Annual General Meeting 2001

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Held at La Trobe University
Wednesday, 22nd August, 2001, commencing at 5.00pm

1. Present

John Traeger, Richard O'Hair, Veronica Borrett, Sally Duck, Greg Neumann, John Christie, Ana Vrkic, Sheena Wee, Jason Dang, Brad Sleebs, Tash Polyzos, Shannon Zanatta


2. Apologies

Simon Steinborner, David Bourne and Harry Rose


3. Minutes of the Previous Meeting

The minutes of the previous General Meeting held at Legends Hotel (Surfers Paradise), Thursday, 8th February, 2001 have been circulated. R. O'Hair/V. Borrett moved that the minutes be accepted as a true and correct record of the meeting.


4. Business Arising from the Previous Meeting

Nil


5. Society Reports
1. President's Report
   
   The President's Report was tabled. The meeting indicated that the Society should continue its priority to financially support student participation at both national and international mass spectrometry conferences.

2. Treasurer's Report
   
   Veronica Borrett presented the Treasurer's Report. S. Duck/R. O'Hair moved that the report be accepted.

3. ANZSMS19 Report
   
   Richard O'Hair informed members that a committee had been established and had met 5 times so far. The venue is to be Erskine House at Lorne and the date for the conference has been set for Sunday February 2nd, 2003 to the end of Thursday February 6th. The ANZSMS19 Conference will immediately precede the Lorne Protein Conference and it is hoped to share several speakers with them. After interviewing 4 professional conference organizers, the committee has decided not to appoint a PCO. They are finalizing arrangements with Erskine House and hope to be able to set a registration fee of approximately $450. The conference sessions and plenary lecturers are also being finalized.


6. Election of Central Committee

The following nominations were received:

John Traeger	President	(R. O'Hair/V. Borrett)
Margaret Sheil	Vice-President	(J. Traeger/S. Duck)
Kevin Downard	Secretary	(J. Bowie/G. Willett)
Veronica Borrett	Treasurer	(J. Traeger/R. O'Hair)
Michael Guilhaus	Committee Member	(V. Borrett/S. Duck)
Noel Davies	Committee Member	(J. Traeger/R. O'Hair)
Paul Greenwood	Committee Member	(J. Traeger/R. O'Hair)


There being no further nominations, all of the above were elected unopposed.

Paul Greenwood was reappointed as the Public Officer.

The retiring Secretary, Richard O'Hair, was thanked for his efforts in fulfilling this role over the past four years.


7. Any Other Business

Richard O'Hair enquired about the archiving of ANZSMS Conference proceedings and the minutes of previous general meetings. John Traeger indicated that since 1993 this material has been stored on the ANZSMS web site. However, he will look into the establishment of an archive for material prior to this date.

The meeting closed at 5.30 pm.


Richard O'Hair
Secretary