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ECAWA Annual General Meeting – TODAY – Wednesday the 25th of March 2020

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The ECAWA Annual General Meeting – TODAY – Wednesday the 25th of March 2020

Join us online from 5.00pm for coffee and a chat before the meeting begins. (BYO coffee!)

The ECAWA 2020 Annual General Meeting that was advertised as on Wednesday the 18th of March at Christ Church Grammar School was adjourned as a quorum was not available.

The adjourned meeting will reconvene from 5.00pm for a start at 5.30pm sharp TODAY Wednesday the 25th of March.

This meeting will take place online, so that ECAWA members will be able to maintain a “social distance” appropriate to the current circumstances.

ECAWA members are asked to indicate their intention to attend the online meeting, and supply the information requested, by 12.00pm today – Wednesday the 25th of March – so that the necessary arrangements for the meeting can be made.

Please use the form linked at http://bit.ly/ECAWA_2020_AGM_online  to indicate your intention to attend the ECAWA Annual General Meeting on Wednesday the 25th of March, 2020 – online – from 5.00pm.

Nomination forms for ECAWA members offering to work on the ECAWA Committee are available on ECAWeb at https://ecawa.wa.edu.au/pages/ecawa_agm/

 

In brief:

Date: Wednesday the 25th of March
Time:  Come online from 5.00pm using the link that will be sent out on the day of the meeting, for a  meeting to start at 5.30pm, with time for coffee (BYO) and a chat from 5.00pm.
Venue: Online via a Google Hangout
RSVP: Please use the response form to indicate your attendance as soon as you have made your plans.

Download:

ECAWA_AGM_Notice  (Note that this form remains the original form with the original date and location)
Appointment of a school voting representative  (Download the form, then print, complete, have it signed and witnessed,  and scan and email to secretary@ecawa.wa.edu.au)
ECAWA Rules

 

The ECAWA Annual General Meeting is essentially an event for the financial members of ECAWA – the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia Inc. Non voting members, including Student Members and additional members attached to Organisational or School Members, are welcome and are encouraged to attend the meeting.

Members are asked to come online on Wednesday the 25th of March, from 5.00pm, so that the ECAWA 2020 Annual General Meeting can start at 5.30pm sharp.

Join us online from 5.00pm for coffee and a chat before the meeting begins. (BYO coffee!)

Members – ECAWA is your organisation. If you would like more input into decisions, initiatives and the running of the association, then a place on the committee could be for you.

If you intend nominating someone or seconding a nomination, please remember that it is essential that, as well as the nominator and seconder, the nominee sign the form to indicate that they are willing to accept the nomination, and that the nominee, nominator and seconder are all financial members of ECAWA both at the time of the nomination and the AGM.

You do not have to be present at the AGM to be elected to the committee but you do need to be available to attend meetings regularly and participate in the work of the association.

At the meeting we will be electing the members of the 2020/ 2021 ECAWA Committee.

There are 15 positions up for election, including President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, LOGIN Editor, Primary Coordinator, Secondary Coordinator, Tertiary Coordinator, and seven General Committee Members.

 

There are also other opportunities to contribute to the association.

Please consider working as part of an ECAWA sub committee, assisting with LOGIN / LOGIN Light, assisting either the Primary or Secondary Coordinator to arrange PD/PL events or coordinating a Special Interest Group.

Will you be the voting representative of your school or organisation at the AGM?

The ECAWA Rules gives voting rights to individual members and to one representative member from each Organisational or School membership.

In order for Organisational or School members to vote we need to ascertain in each case, who that representative member is. If you are attending the Annual General Meeting and will be voting on behalf of your school or organisation, please ensure the appropriate form Appointment of a school voting representative  is completed and signed, and return it to the Secretary before the beginning of the AGM.

Non voting members, including Student Members, Introductory Members and additional members attached to Organisational or School Members, are welcome and are encouraged to attend the meeting.

Will you be there?

We need to ensure that there are sufficient places available for members, so it is essential that all those intending to be present please complete the  response form to indicate if you will be attending the Annual General Meeting online. The response form also gives you the opportunity to record your apology for the minutes, if you are unable to attend.

For updates to ECAWA Annual General Meeting information please see http://bit.ly/ECAWA_AGM