President Peter Gibbs’ Address

With the appointment of Peter Brown as Secretary we now have a full strength committee for the first time in 8 months. We can now begin to focus more on the future rather than playing catch up.

First on the agenda will be to address the benefits or otherwise of a new constitution pro-forma proposed by Probus South Pacific. There are costs involved in adopting and registering a new constitution with Consumer Affairs Victoria, the governing authority for incorporated entities so due diligence will be applied to the recommendation we bring to the membership later this year.

Behind the scenes several committee and general members have ad-hoc taken on the task of arranging speakers for the balance of this year with only November now vacant. This is a life-line approach to demonstrate by example that the Guidelines prepared by Peter Gurry are an ideal template.

Life lines have finite length and 2026 coordination will be over to the membership.

Finally our Grants Application for 2026 is with the Boroondara Council and based on past years we should have confirmation in October. For 2026 Outings has been selected and this will give the newly appointed Outings coordinators the opportunity to include coach hire for designated events.

Peter Gibbs

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