Screenings

POWA SGM for Constitution Amendment 5.0 – January 22nd

After our screening this Sunday, January 22nd 2023, POWA will hold a Special General Meeting in order to vote for or against a set of proposed amendments to the POWA Constitution. You must be an active POWA member to attend the meeting and vote in the motion, so be sure to check your membership is up to date before the end of the screening event.

This will be the only motion of the meeting, and the changes will not be discussed in detail, so if you wish to vote, please go over the changes prior to the start of the SGM. These changes are focused on POWA attempting to become an incorporated entity as outlined in the official document INC: A guide for incorporated associations in Western Australia.

The majority of changes were gone over in detail in a previous post. Since we asked for feedback from members on these changes, one additional amendment has been made to the final draft of Constitution 5.0. This change is outlined below.

This section on page 3 of the Constitution:

  • 5. Special General Meetings
    • I. An extraordinary Special General Meeting outside of the quarterly meetings can be convened for any reason pertaining to club matters. The meeting may be called by either;
      i. The POWA Committee; or
      ii. 50% of POWA’s members.

Has been updated to:

  • 5. Special General Meetings
    • I. An extraordinary Special General Meeting outside of the quarterly meetings can be convened for any reason pertaining to club matters. The meeting may be called by either;
      i. The POWA Committee;
      ii. A single member of the POWA Committee; or
      iii. 50% of POWA’s members.

For reference:
Constitution Version 4.2, which is POWA’s current Constitution
Constitution Version 5.0, which contains all proposed amendments and what we will be voting on in the SGM.

As always, feel free to reach out to the Committee if you have questions via Facebook, Discord, or email us at powaclub@gmail.com.

Screenings

POWA Return Screening, 15th January 2023

Location: Joondalup Library, Upstairs Meeting Room

POWA’s regular weekly screenings continue with our first screening of 2023!

POWA makes its long awaited return on January 15th. As we welcome the New Year, POWA is also celebrating 15 years of existence! During the past 15 years, numerous celebrations of our history and anime in general have taken place. Whether you’re a long time member, new, or guest; We hope to share more wonderful memories with you into the future.

We hope everyone’s had a great summer holiday break. POWA is ready to welcome everyone back in strong form with a return to our weekly line-up of six awesome anime shows. This week will include a heavy round of voting on FOUR shows. ‘Hinomaru Sumo’, ‘Comic Girls’, ‘Kanon’ and ‘Claymore’. With ‘Fruits Basket Season 2’ surviving it’s most recent and final vote.

A new anime season has also been welcomed in, Winter 2023. That we will be previewing later this month on January 29th. So stay tuned for that!

Entry for our weekly screenings is $4 for members and $5 for guests. However, your first time is free! Every entry prior to our break receives a raffle ticket for a weekly prize. We will be in the upstairs meeting room, of Joondalup Library. Our doors will open at the same time as the library – 1:00PM and we will start screening at 1:30PM, leaving you time to find the room and settle down with some drinks and snacks.

This Week’s Schedule:
1:00PM – Library Doors Open
1:30PM – Comic Girls – Episode 4 (Comedy, Voting)
2:00PM – Fruits Basket 2nd Season – Episode 21 (Slice of Life/Romance)
2:30PM – Log Horizon – Episode 13 (Fantasy)
3:00PM – Break & Raffle draw
3:15PM – Hinomaru Sumo – Episode 16 (Sports/Games, Voting)
3:45PM – Kanon – Episode 4 (Drama, Voting)
4:15PM – Claymore – Episode 12 (Mature/Horror/Thriller, Voting)

We hope to see you there!
The Facebook event can be found here.

Happy New Year 2023!

Announcements

POWA Constitution Amendments January 2023

As announced at the final POWA event of the year, held December 11, 2022, the POWA Committee are proposing changes to the POWA Constitution. These changes are focused on following the guidelines of the West Australian Government and will allow POWA to become an Incorporated entity in 2023. This is a step the Committee deems necessary in order to start the process of securing funding from the City of Joondalup.

As such, all changes are based on the official document INC: A guide for incorporated associations in Western Australia. Suggestions and feedback from the POWA community on the proposed amendments to this Constitution will be taken over POWA’s year-end break.

The proposed amendments, highlighted in yellow are available to view in full here.

For reference, here is the current Constitution Version 4.2.

A brief outline of the proposed amendments:

  • – The club’s official name is changed to ‘POWA Anime Club Inc.’, as shown on the cover page and Section 1 of the Constitution.
  • – Section 3: Meetings
    • – Details on what counts as a General Meeting has been added.
    • – A two-week notice period for General Meetings has been added.
    • – A quorum (minimum number of attendees) for General Meetings (three POWA members) has been added.
    • – Details on the minutes taken during General Meetings have been added.
  • – Section 4: Annual General Meetings
    • – Previously Section 10, the Annual General Meetings section has been moved to after Section 3.
  • – Section 5: Special General Meetings
    • – A new section has been added to outline the processes needed to call for an SGM.
  • – Section 6: Event Guidelines
    • – The section has been made less specific in order to account for all manner of POWA events.
    • – A section for event entrance fees has been added, including a note of the two-week notice period now needed to change fees.
  • – Section 7: Committee Members
    • – The possibility of a Committee Election happening during an SGM in the case of a Committee member leaving the Committee has been added.
    • – An additional section on Committee-only meetings has been added in order to normalise the quorum and minute-taking of these meetings.
    • – Details on how the Committee votes to make decisions have been expanded upon.
  • – Section 9: Disputes
    • – A new section has been added to outline how members can file disputes on club-related matters. The parties involved in this can vary from regular POWA members to the Committee.
    • – It is noted that after a decision is made by the Committee to settle the dispute that an appeal can be made to general POWA members at a GM.
  • – Section 11: Finance
    • – The establishment of POWA’s financial year being November 1st to October 31st has been added.
    • – The mention of POWA’s “Executive Officers” has been removed.
  • – Section 12: Dissolution
    • – The meeting where the club can be dissolved is now referred to and categorised as a ‘Special General Meeting’.
  • – Section 13: Changing the Constitution
    • – Changes were made to align with WA Consumer Protection laws.
    • – 75% of attending members must vote in favour of Constitution changes.
    • – Changes must be approved by Consumer Protection before they take effect. Submitting for approval requires a fee to be paid to Consumer Protection.

An SGM will be held on the POWA’s second week back from the break on January 22, 2023 in order to vote for or against the proposed amendments to the constitution. You must have an active POWA membership to attend the SGM. The full details of this event will be announced closer to this date.

As always, feel free to reach out to the Committee if you have questions via Facebook, Discord, or email us at powaclub@gmail.com.