Minutes 2024 May

Written by April Daley-Holmes

The Celebrants Network Inc – Committee Meeting Minutes

Monday 13^th May 2024

Meeting opened 6:35 pm EST

Item 1: Quorum – Yes

Present:

Debbie Payne – QLD

Ree Daly – NSW

April Daley-Homes – QLD

Stacey Maguire – QLD

Helen Pearce – VIC

Apologies:

Kerri Goodman – VIC

Wayne Eadon – WA

Robyn Ryan - QLD

Absent:

NIL

Item 2: Previous Minutes Confirmed.

Meeting Minutes of 8^th April 2024– confirmed 13/05/2024.

Accepted by: Stacey Maguire                      Seconded by: Debbie Payne

All in favour

Item 3: Matters arising from previous Minutes including Conflict of Interest Declarations.

NIL conflicts.

Item 4: Motions raised online during the month and matters arising from these Motions.

Nil Motions

Item 5: Correspondence In and Out – Deb/April.

See actions for follow up.

Item 6: Retiring, Resigning, New Committee Members

NIL to report.

Item 7: Chairperson’s Report – Debbie Payne – on Forum.

1. Upcoming MLCS meeting with AG’s office. Most pressing item of conversation for our members will be reinstating of remote signing.
2. Discussion about the future direction of TCN. Building on content, building up resources, zoom prof dev sessions, membership and the services we provide our members, including new celebrants.
3. Decision to Poll our members asking what they want from TCN.
4. Zoom POD session planned for 30^th May 24.
5. Further discussion about Digital Business Cards and QR codes, moving ahead with technology for our members.
6. Committee to think about topics of interest to share with other committee members and TCN members.

Motion that the Chairperson’s Report date 13/05/2024 be accepted.

Moved:  Ree Daly                     Seconded: Stacey Maguire

All in favour

Item 8:  Treasurer’s Report – Ree Daly – Reports to uploaded to Forum.

           Bank Balance $83639.86 as at 13/05/2024

           Membership apportioned.

          TCN Shop going well.

          New membership enhanced bank balance.

          Committee members remittance.

          Motion that the Treasurer’s Report date 13/05/2024 be accepted.

          Moved:  Debbie Payne                                Seconded: Helen Pearce

          All in favour

Item 9:  Events – Helen Pearce

1. Newsletter to include reminder for membership renewal. HP and SMc to post on social media.

Item 10: Membership Report –Kerri Goodman apology

                   Nothing to report

                  Moved:   N/A                                     Seconded: N/A
                  All in Favour

Item 11: Social Media Report – Stacey Maguire

Social Media

Facebook followers – 2,112

Instagram followers – 1,390

Facebook reach increased 110% in the past month while our Instagram reach dropped by 25.3%

Visitors to our Facebook page increased 23.6% and dropped 20% to our Instagram profile.

The reason could be due to stopping the 3-4 weekly posts that automatically cover Facebook and Instagram during the ad placement, especially as the ad will only show on Facebook.

Ad
Initial placement of the ad proved difficult as our TCN social media account needing to be set up as a business profile. Thank you to Nathan for sorting this for us.

The ad has now run for 10 days in May and will run again for the same in June.

It would be interesting to see the membership statistics and how many new and/or renewals have occurred to date.

May Statistics

Item 12: Other Business

Item 13: Next meeting  

Monday 11^th June 2024

6:30 pm EST

Item 14: Review of Actions

1. OPD sessions for members, Deb and Stacey. 30/05/2024
2. Committee members to advise different forum items as they find them to help streamline what to save, delete or update the TCN website.
3. Committee members to think about what would excite us to for future forums and for items of interest.
4. Digital business cards possible zoom session – Deb
5. Bronte Price zoom session to planned for June – Deb to liaise with Bronte
6. Survey monkey results from previous zoom sessions for members interests – Ree
7. Deb to speak with Susie Roberts regarding a previous committee member showing interest in returning to the TCN committee. Deb to advise outcome of discussion with Susie, individually with each committee member.

Item 15: Meeting closed 7:55pm EST

Minutes by

April Daley-Holmes

Secretary