These are the minutes of the ARM as recorded by Craig Dewick:
Annual Regional Meeting 03-Nov-2001Following the ARM, a meeting of the newly-elected regional committee was held. The minutes to this meeting (also recorded by Craig Dewick), are shown below:
Meeting Opened 2.58 pmAttendance : John August, Craig Dewick, David Fisher, David Johnston, Don Pedder, John Highman, Tiffany Pugh (non-member), Carolyn Baird (APANA national treasurer).
Apologies : Adrian Lyons, John Grech, Chris Perry.
Minutes of 2000 ARM read by John August. Moved to accept : David Fisher, seconded David Johnston, carried.
Report by John August, regional coordinator : Financial decline is serious concern, changes throughout last 12 months have helped arrest the cashflow situation. We're considering options for offering ISDN permanent connects at the hub using data-over-voice via OnRamp Home Highway services. Modem rack installation finished in late 2000, and all modem cards upgraded to latest firmware by David Johnston.
Courses run during the year with CAT, which brought small financial reward to the region.
Report by David Fisher, information officer: Very few inquiries about membership, otherwise nothing to report.
Report by David Johnston, hub connection officer: records in membership database and at the hub need updating to correct old contact details, listings of who uses what line, etc.
Report by Craig Dewick, deputy regional co-ordinator: Very serious financial situation. Outlined moves taken to correct this including changing ISDN to OnRamp Home Highway so we can use untimed data-over-voice calls and upgrade from 64 to 128 kbps, cancelling PSTN lines at the hub that are no longer needed, chasing up members for overdue fees!
Financial report and budget presented to members and visitors. Update on changes to regional website, discussions with Wollongong region to offer them low-cost 128 kbps ISDN link to save them money and bring extra money into Sydney region. Also plans to look at fast ADSL link at the hub, and perhaps upgrade ORBnet (Jedi) link to 256 kbps, and link to GCO to 128 kbps.
Outlined ads being placed in Computer Market to promote permanent links, also plans for ads in low-cost regional newspapers.
Nominations for positions on regional committee:
Regional Co-ordinator - Craig Dewick nominated by David Johnston, Adrian Lyons (proxy). John August nominated himself. Vote taken. Craig Dewick elected.
Deputy Regional Co-ordinator - John August nominated by Craig Dewick and David Fisher. No other nominations. Accepted.
First Ordinary Member - David Johnston nominated by David Fisher and John August. Accepted.
Second Ordinary Member - David Fisher nominated by Craig Dewick. Accepted.
Third and Fourth Ordinary Members - no nominationsThe being no contention for positions other than regional co-ordinator, the other positions which received nominations were declared filled.
David Fisher to retain information officer position, and management committee representative position after being nominated by Craig Dewick and John August.
Meeting closed 3.38 pm
Roundup & Details of RC meetingAfter the RC meeting was concluded some general tidy-up work was done in the hub room, and several standalone Netcomm modems were given to Carolyn Baird for Hunter region. $60 received from Carolyn.Attendance : Similar to ARM, minus Don Pedder and John Highman.
Opened 3.45 pm, closed 4.35 pmCable : approximately 30 to 50 metres of 100 pair solid core copper telephone grade cable, Craig Dewick to look into selling via Ebay or elsewhere.
Finances :
- - reactivate Ion as backup server for goliath, also for ISDN permanent connections
- - Telstra account - All Sydney phone accounts now with centralised APANA account representative at Telstra,
- - provision of 128 kbps DoV-based ISDN link to Wollongong region. Will reduce their ISDN costs and bring extra revenue to our region,
- - letter to members well received. RC now must actively pursue overdue membership fee and levy payments to keep cashflow positive,
- - Advertising. Craig Dewick has placed ad in Computer Market for his business, with promo for APANA approved by management committee. Also plans to advertise in local community newspapers
All member modems left at hub after November 3rd declared as now owned by region, and will be disposed off by sale to members in Sydney and other regions, and via Ebay, etc.
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