To keep you up to date with what is happening at the Management Committee (MC) meetings we will be providing a summary of the important points discussed at the meeting every month. The Management Committee meetings take place on the 3rd Friday of each month. Due to the Easter holidays, the April meeting has been pushed back by 1 week and will take place on the 26th of April. 
Due to the dry weather conditions, the Contract Landcare Services’ work schedule will need to be revised as work cannot commence in this weather. It will also necessitate budget revision and discussions with the Council and various other customers.
- Work continues on documenting the plumbing reticulation on site and planning approvals are being obtained to increase the size of the dam on the property to ensure more water for the nursery operations
- The nursery manager has made a proposal with regard to the payment of a non-refundable deposit by the customer for large wholesale orders and additional charges if the stock is not fetched in a timely manner and we are required to store it on behalf of the customer. The proposal was accepted.
- The Admin manager proposed revised pricing for the room hire which was also accepted. Further work will be done in the room to improve the flooring and access.
- Gympie Landcare has moved onto a secure cloud-based system that will enable the team to work together more effectively. This system includes email, a calendar booking system and shared folder structure that can be accessed via the internet. This will increase efficiency and ensure a continuous history of all the organisation’s activities is securely kept and backed up online. A big thanks to
Lavina who has enabled this step forward in the organisation’s transformation. - With the closing of Kingaroy Landcare, they have gifted Gympie Landcare some funds to put towards biocontrol. A letter of thanks will be sent from the secretary
- The CLS manager has defined more closely the services and pricing for his team’s services. His proposal was accepted and services will be detailed on the website in due course.
- The marketing sub-committee was disbanded with all marketing activities now falling under the Admin manager’s remit. The Admin manager will present a marketing and promotion program to the management committee once a year for approval.
- The education sub-committee will also be transformed into an advisory board which will be managed by the Admin manager. Both these changes to the sub-committees will enable the admin manager to take responsibility and make decisions around the implementation of the work.
- The HR sub-committee presented proposals on both the probation process and a proposed performance management process. They will continue work on refining the detail around the performance management process
- Tony Perrett joined the meeting for the first hour and raised his concern around the lack of weed management on state-owned land.
Lavina who has enabled this step forward in the organisation’s transformation.