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2012 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
MINUTES
Date: 27th September, 2012
Time: Opened: 12:29pm
Closed: 12:43pm
Venue: Grand Ballroom, Hyatt Hotel
Chair: N Watson, President
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1 Welcome
Welcome to all from N Watson.
2 Apologies
Angelo Brignoli
Carl di Lorenzo
Stephen Huckle
Peter Atkinson
David Abbott David Stuckenberg
John Simpson
Mark Kerns
Mike Kitney
Blair Duncan
James Rowdon
Mark Rafferty
Bob Agar
Darryl Burton
Craig Moulton
Craig Melville
Roy Rowe
Robert Poggioli
Bruce Lu
Garry Spouge
Tom Fallon Chris Campbell-Hicks
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Trevor Gill
Robyn Bell
Steve Bennett
Vicky Austin Kapila Karunaratna
Clive Saunders
Kirstan Lee
Jason Holmes
Dave Hewson
Mike Hrynkiw
Kerry Lawrence
Greg Lilleyman
Gary Bennett
Simon Ward
Tony Bogue
Greg Cohen
Evelyn Tan
Steve Hall
Ross Spanbroek
Michael Shelby
Aaron Parker
John Stocco
Gregg Teets Cameron Callaway
Damian Bryant
Branden Kotyk
Damian Connelly David Kaesehagen
Mike Gloyne
Russell Goodrick
Graeme Smith
Simon Knight
John Nuttman
Peter Salfinger
Mike Allenby
Roger Simpson Daniel Bredenkamp
Jeremy Collins
3 Minutes of 2011 Annual General Meeting
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N Watson tabled the minutes from 2011.
N Watson called for acceptance of the minutes. Moved: Jennifer Abols
Seconded: Craig Franklin
4 Business Arising from 2011 Annual General Meeting
Nil
5 Notified Business
No notified business.
6 President’s Report
Tabled by: N Watson, President
Presented by: N Watson, President
The President’s report is attached (Attachment 1 – AGM 2012 President’s Report)
Moved: Ian Finch Seconded: Reade Freeman
7 Treasurer’s Report
Tabled by: David Chandler, Treasurer
The Treasurer’s presentation is attached. (Attachment 2 – AGM 2012 Treasurer’s
Report)
Audited statutory accounts are available upon request to members.
N Watson called for the Treasurer’s report to be accepted. Moved: R Freeman
Seconded: Mick Woodley
8 Election of 5 Committee Members for the 2011/12 Committee
N Watson noted that as per the rules of the WAMC Constitution 5 members are up for
re-election. These are:
Neil Watson (President)
David Chandler (Treasurer)
Craig Franklin (Vice President)
Emma Newton (Secretary)
Doug Horak (Committee Member – took over from Lauren Adams when she
resigned earlier in the year)
N Watson noted that we have received 9 nominations this year. The nominations form
is in alphabetical order by surname. It was noted that the five persons with the lowest
scores would be appointed and advice of appointment or non- appointment would be
made to the individuals by email within the next day or so. Announcement of the new
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committee for 2012/13 would be made thereafter to the members.
9 Other Business
No other business
Meeting closed: 12:43pm
Minutes taken by: E Newton: WAMC Secretary
Attachment 1 - AGM 2012 President's Report
PRESIDENT’S REPORT AGM
2012
WA Mining Club
President’s Report for 2012
It gives me great pleasure to provide the President's Report for 2012.
This is the second year that I have had the honor of representing the WA Mining Club as
President and I have to say that it is indeed an honor and a privilege to do so. I am
particularly proud of the Club and what we have achieved.
As you will no doubt be aware, 2012 represents the 40th anniversary of the Club. In 1972 a
small group of people set up the Club as a forum for members to find jobs and to keep in
touch with each other. This was at a time that there were probably more geologists driving
taxis or teaching than out in the field.
Since that time the fortunes of the club have fluctuated with the resources sector in WA.in
recent times we have seen rapid growth in membership as more people identify the value
that membership of the club provides. In fact, at the end of January this year we had 420
members and at the end of August we were approaching 800 members.
But member numbers are not necessarily what the club is about.
The object of the Club is to..".....................
We seek to meet these objects through a range of activities including:
- monthly networking lunches with a keynote speaker. This year we have averaged more
than 400 attendees at each lunch. It is encouraging to see more and more members taking
advantage of the extended networking available at the Conservatory Bar after the luncheons.
- a series of sundowners have been introduced this year as member only events to provide
exclusive access for members to alternative networking opportunities. Speakers this year
have included Nathan Sharpe, Western Force and Australian Rugby union star and Marcus
Padley from ..............
- in addition to our annual golf day in March, this year we held a second golf day as a charity
event with proceeds going to the RFDS. Both days were sell outs and I am reliably informed
that all participants thoroughly enjoyed the days. We have some big plans for our March
event next year so keep an eye out early in the new year for details.
