Okay.
So here is how it works. I would like I state that I was fuzzy on this but Now I am much clearer, thanks to Kevin's excellent explanation.
The Membership year for the Parramatta District Football club is from the 1st of August - 31st of July. Most renewals happen in December when you still have more than 7 months to run on your membership, that is why you can get into the AGM with last years badge.
Your membership year starts from when lodge your application. So if you lodge your application on the 30th of July (even if not approved until the August or September Board Meeting) you are a member for that year membership year.
The Voting Rights are available after the remaining period of your first membership year and then 2 years till the 31st of July.
So in the Case above, the member would have been a financial member for 2 years and 2 days and would get voting rights. Someone Joining on the 2nd of August would have to wait 2 years, 11 Months, and 30 days and so on.
So if I lodged a form on the 30th of July 2007. I go to the 31st of July as the Remainder of my first membership year, then the 31st of July 2008 as my 2nd year and the 31 of July 2009 as my 3rd year. with Voting rights in the 2010 membership year.
I also asked about membership numbers, the club has 916. The Number reported in the Annual report for 2007 was incorrect due to the Database Problems that Chris Jurd spoke to in the AGM, and spoke about Kevin getting involved to fix it I believe.
About 300 of those members were not notified of the AGM and Kevin believes he received a phonecall from all 300 of them, and took their details and worked with the Database manager to get it all fixed up. The Last time the Database manager was on site, he gave Kevin a membership print out showing 916 members of the football club. (this includes life members, non-voting and voting)
