1. Attendance: Ty Simons, Cathy Staehr, Mark Edmonds, Shelley Keast,
Shelley Gross, Dave Thomas, Wayne Heard
2. Apologies: Helen Butteriss, Jacinta Crawley, Jeanette Roche, Lynette
Armstrong, Jodi Dunell
3. Welcome
4. Safer Streets Program
Ty Simons had a meeting with the Ocean Grove police following up on recent
break-ins and burglaries. According to statistics on their website, there has
been a recent spike in incidents. Ty prepared a letter and went to all local
businesses to recommend that they leave their till empty and in view. There
may be scope to do some publicity on this through local media.
Outcome – Ty to follow up with local media about an article
5. Survey of Businesses – responses
There was only a limited amount of responses received from the survey
that was distributed regarding late night shopping.
Outcomes – Cathy Staehr to follow up with Go Traffic to determine what is
required for closing The Terrace during late night shopping in December
2016. Shelley Keast’s daughter Maddie, who is currently studying Event
Management, to be involved in some capacity.
6. Calendar of Events
Small Business Smart Business Organisation Session, by Les Watson to
speak on time management. The past 2 sessions that have been run by
SBSB in conjunction with the OGBA have been very successful. The first
was by Mark Edmonds on Customer Service with 12 participants and
then a session on Facebook which had 16 participants.
Tourism Greater Geelong and the Bellarine are holding an event at Leura
Park Estate from 5:30 – 7:30pm on Monday 20th June. The event will help
local businesses identify the role they have to play in Team Tourism.
Action item – Shelley Gross to email information regarding upcoming
events to all OGBA members
7. Treasurers Report – Helen not present, so this item is held over until the next
meeting.
8. Membership Report & Recruitment
The current member list requires action to ensure members have paid and
any new members are added to the database.
Action item – Shelley Gross to put a call out to any members (particularly
book keepers) to have a possibly paid role of approximately half an hour a
month to manage memberships.
9. Other Business
9.1 Bellarine Time Advertising opportunity distributed to members
9.2 Discussions on whether our recent events has resulted in an increase in
membership. There have been a few new members and it was recommended
to ensure membership forms are available at any future events.
Action Item – provide membership forms at future events
10. Correspondence - Nil
11. Next Meeting: Thursday 7th July at 7:30am at Driftwood Café
Meeting closed: 6.10pm