The Minutes of the Carterton Community Centre committee meeting held on 31May 2000

This is a copy of the Minutes relevant to the letters that lawyer Ken Daniels sent to the Police in 2004.

The matter has been brought to the attention of the Police, and Georgina Beyer, MP, since 2001.

These Minutes clearly show that a deliberate decision was made to steal thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of six seperate organisations, each set up and funded to provide services to disadvantaged people in the community, and that the money was paid to one individual.  This is stealing from the poor.  There were two of these "personal grievances" underway when I joined the committee as Secretary and Finance Officer in 2000, one of the beneficiaries was Helen Staples, and unconfirmed sources say she is related to Adrienne Staples, the Mayor of South Wairarapa.  Queries regarding clarification have been ignored, so we will publish the name, and the claimed link, until advised otherwise.

The rest of the Minutes of the meetings of the Carterton Community Centre reveal a pattern of gross mismanagement and criminal activity by a group of people associated with the Carterton District Council, and will be uploaded to the internet soon so all can see the true abilities of Elaine Brazendale, Ruth Carter, Jill Greathead, etc, to manage an organisation.  They document a pattern of incompetence, corruption, fraud and theft over many years.

Carterton District Councillors ELAINE BRAZENDALE and RUTH CARTER were party to this particular theft. They were the instigators of it. Councillor Jill Greathead, Council staff Ewen Hyde, Julie Hallam, Martyn Preece and others were involved in this blatant fraud and in the concealment of it.

$7500 was paid in cash and a number of capital assets including computers, trailer, etc, were handed over to the claimant, this was typical of the activities of the committee of the Carterton Community Centre and the people associated with the Carterton District Council. The Centre was operated as a slush fund for a group of individuals who have had their snouts in the trough for far too long. Let Georgina Beyer and Gary McPhee and their mates try and get a real job and support themselves instead of bludging off the taxpayers and ripping off the disadvantaged members of our community - who in their right mind would hire an unemployed transvestite prostitute to teach the young people of the town "Life Skills"?  - Elaine Brazendale and Ruth Carter would, that's who!

Minutes, Carterton Community Centre 18th and 24th April 2001

Minutes of the CARTERTON COMMUNITY CENTRE

Special General Meeting-Ron Wakelin Centre Wednesday 18th April 2001

To discuss governance issues and elect a new committee.

The Meeting was opened at 7.30 pm
John Gordon was chairing the meeting, although he was not a member of the Society, appeared to have no mandate from the members, and had never ever attended a meeting of the Carterton Community Centre committee, or ever been to the Centre at all in fact.

Present – as per list removed by Martyn Preece.
Apologies: Errol Bruce, Elaine Brazendale, Ruth Carter, Mel Morris
Moved: by Kate Raue that the apologies be accepted. Seconded Craig Bayliss, Carried.

1. Election of new committee:
John Gordon tried to tell everyone this could only be done at an AGM, but Kate Raue pointed out that it could certainly be done at a Special Meeting called for that purpose, according to the Rules.

2. Governance:
John Gordon noted that currently the committee is dysfunctional, and then he stated that “either everyone resigns or we get new people on the committee”. Kate Raue stated that she saw no reason why she should resign, as she had done nothing wrong. Heather Crawford questioned whether Kate Raue had infringed the Rules by not attending three meetings in a row, and was quickly informed by John Crawford and John Gordon that was not the case. There was no further discussion, or question of removing Kate Raue from her Executive positions.

Motion 1: That this meeting appoint an acting Chairperson and co-opt sufficient members to the committee for the committee to operate efficiently until the next AGM. Proposed Kate Raue Seconded: Martyn Preece. Carried

Election of Officers:
John Gordon stated that the AGM was due to be held within the next two or three months, and suggested that the appointment be deferred until then.
John Gordon stated that the committee, not the persons at the meeting should appoint the chairperson.
Kate Raue stated that as John Gordon had already pointed out that the current committee was dysfunctional, and should resign, this was a ridiculous proposition, and that the meeting had been called to appoint some honest people.

Motion 2: That the maximum number of people be co-opted onto the committee as allowed by the Constitution. Proposed: Kate Raue Seconded: Martyn Preece. Carried.

John Gordon nominated John Crawford be appointed Chairperson. John Crawford replied that he was only prepared to do this if the past was forgotten.
Kate Raue opposed the nomination for reasons relating to John Crawford’s recent involvement with the Centre, false and unauthorised statements on behalf of the Centre, bad judgement, and serious breaches of the Constitution and the Rules of the Society; and his stated refusal to address the recent serious assaults at the Centre, deeming such a serious event, occurring only nine days earlier, to be “historic”. The nomination was not seconded, or supported in any way.

John Gordon then offered to become a committee member, and this failed to gain any support from the meeting either.

John Gordon then suggested the meeting be closed, this was opposed.

Motion 3: That the committee unanimously appoint an independent auditor at a meeting in one weeks time, to conduct a full audit before the AGM. Proposed: Kate Raue Seconded: Craig Baylis Carried.
Various amendments to the above motion were proposed and seconded, but had dubious support from the majority.
The meeting was closed at 8.15 pm.

The image above is a true copy of the minutes of 24th April 2001, and it can be seen that a Motion was passed that Mr R G Thompson be appointed Auditor. I later contacted Mr R G Thompson, and he told me that after he indicated the likely outcome of an audit, which in his view would be very unfavourable to the committee, who like Councillor Greathead were mainly associated with the Carterton District Council, she asked him to return the records to her and not complete the audit and to forget he ever met her basically. The reason for this is obvious when you look at the financial records of the Centre. Mr Thompson assured me that the audit was never undertaken, but that an inspection of the financial records showed obvious fraud, as lawyers Ken Daniels and Michael Appleby stated to police.