| Date | 9 May 2019 |
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Time | 7.30pm |
| Location | Steve's home in Hurlstone Park |
| Meeting opened at | 7.50pm |
| Meeting closed at | 9.22pm |
| Facilitator | Bruce Diekman |
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| Minute taker | Stephen Catt |
| Timekeeper | |
| Next meeting date | 15 May 2019 |
Acknowledgement of Country: Before we begin the meeting, I would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners, both past and present, of the land we occupy and upon which we meet — the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. It is also upon their ancestral lands that Alfalfa House is built.
1. Attendance and Apologies
Attendance (MC): Bruce Diekman, Stephen Catt, Cameron Burgess, Tom Bartels by skype, Kirsten Lunoe by skype, Caroline Brakewell by phone,
Attendance (Members): Maurice Carbrera, Allie Cooke by skype
Apologies: Ashton Roskill
2. Application for grant
While other attendees were coming in personally or online Cam reported that he was in the process of preparing an application for a grant for AH under the My Community Project scheme (as distinct from Community Building Partnership scheme, which is for capital works) of the NSW Government ‒ in the realm of $20,000 to $40,000. The idea is to film workshops to provide free online. Good PR for us. Waiting for quote from Chris Shapones for filming.2.
3. Grow Alfalfa Campaign
Maurice took the lead on this.
To date we had raised about $47,000. At midnight the Campaign will close.
Bruce and Steve agreed to be primarily responsible for contacting perk buyers and arranging for delivery of perks. Maurice will make arrangements for most Alfalfa perks. Allie to do the others. Bruce and Steve to work with Maurice tomorrow getting underway.
We need to allow for GST. Some discussion about this. Maurice thought that we needed to allow for GST on the whole amount raised (conservatively $4,700). Steve said that he thought that GST would not be payable on donations, only on what amounted to a sale of goods and services (ie the perks). And we would have to allow 1/11th (a bit less than 9.1%) rather than 10% of the price paid.
Maurice said to Allie that roughly $18,000 was to come through to book.
Do we already have the perks? Maurice said he would send a complete list of purchasers with full details.
Discussion moved to what to do with the proceeds. Steve suggested putting off discussion of that to the MC meeting next Wednesday (15 May) with a view to reporting at the open MC meeting the following week (22 May). Agreed.
Stock management position. Start date June 3. Question of AH internal.
Major campaign communications. News. Advertise 22 May MC meeting. A question of whether to defer that meeting to 29 May was discussed and rejected.
Fundraising. Maurice reported that there were still 2 more events ‒
- 1 Plant and bake sale. Dorit and Yue (with an MC member?) were to organise and Mel was to setup.
- 2 Then a celebration event, possibly at Camelot (Django Bar?). Currently thinking of late June. We already have an offer of 1 band.