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September 11, 2003
AGM Announcement
The next meeting will be Thursday 9th October, 7:30pm at the hall, the first part will be our AGM, and there will be a few formalities to go through.
* if you wish to nominate anyone other than a current officeholder or committee member then please send me email by 2nd October at the latest.
* our accounts will be available for inspection by any member who wishes to do so. Actually they are available anytime, you just have to ask - but at the AGM we'll have them at the meeting.
* if anyone has any other kind of resolution then please email me by that date as well.
The AGM will then be closed and we'll have our normal monthly meeting.
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Notice board
The material to go on our new notice board stuff was approved, it includes new documents about how we work and our Activities which are on the website. Mitra will post them.
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September 9, 2003
Letterhead copying problems
Dianne is finding problems with the Letterhead, which doesn't photocopy well.
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August 21, 2003
Notice Board
Mitra is working on a document of who we are, what we do etc etc. and will manage the board, basically posting anything that goes on the website. If you need access to it for some reason contact Mitra for a key.
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Insurance
GIO sent a questionnaire, we are currently only insured for gatherings of members at the hall. The question came up about what is needed to cover sub-contractors. With insurance costs as they are, this means all work on the hall will have to be done by members as volunteers.
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July 4, 2003
Headed paper
Kali has created a headed paper, if you need a printable copy for official letters then contact Mitra.
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April 15, 2003
Changing AGM date
Need to change the AGM back to October, because DFT couldn't handle the insurance not being at the same time as the AGM, and if we changed the insurance then they could reassess us and start charging us a fortune.
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November 14, 2002
Insurance
TheTHC&PA was lucky enough to receive
public liability insurance cover for another year
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October 7, 2002
Meeting date change
Please Note: the association will now meet on the second Thursday of
every month.
Next meeting is Thursday, November 14th at 7:30 p.m. Colin's Home
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September 22, 2002
Membership reminder
This is a reminder that TSCA memberships expired as of our July meeting.
If you have not renewed yet, please could you send a check for $20 made payable
to "Tyagarah Progress Association" to TSCA, c/o Bodha, Lot 1, Prestons Lane,
Tyagarah, or drop it in at Bodha's house. If you haven't joined yet .... then
please pay your subscription and help support TSCA. While our expenses are
small, they do exist, and we depend on memberships both to function as an
effective group and in order to keep credible with council.
Please remember you are always welcome at the General meetings - the
next one is October 7th at the Tyagarah Hall, and if you prefer not to sit
around in meetings ... then please keep an eye on the web site
href="http://www.tyagarah.org/" eudora="autourl">www.tyagarah.org or your email, and get involved with
whatever issues you care about. Volunteers make projects happen. To help on a
project important to you, you can call 02-6684-8096
and I'll hook you up with whoever is coordinating it.
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July 2, 2002
Election
Since the committee had only been in place since April. Colin, who was sick and unable to attend the AGM, had sent a message that he wishes to withdraw as Secretary (though not from his other roles), since this was short notice and we didn't want to elect someone who was not familiar with the job, Colin was nominated for re-election with the understanding that we would look for someone to replace him. All of the existing officers were nominated and since there were no other nominations they were re-elected unopposed. These are President - Kali Shapiro, Vice President - Joel Fleming, Treasurer - Gwen (Bodha) Gould, and Secretary and Public Officer - Colin Grant.
We had decided in the past that the committee should be the officers plus the people running other approved projects, so this includes Mitra, Michael Robison, Dianne, Bruce, David and Isabel and Eric. These people were nominated and elected unopposed.
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July 1, 2002
AGM held July 1st
The AGM was held on 1st July, to summarise ...
The Secretaries Report was submitted by Mr Colin Grant and
accepted
The Finance Report was submitted by Treasurer Gwen Gould and
accepted. VP, Joel Fleming :
Report
* Variety
of letters to Council regarding roads, rate rises, development
issues
* Contacts
with council and councilors regarding the new for a rural settlement
strategy or Local environmental plan specific to our
area.
