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Council » Minutes » 2016 Minutes » 2016 Sept

Minutes of NZART Council Meeting

Held via Skype, on Tuesday 6 September 2016 2016 at 1930 hrs


04/1    Roll Call
Chairman:    Stuart Watchman ZL2TW

Council:    Phil King ZL1PK, Neill Ellis ZL1TAJ,
Max Wheatley ZL2MAX, Malcolm Wheeler ZL2UDF, Phil Dodds ZL4XYZ, Phil Holliday ZLZL3PAH, Don MacDonald ZL3DMC,
Alex Gordon ZL4ARG

Minute Sec:    Topsy Scott ZL2LS

04/2    Apologies
Howard Buxton ZL1BXA

04/3    Minutes of Council meeting August 2016                 Approved                                                        
04/4    Additional Agenda Items                            Nil

04/5    Action Points
Action Points Council July meeting 2015
01)    ZL2TW - DATV WN VHF Group Ch 25 DATV test progress.
Test licence currently under re-negotiation.
A comprehensive submission has been made to RSM putting the case for a further test licence.

Action Points Council March meeting 2016
01)    ZL3PAH New NZART Web Site update                        
Progress has been made but due to unavoidable circumstances has been slower than desired.  The project timeline is being updated.            Ongoing

Action Points Council Friday face to face meeting June 2016
1)    ZL2TLL/ZL2DL to arrange a meeting with RSM to determine a way of tidying SMART records. (resulting from membership promotion) By end of August.                                              Complete

06)    ZL2TW Write to other offer received re legal advisor thanking them for their offer.                                            Complete

07)    ZL2TW to apply to the Charities Commission, for charitable status by 5 July 2016.     A Submission has been made and awaiting a response.    Ongoing
                                            
08)    ZL2TW/ZL2DL will undertake corrections of two questions in the regulations section of the database. To liaise with ZL2AJ and copy ZL2TLL with the updates.

Input from ZL2TLL has be gained and ZL3DMC has taken this over with the assistance of
two amateurs from Christchurch (convened following a request at conference) who are
experienced with conducting examinations.
Six questions have been updated and will be passed onto the RSM via our ARX for
approval.
    
A plan has been presented to council by the working group to then review the
question bank as per the 2015 remit.
A/P ZL3DMC to send to Debby                            Ongoing

09)    ZL2TW Bank account signatories to be updated on AREC Trust account
    This is on hold until ZL2TW becomes a trustee, see AP below                                                    Ongoing
    
10)    Reestablish charitable status of AREC SAR Trust and replace ZL1VH with ZL2TW as a trustee as soon as possible.
    Being dealt with by ZL1VH and progressing slowly with Charities Commission.                                            Ongoing

11)    ZL3VP/Evan/ZL3DMC to ensure register of all assets of AREC completed before next audit review.
ZL3DMC to ensure Gareth completes an asset register within the next two
months. Also remind AREC to advise branches of insurance cover for their
AREC funded radios.
ZL3DMC is working with ZL3VP on this matter and progress is being made.                                                Ongoing

Action Points Council Monday face to face meeting June 2016
02)    ZL2TW contact ZL2UFI regarding CD Rom production costs.                                                            Complete

03)    ZL2TW/Evan to further investigate computer upgrade and associated costs
ZL1PK has taken over working with Evan Sayer. The proposal from Evan has
been accepted with a fine tuning of the back up required.            Ongoing

04)    ZL2DL to coordinate the process of reviewing the question bank and report to Council monthly. To remove and refer to item 8 as above
    
05)    ZL2TW to circulate to council a proposal regarding preparing a branch circular, for non-members who did not receive a letter with the promo and encourage them to join. Sub price to be set. By October when reminder notices go out.
A/P ZL2TW will now take this up with Debby at the appropriate time

Action Points Council August 2016
01)    ZL2TW/ZL2DL to arrange for new insurance cover with company advised by Howard ZL1BXA
ZL2TW will update this in the Presidents column in the next Break In.
 Complete

04/6    Confirmation of New Members September 2016            Confirmed

04/7    Monthly Financials September 2016
a)    Payments                                            
b)    Actuals v Budget                                Approved                                              
04/8    Monthly Reports
a)    AREC Financial report -emailed                    
b)    QSL Bureau Report  2016
c)    LGLO report                                Approved    
        
04/9    Electronic Break In for visually impaired members
This will be handed back to Mark Gooding Break-In Editor to sort out and request that Mark ask for an agreement with those who receive the PDF Break- not to pass it on.

04/10    IARU representative for NZART
Council has resolved to get Phil Dodds ZL4XYZ in place during 2017 to replace our current temporary representative John Lochead ZL4QS.

04/11    Request for membership donation – Manawatu Branch
(For an equipment sale raffle)        
Moved that NZART offer a reduced subscription (the recent promotion rate) for membership of $50.00 instead of a free membership
Alex ZL4ARG, second Malcolm ZL2UDF                 Carried                                                
04/12    

04/13    
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03/14    Leave of Absence
Next meeting to be shifted to 11th October
Due to three absences

04/15 General Business

Nil

04/16 Information Papers    

Nil

Meeting closed at 20.30 hrs

Topsy Scott ZL2LS
On Air Minute Secretary

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