City of Burnie Brass Band

On the Tuesday evening of Spetember 29th, 2020 at appoximately 8:00PM, the band held its Annual General Meeting. Due to COVID-19 it was a less formal affair. However, as usual, various issues were discussed and Office Bearers presented their annual reports. Office Bearers were also nominated for their positions and after acceptance of their nominations, were elect accordingly. Below are the Minutes for the 2019 AGM for your perusal.

City of Burnie Brass Band

AGM MINUTES 2019

Minutes of the meeting held on:

Tuesday, 24^th September, 2019

Meeting declared open at:

8.17pm

PRESENT: Kathy Bentley, Ken Cropper, Rebecca Wells, Jennifer Watts, Wayne Richards, Brett Harrison, Emily Bousfield, Michael Bousfield, Ian Cooper, Robert Bentley

APOLOGIES: Kathleen Matthews, Tanya Michalek, Nathan Wells, Jenita Lusted, Nathan Bakker, Natasha Bakker

MINTUES OF THE PREVIOUS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING:

Moved:	Robert Bentley
Seconded	Ian Cooper
	CARRIED

Read and accepted.

VALE – One minute silence to recognise the passing of members of our “band family” over the last 12 months.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Presidents Report: Ken Cropper (Oral report)

Thank you to the committee for their work and the spectacular efforts of Rebecca Wells and Jenni Watts and all other members and office holders. The band continues, which in a lot of places in Australia is touch and go. Thank you to the bandmasters (Robert Bentley, Michael Bousfield and Ian Cooper). Jenni will elaborate further on finance – the sock drive was a success along with the New Years Eve and the basketball. We have done quite well with the basketball, providing a variety of music and being requested to return and being asked to participate in the NBL. Also great to see us supporting a variety of singers.

Once again, our development band did well at the eisteddfod this year as did other groups. It is good to see members from Leighland Christian School coming along. Thank you to Michael and Ian for their efforts.

I Continue to be amazed at the variety of music the band are able to play.

Moved: Ken Cropper

Seconded: Kathy Bentley

CARRIED

Treasurer Report: Jennifer Watts

Written report provided by Jenni. The band are in a sound financial position and have continued with a range of fundraising opportunities.

Moved: Jennifer Watts

Seconded: Brett Harrison

CARRIED

Secretary and Publicity Officer Report: Rebecca Wells – Written Report Provided

Moved: Rebecca Wells

Seconded: Brett Harrison

CARRIED

Librarian Report: Provided by Tanya Michalek – Read by Rebecca Wells

I would like to thank Kathy for her ongoing and invaluable support in helping out with the sorting and filing of music and helping out in the library. It is a big task and Kathy has never once complained or said she would not help. I would also like to thank all of the band members that helped sort out the blue music folders during the year.

In general, band members are now sorting out music for their folders and for members who are absent when new music is handed at practice. It certainly helps me out and less music is being misplaced. Please keep up the great work you all do in helping the librarian.

Tanya Michalek

Moved: Rebecca Wells

Seconded: Michael Bousfield

CARRIED

Custodians Report: Rebecca Wells on behalf of Nathan Wells

- Our instrument loan program with Leighland Christian School has continued successfully this year leaving us with few instruments in storage.

- A lot of time was spent cleaning and organising the band rooms earlier in the year – thank you to all those who spent considerable time helping out over our cleaning bee weekend.

- It is important that we continue to work on maintaining and steadily developing our instrument collection as we have done over the last few years.

Moved: Rebecca Wells

Seconded: Ian Cooper

CARRIED

Drum Major Report: Wayne Richards

Moved: Wayne Richards

Seconded: Rebecca Wells

CARRIED

Band Sergeants Report: Andrew Bentley

No report provided.

TBL Representative Report: Wayne Richards and Ken Cropper

- Currently working on developing the TBL regulations to meet the needs of Tasmanian Bands. These issues include things such as dual registration, permit players,

Moved: Ken Cropper

Seconded: Wayne Richards

CARRIED

Musical Director’s Report: Oral report provided by Robert Bentley

Robert would like to thank Ian and Michael and the few players for their commitments. We have had a number of playouts and we have consistently performed well and our music has been.

It was a shame that we were unable to perform at the State Championships.

Moved: Robert Bentley

Seconded: Ken Cropper

CARRIED

Development Band Master’s Report: Michael Bousfield

Thank you to Ian for his work. He had done quite a bit of conducting and a thank you to Del for her work. Need to work on making better connections between Leighland Christian School and Burnie Brass. Really need to have a full senior band at 7.30pm to support those who are progressing.

Moved: Michael Bousfield

Seconded: Kathy Bentley

CARRIED

ELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS:

OFFICER	NAME	NOMINATED BY	SECONDED	ACCEPTED OR VOTE
Patron	Alvwyn Boyd	Kathy Bentley	Jennifer Watts	Accepted
President	Ken Cropper	Robert Bentley	Jennifer Watts	Accepted
Vice President Vice President	Wayne Richards	Rebecca Wells	Jennifer Watts	Accepted
Secretary				Appointed by the committee
Treasurer	Jennifer Watts	Kathleen Matthews	Michael Bousfield	Accepted
Band Sergeant	Andrew Bentley	Robert Bentley	Rebecca Wells	Accepted
Deputy Band Master	Ian Cooper	Robert Bentley	Michael Bousfield	Accepted
Development Band Master	Michael Bousfield	Ian Cooper	Rebecca Wells	Accepted
Drum Major	Wayne Richards	Rebecca Wells	Jennifer Watts	Accepted
Publicity Officer	Rebecca Wells	Jennifer Watts	Robert Bentley	Accepted
Custodian	Nathan Wells	Rebecca Wells	Brett Harrison	Accepted
Librarian	Tanya Michalek	BH	Emily Bousfield	Accepted
Assistant Librarian	Kathy Bentley	Emily Bousfield	Jennifer Watts	Accepted
Committee Members	1. Kathleen Matthews 2. Sandon Lowe	Robert Bentley	Ken Cropper
TBL Representative	Ian Cooper	Rebecca Wells	Ken Cropper	Accepted
Public Officer	Jennifer Watts	Robert Bentley	Rebecca Wells	Accepted

GENERAL BUSINESS:

Business Item	Discussion	Action/Conclusion
Band Fees	Maintain band fees to review for 2020. MOVE: Robert Bentley SECOND: Michael Bousfield CARRIED
Audit Exemption	That the committee apply for an audit exemption. MOVE: Jennifer Watts SECOND: Ken Cropper CARRIED

Meeting Closed: 9.11pm

President: Ken Cropper Secretary: Rebecca Wells Public Officer: Jennifer Watts