BTRGS Minutes of Committee meeting 21/05/2007

Present:

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David Bell – Captain

John Briggs - Vice Captain

Alan Porter – Secretary

Baard Grindberg

Stuart Wyse

Andrew Wright - Treasurer

Iain Wright

Chris Amor

Erik Hansen

Apologies

Tony Boffey

Jon Hopkins

Steve Stokes

Russell Eaden

Minutes of Last Meeting

The previous minutes were accepted as accurate.

Review of Action Points

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

01/08/2006

Iain to see if he can get a plinth from Shire Trophies for the trophy. Budget is £36.00

Just need to find out the start date from Stuart’s notes exploration.

Iain

O/G

02/01/2007

Iain will add a link to the website pointing to the spreadsheet. This is now working from the availability heading in the A-Z

Iain

Cleared

03/02/2007

Alan will follow up on the Waldringfield booking for the summer meeting. The form has arrived now

Alan

O/G

01/03/2007

Stuart to see if he can get another Wentworth Voucher.

Stuart

O/G

05/03/2007

Arrange a pre course inspection meeting at Eaton

David

Cleared

07/03/2007

Stuart is going through all the old BTRGS captain’s archive & will keep any useful nuggets of documentation for scanning & putting on the website. All the other paperwork to be recycled.

Stuart

O/G

01/04/2007

David & Erik will sort out the prize allocation of the £500 from the sponsor for the Spring meeting

David & Erik

Cleared

02/04/2007

Erik will sort out the singles & doubles draw for 2007

Erik

Cleared

03/04/2007

Stuart will cancel Stowmarket & book Brett Vale

Stuart

Cleared

04/04/2007

In order to boost membership David will

1. Put forms on the board in the Hub
2. Send out an email to all members about getting colleagues to join
3. Mention recruitment at the Spring meting
4. Take some forms to the Fratsor event.

David

Cleared

05/04/2007

Andrew will find out about previous grants from ATLAS from Russell

Andrew

Cleared

06/04/2007

Baard will give Andrew a bill for the website hosting

Baard

O/G

07/04/2007

Baard will see if we can get the website hosting to be billed annually

Baard

O/G

New Action Points

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

01/05/2007

Iain will advise Stuart of the dimensions of the trophy so we can get a quote from SHIRE trophies for the plinth.

Iain

New

02/05/2007

David to resolve the final few outstanding financial issues from the Spring Meeting.

David

New

03/05/2007

Decide what items from the archive should be kept and/or scanned in and put on the website.

All

New

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

01/05/2007

Iain will advise Stuart of the dimensions of the trophy so we can get a quote from SHIRE trophies for the plinth.

Iain

New

02/05/2007

David to resolve the final few outstanding financial issues from the Spring Meeting.

David

New

03/05/2007

Decide what items from the archive should be kept and/or scanned in and put on the website.

All

New

Match Reports

The Ian Reddington Memorial Cup (St Clements) and Lloyd’s reports are on the website.

The Spring Meeting was a success with only a few payments fro David to chase up. However the pace of play was very slow at times. We shall remind all players that they must pick up & move on if they can’t score any Stableford points.

Knockouts

New spreadsheets have been created for this season, time frame is short but that is the only way to force matches to get played.

Match Schedule

Alan & Iain have been updating this on a regular basis.

Baard is to assist with running the St Audrey’s event.

The Huawei event has been postponed.

Special Events

The next Fratsor event is scheduled for September. Ian Brill is the contact.

Membership

The membership now stands at 71 including 7 life members.

Finance

Andrew reported that money is going in & out as planned with no problems or unexpected costs. David is mopping up the final few Spring Meeting financial loose ends.

However we do need a sponsor for the autumn meeting.

A.O.B

A change to clause 2 of the constitution is to be discussed at the next AGM.

We discussed non attendance at committee meetings – see proposed constitution

Alan has added an AGM proposal after talking to Stuart about the life members. See below, item 4

AGM Topics

A/P

Proposal

Proposed by

1

Change the wording for the £12 + food subsidy to reflect current practice, wording to be decided.

Baard

2

Change clause 2 to read :-

The membership of the society shall be open to anyone working at Adastral Park, Bibb Way or any of the other BT offices in the Ipswich area, subject to mandatory clause 1 of Atlas.

John Briggs

3.

New constitution section

If a committee member fails to attend or dial in to two consecutive meetings without offering good reason, then they will have effectively resigned from the committee. Their vacancy can then be filled by a co-opted replacement.

Stuart

4.

New constitution section

Life members need to rejoin yearly by completing and returning their contact detail information but the cost is free. If they don't rejoin or maintain contact with BTRGS for 3 consecutive years then they are deemed to have rescinded their life membership.

Alan

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be the AGM in Room G/30; Orion on Monday 18th June2007.