*
Need
to work with councilors and maintain high profile Presidents
Report : Kali
Wendorf
* A
great
year
* Formation
of a legal body a major achievement
*
Sub-committees established but many
did not operate independently and needed more volunteers
The core group: Public Officer : Colin Grant; Kali Wendorf : President;
Joel : Vice President; Gwen Gould : Treasurer; Mitra : Web master were all
approved for re-election unopposed.
Emails included where emails or names have been changed : to enable people to
update their mailing lists :-
Kali Wendorf
href="mailto:kali@byronpublications.com">kali@byronpublications.com
Debbie
Sharp
href="mailto:dsharp@byrononline.net">dsharp@byrononline.net
Alan
Lauer
Ed Szlezak
Alok O’Brien
href="mailto:alok@byronpublications.comBruce">alok@byronpublications.com
Bruce
Pixie
Isabel Reid
David Julian New members
at AGM
Will Evans
href="mailto:wille@linknet.com.au">wille@linknet.com.au <
href="mailto:wille@linknet.com.au">mailto:wille@linknet.com.au
Marilyn de Ruyter
href="mailto:peace1953@hotmail.com">peace1953@hotmail.com <
href="mailto:peace1953@hotmail.com">mailto:peace1953@hotmail.com
If you want to see the full formal minutes please contact
Colin
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Marilyn
Marilyn can assist with word
processing after work. Colin has offered assistance from association
regarding Marilyns issues with RTA.
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Members
Bruce has suggested that we have a membership officer,
this will be discussed at the August meeting.
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Subcommittees
A general discussion was had about our subcommittees and their effectiveness. These are currently: - Hall : Bruce Pixie
- Development Hotspots Kali, Colin
- LAMP : Mitra
- RTA/Highway Impacts : Noise, Light & Social
- Greenhouse : Joel
- Walking Track : Kali, Belinda, Isabel, Kumari
- Wildlife Corridor :
Tasks : Government Assistance Applications : Debbie
Top priority : Council funding for LAMP Note taken regarding operation of committees and records. To improve the effectiveness of sub-commitees, we should strengthen our position on records and decreasing the load on association officers by having sub-committee co-ordinators commit to :- - actively managing their area of responsibility
- finding sub-committee members as needed
- organizing meetings
- recording decisions, which are then conveyed to the association for review and approval
Hot issue of the month idea : For time critical issues, we identify, communicate and focus on particular hot issues and resolve them. Rather than having a large number of sub-committees with little manpower, all
just ticking over.
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June 4, 2002
S94 Application
S94 proposal was sent to council and the response from the consultant was positive. We now await the result.
Continue reading "S94 Application"
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June 3, 2002
AGM upcoming
July 1st is our AGM which will be held at the Tyagarah Hall at 7:30pm. The Officers and committee will be up for re-election, all the officers are willing to run again, i.e. Kali - President; Bodha - Treasurer; Colin - Public Officer; Joel - VP. Any nominations for these posts need to be recieved by Colin before 21st June. We normally elect the committee as consisting of all the members who are active with projects, so nominations for these posts can be made at the meeting. Membership fees are due before or at the meeting, and are $20 for the next year.
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May 16, 2002
July is the AGM - preparations at June meeting
July is our AGM, if any members have anything important that they think should be on the agenda, then it should be mentioned prior to June 3rd so that we can plan the AGM at the meeting on that day.
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May 12, 2002
S94 Application
As announced we had a meeting Thursday about the pre-1993 Section 94 contributions. 9 people were there (Kali, Eric, Bodha, Colin, Ed, Dianne, Bruce and me) Email submissions from Tina and Saroja were also considered.
Colin explained more about the need to do planning and resolve the outstanding issues from the Pilot Study to turn it into a LAMP. I'm not going to repeat them here since they were covered in the last update. We agreed that this was our preferred use of the S94 funds.
