BTRGS Minutes of Committee meeting 20/08/2007

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Alan Porter – Secretary

Andrew Wright – Treasurer

Erik Hansen

Baard Grindberg

Stuart Wyse

Iain Wright

David Bell – Captain

Apologies

Stephen Stokes

Chris Amor

Tony Boffey

Jon Hopkins

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.

Plinth ordered Stuart will collect it from Dick Bailey.

Iain & Stuart

Cleared

01/03/2007

Stuart to see if he can get another Wentworth Voucher. Stuart has now got it.

Stuart

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.

Good progress being made.

Stuart

Cleared

07/04/2007

Baard will see if we can get the website hosting to be billed annually. Baard is still trying to arrange this.

Baard

O/G

03/05/2007

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

To be done when Stuart has completed the sort out.

All

O/G

01/06/2007

Alan to email Stephen the link for the Livelink page.

Alan

Cleared

01/06/2007

Alan to email Stephen the link for the Livelink page.

Alan

Cleared

02/07/07

Stuart to invite all members to complete the survey

Stuart

Cleared

03/07/07

Stuart is trying to resurrect the Huawei match

Stuart

O/G

05/07/07

Sort out the unpaid lessons, still 4 unpaid.

Stuart & David

O/G

New Action Points

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

01/08/07

Andrew to ensure there are full teams for Captain Vs Vice captain match

Andrew

New

02/08/07

David to sort out the autumn lessons

David

03/08/07

Urge members to fill in the survey so we can review in October. Especially mention at the Autumn meeting.

All committee members

04/08/07

Iain to remove retired committee members from the website.

Iain

05/08/07

Jon Hopkins to produce the L&G report for Iain & Andrew to action

Jon

Match Reports

BT lost the match against Halesworth but a good time was had by all. BT won the match Vs Transco & lost the L&G match.

Knockouts

All is on track

Match Schedule

The schedule is up now up to date. Alan has emailed Tony availability for the Ufford Park match.

Special Events

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

Membership

The membership is now 72 including 7 life members.

Membership Survey

We will review the findings at the October BTRGS meeting.

Finance

Andrew said finance is on track, we should make a small surplus this year. More news on the ATLAS grant will come from Shaun Whymark soon.

A.O.B

Alan has booked the AGM for 3rd December in room 30. Also all normal meetings booked for room 30 up to November.

AGM Topics

A/P

Proposal

Proposed by

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.

Alan

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

5.

Discuss match subsidy levels.

David

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be the AGM in Room G/30; Orion on Monday 17th September 2007.