A small group of interested Goolies attended yesterday’s information session about our revised rules and by-laws. And the P&G team did some further fine tuning, so the latest drafts and explanatory notes are below:
Special Resolutions – General Meeting 19 Jan 2019
Special Resolutions for General Meeting 19 January:
1. To adopt the full revision of Goolawah Co-operative Rules.
Rationale: To update Goolawah Co-operative Rules in-line with current practice, and the 2014 Co-operatives National Law (CNL), the Co-operatives National Regulations (CNR), and the Co-operatives (NSW) Regulation.
Proposed by Denise Cobourn, Seconded by Peter O’Hara
2. To adopt the revision of Goolawah Co-operative By-laws.
Rationale: Rule 9 By-laws allows the Co-operative at a General Meeting to make by-laws relating to behaviour, environment, development and governance providing they are consistent with the Rules, Law and Regulations. The draft By-laws have been reformatted with the revisions highlighted.
Proposed by Denise Cobourn, Seconded by Peter O’Hara
Draft Revised Rules & By-laws
The Policy & Guidelines team has finally completed the revision of Co-op rules and by-laws and invites fellow members to share the joy by putting it on the top of your summer reading list over the festive period.
You can then bring any questions or comments to an information session at the Camp Kitchen on Sat 05 Jan from 10 am. The team will be there to assist, but the reading homework is a prerequisite, as it won’t be a group recitation of the new grail.
Below you also have a table of the revisions to track the changes, and a chart of our governance arrangements, which could be useful.
The plan is to adopt the drafts at the General Meeting on 19 January.
Draft 2 Goolawah Rules 20.12.18
Compost Toilets
Goolawah ‘dinner parties’ inevitably get round to discussing compost toilets, and questions about our relevant rules and approved practice arise, so here’s an extract from our By-Laws as a reminder:
5. No pit toilets are to be dug on Goolawah.
6. Before any development takes place on individual sites, there needs to be access to a dry composting style toilet, either individually or on a hamlet basis. Functioning “home built/designs” are acceptable.
7. Before any development takes place on individual sites, a Council approved grey water system should be developed for the site. This includes the use of biodegradable, phosphate free detergents and soaps etc.
Goolawah Co-op Members 