2019 AGM Agenda/Minutes
OZeWAI Annual General Meeting
To be held at the OZeWAI 2019/2020 conference on the 12 February at the Australian Accessibility Conference held by OZeWAI and PWAC in Perth, Western Australia.
Attendees: All invited
The following items are on the agenda. The person responsible for presenting or chairing the item is in brackets.
Agenda
- Welcome (Chair)
- Apologies (Chair)
- Attendance (Chair)
- Confirmation of minutes from 2018 AGM (Chair)
- Annual report (Chair)
- Annual financial statement (Treasurer)
- Election of 2020 committee members (Chair):
- Chair
- Treasurer
- Secretary
- Conference Convener 2020
- Website manager
- Committee members
- Planning for OZeWAI 2020 (Conference Convener)
- Accessibility certification (eg IAAP) involvement (Chair)
- Any other business (Chair)
Minutes
Attendees - 108 registered.
Apologies
- Ricky Onsman
- Russ Weakley
Quorum
- Erika Webb
- Greg Madson
- Jason McKee
- Amanda Page
- Christie O’Brien
- Ellen Davis
- Maria Mamaeva
- Matthew Putland
- Matthew Thackwell
- Allison Ravenhall
- Rosemary Spark
- Scott Hollier
- Andrew Normand
- Chris Leighton
- Alfred Low
- Steve Page
- Clare Chamberlain
- Natalie Collins
- Karen Myers
- David Vosnacos
- Vithya Vijayakumare
- Mark Blowers
- Christos Petrou
- Gerry Neustatl
- Liddy Nevile
- Brigitta Norton
- Amanda Mace
- Gian Wild
Minutes of previous AGM
- Moved by Gian, seconded by Bri
Chair and Finance
- Chairperson's Report - celebrating 20 years of OZeWAI
- Treasurer's Report
- Consumer Affairs Victoria lodgement of OZeWAI finances are all up-to-date as of July 2019.
- Revenue is around the same each year (approx. $30,000) and used to plan for the following year's event.
- This year we also used a Govt $10,000 grant to assist with attendee costs to travel to WA for this event as well as the streaming and recording services - all presentations are available now on the OZeWAI YouTube channel.
- Thank you to the wonderful sponsors: Visibility, Synergy Group, Microsoft, Webkey IT, Vision Australia, AccessibilityOz and ScreenWest
Moved by Bri, seconded by Gian. All attendees accepted the reports.
Current conference
- Thanks to Bri for moving to the west coast
- Thank you to everyone who made the Australian Accessibility Conference happen in Perth with OZeWAI and PWAC!
Foundation members
- Liddy Nevile
- Chaals McCathie-Nevile
- Matthew Mirabella
- Sarah Pulis
- Peter Bachelor
- Jonathan O’Donnell
Current focus
-
Membership fees
- Previously membership was $0
- Gerry - what does being a member of OzeWAI actually mean? What are the benefits we can offer?
- Mark Blowers - Australian Accessibility Association - change from OzeWAI? , keep registration costs low.
- Gisele - keep costs low, DGI would be very interested
- Rosemary Spark - we should be a lobby group
- Further contributions should be via forum
- Everyone at conference is paid up otherwise $20 individual, $50 company,
Liddy moved, Amanda seconded.
- Proposed changes to the Constitution to be discussed
- Welfare card - Gian and Mark Blowers to discuss
- OZeWAI logo update
- Advocacy
2020 OZeWAI Committee
On 12 February 2020, the following committee members were elected.
Executive Committee members
- Chairperson - Liddy Nevile (moved by Gian, seconded by Mark)
- Secretary - Gian Wild (moved by Liddy, seconded by Gerry)
- Treasurer - Natalie Collins (moved by Liddy, seconded by Bri)
- Conference Convenor - Brigitta Norton
General Committee members
- Chaals McCathie-Nevile
- Julie Grundy (Web Manager)
- Ricky Onsman (Newsletter and Social)
- Amanda Mace
- Gerry Neustatl
- Mark Blowers
- Christos Petrou
- Scott Hollier
- Matthew Putland
- Russ Weakley