Sustainable Engineering Society Notice of Annual General Meeting Date Thursday 10 th September 2015 Time 12:30pm start Location Riverside Room 5, West Wing Ground Floor, Adelaide Convention Centre Agenda 1. Welcome and Apologies 2. Confirmation of the 2014 AGM Minutes (Attachment A) 3. Chair’s Report (Attachment B) 4. Treasurers Report (Attachment C) 5. Membership Report (Attachment D) 6. 2016/2017 National Board 7. Other Business The AGM will be taking place during the lunch break on the second day of the biannual SENG Conference that is being held on the 9-10 September in Adelaide. Please note that you do not have to register for the conference to attend the AGM. For further details and to register for the conference please refer to the website http://www.dynamicecolibrium2015.com/# If you are unable to attend the AGM you may put your views in writing (email, fax or letter) to: Karen Barletta, SENG Engineering House, 447 Upper Edward Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 Fax: 02 6273 2358 or e-mail: [email protected]This correspondence must be received by Tuesday 8 th September 2015.
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Sustainable Engineering Society
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Date Thursday 10th September 2015
Time 12:30pm start
Location Riverside Room 5, West Wing Ground Floor, Adelaide Convention Centre
Agenda
1. Welcome and Apologies 2. Confirmation of the 2014 AGM Minutes (Attachment A)
3. Chair’s Report (Attachment B)
4. Treasurers Report
(Attachment C)
5. Membership Report (Attachment D)
6. 2016/2017 National Board
7. Other Business
The AGM will be taking place during the lunch break on the second day of the
biannual SENG Conference that is being held on the 9-10 September in Adelaide. Please note that you do not have to register for the conference to attend the AGM.
For further details and to register for the conference please refer to the website http://www.dynamicecolibrium2015.com/#
If you are unable to attend the AGM you may put your views in writing (email, fax or letter) to:
Karen Barletta, SENG Engineering House, 447 Upper Edward Street BRISBANE QLD 4000 Fax: 02 6273 2358 or e-mail: [email protected]
This correspondence must be received by Tuesday 8th September 2015.
Sustainable Engineering Society Annual General Meeting
Thursday 27 November 2014 at 12:30pm
Clarendon Room C Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Melbourne
Unapproved MINUTES
ATTENDEES Alice Howe (Chair) Adrian Piani Stuart Barwick Sandra Stewart Graham Davies Kunenthiram Sureshan Daniela De Los Rios La Rosa Fraser Gibson Visitor Lara Harland Rachel Miller* Rachael Lindup Erik Maranik Apologies Amy Martin Michael Hassett Graham Moore Andrew King *Non-Voting Position
Item No Agenda Item Participant 1.0 WELCOME AND BOARD MATTERS 1.1 Welcome and Apologies
The Chair, Alice Howe, opened the meeting at 12:55 and welcomed all those in attendance. She noted the apologies as per above.
1.2 Minutes to the Previous Meeting The Minutes to the previous AGM held on the 19 September 2014 were accepted a true and accurate record. Sandra Stewart moved, Shan Sureshan seconded – all in favour. Carried
1.3 Chairman’s Report The Chair spoke to the presentation that is attached to these minutes.
1.4 Treasurer’s Report The Treasurer (Sandra Stewart) spoke to the report that was attached to the Notice of AGM. Once the Audited Financial Reports have been received they will be available on the SENG website.
1.5 Membership Report The Chair briefed the Members on the Membership Report that was attached
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to the Notice of AGM highlighting that the current membership of SENG is 710 which is a 7.07% decrease on the previous year. Question about Environmental College and targeting those members to become members of SENG.
2.0 OTHER BUSINESS 2.1 The Chair briefed the Members on the Sustainability and Climate Change
Policies that have been approved by Congress. She advised that the 2014 Board will return for 2015.
