Presidents Report

Minutes of ACF NT Chapter meeting

Monday, October 12, 2009

Meeting opened 17:00 pm

• Apologies

Angela Muller

TY Lee

Present

Jason Wilkes

Roger Pearson

Louise Mackney

David Dunk

Bharat Desai

Louise De Luca

• Matters Arising, Previous minutes

The discussed fundraiser for International Chefs day at East point will not be going ahead as agreed by the committee. Further potential fundraisers discussed below.

Proposed – Jason Wilkes

Seconded – Roger Pearson

• Chef to Chef Magazine

Arafura Catering Equipment will be paying for the postage of these out to members, up to 60 Copies, if this increases to more than 60 copies, we will revisit this.

ACF NT will be paying for the purchase of the magazines.

• Golf day

Jason Wilkes mentioned the possibility of holding a Golf day for local chefs to get together. David Dunk mentioned that some Navy Chefs would be interested in getting involved.

• Fundraiser

A suggestion of ‘Christmas for the homeless’ was put on the table, where Chefs and sponsors get together and supply and cook Christmas for the homeless sometime in December.

• NGCH

NT Team came in third overall in the national finals, fantastic effort to the team, Tommy Jong, Jessica Cokanauto and Jason Wilkes.

• World Skills

World Skills was held and the results were

Tommy Jong – First

Jessica Cokanauto – Second

Ben (Skycity) – Third

Tommy Jong will be going to the national finals in May next year.

• National Office requested contact details for all the committee members. Jason sent names and addresses only, not all committee members phone numbers.

9. Welcome Kit for members

A new welcome kit will be sent out to members upon renewal, this will contain, a badge, Certificate of membership, Welcome letter, membership card.

• Treasures Report

• The National constitution has come through and will be reviewed by Jason Wilkes for discussion at the next meeting.

11. AGM

The AGM was very successful, thank you to all of those who attended.

• Other Business

Bharat mentioned, on behalf of TY Lee, that Ty would like a balance sheet of financials for last year.

No other business.

Meeting Closed 18:10pm