Committee Minutes 2024-07-25

Minutes 25/7/24

HB Branch of Anthroposophical Society in NZ

Minutes 25 July 2024

Present: Robyn Hewetson (Chair), Robin Bacchus (Treasurer), Angela Hair (Secretary), John Jackson, Mike Caris.  Visitors: Diana Bacchus, Bernie Raichle.

  1. AGM for NZSA Day 10 August

Catering for 40 people.

Angela to send an item for AGM discussion: about the additional charging for Goethean newsletters.

Society Day Programme:

  • 8.30am - Jocelyn is giving a talk
  • 9.30 - 10 - Coffee and snack - tea coffee and nibbles, savoury.
  • 10 -11.15 - Panel discussion - What do we want the next 100 yrs to look like
  • 11.15 -12.30 - Section work discussion.
  • 12.30 -1.30pm - Lunch soup and bread rolls.
  • 1:30 pm Metamorphoses through art: Maggie Farr  drawing & Lut Hermans clay.
  • 3pm Afternoon tea, something sweet, dark chocolate and nuts/ a square
  • 3:15 pm AGM

Catering  options

Slow cookers for Soup (Angela, John, Mike, Pip/Johnny)

Hohepa (Bernie to approach Trish), fruit, cheese,

Gerrit: Pippa and Johnny Ryan has been asked

Angela John Support to do dishes, after breaks, after lunch, 4.15pm to 4.30pm

Price to NZAS Council as they pay for afternoon tea.

Robin to put request for VOLUNTEERS TO HELP in the Sunday newsletter.

Heater - for conference - have the Heat Pump set to turn on early the night before.

Bernie and Diana left the meeting.

Heating in the Main Room

Tevo heater - lockbox or holder for Remote. Robin to arrange.  It is now faster to get heat up Main Room with the upgrade to Unit

Tony from AAA Insulation - they drill holes through inside walls and point fluff into them. They plaster over the holes when completed. They won’t do the mural walls.  Cost: $5000 walls; $3000 underfloor - around piles, and under the floor.  Robin to get quote for updating insulation in the ceiling.  Tony will do that for free

Treasurers Report supplied and discussed

Robin - Double glazing the windows - Quote required.  It will be expensive.

Put an AGM 2025 Agenda to ask members specially to help with windows.

Agreed to get two quotes for top up of ceiling insulation in rear building above the library and art room.  Tony from AAAInsulation has to get Hastings District Council permission to insulate the walls of the Main Room.  Scheduled for August.

Charities Commission - completed annual report that has been accepted.  Incorporated Society legislation does not include us as we are a Charitable Trust underv1957 Act.

Mike to fix the glass cabinet by the roadside and supply a pin board for calendar of dates.

Computerization for books in the library.  The books are a valuable asset.  An .xlsx spreadsheet has been made of Steiner books and Other Authors and is available on the website, but is not searchable.  Robin has worked on improving them and will send copies of the spreadsheet to Mike Caris.  We don’t have a modem for use at the Centre and Robin now has a modem from Two Degrees that we could use, but we would need to subscribe for an Internet connection if we wished to have an electronic Library system that could be searched by members.

Next Meeting: 5.30pm August 29 2024

End of meeting 6.30pm