The election of three new members and the departure of several others for professional and personal reasons has seen an injection of new blood into the SOS committee following our AGM late last year.   

President Ian Wood, veteran local government activist and planning advocate, is joined by Vice-President Louis Delacretaz, an entrepreneur with extensive experience in local government as a former councillor and mayor in Melbourne's outer east.   

Also new to the committee are government bureaucracy expert Libby Blackett-Smith and lawyer Ann Birrell. Julie Buxton, from the Living in the Bush Coalition, has been appointed treasurer.   

SOS Notice of 2009 Annual General Meeting

AGENDA:

1. Confirm the minutes of the last preceding annual general meeting;
2. Receive Committee reports on transactions of the Association during the preceding financial year;
3. Receive and consider the statement submitted by the Association re section 30(3) of the Act;
4. Elect officers of the Association and ordinary members of the Committee #

#NB: At this AGM, elections will be held for the positions of Vice-President, Secretary and four ordinary committee members. SOS members financial until 30 June 2009 or later are eligible to vote.

The next SOS newsletter has just been mailed out to members and can be downloaded here as a 4-page pdf:
Issue 25 - October 2009

This edition covers:

* Hi-rise residential buildings along transport corridors
* Liquor win for community - the Corner Hotel case
* SOS and Yarra election upset
* Beware deals with developers - and don't assume
Council will argue your case for you at VCAT

At the Association's AGM on November 30, a new committee for 2009 was elected. Community planning consultant and former vice-president Ian Wood is the new president of SOS, replacing Ian Quick who has stepped down to have more time for private interests but who is still on the committee. Other office bearers are Cheryl Forge (secretary) and Gary van Prooyen (treasurer).

Ian Quick stood for Yarra Council as an independent last November but was unsuccessful, due mainly to the string of dummy candidates supported by the ALP in his ward. Ironically, they were too successful - one of them drew ahead of Ian and was thus elected with his preferences, knocking out the ALP's preferred second candidate, an "independent" former mayor.

SOS Notice of 2008 Annual General Meeting
Nov 30th 2008

Save Our Suburbs (Vic) (SOS) will hold its 2008 AGM on 30th November 2008, at 3pm at the Elsternwick Club, 19 Sandham St, Elsternwick.
At this meeting SOS will

1. Confirm the minutes of the last preceding annual general meeting and of any general meeting held since that meeting;
2. Receive from the Committee reports upon the transactions of the Association during the last preceding financial year;
3. Elect officers of the Association and the ordinary members of the Committee #; and
4. Receive and consider the statement submitted by the Association in accordance with section 30(3) of the Act.