2025-04-18 Annual General Meeting
Minutes
Opened at: 7:34 pm
Meeting adjourned at: 8:24 pm
Chairperson: Ryan Kirkpatrick
Minutes submitted by: Secretary Zac Marcus
Attendance:
Quorum present? Yes
Others Present:
Acknowledgement of Country
HSBNE acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet today, the Yuggera and Turrbal people, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
Review Previous Meetings Minutes
The previous meeting minutes were accepted.
Treasurer’s End of Year report
Summary
35 members (+1 member this month)
EOFY for HSBNE is the 31th March
$5500 for storing the YAG alone
$7500 for storing containers (other tools)
Owe money to the paint factory (invoices aren't correct so we are waiting for them to be corrected)
Purchased lathe
Hired cleaner
Need to reduce container + yag storage to bring us into the black
Large accounting bill last year to get our accounts in line as they hadn't been submitted to the Office of Fair trading by the previous treasurer.
Profit & Loss
$17000 in asset sales
$19000 in membership
Member Count:
Membership revenue:
Net income:
People signed up for tours (not all attend)
March 9
February 9
January 10
December 13
November 18
October 16
September 13
August 9
July 2023 32
July 2023 31
Feb 2023 43
20250408_treasurersreport.pdf
20250408_agm_2025_prelim_balance_sheet.pdf
20250408_agm_2025_prelim_p_and_l.pdf
Executive Elections
President - Ale More - unopposed
Treasurer - Andrew White - unopposed
Secretary - Zac Marcus - unopposed
The executive, as accepted at this Annual General Meeting, has the powers to administrate the financial accounts of the association in full, including control of access of any kind, including but not limited to: Signatories, Admin accounts, Debit Cards or otherwise.
All voted in favour
Voting
General Business
Sold the mill + other items
Still selling items to aim for releasing containers to reduce storage costs
Continuing to organise the club to have more space for metalshop
looking to run more cabling for metal shop tools
Eris to list horizontal bandsaw
YAG - cost 5.5k on storage so far. Discussed making a proposal to reduce price and dispose of if not sold.