Minutes of Wellington Branch AGM, Networking and Training Event 30 March 2022
Date: 30 March 2022
Venue: Teams
Time: 3:30pm -5:30pm
Attendees: Richard London, (BOINZ CEO) Nick Hill, Peter Burnet, Jeremy Strongman, Phil Boyle, Garry Hastings, Maggie Kay, Steve Kallahar, Steve O’Malley, Kaye Asham, Murray Usmar, Chris Wood, Paul Guile, Gemma Winstanley, Rob Tierney, Ivan Blom, John Peterson, Leyla Paine, Dana Mackay, Jessica Keltie, Wayne Goodfellow, Rosie Chote.
Apologies: Inka Gliesche-Humphris.
Welcome
Chairperson Wayne Goodfellow welcomes all members in attendance. Wayne thanks the BOINZ national office attendees for coming. Wayne explains virtual house rules.
Guest Presentation: Steve O’Malley – Senior Advisor National Systems, Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
Steve explains how Fire and Emergency have approached asbestos management across their portfolio to help in determining risk levels and, create plans and/or responses. Steve gives an example of how PCBU’s can manage asbestos risk, and how to indicate the presence in a large portfolio.
Through a national survey, ACM was identified in 64% of sites. None were scored high risk and medium risk items were relatively low on the spectrum, managed through FENZ’s planned programme maintenance or limited risk through the AMP.
FENZ developed a policy, survey templates, and management plans so that site surveys across the country were comparable and AMPs carried similar language. This ensures that the plans were easily accessible and personnel and contractors can manage exposure risk safely.
Guest Presentation: Kaye Asham, Advisor Women’s Development, Fire and Emergency.
Kaye was born in Fiji and raised in Kaitaia. Kaye was the first female SO at her station, north of Auckland.
As a volunteer, Kaye is keen to see the challenges she faced when making her way up the ranks, not as challenging for newcomers to FENZ.
FENZ, like the New Zealand Police force, and the New Zealand Defense Force, is a male-majority organisation. Out of all paid Firefighters, only 5.9% of them are female. Out of all FENZ volunteer Firefighters, 20.4% are female. Only 2% of female Firefighters have leadership roles.
Women’s Development aims to promote, facilitate, and influence the decision-makers at FENZ to advocate for Women’s development. This is to ensure FENZ is recruiting and promoting diversity not just gender, but with thought.
Throughout her time, Kaye has seen stride toward making the organisation better suit woman’s needs such as the implementation of sanitary bins for ablutions, and pregnancy guidelines for women including maternity uniforms. However, Kaye notes there is still some more work to do around facilities, breaking barriers, and stopping unconscious bias.
Minutes and Matters Arising
The last Wellington AGM was in 2022. The 2020 minutes were seconded by Jessica Keltie and Rob Tierney.
Chairperson’s Annual Report
Wayne introduces the meeting attendees to the board. Wayne presents board focus, commercial and value proposition, network opportunities, new memberships, and financial capability for BOINZ training courses.
Promotion of the Straight Up Magazine, monthly update newsletter, BOOST + app, and BOINZ TV.
Wayne informs attendees of the BOINZ website being reskinned.
BOINZ national membership at the time of the meeting is 1239. Wellington Branch membership total at the time of the meeting is 98.
BOINZ board of directors elections open on the 11th of April. Voting closes on the 16th of May.
BOINZ AGM is to be on the 30th May.
Wellington Branch AGM
Nomination for Jessica Keltie to be Chairperson was received by the BOINZ national office prior to the meeting. Motion for Jessica Keltie to be Wellington Branch Chairperson was seconded by eight attendees.
There were no other nominations for Wellington Branch Secretary. Inka Gliesche-Humphris remains the Wellington Branch Secretary.
Nominations for Branch executives committee members was received by the BOINZ national office prior to the meeting.
Rosie Chote was nominated for the branch executive committee member position. The motion was seconded by nine attendees.
Robert Tierney was nominated for the branch executive committee member position. The motion was seconded by eight of the attendees.
Jeremy Strongman was nominated for the branch executive committee member position. The motion was seconded by 10 of the attendees.
Wayne Goodfellow was nominated for the branch executive committee member position. This motion was seconded by 10 of the attendees.
End of AGM
General Business
Thanks to Wayne Goodfellow for being a great custodian for the branch for the last 12 years. Accolades for fantastic leadership.
