MINUTES OF 5th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 


Date:	April 3rd, 2005

Location:	Home of Robert Brierley - 3 Nicholsdale Rd

Present:	Robert Brierley (president), Bob Strickland, Barrie Gallacher, 
Chris Walta, Eleanor Stephenson, June Strickland, Rosemary 
Buchanan

Apologies:	John Cott, Jim Breen, Bob Stensholt


1. OPENING
	Robert welcomed all present to the 5th Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Back 
Creek.

2. REPORTS
?	Minutes of the 4th AGM of the FOBC were presented. Bob and Barrie moved 
minutes to be accepted. Minutes accepted.
?	President delivered the president's report. Copy of the President's report was 
presented to the meeting and will be made available on the FOBC website. 
Eleanor moved the report be accepted and seconded by June.  Report accepted by 
all. 
?	Treasurer's report was delivered by Bob Strickland. Copy of the Treasurer's 
report was presented to the meeting and will be made available on the FOBC 
website. John Spence was thanked for auditing the Financial Report and we hope 
that he will be willing to continue in this role for the next year. Chris and Barrie 
moved that the report be accepted. Report was accepted by the meeting.

3. BUSINESS OF THE MEETING - ELECTION OF COMMITTEE
?	All members of the 2004 FOBC committee will continue in their roles on the 
committee
?	Rosemary will be a new member on the committee

4. OTHER BUSINESS
?	Janyce from the Parks and Gardens Department in the City of Boroondara will be 
in the creek on Thursday April 7 at 8.00am to walk through the area to assess 
priorities for the coming year. All are invited to be there with Robert to meet with 
Janyce.
?	Parks and Gardens Department in the City of Boroondara have heard form the 
Balwyn Rotary club that the Rotary Club of Balwyn is donating a park bench. The 
suggestion is to install it at the Cornell St end of the creek facing the creek. 
Council has approved to install a notice board also in the same area. Robert 
brought up the suggestion that a receptacle be attached to the Notice Board that 
could hold some FOBC Newsletters for interested people to collect. All present 
were delighted to have the park bench and the Notice Board for the creek. 
?	Recruitment of a pool of working bee contributors. Strategies were discussed to 
determine what could be done to develop a pool of people who would be 
interested to contribute to weeding, planting and mulching work at the regular 
working bees.. It was suggested that it would be good if the committee members 
could be scheduled to coordinate the work of volunteers. Rosemary asked what 
routine promotion of our work is planned in our projects. Some discussion took 
place suggesting that more could be done to focus on promotion to combine our 
efforts in attracting the pool of volunteers required to get the work done. 
Interested person or people were invited to take a role in this. 
?	It was discussed again that local school groups could be interested in developing 
some association with our work from an environmental perspective that was 
connected to some curriculum initiative. Robert has a power point presentation to 
use in talking to groups about our work.
?	Increased membership and subscription was discussed and thanks goes to 
members who have been working on this.
?	Eleanor raised the possibility of a 'Bird Walk' in the creek for interested people. 
It was suggested that this could be of interest also to school groups particularly if 
some curriculum support material was available for this. Eleanor was thanked for 
her great work on the funding raising activity for the FOBC.


5. NEXT MEETING
May 10 at 7.30pm at the home of Bob Strickland 160 Through Rd 

DOCUMENTS PRESENTED AT THE MEETING 
?	Minutes of the 4th AGM 2004
?	President's Statement for the 5th AGM 2005 - Robert Brierley 
?	Treasurer's Report for the 5th AGM 2005 - Bob Strickland 

FRIENDS OF BACK CREEK
AGM April 3 2005
Minutes prepared by Chris Walta