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MINUTES OF THE 49TH ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING OF BEAUMARIS CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC.

HELD AT ST. MICHAEL’S CHURCH HALL,
BEAUMARIS, AT 7.30 P.M. ON 9TH OCTOBER 2001
 
1 APOLOGIES 

SUE RAVERTY, INGRID ASHFORD, ROD & LESLEY WINNING,
RALPH & PAT SALISBURY, JIM & AUDREY HARRIS, ANNE
GIBSON 

2. CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES
OF THE 48TH AGM 
Resolved that the minutes of the last annual general
meeting be accepted as a true record. 

MOVED: KEITH HOLMES SECONDED: ADRIAN CERBASI 

3. PRESIDENT’S REPORT 

Refer to attachment to these minutes for a full copy of
Ted’s report. 

4. TREASURER’S REPORT 
Report for the 2000-2001 year circulated. This report
was adopted by the meeting. There has been a slight
reduction in renewals. 

Expenditure slightly less than previous year, probably
due to the fact that there were no Council elections in
the past year. There is at present a healthy
surplus. 

Resolved that the Treasurer’s Report be accepted: 

MOVED: G.GOODE SECONDED:
T.PEARCE 

5. ELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS 

The following Office Bearers were elected for the year
to 2001: 

PRESIDENT: Ted Pearce 
SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT: Keith Holmes 
JUNIOR VICE-PRESIDENT: Anne Gibson 
SECRETARY: Rose Allaway 
TREASURER- Geoff Goode 

ZONE LEADERS: 
ZONE 1: Not filled 
ZONE 2: Keith Foreman 
ZONE 3: Gay Van Staveren 
ZONE 4: Ken Rendell 
ZONE 5: Ingrid Ashford 
ZONE 6: Adrian Cerbasi 
ZONE 7: Ron Morris 
ZONE 8: Louisa Waters 
ZONE 9: Ken Rendell 

Ted undertook to be President in a caretaker mode for
the next 4 months while a new President is sought. 

Questions were then invited from the floor. Cr Ken
Beadle, our local Council representative, took
the opportunity to speak to the meeting. He thanked the
Society for its work in the community and for its
support, and particularly praised the efforts of Ted
Pearce. He stressed that he is still working for our
aims in the planning/development area; he supports us
when he can: this is not always straightforward with
‘borderline cases’, as there is a state decree in favour
of medium-density development. He appreciates the
information passed on by Patricia re. upcoming
developments we consider inappropriate – this is very
helpful. With regard to Rescode/C2 he foresees some
problems, particularly with height and density. We will
probably not get our request for lower density
development in the local area. Overall it will be an
improvement on the Good Design Guide.

He thinks that councillors will have to accept a
compromise position following the State Government
panel’s report on Rescode – this is the best way to at
least achieve some of our aims. Ken is seeking to
bolster the street trees policy on mature trees. Ideas
are local paper publicity for those who vandalise trees
or cut down trees that by right should be protected. He
encouraged members to be vigilant, to ‘dob in’ those who
have no respect for the rules. He keeps working on
conservation issues, but is not always supported by
fellow councillors – he encourages us therefore to let
other councillors know what we think about issues as
they come up, so as to give support to his views on
Council. Ken finished by again praising the work of BCS
Inc. and encouraged us to keep it up. 

6. REPORT ON PORT PHILLIP CONSERVATION COUNCIL INC. 

Geoff Goode spoke to the meeting about PPCC Inc,
a federation of 14 conservation organizations; 



BCS Inc. is one of them. Recent concerns of the
Council have been: 

1. Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary. The
Environment Conservation Council recommended a
marine park for Ricketts Point, but in the end
this was omitted by the Government from the
overall plan. The Government has failed to offer a
credible argument as to why this happened. The
total plan for marine parks in Victoria was
eventually thrown out as the Government did not
have the numbers in Parliament to put it through.
PPCC Inc. is still working for a marine park for
Ricketts Point. 

2. The deepening of channels in Port Phillip Bay.
The Victorian Channels Authority wants to deepen
the channels to make way for bigger ships.
However, they can only predict 30-40 years use of
Port Phillip by these ships even if the plan is
carried through. The Minister, Candy Broad, has
stated that she will only approve the deepening of
channels if there are no detrimental environmental
effects. At a recent meeting of the Victorian
Channels Authority it was stated that on average
the water level will be 20 mm higher at high tide
(apart from effects due to global warming). The
question is: what is the maximum? This is an
ongoing debate, which PPCC Inc.
is working on, as the environmental effects could
be quite significant.




7. GUEST SPEAKER 

Peter Clark from Treescape
(and a BCS Inc. member), a
qualified arborist, spoke to the meeting on tree care
and pruning. 

Apart from the subject of his talk, Peter was very
supportive of BCS Inc. and
its aims, said that he believed we had a great
reputation in the area, and encouraged us in continuing
our work. 

Meeting closed 10:00 p.m.

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