- the Gala Ball is always a highlight of the year and this year was no different. Despite strong
competition from the Rugby international and another Ball we once again had a sell out
crowd dancing from the start of the night with the theme being "best disco in town"
All of these events are provided for the benefit of members to allow the opportunity to
network, find jobs, find people for jobs and to build friendships but none of this would
happen without our sponsors. There are too many to thank individually but I would like to
take this opportunity to thank all of the sponsors who have so willingly supported us this
year
While doing this i need to give particular thanks to Craig Franklin who is constantly on the
phone to potential sponsors - so if you get a phone call from Craig, watch out!
Seriously though, we believe that we provide great value to sponsors so if you are interested
for next year see Craig before he sees you.
I firmly believe that a club such as ours will become self serving without contributing to the
community in which we exist.
We have two key areas of focus for our community support. The first is our regular support
of the RFDS. Over the past 4 years we have donated some $80,000 to RFDS through our
annual raffle and Grange auction. Once again we have some great prizes this year and our
donation will be supplemented by the proceeds of our charity golf day so please continue to
support the raffle this year.
The second and major avenue by which the club puts back into the community is through
our scholarship programme. We now provide in conjunction with our co-sponsors five
scholarships in the fields of mining engineering, geology, metallurgy and environmental
science.
Each of these provide $10,000 to the scholarship winner over 2 years and the opportunity for
mentoring and vacation work with the sponsor during this period.
This year the winners will be announced at an awards dinner to be held in November. I
encourage you to attend this new event and take the opportunity to recognize some of the
best of the current crop of students at our tertiary institutions.
Each year we finish the year with our annual St Barbara's Day celebration. This commences
with a remembrance service at UWA where we take a brief time to remember that this
industry sector which provides great opportunities for all of us can also be a harsh working
environment and unfortunately each year too many people lose their life while working in the
industry. This is a short but moving ceremony and I encourage as many of you as possible to
attend.
The day culminates in a more festive mood with the St Barbara's Day lunch which is always a
great extended opportunity to enjoy yourself.
In closing, all of this does not just happen. While I would like to take credit for it the reality
is that we have a dedicated committee of nine people who all provide their services in a
voluntary capacity on top of their busy jobs.
This years committee comprised me, Craig Franklin as vp, David Chandler as Treasurer and
Emma Newton as Secretary. Other committee members this year are:
Mike Gloyne
Terry Quinn
Reade Freeman
Damian Connelly and Lauren Adams.
Lauren had to resign during the year following a move to Queensland but her role has been
admirably filled by Doug Horak for the past few months.
Please join me in thanking the committee members for all their hard work this year.
In addition to the committee we have the services of the best event manager in town in
Cassandra Brennan who knows everyone of you on sight and keeps the Hyatt staff on
tenterhooks.
We also have the services of a dedicated bookkeeper in Pauline. Many of you would not have
met her but she makes sure we get paid on time and our finances are in the strongest
position they have ever been in. Our treasurer David Chandler will elaborate on This in his
report.
Please join me in thanking Cassandra and Pauline.
On that note I will close and hand you to our Treasurer for his report, thank you David.
Attachment 2 - AGM 2012 Treasurer’s Report
Good morning everyone.
I’m very pleased to again be able to report a strong and healthy performance for the Club for
the year ended June 30, 2012.
On your table you’ll find a copy of the WA Mining Club Balance Sheet and P & L for 2011/12.
There are spare copies available at the registration desk in the foyer and this information is
also on our website.
Once again I’ve decided to present the financial results for the year using a couple of bar
chart slides.... there are only two of them and I think they best summarise the key financial
status of your Club.
(Chart 1: Assets and Liabilities)
This is my third year as Treasurer so I decided to compare all three in this first chart. It
shows quite graphically how the major factors making up assets and liabilities for 2012
compares with previous years.
Our assets and liabilities both increased from the previous 2011 year shown in blue in a
reasonably proportional manner so accumulated funds have continued to improve
accordingly.
The income and the expenses for the Club throughout the year remained pretty much in pro
with the previous two years. This indicates the continuing healthily growing membership
base of the Club.... which is all pretty good news... we may even crack the 1,000 during this
year.
Our high interest earning deposits have made an increasingly significant contribution, and
your Committee is discussing how best we might increase our Scholarships program.
(Chart 2: Income and Expenses)
This slide shows where our money came in and went out during the year on an events basis.
Couple of points of interest... Membership fees are still by far the greatest income earner,
followed by the Golf Day and St Barbara’s Day. The awards and prizes category, which is
mostly Scholarships and RFDS donations, was obviously the major cost centre again, behind
overheads.
In summary, as you can see, we ended up with enough surplus to enable yet another year
of very generous tertiary mining student scholarships to be awarded as well as continuing
with our very healthy donation to the RFDS.
There are quite a few of us who work pretty hard to keep the club ticking along but I’d like
to single out two in particular - Vice President Craig Franklin and Events Manager Cassandra
Brennan. I think the skills and expertise these two continually provide the club in their
respective areas of sponsors and publications, and creating and running such high calibre
events, are pivotal to the clubs success.
Well done to the two of you.
So it’s been a very good year again and unless there are any questions I’ll be happy to let
you enjoy what you came here for, rather than listening to me any longer.
Chart 1: Assets and Liabilities
Chart 2: Income and Expenses
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