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Sydney Confest CC Appropriation
Motion 1. That the sum of $32,000.00 be appropriated to the ConFest Committee for Sydney Confesters expenses covering their Spring (October 2021) and Summer (January 2022) gatherings.

Agenda Details: Sydney ConFesters (SC) is organising two 5-day gatherings in October 2021 and January 2022. For each gathering (limited to 120 attendees) a Covid-19 Safety Plan will be in place to reflect prevailing NSW Government health guidelines.

Since the early 2000s Sydney ConFesters has been able to remit a profit after the deduction of expenses (100% of gate takings) back to DTE. For FY ending 30 June 2020 two gatherings incurred a minor loss of $1270.31.

Depending on attendee numbers approximately 70% of this appropriation goes to the cost to hire a commercial camping site. Sydney ConFesters aims through adjusting its attendance fees to achieve a cost neutral account for FY21/22

Proposed by: Melody Braithwaite Supported by: Lance Nash, Kevin Taylor

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Confab Appropriation
Motion 2. That the ConFab Committee be appropriated the amount of $2,500 dollars for the financial year ending 30th June 2022 for the purpose of purchasing equipment to use at ConFab events and for working capital to run ConFab events.

Explanation of motion.

Over the last several months ConFab events have been held under a new format. These have been meal nights at Lentil as Anything and have each attracted about 25 people to each event. This may be mirrored in the future in Sydney. The people involved in ConFab are interested in expanding ConFab’s activities in DTE. The following events have been discussed:

A ConFab village at ConFest (when it returns) and at related events such as the Sydney ConFest ConFab could sponsor Sharings at these events and could re-establish “Morning Sharing”. ConFab could appear at non DTE festivals and gatherings.
ConFab is a concept which could share space with any event DTE runs online.

Workshop days or weekends could be held on areas of interest which arise from ConFest. Social events similar to the original ConFab could be run.

Proposed by: Lance Nash
Supported by: Troy Reid, Melody Braithwaite

Fincom Appropriation
Motion 3. FinCom seeks an Appropriation of $28,557.31 For future payments of Bookkeeper

Accountant Auditor Election and Xero expenses.

Supporting information: Link to spreadsheet with past Payments and estimates for expected future costs

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lGEj9KgqBlQd0_8Sla1OcuNkVxhJvOgi9gwcpgfTPqM/ edit#gid=0

Proposed by: Skye FitzPatrick
Supported by: Robin Macpherson, Lance Nash, Kate Scholem Shapiro

Confest Committee Appropriation
Motion 4. That the CC be appropriated $15,000.

Proposed by: Elisa Brock
Supported by: Mark Rasmussen, David Cruisepage3image3911872

Organising Committee Appropriation
Motion 5. That the Organising Committee be appropriated $110,000 to be available until the end of FY 2021-22.

Some supporting information is available at https://data.dte.org.au/files/2021-22_OCappropriationEstimate.pdf

Proposed by: Lindy Hunt
Supported by: Elisa Brock, Melody Braithwaite, David Cruise

Food Purchase Ban Change
Motion 6. That the ban on food purchases be lifted for revenue generating festivals.

Proposed by: Kate Scholem Shapiro
Supported by: Troy Reid, Melody Braithwaite, Robin Macpherson

Working With Children Register
Motion 7. That the DTE Board is required to establish and maintain a publicly accessible register of all DTE active members who have successfully obtained a current Working With Children (WWC) Check in Victoria or an equivalent assessment scheme from another jurisdiction. This register must record the legal name of each active member, the member's shareholder number, which Australian state or territory provided the assessment, the unique ID identifying an assessment, the date a successful assessment was granted and date when the assessment validity expires. The register will also record if an active member has not obtained an assessment. The DTE Board is also required to contact active members and encourage them to obtain a current WWC check in Victoria or equivalent from their jurisdiction and the Board shall provide active members any assistance necessary to facilitate their application of assessment.

Supporting details:
Please note that no system is perfect nor does any system need to be perfect to be effective. More information available here: https://dte.coop/to/w4rbg

Proposed by: Troy Reid
Supported by: Kate Scholem Shapiro, Aaron Shipperlee, Rohan Levy, Dan Smith, David,

Cameron, Jude Murray, Kristen Tunney, Grant Waldram

Climate Emergency Declaration 
Motion 8. Down To Earth (DTE) recognises that we are in a state of climate emergency that requires urgent action by all levels of government and civil society. DTE commits to actively working toward reducing the impacts of our events on global warming aiming to run zero emissions or climate positive events as soon as possible. This include accounting for the emissions of participants made in order to attend the event.

The Details: What is it?

A climate emergency declaration (CED) is a formal statement from an organisation that has two parts:

1. acknowledge the climate emergency 2. a commitment to act

The campaign was started in 2013 to get councils and higher levels of government to declare climate emergencies and take urgent action to reverse global warming

The first CED was by Darebin City Council, on 5 Dec 2016 a council in Melbourne.

Since then 1,891 councils, 35 states and provinces, 15 countries and the EU have declared, as well as

1,000’s of schools, churches, ngo’s business have also declared in support of the campaign. Why declare?

  • *  existing impacts are already devastating and unacceptable

  • *  some ecological systems have already started to collapse

  • *  we are currently on track for 3-4 degrees of temperature rise

  • *  this will make food growing difficult and see a massive increase to the impacts of the already worsening climatic conditions.

  • *  in Australia In Australian only 101 out of 537 councils have declared this is 19%

  • *  every declaration adds more pressure on higher levels of government and civil society to declare their own emergency and take emergency action to reverse global warming.

    For more information

    What is the claimte emergeny https://www.caceonline.org/what-is-the-climate-emergency.html

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    What is the Climate Emergency? - CACE<https://www.caceonline.org/what-is-the-climate- emergency.html> www.caceonline.org
    Why emergency? Emergencies have these essential elements; immediate and significant risk and; requiring action to avoid that risk.&nbsp; Emergencies are not just about fires, floods, health or personal...

    Who has declared https://www.cedamia.org/global/ Proposed by: Aaron Shipperlee

    Supported by: Troy Reid, Kristen Tunney

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