## Time and location Begun: [[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2023&month=6&day=10&hour=5&min=30&sec=0&p1=47&p2=152|15:30 AEST]] at the Sanctuary Ended: 16:30 AEST ## Attendees - ... ## Agenda - Acknowledgement of Country - Welcome & introductions - Review previous AGM notes: [[meetings/2022-11-14/]] - President's Report - Treasurer's Report - Approval of any new members - Electing the 3 board member positions (President/Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer) - Open for discussion of any other vision points from any attendees ## President's Report #### Achievements of 2022 - We planted hundreds of plants across multiple work bees - We went through a truckload of mulch - We set up a pump from the creek to water the regen area - We made lots of new connections with new collaborators, and visited the Maleny ecovillage - Space planning workshop helped us develop shared design principles and aspirational activities and understand more about people’s visions - Brad helped us knock out walls in [[ map/cottage/ ]] / office and replaster the walls - We received $10k in grants for repair of the road after the floods - Applied for a Gambling Community Benefit Fund grant for $32k towards an earthmoving machine ###### Less officially related - Land For Wildlife grant (which spurred the [[ events/work-bee-2023-06-10/ ]] we are attending) - Timotheos won a QCAT case in regards to the dam construction - We survived a flood, bouts of covid and water shortages - We hosted multiple lovely events - Housewarmings for Elle and Hannah - Medieval festival - Things broke and we fixed them - it's different managing this as a community vs being able to just call up a landlord - Owen’s shed was created - We grew and ate lots of edible things (bananas, tomatoes, aviary garden) - We supported local food systems by collectively buying food from the Samford co-op - We cooked and shared countless meals together and with beautiful guests - Mental health support of each other, not just through tragedy but through the gruelling day-to-day of struggling with the symptoms of a broken system - Sometimes it's easy to feel defeated by that and forget that we have the agency to make a difference to change it #### Plans for 2023 - Wildlife release site & new aviary construction (visiting Pine Rivers Koala Care Association's Madonna's house to collaborate) - Shelving for organising the upper shed is several hundred dollars but will go a long way to organising our operations - Purchase earthmoving machine - Mental health cabin - Getting costing to get concrete water tanks / pool in ground 2024 #### Future Direction - Native animal caring - Community Hall - Big permaculture plan - More roads, access, cabins, plantings, community events and private mental health retreats for collaborators! ## Treasurer's Report - Income was $9,409.25 from donations, including members - Expenditure was $10,893 from rent and road repair - Therefore the account went down by $1495.75 ## Notes from the discussion - ... ## Actionables [] Transcribe all non-trivial actionables into tasks on the workboard.

## Time and location Begun: [[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2023&month=6&day=10&hour=5&min=30&sec=0&p1=47&p2=152|15:30 AEST]] at the Sanctuary Ended: 16:30 AEST ## Attendees - ... ## Agenda (facilitated by Elle) - Acknowledgement of Country - Welcome & introductions - Review previous AGM notes: [[meetings/2022-11-14/]] - President's Report - Treasurer's Report - Approval and welcome of any new members - Electing the 3 board member positions (President/Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer) - Open for discussion of any other vision points from any attendees - Thank you and close of meeting ## President's Report #### Achievements of 2022 - We planted hundreds of plants across multiple work bees (and learnt a lot, hence over 20 cubic metres of mulch here) - We were heavily impacted by flood and the passing away of a core member Peter Maclean - We set up a pump from the creek to water the regen area - We made lots of new connections with new collaborators, and visited the Maleny ecovillage - Space planning workshop helped us develop shared design principles and aspirational activities and understand more about people’s visions - Brad helped us knock out walls in [[ map/cottage/ ]] / office and replaster the walls - We received $10k in grants for repair of the road after the floods - Applied for a Gambling Community Benefit Fund grant for $32k towards an earthmoving machine ###### Less officially related - Land For Wildlife grant (which spurred the [[ events/work-bee-2023-06-10/ ]] we are attending) - Timotheos won a QCAT case in regards to the dam construction - We hosted multiple lovely events - Housewarmings for Elle and Hannah - Medieval festival - Things