Old Antonian Social Club (Australia) Inc. 40th Annual General Meeting

Venue: Walawwa 477 Princes Hwy, Noble Park VIC 3174

Time: Sunday 6th December 2020 at 11.00am.

Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

Contents

Naomal & Dimple De Alwis
Afzal & Manel Laphir
Nadeesha & Hasini Ratnayake
Senaka & Nilanthi Amarasinghe
Mohan & Estella Gomes
Martin Pereira
Basil Hyde
Meril Guneratne
Dumudu Rambukwella
Robin Koelmeyer
Bernard Vanculenbourge
Errol Vanculenbourge
Norman Thompson
Peter Cortelling
Jayantha and Ayoma Peries
Adrien Dunuwille
Tony Scharder and Nicola Mant
Darnley Mant
Mahinda Jeromimus
Errol Van Cuylenberg

Apologies:

Chris Drieberg, Marlon Von Hagt, Gordan Cooray, Michael Macky, Leyrisse VanderWert, Sapathie Wijayaratne, Ashok Ariyaratnam.

AGM Commenced at 11.45am

The meeting was opened with a silent prayer
President made the speech thanking everyone for the support given to the association to run another great year despite of all the unexpected situations had to face due to COVID-19.
Reading of apologies who were unable to attend the AGM.
The 39^th AGM meeting minutes were read by the president, proposed by Afzal Laphir and Seconded by Robin Koelmeyer.
The FY20 Accounts update was presented by Naomal Proposed ?? and seconded by Jayantha Peris

Election of Office Bearers for 2021

Position	Proposed	Proposed By	Seconded By
President	Senaka Amarasinghe	Neomal De Alwis	Meril Guneratne
Vice President	Naomal De Alwis	Senaka Amarasinghe	Marin Pereira
Secretory	Nadeesha Ratnayake	Mohan Gomaz	Afzal Laphir
Treasurer	Dumudu Rambukwella	Naomal De Alwis	Afzal Laphir
Assistant Treasurer	Marin Pereira	Afzal Laphir	Naomal De Alwis
Assistant Secretory	Mohan Gomaz	Marin Pereira	Dumudu Rambukwella

Committee Members

Unanimously nominated 8 committee members.

Meril Guneratne
Jayantha Peris
Afzal Laphir
Ashoka De Silva
Robin Koelmeyer
Buwanaka Wijesundara
Adrian Dunuvila
Mohan Gomez

Additionally, proposed committee members,

Sepathi Wijeratne
Chanaka Waidyratna
Brian Rumesh
Lester Herathge
Ajanth Ellepola
Denver Perera
Yohan Wanigasekara
Keith Mahamud
Indika Kaluarachchi
Ashok Ariyaratnam
Marlon Vonheart
Chris Drebourge
Jinendra Bandara
Kosala Rupassara
Spenser Mudannayaka
Ajanth Ellepola

Inter-State Representatives

Ravi Walishinghe – QLD
Romesh Kandappa – NSW
Ananda Abeyratne – ACT
Sujith Dunuwila – TAS
Leroy Fonseka – SA
Lalindra Dunuvila – WA
Viky De Silva – NT
Asanka Ratneweera – NZ
Ranjith Peris – Sri Lanka

The new committee started the duties @ 12.25pm
Senaka made his inaugural speech and brought up the importance of using new technology such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams to have meetings with Interstate members, overseas members and even with young Antonians.

Account Related Matters

FY20 accounts are not audited by Tony Strarder due to personal health reasons. Therefore club require to seek external services to audit the FY 20 and future activities.
Suggested to contact Indika Kaluarachchi seeking accounts auditing services for FY 21 an onwards.
Organize to handover the accounts duties from Ashok to Dumudu including MYOB and online banking access.

Constitution related Matters

Basil Hyde proposed to grant authority to the new Constitution Change Committee to make change to the constitution and report back to the Members via the Committee. Naomal De Alwis Seconded the proposal. The Committee will comprise of Naomal, Senaka, Basil, Jayantha, Afzal, Mohan and Martin.

Other Businesses

All Saints Quadrangle matches
Initial discussions had been held with the organizers via a Zoom meeting.
Another meeting will be held on the 17^th of December 2020 to finalize the venue and the date.
More information will be shared once the details are finalised.
It was also mention that the strict / new regulations required to follow during the public events.

Christmas Carols
- To be organised by Martin Pereira

The Dinner Dance
- The Princess Grand has booked for 4^th September 2021 – coordinated by Naomal.

College Day
- Has been booked for 13^th June 2021
- Location has been fanalsed – coordinated by Naomal.

Naomal also proposed to provide the opportunity of paid little jobs for younger anothonians as extra pocket money.
Afzal suggested to work closely with the OBA parent body in Sri Lanka, to provide support for projects for better productivity and effective contributions.
Nadeesha thanks for everyone who supported the younger anthonion in need during COVID-19.

The first lady Nilanthi Amarasinghe presented the former first lady Dimple De Alwis with bouquet of flowers for her support given to the former president and the club for the past 3 years.

The meeting was adjourned @ 1.03pm with everyone singing the college anthem followed by lunch.