October CVI Minutes 2001

Date: 29/10/2001
Location 92 Rosslyn St West Melbourne
Time 6.36pm

Agenda:
Item 1
- Motion from the AGM
" That the first action of business of the incoming Committee is; to address the issue of State Convenors and that they must develop a job description for the State Convenors."

Item 2
- Finances National/Victoria

- Item 3
- Co-ordinators

Item 4
- Convenors/ Membership

Item 5
- Next Meeting

Minutes

Present:Rodney Brown, David Wood.Grant Diffey, Penni Diffey, David Hatton, Kylie Davies (EO)
Apologies: Tony Joblin

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Meeting opened at 6.36pm

Item 1
-We urgently need to write up an action plan and job description for State Convenors.

Action: David Wood and others by 12/11/01

-It was agreed that we need to then post this to the mailing list for feedback. The committee could then ratify this document at it's next meeting.
Motion: " That the Job Description and action plan for State Convenors be drafted by 11/1101 and be sent to the mailing list for comment. then the final document will be ratified and adopted at the next CAI committee meeting."

Moved: David Wood
Seconded: Grant Diffey

CWD

Item 2
Motion: " We recognise the need for Victoria and the CAI Committee to seperate and call on the Victorian membership to convene their State bringing them into line with the the other state branches."

Moved: David Wood
Seconded: David Hatton

CWD

-David Wood as Treasurer will help with this seperation.
-We need to guarantee that all states aree with the same Bank.
-It was asked if the CAI Committee should pay Victoria for operating out of their premises? Kylie pointed out that Victoria also pay for other National things like " volunteer insurance ". We also need to think about how we will disseminate funds.
-WFTD should have a state focus as they have to do the day to day running of the project.
-After some further discussion we realised that there were many more issues to resolve.
Rodney pointed out that we need to factor operations into our funding allocation model.

Item 3
Motion: That Kylie Davies be appointed as National Policy Co-ordinator."

Moved: Penni Diffey
Seconded: David Wood

CWD
-Welcome to the committee Kylie.

-Nominations for Victorian Convenor need to be to the Secretary 3 days before the next meeting
-State Convenors need to be nominated by state members
-If more than one nomination for State Convenor is recieved then a vote of the residential members of the State will be the decider.
Action: Penni will post to the list the nominations for Victorian State Convenor and call a meeting of the membership half an hour before the next National Committee meeting. ASAP

Motion: " That we call on the Victorian membership to nominate a Convenor/Co-ordinator for theie state and send these to the Secretary 3 days prior to the next CAI Committee meeting and if there is more than one candidate then a meeting of the Victorian members should take place half an hour before the next scheduled CAI Committee meeting."

Moved: David Wood
Seconded: Penni Diffey

CWD

Motion: " That Craig Warner, Romana Challens, Peter Trout and Peter Waters be accepted as full financial members of Computerbank Australia Incorporated."

Moved: Penni Diffey
Seconded: Rodney Brown

CWD

Motion: " That we: appoint Craig Warner as State Convenor of NSW, Romana Challens as State Convenor of SA and ratify the appointment of Tony Joblin as State Convenor of QLD and we them onto the CAI Committee as State Co-ordinators with full voting rights."

Moved: Penni Diffey
Seconded: Rodney Brown

CWD

Item 4 was covered in Item 3.

Other Business
- We need to reorginise the bank accounts and organise signatories addind/deleting.
Action: David W, Grant and Kylie ASAP

Item 5

Next Meeting Monday 12th November 6.30pm

Meeting ended at 7.45BR