The National Executive Committee of AAEE is holding an "Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)" for Tuesday, 25 February, 7pm AEDT, via Zoom. All current AAEE members welcome and encouraged to attend and vote.

The purpose of this EGM is to vote on the following proposed amendment to the AAEE National Constitution, in order to bring it into line with the new ACT Model Rules. You may remember that we made some important Constitutional amendments at the AGM last October, but this final amendment is needed to meet our Constitutional requirements according to the ACT Model Rules which were enacted early last year. (AAEE National is incorporated in the ACT).

The meeting will not take very long - but we do need a quorum for an EGM which is 5% of current membership. We have 508 members so we need 26 members to attend. Please support us and come along for 30 minutes to help move us along to the next stage in the reinvigoration of our national membership!

We will be voting on the change from the CURRENT WORDING to the NEW WORDING to bring us into line with the new ACT Model Rules. Once this has passed, our Membership Working Group, in consultation with Chapter leaders, can implement new Membership Categories and more appropriate Membership Fees for those categories. We need this to happen to expand our membership to include the hundreds (if not thousands) Environmental Educators that are out there waiting to be a part of AAEE!

CURRENT WORDING (from AAEE Constitution updated 2019)

5. FEES

5.1.  Annual fees for each membership category shall be determined at the Annual General Meeting or in the absence of such determination, will be the same as the fees for the preceding year.
5.2.  Each member shall pay the relevant annual membership on the date they joined the Association.
5.3.  Any member who is more than three months in arrears and who fails to give an explanation that is acceptable to the Executive Committee of the Association shall cease to be a member.

PROPOSED NEW WORDING (based on new ACT Model Rules)

5. MEMBERSHIP – ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEE

(1) The annual fee for membership of the Association (the annual membership fee) is -

(a)  $2; or

(b)  if the Executive Committee decides another amount - that amount.

(2) To remove any doubt, a joining fee or annual membership fee may be $0.

(3) The annual membership fee is payable before (the due date) -

(a) 1 July each year; or

(b) If the Executive Committee decides another date - that date.

(4) A person’s membership ends if the person has not paid their annual membership fee by the due date.