¶ Annual General Meeting - 8th Jun
¶ Summary
Date: 8 June 2026
Time: 8:15pm
Meeting Chair: Jaimyn Mayer
Minute Taker: Timothy Chew
Raised By: Jaimyn Mayer
Location: Level 1/146 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley & Discord (Online)
¶ Attendees
¶ Members
- Jaimyn Mayer
- Steph Piper
- Dave Mac
- Adam Jacobus
- Steph Kassel
- Samuel Delomoil
- Justin Thudd
- Lachlan McLean
- Kiera White
- Sophie Chown
- Avalon Burrows (Avi)
- Garry Gimarelli
- Brendan Halliddi
- Anna Kucharski
- Morgan Brackishmeadous
- Emily Taylor
- Timothy Chew (minute taker)
Quorom of at least 7 people has been met. A few members may not be eligible, but it has been agreed beforehand that an ineligible vote, if recorded would be motioned on behalf of by an eligible voting member (for in-person).
Note: All mentions of a "Steph Lakes" or "Steph" refers to Steph Kassel.
¶ Visitors
None
¶ Agenda
¶ 1. Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Yuggera and Turrbal peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the Country on which we meet, and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
¶ 2. This is a safe space.
Brisbane Makerspace is a safe space. We do not tolerate discrimination or other behaviour that makes any member feel unsafe. Our code of conduct and safe space policy applies to this and all meetings.
¶ 3. Previous Meeting Minutes
Minutes of last meeting ratified by Timothy, seconded by Brandon
¶ 4. President’s Report
- Two bunnings sausage sizzles and they are successful. No more until end of next year
- Best position where we have been in terms of membership numbers (this is a thing you can see in portal)
- Steph might be the single one causes of this
- Space bucks circulation is weirdly the same despite having more members. Economy seems healthy.
Anna: Can we do this at a different bunnings?
Jaimyn: No - You can only talk to the closest Bunnings for your cachement area. They are very strict on this.
¶ 5. Treasurer’s Report
- Most of our revenue came from memberships.
- Jaimyn has been single-handedly maintaining our Workshop Sales revenue.
- The Bunnings BBQ and Deductible Gifts are the two things that have been keeping us in the green, but these are temporary.
- Deductable gifts include Jaimyn simply handing Brendan his credit card when BMS is unable to pay for something.
Avi: Are there any events we can do/go to fundraise?
Brendan: Yes, there's some that we can go to but need to put some effort into it.
- Almost all of our expenses went to rent.
- When we spend something, we are VERY frugal about it.
- In terms of absolute values, we are cutting it very close in terms of rent.
¶ 6. Secretary’s Report
- All our ACNC (Australian Charities and Non-Profits Commission) filings are up to date.
¶ 7. Head Maker’s Report
Jaimyn raises a motion to accept the meeting reports as we have discussed. Seconded by Anna and passed via consensus with no dissent.
¶ 8. Dissolution of current Committee and Re-election
Jaimyn raises a motion to appoint Sophie as a returning officer to run the committee election. Seconded by Brendan, no dissent, and passed by consensus.
Motion to dissolve the current committee raised by Sophie. Seconded by Kiera, and passed via consensus with no dissent.
Election of the new committee will now begin.
Seeking nominations for the role of president.
Jaimyn Mayer nominates.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
Seeking nominations for the role of head maker.
Main job of the head maker is basically head of operations.
Garry is nominated by Anna, seconded by Brendan.
Garry declines nomination.
Adam nominates for role, seconded by Brendan.
Adam: This role has been historically troublesome for the person
running it. It would be beneficial to have a helper than for me to
essentially do everything.
Adam: Do-ocurcacy; self-service and hands off.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
Adam proposes the position of "assistant head maker".
Garry nominates to role of assistant head maker.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
Seeking noninations for the role of Treausrer.
Steph nominates for the role of Treasurer.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
Steph Lakes proposes to appoints Anna as assistant treasurer.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
Seeking nominations for the role of Secretary.
Timothy Chew nominates.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
Seeking nominations for the role of Social Media Officer.
Avi nominates.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
Seeking nomination for the role of Fundraising Officer.
Dave nominates.
Uncontested, no dissent, accepted by consensus.
We have finished our elections.
Sophie raises a motion that the meeting accepts the final results of the election.
President - Jaimyn Mayer
Head Maker - Adam Jacobus
Assistant Head Maker - Garry Giomarelli
Treasurer - Steph Lakes
Assistant Treasurer - Anna Kucharski
Secretary - Timothy Chew
Social Media Officer - Avalon Burrows
Fundraising Officer - Dave Mac
Accepted by concensus; no dissent.
Thanks for Sophie of doing the job of elections.
Sophie resigns as returning officer.
¶ 9. The Future of BMS
Jaimyn: We need someone who might know someone in realestate who knows someone has a off-market property we can get.
Jaimyn: Anything on commercialrealestate.com, we all probably already see it. What is important is how far it is from public transport, how far by car or bicycle.
Discussion about what our parameters / limits for a new property is. Parameters around distance, facilities, accessibilities, etc. The new committee will search and propose new properties to the membership directly.
¶ "New" BMS Location
(This is a wishlist of things we've decided on that would make an ideal location for a new BMS worksite if we have to move out)
- Near a transport hub - 30 min cycle, night buses would be good for fri/sat night transport
- Sam - Sustainability is most important (affordable)
- Emily - people with cars have more choices compared to PT
- Ideally within ten minutes walk from a train station
- Air conditioning / 24/7 access / how similar to existing to existing
- Better bike parking / security
- By car
- Strathpine / Aspley Northern boundary
- Mt Gravatt / before Logan southern boundary
- Rocklea / Jindalee / Springfield / Indooroopilly out west
- Thornside out east
- By train
- Prioritise over a bus line
- If we can’t get close to a train station, near a 30-60 minute bus is preferred
- Look for bus hubs, carindale, along metro lines, Chermside, etc.
- Caboolture / Strathpine / Sandgate / bray park
- Prioritise over a bus line
- By bus
- Boggo Road
- Northgate
- Open to subletting to or from another group
- Onsite kitchenette / bathroom
- Accessibility
- Dual handrails for stairs (if any)
- Accessible bathroom and access to majority of the space
- Long parking walk / elevation changes are bad
- Air conditioning (existing or easy to install) and/or insulation
- Compressor chewing electricity
- Laser needs failsafe
¶ Money Making? / Hail Mary(s)?
Brendan raises a motion to create a non-membership for tax donation reasons, seconded by Dave.
No dissent, accepted by consensus.
Jaimyn raises a motion to appoint Anna as Official Fish Keeper
Second by Kiera.
No dissent, accepted by consensus.
Jaimyn closes the meeting at 9:45pm