UCC General Meeting Minutes 23/1/98

Meeting opened 6:10 pm

Present:
	Duncan Sargeant (VP)
	Andrew Williams
	Barnaby Brown
	Mikolaj Habryn
	Mark Tearle
	Simon Fryer (OCM)
	Michael Dawson
	Peter Wilsmore (OCM)
	David Chinnery (President)
	Simone Collins (Treasurer)
	AHC?
	Mahesh Hettiaratchi
	John West
	Leighton Haynes
	Rob Poulter

No formal agenda, as posted on the UCC door and sent to ucc-announce:
	Election of new Secretary and Fresher Rep
	New Committee Positions
	Constitutional Changes
	Oday and Sponsorship

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Nominations for Secretary:
	Mark Tearle, seconded Michael Dawson

Mark Tearle elected as Secretary unopposed.

Nominations for First Year Representative:
	Michael Dawson, proposed David Chinnery, seconded Simon Fryer

Michael Dawson elected as First Year Representative unopposed.

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Constitutional Changes

Motion put: That Section 17 of the Constitution be changed from:

Section 17 Vacancies - Election

If any position on the Committee becomes vacant then the Committee shall call
for nominations and elect a member to that position within fourteen days of
the position having become vacant.

to:

Section 17 Vacancies - Election

If any position on the Committee becomes vacant then the Committee shall call
a General Meeting for the election of a member to that position within
a month of that position becoming vacant.


Motion put: That the previous motion be ammended to change "month" to "four
weeks"
Motion passed, previous motion is ammended.

Orignal Motion passed without dissent.  Section 17 of the Constitution 
now reads:

Section 17 Vacancies - Election

If any position on the Committee becomes vacant then the Committee shall call
a General Meeting for the election of a member to that position within
four weeks of that position becoming vacant.

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David Manchester
Sophie Divliaev (OCM)
Glenn Butcher

arrive

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Oday and Sponsorship


Discount from Winthrop Australia as before.

Peter Wilsmore has talked to several computer vendors.  HP, IBM and
Digital want a fax.  Sun, SGI, Apple and Digital have promised stuff
for Oday stand.

Sophie Divliaev reports that Hungry Jacks will not sponsor UCC or give
discounts to members, Corporate Foods are still to be contacted.

David Chinnery reports that Boffins will not extend their normal student
discount to the rest of our membership.  However we are getting a 10%
discount from Rellims.

Warrick Mitchell needs to be chased re: Popcorn sponsorship.

Leighton Haynes to do funky graphics stuff for Oday.

Oday coke software needs to be found again, John West will produce a 
list of passwords.

Tshirts - nothing has happened, design will still be accepted.

Sign - need to organise having a sign hung outside Cameron Hall.

Network is going to be available at Oday stand.  Simon will consult
with James.

David Chinnery, Sophie Divliaev, Peter Wilsmore and Andrew Williams
will be available for Oday.

Duncan Sargeant to hassles Nick Bannon re: add_ucc

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Murmurs from the Guild


Projections have a claim to the loft.  Eric Heenan, Guild Treasurer, informed 
Simon Fryer of the fact.

Nick Bannon arrives.

It was requested that we organise a cleanup. Various people said they would
clean up the loft over the weekend and Monday.

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Possibility of having some more committee positions.


Roles suggested: Hardware Librarian, Software Librarian, PR Officer,
Door Boss, Real World/Committee Liason Officer

Mark Tearle suggests possiblity of them being officers of the club and
not creating a committee position for them.A

Peter Wilsmore suggests electing them as officers and having them report to
the OCMs

Peter Wilsmore suggests that committee meeting be open and all having an
open vote, with a closed vote of committee members being called if need be.
General approval from meeting.

Mikolaj Habryn suggests making some email aliases longer, eg hwc.

Meeting agrees to create a committee mailing list (open to all) and a
committee-only mailing list.

Mikolaj Habryn suggests a Pizza Officer.

Mark Tearle suggests make the positions officers as a trial, get them
to define the position, create email aliases for them/tag email addresses,
and see how it goes.

Nominations are called for Officers:
	Duncan Sargeant for Software Librarian, Mikolaj Habryn seconds
	Simon Fryer for Hardware Librarian
	Peter Wilsmore for PR Officer

Simon Fryer leaves

	cron for Coke group hassling officer, Duncan Sargeant will do the
		software
	Quinn for Pizza Officer

All elected unopposed.

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Culling Door Group

David Chinnery wishes to remove inactive people from coke/door, leaving
just wheel/committee.  General aggreement from those present.

Mikolaj Habryn suggests working coke on a overdraft basis.  Money can be
paid directly to coke members, who debit their account and credit the
person paying.  At the end of the week, we get money back from the coke
controllers.

Meeting to cull door/coke, 6th February.  Email to door/coke, apologies
need to be given.

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Furniture

Sophie Divliaev has spoken to the Guild re Furniture.  Guild has none.

Peoples machines should be brought in for a reason/or they need to be
accessabile to all members

Mark Tearle and Simon Fryer to work on terminals tommorow.

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Aims of club

To be discussed on list

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Next committee meeting Friday 6pm, UCC, 30th Jan 1998.  Details to be
emailed to list

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Meeting closed 7.35 pm
--
Mark Tearle - mtearle@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
"La coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.
       The heart has it's reasons, whereof reason knows nothing."
                               - Blaise Pascal