Kimberley Local Incorporated Association
The association is formed with the express intent of providing the performers, youth and parents of the Kimberley with the means to hold regular all ages performances by local musicians and cultural groups. To this end the association will produce at least one series of concerts per year and engage in an active program of training and mentoring in production and performance skills.
KLia is an association of Kimberley people who want to take part in the creation of a more engaging and dynamic world of local performance. The constitution requires that the members of this association play an ongoing role in the decision making process of the association. There is no board to go out and do everything or not, you get to see all the books, review and contribute to projects, decide the budgets, set the ticket price and make the show happen.
It doesn’t take too much effort and the process is easy. Most of the work is done for you by professional artists or practitioners; review, challenge if you need to, then vote, yes or no. Every issue or piece of Association business will be put to you, you simply make the choice to participate.
Over thirty days you have the opportunity to engage, discuss and deliberate before you get to cast your one vote, at vote’s end all business is carried by the simple majority taken from the total number of votes cast.
There are no rights or absolutes other than to equality, to think, be able to express and make an informed choice.
Easy when it’s Klia.
The road to association:
An Incorporated Association must follow a set procedure to apply for Incorporation as an Association. All these things require some participation.
• Rules: A set of rules for etiquette, for responding to occurrences as they arise and for the general orderly and legal running of a business.
• A constitution: An expression of the aims and guiding principles by which association business will be run.
• A minimum of six members.
• A board consisting of at least a Chairperson, a Secretary and a Treasurer.
• Appointment of a Business Manager
• A budget and a business plan.
• A vote of Association members approving all of the above.
• Notice of at least one month by paid advertisement in the local paper.
• A formal application and payment of registration fees.
• Purchase a seal.
All of this needs to be approved by the membership, as few as six or as many as can be bothered. All this information is linked through from the table above. If you’re a registered member then you have a vote on all these issues. Over thirty days you can discuss, review, contribute, choose, change your choice or not.
But at the end of those thirty days a choice will be made by 50%+1 vote of the ballot cast.
The choices are all yours, want more music and performance, then choose yes, want something more then start the discussion.
Since starting this project the support of Broome people has been underwhelming. Part of this is driven by a justifiable suspicion of anything not born of local issue, mostly it's the dreadful silence of the one media outlet in town, The Broome Advertiser. Without some sort of promotion and support local awareness is limited, sadly the Advertiser editorial staff chose not to support this initiative with any coverage. The reasons for this can only ever be speculated on, however this paper is part of the West Australian newspaper group, infamous for it's cynical wrecking of any initiative that contributes toward more citizen empowerment. They, like so many, would rather you remain, helpless, dependent consumers blinded to the reality that real change and positive outcomes come from communal and concerted efforts.
The offer remains open, my financial support being limited means that it doesn't go much further than this, a flag planted in the sand. Whether you choose to do anything with it, that's the issue.
ATB. Andrew