YORK City's managing director Jason McGill has assured fans of his intentions should the proposal to make his company JM Packaging majority shareholders of the football club be accepted.

The Minstermen's Supporters' Trust will vote on a motion to make the Malton-based business 75 per cent - plus one share - owners of the club at a special general meeting in the Tempest Anderson Hall on Tuesday, June 6.

City's Trust are currently 85 per cent majority shareholders but McGill shares the Trust's view that his company's proposal provides the only solution to mounting financial problems at KitKat Crescent, reasoning that, without an immediate cash injection, the club's existence would be put at risk.

McGill said: "I want Trust members to understand I am a life-long York City supporter who cares deeply about the club and wants to see it flourish and prosper. JM Packaging has offered this essential funding to create a future for York City and is dedicated to the continuation of a true community club with active Supporters' Trust involvement.

"In order to have the best chance of returning to the Football League, the club and Trust boards believe York City should maintain its current infrastructure with a youth system, reserve team, a full-time first team squad, a professional manager and team of coaches who can take this club forward. To do this, the club requires additional funding which my company is willing to provide.

"I know supporters' main concern will be the future protection of the ground and, along with the Trust, I am committed to ensuring Bootham Crescent, as well as our new ground, is protected for the future benefit of York City and its supporters."

A Trust board spokesman re-iterated that it is their belief that members should support the JMP proposal.

He said: "If there was a queue of people prepared to put hundreds of thousands of pounds into the club and to spend huge amounts of their time to run it, we might have been in a position to put more proposals to the members.

"In reality, while it is frustrating and disappointing to relinquish some of the Trust's ownership stake in the club, we're perhaps fortunate to at least have one supporter, Jason, who is prepared and able to provide a solution."