AGM Archive 2024

PLUG AGM, Tuesday 2024-01-09

• Perth Linux Users Group Annual General Meeting

• Venue: Spacecubed.com / Riff

  • 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000

• Attendance (:ballot_box_with_check: = active member)

  • Nick Bannon :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Sarah Allard :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Patrick Cody :ballot_box_with_check:
  • James Henstridge :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Paul Anthony :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Benjamin I.D. Silva :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Dan Buzzard :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Mark Dixon :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Chris Kwan
  • Lochran Huck ( :ballot_box_with_check: , post-meeting)
  • Awais Ahmed Nizamani
  • Ky Potts

• Apologies

  • Margaret Wood
  • Niall Navin
  • Peter Lyons

Quorum:

At a general meeting the quorum shall be either 20% of the current number of members or the square root of the current number of members, whichever is the smaller

26 voting members, so quorum is 5.1

0. Opening: 19:34

1. MOTION by Nick Bannon: Confirmation of the Minutes of the previous AGM

• https://www.plug.org.au/events/AGM/2023/
• Seconded: Patrick
• For: 9 Against: 0 Abstain: 0
• Motion passed

2. Committee Reports (including accounts)

• Vice Chair:
  • 2x Raspberry Pi 5 , 2x global shutter cameras, project ideas welcome
  • Xmas BBQ, thank you for coming
  • AV (audio/video) Project subcommittee
  • Infrastructure (tech admin) subcommittee
• Finance:
  • Bank balances: $3102.25 , $93.66
    • (Down from $3620.89, $199.12 as of the last AGM, 2023-01-10)

3. Pizza arrives?

• Thank you, Lochy for the pickup!

4. Elections

• Nominations:

  • Chair: Niall Navin, self nominated
  • Nominations for the Committee positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Ordinary Committee Members can be made in writing or via email to the Committee (committee at plug.org.au).
  • Nominations must include the name of the nominee and nominator, who must both be Financial Members.
  • Nominees must meet the eligibility rules defined in the PLUG Constitution https://www.plug.org.au/pages/constitution/current.html under section 10. and also the eligibility rules required by the Associations Incorporation Act 2015 (https://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/publications/eligibility-requirements-committee-members-associations-info).
  • Nominees must confirm that they are not ineligible under the requirements of this Act.

• Chair

  • 1 nomination received by deadline: Niall Navin
  • MOTION of confidence:
    • Aye: 8 Nay: 0 Abstain: 0
    • Motion passed
    • Niall Navin elected chair

• Vice-Chair

  • Call for nominations from floor
  • Nick 4 votes
  • Paul 2 votes
    • Nick Bannon elected Vice-Chair

• Treasurer

  • Call for nominations from floor
  • Sarah Allard 4 votes
  • Paul 3 votes
    • Sarah Allard elected Treasurer

• Secretary

  • Call for nominations from floor
  • James Henstridge 6 votes
  • Paul 2 votes
    • James Henstridge elected Secretary

• OCMs

  • Call for nominations from floor
  • Dan
  • Lochy (subject to completion of membership, post-meeting)
  • Ben
  • James, elected to previous position
  • Nick, elected to previous position
  • Patrick nominated. withdraws
  • Dan Buzzard, Lochran Huck, Benjamin I.D. Silva elected as OCMs

5. General Business

• Review of membership fees

  • Currently $20 ($10 concession) as last set in 2012
  • MOTION by Patrick Cody: Change membership fees: to $50 ($20 concession) per annum
    • Seconded: Paul
    • To take effect on publishing the new schedule on our website
    • For: 9 Against: (1 informal) Abstain:
    • Motion passed

• Thanks to the 2023 committee for all the hard work: Niall, Benjamin, Patrick, Peter, Paul, Nick, James

  • welcome to Sarah, Dan, Lochy, Ben!

6. Meeting Close 20:52