A brief and efficient Annual General Meeting will be held on 22 March from 1:30-2pm, at Progress hall, 197 Skye Pt Rd, Coal Point.
The Agenda will be as follows
If you would like to join the Committee a nomination form is available and nominations will be called from the floor.
Treasurer's Report for 2024- Harvey Mitchell
that Progress Association activities would be dictated by the need to cope with the discovery of termites at the hall. This problem will require significant spending to refurbish the infected structural work, as well as to restore the furnishings which have been destroyed in the rebuilding work so far. In addition, the Association plans to take the opportunity to enhance the aged kitchen area. Fortunately, the Association has benefitted from income in the form of an $8000 donation from the Eraring Site Community Support Programme, an $8000 grant (i.e., with restrictions on how it can be spent), from the state government’s Local Small Commitments Allocation Program, plus a $500 donation from the Toronto Lions Club, and notably a total of $2000 in donations - to date - from the community.
Until that report was presented, the planned work had seen only a small amount of expenditure because of the need for significant preparation work. Since then, the kitchen refurbishment is essentially complete, with around $40,000 being spent on hall repairs and refurbishment. This report for 2024 can therefore be summarised by saying that the Association’s total liquid assets are just a few thousand dollars. The Association clearly has no capacity to carry out further work unless there is significant income, and a review of routine expenses and incomes is appropriate.
As far as expenses are concerned, our significant routine costs, primarily relate to council rates, (approaching $4000 per annum), insurances (both building and personal, especially for Landcare workers, approaching $2,500 per annum), electricity supply and similar matters, and an annual cost of over $1000 for continual termite inspections and treatment.
Throughout 2024 we also lost income from Chronicle sponsorship, our most significant income source, because of limited volunteer capacity to produce the usual number of issues.
Membership subscriptions, which comprise the Association’s third main form of income, have been good as members have been as supportive as ever.
As far as income is concerned, it is hoped that hall hiring, which is normally one of the three main sources of Association income, and which fell to almost negligible levels, due to the renovations will pick up again. Even so, the Committee may need to consider other fund-raising measures, such as trash-and-treasure events.
Taking all this into account, the Association’s financial position is still not in a secure state, and Association activities need to reflect this situation.
Thank you Harvey
Sincere thanks go to Harvey Mitchell who is stepping down from the CPPA Committee this year. Harvey has been an enthusiastic supporter of the CPPA, as a landcarer, committee member, Vice-President, newsletter distributor and for the past two years Treasurer. A working-bee enthusiast, if there were a pair of hands required, they were provided. Harvey’s attention to detail and cautious deliberations have been an asset to the Committee and we thank him for his contributions to our community.
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