Meeting 2023-06-10 (Annual General Meeting)

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Time and location

Begun: 15:30 AEST at the Sanctuary
Ended: 16:30 AEST

Attendees

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Agenda (facilitated by Elle)

• Acknowledgement of Country
• Welcome & introductions
• Review previous AGM notes: Meeting 2022-11-14 (Annual General Meeting)
• 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 The 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 2023-06-10 Riparian zone restoration project and work bee 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

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Actionables

• Transcribe all non-trivial actionables into tasks on the workboard.