We also discussed a number of projects for "Plan B" and agreed on the following allocation:
Wildlife Corridor plantings - joining up along Simpsons Creek between the woods near the freeway and those on the hill. $2100
Trees along Gray's Lane, looking for fast growing native trees to get a canopy up. $1600
Intensive Planting of the former picnic area around the junction of Grays Lane and the Highway. $1600
Several projects were considered, but rejected because the cost was much greater than $5000 - that included anything like fixing or widening roads.
Other projects had previously been removed from the list because there are other sources of funds for them - these were listed in the last email.
Minutes of that LAMP meeting are attached.
Continue reading "S94 Application"
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May 6, 2002
Memberships
Annual membership renewals are due in July, before or at the AGM. We need to deal with the issue of membership - for
insurance reasons we need people using the hall regularly to be members, but
this might conflict with our our defined geographical area. We might need to
have two classes of membership, with a cheaper non-voting membership for hall
users. This will be addressed at our next quaterly General
Meeting. We need to reconsider the price of membership, unless there is a consensus to change it, then it will stay at $20/year.
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Insurance
Colin tells us that insurance is due around November or December and is worried that it might rise substantially. Maybe its a good time to let your friendly pollies know that we need some action on the insurance crisis for community groups.
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Insurance
Colin has enquired of the broker - there is no "standard" waiver, so we"ll have to develop our own.
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Changing monthly meeting day
Debbie requested moving the monthly meeting. There was not a lot of support, but we will bring it up at the next quaterly meeting. If people would like to attend meetings, but can"t because of it being on first-mondays, then please send me email and let me know what days are good for you.
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Sub-committees
There was discussion about reviving sub-committees, and organizing in a way that enabled people to work on what they were passionate about without necessarily having to attend the monthly committee meetings. While at the same time we need to maintain accountability. This will be discussed at more at the GM in July.
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April 19, 2002
Blueprint
Joel gave an explanation of the blueprint for how we work (first draft) and it was agreed to continue expanding the detail within same, with suggestions proposed by attendees. Due to the time constraint it was agreed to adopt Blueprint as stands with ability to review same over future meetings.
See "File"
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Vision and Charter
Vision and charter drafts introduced by Dianne. Discussion followed and
by virtue of support, changes and refinements will be made. Dianne agreed to
work towards a second draft and acceptance of same. A vote was proposed and
passed accepting the charter in the interim.
Continue reading "Vision and Charter"
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Projects
At last week's meeting we went through a brainstorming process to look for ideas for projects that people present thought would be of interest, and then prioritised these projects, and took names for people who would help coordinate those projects.
The first seven items with the highest priority first were ....
LAMP - Mitra - mitra@earth.path.net and Dianne 6684-8150
Watching development hot spots - Kali kalishapiro@ozemail.com.au & Colin 6684-7106 Highway Noise wall - David & Isabel 6684-7513, Tina - tinabell@lis.net.au
Establishing a Wildlife Corridor - Dianne mooncat@ozemail.com.au & Bodha 6684-7778
Building a relationship with Council - Colin cjgrant@norex.com.au
Working to reduce Greenhouse gas, or getting us onto Greenpower - Joel jbflemng@mullum.com.au & Michael 6684-7184
Local Community Garden - Michael michaelrobison@ozemail.com.au & Kali 6684-7519
We would love to hear other people who interested in one of these projects. If you have email then contact the first person listed, otherwise please call the second. The next stage will be for the people listed to gather others interested, and put together a plan, with objectives achievable in a realistic time-frame.
The rest of the wish-list follows, in order of priority.
Getting a Voice in the development of the road through the Nature reserve and ocean-side parking etc.
Looking into the Name change
Hall Beautification
Integrated Recycling / Waste Management for Tyagarah
Involvement in the Airport upgrade process
Grey's Lane
Cultural Awareness: Responsibilities to Diverse Cultures - including organizing concert/party and fund-raisers - Bruce
Circle format customs (how we hold meetings) - Bruce
Bike Trail
Noise from the Rifle Club.
