. What will be the cost of maintaining the initiatives and routine work previously done by the Diggers?
111. Have the terms of the new Holts deal been changed since it was first agreed? If so, how have they changed?
112. Why, if the club urgently need to increase its income, have the increases in Holt’s prices to the club not been reflected in an increase to prices charged?
113. Have any representatives from Manchester City Council attended any board meetings in the last twelve months and if so, what was the reason for their attendance?
114. Is it true that the end of year budget position in June 2016 was £80,000 in the black?"
115. If so, how did an £80,000 underspend on the 2015-16 budget become a financial crisis by November 2016?
116. What work was done to assess the negative effects before the Board made a public statement in November 2016 that the club was in danger of going broke?
117. Is it true that Holts insisted on a less advantageous deal, because their confidence in the club was destroyed by the public statement on the club's dwindling finances becoming highlighted by mainstream media including the Manchester Evening News and the BBC?
118. Is it true that the content e.g. text of the second Power to Change bid was almost identical to the first?
119. What plans have been made to raise the £100,000 needed to match the less advantageous Power to Change grant that is now being applied for after the previous bid, that did not require any matched funding, was sabotaged?
120. What contingencies have been made for completing the St Mary's Road End concourse if the Power to Change bid is not successful?
121. What plans have been made to raise the money needed to complete the two ends of the Main Stand, which is required to be done by summer 2017 under our planning conditions?
122. How has the budgeting been mitigated to cover the loss of income from regular daily use of the St Mary's Road End concourse, which was planned with a business plan signed off by the bank, the council and Power to Change, the intended grant funders for that project, which was scheduled to raise £160,000 income from summer 2016?
123. Does the club currently have a policy of employing local residents if possible? How many current paid staff or contractors live within walking distance of the ground?
124. Did the board authorize the CEO to meet with a ‘private investor’ and can the board confirm the purpose and outcome of this meeting?
125. How many volunteers were working on a typical match day last season and how many are working this season?
126. The CEO report of 23/2/17 mentions that the club is asking permission from MCC to relax the planning conditions to hold concerts on the pitch. What consultation has been undertaken with local residents and members to acquire support for this proposal?
127. For how many seasons has the current CEO been a member of FC United?
128. How many one to one meetings have been held by the current CEO with staff?
129. Why has there only been one team meeting held by the current CEO, especially given the difficult situation that staff have had to work in?
130. Please could you give a breakdown of costs spent on the Community Cabin.
131. Is it true that the budget for the Community Cabin this was £22k raised by the Crowdfunder appeal and £6k given by MCC? If so, how has this been spent?
132. What investigations have been made to find out why there are no current female members of the board and are any steps being taken to address this?
133. Why was an operational email about the Kidderminster home game sent to a non member who wasn’t involved in match day operations in any way?