Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting of the Geelong Historical Society Inc. will be held on Wednesday April 2, 2025 at 7:30pm. The venue for the meeting is the Virginia Todd Hall, 9 Clarence Street, Geelong West. The AGM will be followed by our monthly lecture and the regular monthly meeting.
The AGM will be conducted according to the Rules of the Society. Members wishing to see the complete rules should do so on the Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission’s website.
In the interests of clarity and transparency the following relevant extracts from the Society’s Rules can be found below:
Section 9 of the rules of our society state that: The ordinary business of the Annual General Meeting shall be –
(a) to confirm the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting and of any General Meeting held since that meeting; and
(b) to receive from the Committee reports upon the transactions of the Society during the last preceding financial year; and
(c) to elect Officers of the Society and the ordinary members of the Committee; and
(d) to receive and consider the statement submitted by the Society in accordance with section 30(3) of the Act.
Section 12 of the rules of our society also state that: 2) No business other than that set out in the notice convening the meeting may be conducted at the meeting.
Financial Members of the society are encouraged to stand for election to the Committee of Management. They can either nominate for one of the four executive positions (President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary) or for one of eight positions on the General Committee.
Financial members of the society seeking election to the Committee, should ensure that their nominations are received by the Secretary of the Society no less than seven days prior to the meeting. Any nomination should specify the position they are nominating for and be supported by two other financial members of the society.
Nominations can be sent via email to the Secretary at the following email: web@geelonghistoricalsociety.org.au. Alternatively they should be mailed to the Secretary at the following address:
The Secretary
Geelong Historical Society
PO Box 67
Newcomb
VIC 3219
Please note that any nominations for the Executive or Committee positions must be received seven days prior to the meeting, in this case by Wednesday March 26, 2025.
A vote will be held if more than one nomination is received for each Executive position and if more than eight nominations are received for the Committee. Additionally, only in the event that insufficient nominations are received for the relevant positions can nominations be accepted from the floor during the AGM.
Download the nomination form here: GHS Executive and Committee Positions 2025
Download the Minutes of the 2024 AGM: GHS Minutes of the 2024 AGM
(Please note you must be a registered user of the society website to access this document).
