President’ s Perspective
David Hiscox President
Happy New Year! As we start 2017, I hope you all had a great festive season with your families. This sees the end of the first year of the new Federal Executive. Our first year saw the renewal of the Strategic Plan, the Executive meeting for the first time in Victoria, the introduction of our new strategic education partners, ongoing meetings with Clubs NSW and making representation to the Minister Troy Grant on behalf of our members.
Certainly, the findings of the recent ILGR investigation into the Parramatta matter is a concern to the Executive especially where the issue of how managers’ remuneration is concerned where it is widely based in the industry on achieving budget and turnover and this is contrary to the Registered Clubs Act legislation. I will be updating members in the new year as to development s in that regard as to what managers should be doing to address any conflict with the legislation and their remuneration methodology.
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Our first meeting of 2017 will be the Annual General Meeting held at the Brisbane Convention Centre on Tuesday the 28th March, held in conjunction with the AHGE. The event continues grow and provide good returns to the association.
Next year sees the Association return to Jupiter’ s for the midyear conference. Ralph and the team are putting together an outstanding program of professional development. This will also see the first meeting of all Zone Presidents and the Federal Council and Federal Executive, and an opportunity to garner feedback from all our zones and we thank Kim White President of the Great Lakes Zone for a great suggestion and initiative.
The Association will again be running our successful summit calendar with the first this year at Cessnock and the Country Manager’ s Conference. Additionally there will be the full suite of educational programs. Regarding the Strategic Plan, Peta Imber has been appointed the IR Compliance Advisor in helping Peter Cooper with his heavy workload and ensuring the service to our members is enhanced.
Members would have been in receipt of the new look Club IQ electronic newsletter and CMAA Magazine. The Club IQ newsletter seems to be hitting the mark, with a lot of interest in the content, particularly the personal profile of our members thanks to Bernie Brown, Bronwyn Newman and Greg Pickering for you contributions. We look forward to seeing more of our managers profiled this year.
2017 will see the move to 4 digital editions of the CMAA Magazine with the July edition also a hard print copy.
I am hoping that all clubs will continue to prosper in 2017 and I look forward to seeing you at the AGM and or at one our events somewhere throughout the year.
“ Our first meeting of 2017 will be the Annual General Meeting held at the Brisbane Convention Centre on Tuesday the 28th March, held in conjunction with the AHGE.”