Noise from the airport
We see this list as being a reference of things that we'd like to be involved with, but won't get to until some of the higher priorities are dealt with, unless there is interest from people who weren't at the meeting. If you are interested in any of these, then send me your contact information and I'll connect people together.
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April 1, 2002
Treasurer's Report
We've closed down the seperate fighting fund acount to save bank fees,
$600.45 was transferred to the general account. Bodha hasn't seen any money for
the hall rental and will follow up with Bruce.
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Memberships
One year memberships are due in July. Mitra will follow up with
Joel.
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Insurance
Colin is tryign to find out exactly what we are covered for. We need to
get this in writing. Colin informed us that Public Liability in essence covers
us if we have covered ourselves by dealing with the obvious things (e.g. visible
safety issues). It also covers for volunteers provided they are members and
instructed on necessary safety requirements, and provided with safety gear where
needed. We need waivers and Colin willrequest an example from the broker, and
Kali will request from Wroth. We will then need to develop waivers suitable for
specific events.
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February 4, 2002
Bank Accounts
There is $607 in the fighting fund, and $3258 in the general fund. The accounts have not been merged into one bank account (to reduce charges) but will be soon.
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Electricity Bills
Bodha reported that there had been hassles with the Gem club about getting their portion of the electricity bill paid again, with no response to bills. Approaches were made by Bruce (to Allan) and Bodha who visited them and explained the necessity of prompt payment with no hassles if they wish to contine to recieve an electric supply! They promised to pay promptly in future.
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January 7, 2002
Previous Committee Decisions
The meeting ratified the minutes and decisions of previous committee meetings as decisions of the Tyagarah Progress Association Inc.
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Funding
We didn't recieve the funds from the government's pre-election 'Year of the Volunteer' give-away. Colin is going to ask who did recieve these funds.
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Official Names
We confirmed that we use the names Tyagarah Progress Association, Tygarah Sustainable Community Alliance, Tyagarah Hall Committee. We are registered as the Tyagarah Hall Committee and Progress Association Inc and are commonly known as "Tyagarah Sustainable Community Alliance" and our headed paper should reflect this.
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Treasurer's Report
Bodha sent apologies as she was still away. We approved merging hte $600 from our fighting fund into the general account to save on bank fees, but retaining its accounting seperate as it was donated for specific purposes.
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Bank Accounts
We approved merging the $600 from our fighting fund into the general account to save on bank fees, but retaining its accounting seperate as it was donated for specific purposes.
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October 15, 2001
Treasurer's Report
Bodha reported the main account has $3546 and the fighting fund has $615 in it.
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August 6, 2001
Committee
Kali to contact nucleus members to re-interest them into attending monthly meetings.
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Borrowing
Kali opened the meeting with an agenda item calling for all missing documents to be returned to Colin, with a suggestion being made for a borrowers book to be included in the file.
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Treasurer's Report
Bodha nothing new to report still waiting for extra signatories to be finalised.
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Scribe
Kali called for any volunteers for the position of Secretary and or Scribe to take minutes at meetings, Ann doing minutes for this meeting. Was decided to advertise for Scribe. The meeting was then closed
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Members
Kali asked for a reconnection with original group to encourage new members, doing extensive lobbying in West Tyagarah with some success. Application forms for membership needing redoing Bodha offered to do this job.
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July 2, 2001
AGM Treasurers Report
Bodhi reported that we had $625 in the Progress Association account, and $600 in the seperate TSCA account. That we had recieved about $460 in membership fees. The books are open for inspection, and you can contact her if you wish to view them. They were also available at the meeting. The question of signatories was brought up and it was decided to inform the bank to accept any two of Isabel, Joel, Colin and Bodha. A policy was made that Bodha should use her discretion for any amount below $200, but bring any amount above that to the committee. The account books were tabled for acceptance and as no questions were raised it can be taken that they were approved for lodging with the DFT
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AGM Presidents Report
Kali, reported that while we are still small, that is OK since in the last few months we've completed all the formalities needed to be an effective Progress Association, our legal structures are in place, we have built a relationship with the council, have our own web site, have functioning email communications, and beautiful logo and are essentially really solid.
