5th August 2011, 09:00 PM
Vote count - as sent in a letter to all members of AAI&S 158 ballots in total; 2 returned with wrong address, 71 not-returned by members, 62 for the merger, 23 against the merger... motion carried by a majority vote of 39.
So with only a 53% turnout I have to agree that it was apathy that was behind this merger, although I'm not sure 'merger' is the right term. The AAI&S voted "To dissolve the Association of Archaeological Illustrators & Surveyors and to transfer all
assets and liabilities to the Institute of Field Archaeologists (trading as the Institute for Archaeologists)". I think the Chair of the ISSIG at the IfA is a safe pair of hands to try and keep some of the AAI&S's identity going, especially as he has also been Chair of the AAI&S in the past but.... I'm still sceptical as I think the AAI&S was a different organisation for a reason and it remains to be seen if that identity can survive within the IfA.
Wonder if it'll be the usual suspects at the ISSIG?
So with only a 53% turnout I have to agree that it was apathy that was behind this merger, although I'm not sure 'merger' is the right term. The AAI&S voted "To dissolve the Association of Archaeological Illustrators & Surveyors and to transfer all
assets and liabilities to the Institute of Field Archaeologists (trading as the Institute for Archaeologists)". I think the Chair of the ISSIG at the IfA is a safe pair of hands to try and keep some of the AAI&S's identity going, especially as he has also been Chair of the AAI&S in the past but.... I'm still sceptical as I think the AAI&S was a different organisation for a reason and it remains to be seen if that identity can survive within the IfA.
Wonder if it'll be the usual suspects at the ISSIG?