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PWD ACT Inc

2015Annual General Meeting Minutes

Date:Friday 23October 2015

Time:4.30pm–5.15pm

Location:Reception Room, Legislative Assembly, Canberra City

Note: The meeting commenced at 4.30pm. President Terry Millar asked Vice-President David Luck to chair the meeting. Robert Altamore as Executive Officer took the minutes

1. Present: Robert Altamore, David Luck, Terry Millar, Craig Wallace, Maida Kajkic Mignon King, Karen Kaiser, Andrew Gerahty, Jannette Morris, Ben Harris, Ian Reynolds, Juan Delatorre, Geg Zeng, Sue Salthouse, Vanessa Zubovic, Justin Ray and Karen Kaiser Relationship Manager, Disability ACT.

2. Apologies:Apologies: Trevor Robinson and Isla Smith

3. Previous minutes

The Minutes of the 2014 AGM were confirmed (Juan and Terry).

Business arisingfrom the previous AGM minutes: nil

4. Reports

  • Robert Altamore spoke briefly to the Annual Report and the Auditor’s report.
  • Sue Carbone spoke briefly to the Treasurer’s reports

The reports were adopted (Jannette Morris and Juan de la Torre)

5. Appointment of Auditor

Lesley Porroj was reappointed as Auditor (Sue and Juan)

6. Election of Office Bearers

All positions on the Committee were declared vacant.

EO informed the meeting that the following nominations had been received prior to the meeting:

President one nomination for Terry Millar

Vice-President one nomination from David Luck

Treasurer one nomination from Sue Carbone and

Committee Member one nomination from Andrew Geraghty

These persons were declared elected to the Committee.

Ben Harris was nominated for the Committee by Craig and Juan. He accepted this nomination and was declared elected to the Committee.

There was no nomination for the position of Secretary. This position is to be filled by the Committee

.7. General Business

  • David Luck asked for ideas about furthering our Access Campaign?
  • There was agreement that PWD ACT needed to increase its media profile.
  • Juan mentioned there is a Canberra Times journalist who is interested in the disability sector whom we might contact.
  • EO and Craig to follow up media on the Access Campaign.
  • David asked us to continue our advocacy on Uber.
  • Craig mentioned that the ACT community was entering the most contested election in 16 years.
  • Ben asked about engagement with young people.
  • Greg Zeng raised the issue of disability prevention and preventing obesity.
  • Andrew Geraghty suggested that PWD ACT use a flash mob as part of its strategy to highlight disability issues for the 2016 election.
  • Craig raised the need to increase our membership we now have online membership.
  • Robert launched the new website

8. Meeting closed at approximately 5:15pm.

Name:______

Signature:______

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