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AGM: Minutes of Previous Meetings
There were no objections or corrections to the minutes which were available for viewing at the meeting, or from Colin.
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June 15, 2001
Election
There will be an election for the committee at the AGM on 2nd July, but since they've only been in place four months all the current committee will be standing for re-election and we expect this to be a formality. However, any member is entitled to nominate other people for any of the officers (President - currently Kali; Vice President - currently Joel; Treasurer - currently Bodha; and Secretary - currently Colin) or the rest of the committee which consists of the people running the different projects. Their responsibilities and contact information is listed on our web site at http://www.tyagarah.org .
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June 4, 2001
AGM upcoming
We realized that the next General Meeting on the 2nd July will have to be an Annual General Meeting to get our meetings back in line with the financial year, so we were planning that, more information in another email, but if you have items that need to come up at that meeting then this is advance notice, and please let me know so that I can put them on the agenda.
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May 10, 2001
S94 Application
The council contacted Ed to let us know that there is just over $5000 available to the community in Section 94 development funds. This is the fund that developers have to pay into to support common infrastructure and these s94 funds have been held since 1993. We don't know why, but we have just ten days to figure out how to spend it. Joel, Colin, Kali and I met on Saturday to figure out how to go about deciding this, and proposing it to council.
As a process, we are going to have a meeting to vote on a proposal to council on Thursday night, 6:30pm at Kali's (Note not the usual 7:30pm time) , if you have items that you think should be funded then please email them to me before then, at the meeting we will try and achieve consensus on where to use this money.
It is unclear at this time exactly what we can, and cannot use the money for, so we will actually put together a prioritised list so that if our high priority items don't get funded there are other items that can be funded instead.
At the last general meeting it was decided that the LAMP was our hightest priority project, Joel, Colin, Kali and I feel strongly that the best way to use this money is to plan for the long-term, i.e. to get into place a plan of what the residents want for this area, and to turn those into the necessary documents for council's planning process. Below - as Option A - you'll see our concerns about the lack of protection provided by the existing Pilot Study, and how we might go about creating an updated version. This is just an early proposal, there is plenty of time to discuss both the process of putting one together. and of course what should be in such a plan. What we don't have much time for is to reach consensus as to whether this is our priority for the funds. We are proposing an updated LAMP as a first priority to the meeting on Thursday, subject to member approval
As Option B below you'll see a collection of the different other items that people have suggested using the funds for, and a list of items that we think we can get funds for from elsewhere. This is only the start of a more comprehensive list we will put together.
We would particularly like to receive any suggestions from West Tyagarah.
So .... please email back to me with anything you want added to the list, If you cannot make it to the meeting please also email back and let me know whether a) you support us making funding the concept plan / LAMP the priority. and b) the priority you place on the suggested other items. I'll present your preferences to the meeting on Thursday.
Colin is putting together a diagram of what a concept plan would look like, and I'll email that out as soon as I get it.
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May 3, 2001
Orphaned Projects
There were two projects that lots of people think are important, but noone has volunteered for yet, so they aren't listed above since there is no point in having projects which aren't happening. But ..... if anyone is interested in either Beautifying the Hall or Waste Reduction and Recycling then please get in touch with Joel or Kali and come along to the next meeting.
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April 19, 2001
Treasurers Report
Bodha is working on establishing record books. Bodha raised the issue of the association currently holding two bank accounts; one as THC&PA and the other as the TSCA. A vote was proposed and accepted to continue to hold those funds in the TSCA account, separate from the THC&PA account.
