Meeting Minutes 11 June, 2007

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Students of Sustainability
Monday 11th June 2007
at FERN, Fremantle
6pm - 8pm

****NEXT MONDAY MEETING IS AT FERN AT 6PM, BRING FOOD TO SHARE FOR DINNER!****

Working Groups
Meeting with (Murdoch & City of Melville)
Concerns about hygiene and noise complaints were raised
Basically any noise above speaking level would warrant a complaint
Possibility to hire hall in the student village, which has:
Water
Toilets
Showers
Kitchen facilities
meeting to discuss use of hall
Only half of the student village will be booked out so it could be used for accomodation
Visitors Accomodation is also available
May need to accomodate upto 25 people
Need to get a quote for use of the hall & visitor accomodation, power, water & outside area for 2 weeks
Offer them between $1000 - $2000 for the package
Kym Beazley Lecture Theatre (KBLT) booked out all week during the day

$5000 from Brisbane that will be transferred into SOS account
SOS linked into NADOIC week - SOS will be part of the program
Visitors still need to register - Indig Free, others pay
Need $5000 to cover flights
$5000 will be transferred into account, keep receipts and SOS will recoup funds from ANAWA and FANG

Question: Can SOS gain frequent flyer program?

Climate Change Workshops
Feedback that info needs to be more focused

Health and Safety
200 condoms donated from Family Planning
Purchased 30 dams for $30

Bikes
Has had loads of bikes donated
Will have 50 ready by SOS
Using old bed frames for bike racks
Need a space to store bikes and tools
Have a few bike drop off points around campus

Stickers
Some techno dramas
Could do with a hand

Conflict Resolution
Making a call out for a group of people to deal with issues as they arise over the conference

Registration
153 registered, 25 paid. Lots of people making enquiries

Alcohol
***offered to be the licensee (register the liquor license in his name)
Need to make sure no underage delegates are drinking and get signs, checking ID
Manning drinking and bands at student village may be a problem
Reece said that Club Murdoch may be available
Needing to purchase:
1400 full strength
300 mid
300 low
65 wine casks
Working to keep campsite drug and alcohol free
Drug policy
Pot use & excessive drinking: 1 warning
Anything else delegates will be exited immediately (Including drug use and bad behaviour)
Security guards can monitor this
Looking at strategies to limit alcohol consumption

Question: Is there any dissent with regards to selling alcohol - NO.

Aprons
Looking for an image to use as a patch on aprons
Need to have designs for "organising collective" and "volunteers"

La Musica/GenderFuk
Overall theme for the (Wednesday) night
$300 for a sound engineer
Black Dove want to do a music night on the Thursday

FOARA

Inviting SOS delegates to go up to Burrup Rock
Guided tours with archaeologists
Action to challenge Woodsides management of the site
All agreed to support FOARA and promote action

Program
Will be sent out on the loop
The font/back cover & map will be printed now professionally from the ethical printers, but the inside pages will be printed separately with our own recycled paper at the Greens or something

Speakers
Need to redo it for Indig content - will send out redone version of the spreadsheet
*** will collate all speaker content and be the contact for the speakers spreadsheet/timetable

Minibuses
Transport needed for elders
Research mini bus hire and ask the uni's (none at UWA? possibly Murdoch College or Murdoch Uni, etc.)