Minutes of Bathurst Residents and Ratepayers Association
Annual General Meeting 2025
Held on 15th October 2025 at Memorial Hall, Bathurst Showgrounds
In the absence of Elizabeth Milne, Warwick Lewarne opened the meeting and welcomed everyone. He read out the Chair’s report from Elizabeth Milne. See attached Chair’s report.
Treasurer’s Report: Warwick Lewarne reported on Finances and membership. See attached Financial report.
Monty Roodt reported on the activities of the Commonage Committe and what projects they are working on as well as what is planned for the near future.
In the absence of Danie Boneschans, Marcia Moon reported on the CPF’s activities and achievements. See also the CPF website www.bathurstcpf.co.za. \ take sides, so as to not Stan Esterhuizen mentioned the fact that all water related complaints and problems were duly passed on to the municipality.
Elections:
Warwick Lewarne then proceeded to hold the election of the committee for the new year. The new committee was elected as follows:
Stan Esterhuizen Chairman
Warwick Lewarne Treasurer
Thea Venter Secretary
And the sub-committee members are still staying with the new committee:
Clare Rothwell Special Projects
Monty Roodt Commonage Management
Danie Boneschans Safety & security
Michele Rowley Sunshine Coast Tourism Liaison
Maya Stricker Website
Warwick thanked the community for their support and closed the meeting at 19.00 pm.
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Minutes of Bathurst Residents and Ratepayers Association
Annual General Meeting 2024
Held on 13th November 2024 at Memorial Hall, Bathurst Showgrounds
Elizabeth Milne opened the meeting and welcomed everyone. She read out several apologies.
Attendance Register and apologies are available on request.
Minutes of last year’s AGM were proposed, seconded and accepted.
Chair’s report: Elizabeth reported on the past year’s activities, “What we hoped to do, what we didn’t succeed at, what we managed, what’s more or less under way, and what we hope for in the coming year.” See attached Chair’s report.
Financial Report: Warwick Lewarne reported on Finances and membership. See attached Financial report.
Chris Boyd raised some questions about dogs, zoning and tourism plans and what BR&RA’s stance were on these questions. Elizabeth explained that these were touchy subjects on which BR&RA was not going to take sides, so as to not create a division amongst the community.
Elections:
The entire committee stood down and Ryana Johnson proceeded to hold the election of the committee for the new year. The entire committee was re-elected, namely
Elizabeth Milne Chair
Warwick Lewarne Finances
Clare Rothwell Special Projects
Monty Roodt Commonage Management
Danie Boneschans Safety & security
Thea Venter Pineapple Festival Coordinator
Michele Rowley Sunshine Coast Tourism Liaison
Maya Stricker Website and records
Elizabeth thanked the community for their support. She expressed the wish to co-opt more volunteers for the specific areas where the committee needs to have a helping hand.
These are: Membership Recruitment and Relations, Municipal Liaison, Environmental Care and Township Liaison.
The meeting closed at 19.40 pm.
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Minutes of Annual General Meeting 22nd November 2023
Ray Schenk’s presentation on the importance of working with the Municipality was truely enlightening and very interesting.
Chair’s Report – available here
Financial Report – available here
Election of Committee: No new nominations were presented and the committee was re-elected as follows:
Chair Elizabeth Milne
Treasurer Warwick Lewarne
Secretary Claire Rothwell