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April 5, 2001
Hall finances
The hall has about $3000 in the bank, this is earmarked for hall activities. We deferred electing the hall trustees because we do not have a clear definition of their legal responsibilities so it is unfair to ask anyone to take on that role.
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Election
We elected the following office holders - these are positions we have to have.
President and Publicity Officer - Kali Shapiro
Vice President - Joel Fleming
Secretary and Public Office (the person responsible to the government etc) - Colin Grant
Treasurer - Bodha.
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Progress Association meeting
This is an update on the meeting held last week, I'll be sending one of these out after each meeting, these are my personal recollections of what happened, along with reminders by Kali and others of things I need to make sure to tell you.
After a string of really productive meetings, this was the meeting we had to do, but noone wanted - and true to expectations it was, stunningly boring, a long round of motions and procedural stuff that had us all squirming in our seats, but ..... we did it, its complete, and the Tyagarah Hall Committee and Progress Association is well on its way to being resurrected as a legally constituted body with properly elected committee and everything else.
I'm not going to go through the details of all the motions etc etc, if you want them then there are full minutes available, since we are just getting procedures together then I'm not sure who will have them, but if you email me I'll find out.
Jim Croft chaired the meeting, and his knowledge of the necessary steps required along with Colin's research were invaluable in making sure that everything done was absolutely legal. There were about five other previous members of the Progress Association present - Joel, Saroja, Bela, Ed and Wendy, as far as I'm aware there was no-one present (except maybe Jim) who was a member of the old Progress Association but has not been actively involved in the TSCA meetings.
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Outgoing Treasurers Report
Ms. Wendy Szlezak reported on the Association's finances. The balance at the Westpac Bank on 30th March 2001 was $3971.00. She agreed that all accounts would be brought up to date and presented to the new Treasurer. New signatories for the cheque account need to be decided. Matters relating to the maintenance and future use of the Tyagarah Hall also need to be considered.
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Vision and Charter
I've attached a draft of our proposed charter and vision document, please read it and be ready to discuss it at the next meeting.
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Rules
There was also concern about the lack of official rules. The constitution of the old Progress Association has not been found yet. Jim wanted us to just go by the established practice, but there were concerns that this not being written down is subject to the possibly differing memories of just a few people. An alternative is to adopt the Model Rules from the Department of Fair Trading (the government body that oversees Progress Associations), and then make a few amendments that meet our requirements. A committee (Colin, Kali, Amit and myself) will work on this before the next meeting and come up with recommendations for the interim. The challenge is to come up with both a set of rules, and way of running meetings that are in line with each other, and are legally defensible while reflecting our desire for efficient, fun meetings.
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Committee Structure
We talked about the structure of committees, but there was some concern from the people at the meeting who had not been at the previous TSCA meetings that the responsibilities of committees hadn't been defined. Joel and Tamara (one of the people with the most concerns) formed a sub-committee to report back to the next meeting on this.
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Memberships
We wanted to keep fees low, so that noone was excluded because of lack of ability to pay, so we decided on a membership fee of $10 per six months (or part), with a $5 concession rate, but its going to cost us significantly more than that to keep this thing going, especially if we have to fight again. Several of the committee have phone bills in the $100's from the fight against the concert venue that they have paid themselves. So people are strongly encouraged to write out a check for more than the minimum. Make it payable to Tyagarah Progress Association and send it to Isabell Reed, 2 McInnes Lane, Tyagarah 2481.
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March 15, 2001
Projects
The aim of setting up projects is to spread the load and involve members. It has been suggested that we should adopt a project based structure with an elected co-ordinator for each project, with the ability to take on additional project members. The intention is to set up worthwhile projects which can be carried out by project members. The degree of discretion for each project will be set by the association. In some cases there will be a considerable degree of discretion. However, in the case of liaising with government bodies, representing the associations policy externally or incurring expenses, the association’s approval would be required first.
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