Association of Cricket Officials Issue 27 | Page 9

8.

Will ACO Still Have the Same
Executive Staff?

Broadly, yes. We are rightly very proud
of our Executive staff who work very
hard for us and often go beyond the call
of duty to deliver what we need. In the
short term, nothing will change, but
some members of staff will join new
integrated departments of ECB while
continuing to do the same work. We
have already been given permission to
recruit a new administrator to help the
Head of ACO with some of the more
routine work, such as processing match
officials’ expenses claims, for which we
currently have limited capacity. And of
course, we will not stand in the way of
career development if some members
of our staff seek further professional
development and experience offered by
work elsewhere.
9.

What Are the Benefits of the New
Staffing Arrangements?

Integrating our staff more fully with the
overall structure of ECB will give us
greater access to ECB’s wider resources
such as marketing and IT. The
availability of these facilities will help us
with recruitment and education of
officials for the general betterment of
the game.
10. Why Do We Need a Postal Vote?
Could This Not Have Been Dealt
With at the AGM?
When ECB announced its proposed
reorganisation, the primary objective of
the ACO Board was to achieve the best
outcome for ACO. By not rushing into
hasty decisions, the Board believes it
has achieved this. It is vitally important
to get this right and so, until we had
agreed the structure we needed, we
could not move forward. The restructure
is the most important reform of our
relationship with ECB. That is why we
are holding a postal ballot.
11.

ACO Constitution
Note On Changes – November 2016
The principal points to note in the revised Constitution are as follows:
The Board is now the Management Committee.
There are now seven regions in England and Wales, listed in Appendix 4,
rather than four.
The Aims and Objectives of the Association are unchanged.
ECB ACO will continue to offer the best insurance cover for its members.
The changes to Section 4 reflect the fact that the insurance policy is a
membership service, albeit one to which members attach considerable
importance. But no other membership service is included as a
constitutional requirement; so it is logical that the Constitution does not
need to specify insurance arrangements on behalf of members.
In Section 5, Management Committee, provision is made for all seven
regions in England and Wales to be represented on the Committee.
Section 5.12 provides for the way in which the Chairman and Regional
Representatives are to be appointed. It provides for the Chairman to be
appointed by the Management Committee, which includes ECB, Head of
ACO, the MCC representative, the ECB Umpires’ Manager, and the ICC
(Europe) representative, as well as the se