broke and we fixed them - it's different managing this as a community vs being able to just call up a landlord - Owen’s shed was created - We grew and ate lots of edible things (bananas, tomatoes, aviary garden) - We supported local food systems by collectively buying food from the Samford co-op - We cooked and shared countless meals together and with beautiful guests - Mental health support of each other, not just through tragedy but through the gruelling day-to-day of struggling with the symptoms of a broken system - Sometimes it's easy to feel defeated by that and forget that we have the agency to make a difference to change it #### Plans for 2023 - Wildlife release site & new aviary construction (visiting Pine Rivers Koala Care Association's Madonna's house to collaborate) - Shelving for organising the upper shed is several hundred dollars but will go a long way to organising our operations - Purchase earthmoving machine - Mental health cabin - Getting costing to get concrete water tanks / pool in ground #### Future Direction - Native animal caring - Community Hall - Big permaculture plan - More roads, access, cabins, plantings, community events and private mental health retreats for collaborators! ## Treasurer's Report - Income was $9,409.25 from donations, including members - Expenditure was $10,893 from rent and road repair - Therefore the account went down by $1495.75 ## Notes from the discussion - ... ## Actionables [] Transcribe all non-trivial actionables into tasks on the workboard.

## Time and location Begun: [[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2023&month=6&day=10&hour=5&min=30&sec=0&p1=47&p2=152|15:30 AEST]] at the Sanctuary Ended: 16:30 AEST ## Attendees - ... ## Agenda (facilitated by Elle) - Acknowledgement of Country - Welcome & introductions - Review previous AGM notes: [[meetings/2022-11-14/]] - President's Report - Treasurer's Report - Approval and welcome of any new members - Electing the 3 board member positions (President/Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer) - Open for discussion of any other vision points from any attendees - Thank you and close of meeting ## President's Report #### Achievements of 2022 - We planted hundreds of plants across multiple work bees (and learnt a lot, hence over 20 cubic metres of mulch here) - We went through a truckload of mulchre heavily impacted by flood and the passing away of a core member Peter Maclean - We set up a pump from the creek to water the regen area - We made lots of new connections with new collaborators, and visited the Maleny ecovillage - Space planning workshop helped us develop shared design principles and aspirational activities and understand more about people’s visions - Brad helped us knock out walls in [[ map/cottage/ ]] / office and replaster the walls - We received $10k in grants for repair of the road after the floods - Applied for a Gambling Community Benefit Fund grant for $32k towards an earthmoving machine ###### Less officially related - Land For Wildlife grant (which spurred the [[ events/work-bee-2023-06-10/ ]] we are attending) - Timotheos won a QCAT case in regards to the dam construction - We survived a flood, bouts of covid and water shortages - We hosted multiple lovely events - Housewarmings for Elle and Hannah - Medieval festival - Things broke and we fixed them - it's different managing this as a community vs being able to just call up a landlord - Owen’s shed was created - We grew and ate lots of edible things (bananas, tomatoes, aviary garden) - We supported local food systems by collectively buying food from the Samford co-op - We cooked and shared countless meals together and with beautiful guests - Mental health support of each other, not just through tragedy but through the gruelling day-to-day of struggling with the symptoms of a broken system - Sometimes it's easy to feel defeated by that and forget that we have the agency to make a difference to change it #### Plans for 2023 - Wildlife release site & new aviary construction (visiting Pine Rivers Koala Care Association's Madonna's house to collaborate) - Shelving for organising the upper shed is several hundred dollars but will go a long way to organising our operations - Purchase earthmoving machine - Mental health cabin - Getting costing to get concrete water tanks / pool in ground 2024 #### Future Direction - Native animal caring - Community Hall - Big permaculture plan - More roads, access, cabins, plantings, community events and private mental health retreats for collaborators! ## Treasurer's Report - Income was $9,409.25 from donations, including members - Expenditure was $10,893 from rent and road repair - Therefore the account went down by $1495.75 ## Notes from the discussion - ... ## Actionables [] Transcribe all non-trivial actionables into tasks on the workboard.