Committee
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Our Committee of Management 2022
DECP held its 5th AGM on Saturday 12 February, 2022. A big thank you to all the members who attended/appointed proxies and voted in the Committee election and as a result we are pleased to introduce the 9 duly elected candidates as the new Committee Of Management for 2022 :
President – Robyn Erwin
Vice President- Karan Kent
Treasurer- Angus Barnes
Secretary – Maureen Griffin
Ordinary Committee members:
Fran Prem
Samantha Liston
Kathleen Vander Weerden
Brendan McMahon
Henri Muniz
FROM THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT
A BIG SHOUT OUT OF THANKS to the retiring committee members Rodney Fedley, Mary Rahilly and Patrick Bellchambers for their contributions to the Committee and teams 2021/22.
The first new 2022 Committee of Management meeting was filled with a lot of enthusiasm and expertise to keep moving ahead with this year’s projects in collaboration with the 5 teams.
The new Committee were also briefed and updated of DECP's current situations across all areas of the project.
With some exciting changes and improvements tabled, 2022 looks like its going to be a wonderful year of change, growth and blossoming. The 3 specific areas identified to work and focus on were:
1. Enhance communications-, Starting with first meet and greet for all members of DECP in March and continuing with community updates via emails and social media.
2. Solidify Governance structures - Continue to build and sign off Policies and Procedures to support operations across the DECP.
3. Revitalise Teams - Committee members appointed as Contact supports to each of the current teams to bring consistency across the project..
URBAN AG - Sam
FARM HOUSE - Fran
HEALTHY EATING - Kathleen
ECO REGENERATION - Brendan
COMMUNITY GATHERING AND COMMUNICATIONS- Karan
You can connect with any of these people by writing an email with their name in the subject line, to downsestatecommunications@gmail.com
Committee agreed that the past 2 years with Covid restrictions on and off interrupted many opportunities to move forward, so with a full team of highly qualified members the future for DECP is looking bright.