3.0 MEETING CLOSE 3.1 Meeting closed by the Chair at 13:07.
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ATTACHMENT B
www.seng.org.au
CHAIR’S REPORT – AGM SEPTEMBER 2015 SENG exists to promote information transfer regarding environmental issues of relevance to the environmental engineering profession and other environmental practitioners, and is closely aligned with the College of Environmental Engineers. We have branches in Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Queensland, Northern Territory, West Australia, South Australia and Victoria. These branches deliver a wide range of continuing professional development and advocacy services to members. In November 2014, Engineers Australia adopted revised policy positions on sustainability and climate change. This policy review was led by SENG, the Environmental College and EA President David Cruickshanks-Boyd. The SENG Board also contributed to the Environmental College’s revised guideline Towards Sustainable Engineering Practice. SENG was successful in gaining support from Engineers Australia for Dr Mark Diesendorf to run an eminent speaking tour in eight cities around Australia. This speaking tour, which presented a Sustainable Energy Future for Australia, was highly regarded, with record attendance. The SENG Board spent less time this year on external policy matters. We collaborated with Engineers Australia on a submission to the Federal Government regarding greenhouse gas emissions, and drafted letters to the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition on the same subject. The Board and the Queensland Branch wrote to the Queensland Government in relation to taxpayer funding for the Adani coal mine. The Board also assisted EA with two media releases on sustainable building. This year’s annual sustainability award for final year engineering students was won by Jonathan Piper, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Siddharth Bhattacharya and Siti Wilson from South Australia. They will all be attending the 2015 SENG conference, to be held in Adelaide, to present their project, titled Renewable Power from Scrap Materials. I would like to thank the Melbourne Branch for its contribution towards organising the Practical Response to Climate Change Conference in 2014 and the South Australian Branch for its efforts in organising the 2015 Conference, Dynamic Ecolibrium. I would also like to thank the National Board and Branch committee members for their hard work and commitment to SENG, and acknowledge the excellent administrative support provided to the Board by Ms Barletta. Lastly, I welcome incoming Chair, Graham Davies. SENG is in safe hands! Dr Alice Howe MIEAust Chair, Sustainable Engineering Society www.seng.org.au
FINANCE REPORT – AGM SEPTEMBER 2015 FOR THE 2014/2015 FINANCIAL YEAR
Note: this report was accurate as at 17 August 2015
1 July 2015 - SENG National funds (audited) $63,378
2014 / 2015 Financial Year: Actual Approved Budget
Income $69,914 $74,320 Expenditure $47,719 $83,270
Operating profit/deficit $ 22,195 -$ 8,950
30 June 2015 - Estimated SENG National funds $85,573 $54,428
These transactions represent expenditure in the operation of the National Board, and for the SENG Chapters in the delivery of CPD events in the Divisions, such as seminars, workshops and site visits.
Income includes:
Membership fees Event sponsorship Registration fees collected for CPD events
Expenditure includes:
Publication and distribution of WME magazine to members SENG website hosting and maintenance Administration and management fees Production of membership information material National Board meetings (one face to face and monthly teleconferences) CPD event costs held in the Divisions by Branch committees (catering, refreshments, speaker costs)
To be noted:
Savings in actual expenditure were the result of: - Changes to frequency in delivery of the print copy of the WME magazine - National Board met face to face only once
The income/expenditure above includes funds collected and expended by the 8 Branch committees of SENG: Income $9,958 Expenditure $11,167 (budget $12,000 break even)
Note these figures are not audited and are not final. Engineers Australia is managing the process of the annual financial year audit.
Audited figures incorporating accruals will be posted on the SENG web site when available.
ATTACHMENT D
www.seng.org.au
MEMBERSHIP REPORT – AGM SEPTEMBER 2015 Note: the following statistics were reported on 17 August 2015 Current financial membership of SENG is 757 nationally, including 17 overseas members. Membership has
increased by 47 (6.6%) since the 2014 AGM held a little under a year ago.
The largest two chapters are Queensland and Victoria with 25.8% and 23.1% of the membership respectively. They
are followed by Sydney and Western Australian with 19.9% and 12.2% respectively. Smaller Chapters exist in South
Australia (6.7%), Newcastle (4.2%), Australian Capital Territory (3.7%), Overseas (2.2%), Tasmania (1.5%) and the
Northern Territory (0.7%).
SENG welcomes membership of environmental and sustainability professionals who are not engineers. This is
evidenced by the fact that 14% of SENG members are not members of Engineers Australia.
Students make up 21% of the total SENG membership. Membership statistics are shown on the attached for your information.
ACT N'Castle Sydney Overseas NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA TOTAL
Total no. members 28 32 151 17 5 195 51 11 175 92 757
