BTRGS Minutes of Committee meeting 17/09/2007

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Stephen Stokes – Vice Captain

Alan Porter – Secretary

Stuart Wyse

Baard Grindberg

Jon Hopkins

Chris Amor

Apologies

Andrew Wright – Treasurer

David Bell – Captain

Iain Wright

Erik Hansen

Tony Boffey

Minutes of Last Meeting

The previous minutes were accepted as accurate.

Review of Action Points

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

07/04/2007

Baard will see if we can get the website hosting to be billed annually. Baard was still trying to arrange this. Now see Action Point 02/09/07

Baard

Cleared

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.

Do this before October committee mtg if possible.

All

O/G

03/07/07

Stuart is trying to resurrect the Huawei match.

This will not happen in the 2007 season.

Stuart

Cleared

05/07/07

Sort out the unpaid lessons, still 4 unpaid.

Stuart has cleared his part of the action point.

Andrew has taken over this AP from David

Andrew

O/G

01/08/07

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

Andrew

Cleared

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

07/04/2007

Baard will see if we can get the website hosting to be billed annually. Baard was still trying to arrange this. Now see Action Point 02/09/07

Baard

Cleared

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.

Do this before October committee mtg if possible.

All

O/G

03/07/07

Stuart is trying to resurrect the Huawei match.

This will not happen in the 2007 season.

Stuart

Cleared

05/07/07

Sort out the unpaid lessons, still 4 unpaid.

Stuart has cleared his part of the action point.

Andrew has taken over this AP from David

Andrew

O/G

01/08/07

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

Andrew

Cleared

02/08/07

David to sort out the autumn lessons

David

Cleared

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

Cleared & done again 17/09/07

04/08/07

Iain to remove retired committee members from the website.

Iain

O/G

05/08/07

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

Jon

Cleared

New Action Points

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

01/09/07

Iain to file the L&G report on the website

Iain

New

02/09/07

Baard & Iain to consider moving the website to an annually charged and cheaper web hosting service

Iain & Baard

New

03/09/07

Alan to invite all BTRGS to AGM on Dec 3rd

Alan

Cleared

04/09/07

Somebody needs to buy the AGM sandwiches, drinks & crisps from Tesco’s, spend £20.00 - £25.00. Cheaper than on-site catering.

TBA at October meeting

New

A/P

Action

Allocated

Status

01/09/07

Iain to file the L&G report on the website

Iain

New

02/09/07

Baard & Iain to consider moving the website to an annually charged and cheaper web hosting service

Iain & Baard

New

03/09/07

Alan to invite all BTRGS to AGM on Dec 3rd

Alan

Cleared

04/09/07

Somebody needs to buy the AGM sandwiches, drinks & crisps from Tesco’s, spend £20.00 - £25.00. Cheaper than on-site catering.

TBA at October meeting

New

Match Reports

The Vice Captain won the match at Purdis. The autumn meeting at the Essex was successful.

Knockouts

All is on track; one delayed match has been rescheduled today.

Match Schedule

Just the Ufford Park match to play on Thursday 20th September.

Special Events

The Fratsor event was good fun.

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. Just the Ufford Park transactions to add for this year’s accounts.

A.O.B

Stephen has booked Diss for the spring meeting on Friday 9 May 2008 & Bury St Edmunds on Friday 12 September 2008.

Future Meetings

Monday 15th October 12:00 Room 30 Orion

Monday 19th November 12:00 Room 30 Orion

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.

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

AGM Meeting

The AGM will be held in Room G/30; Orion on Monday 3rd December 2007.