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The discussion lasted over an hour and these are the main points

• Agenda items 1 & 2. Should we have invited members to vote on the lease?   Yes 8  No 22.
• Should we go ahead with the lease.    Yes 22  No 2  Abstentions 6.
• We are concentrating more on Northern Events – no support from the floor
• Agenda item 3 – We have 26 licence holders = 70% of our active membership. Four Northern events 2018. One Bronze so every member can enter, one Silver which 70% of our active membership can enter. Two Gold which 38% of our active members can enter. ( we have 72 members of whom 37 are considered ‘active’) Northern events at most happen on 4 days out of 156.  For our Silver event on 10th June we have 8 players from Norway and 1 from Finland. Northern events bring kudos and recognition to our club.
• Should members have been consulted about the bowling green ‘offer’? No support from the floor
• Agenda items 5 to 8 answered by the Chair
• Agenda item 9 – Chair listed the positions that need filling
• We should insure the new club house – no support from the floor – but we will get a quote
• Entry fees for club comps. Have 3 levels this year 1. FOC  2. Entry fee but club retains 50%  3. Open as now with entry fees returned as prizes
• Thursday evenings to be kept April to September. Hold some comps on Thursday evenings. Recognised that some members will still want to play Thursday afternoons.
• Run the ‘Pentathlon’ comp again and ‘Shotgun’ and ‘Fixed Jack’ also. Rules on notice board for Shotgun and Fixed Jack.
• Playing by the rules – problems of enforcement and penalties discussed. Short version of Rules to be reissued. We should play to the rules at all times but not be too heavy handed for social play.

It became clear that extensive work done by the committee on the clubhouse project had not been relayed to the members. Decisions taken had not been communicated. Committee will communicate better to members from now on.

Committee roles needed. 4 committee members are not enough to provide all the functions and open clubhouse/shed on every playing session as they all have family issues, grandchildren, holidays, illnesses etc. We need more helpers. Without more help some services will have to be cut. The following positions would be very useful. Members could do the job without needing to be on the committee and attend meetings.

a) Fund raiser. Probably a bonus ball sweep. Someone who members know and who is a regular attender. Maybe other topical events.

b) Raffle organiser. 6 a year & aim to raise £300 a year

c) Catering officer. To organise food/drink for major events. Probably only 6 a year. To organise annual dinner.

d) Marketing & media officer. To promote the club and get new members in.

e) Playing officer to do Calendar and organise inter club fixtures.

If you’re interested please contact a committee member or email us. Deadline is midnight on April 1st. This is not a joke.

The dates are now set for these 2 events

The Open Meeting will be 1300 in the community Room on Sunday 25th March. Some members have some concerns they want to air prior to the AGM.

The agenda is still being written but so far we have..

1. Members should have voted on the lease.
2. We are concentrating more on Northern events
3. What about members who can’t play because of Northern events
4. Members should have been consulted about the bowling green offer.
5. Who is liable for the lease
6. Will we be liable for Council tax?
7. Will our PLI increase?
8. When the top part is developed into extra terrain will the club have to go through the same procedure as now because it isn’t on the lease with the extra legal payment that entails?
9. The committee needs more members to share the workload.
10. What events should be in the Summer Calendar
11. AGM preparation. Advice from committee re elections, nominations  and motions.
12. AOB

Anyone can add to this or raise matters at the meeting. Talk to or email a ctte member.

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The AGM will be at 1200 on Sunday 8th April in the community room. The agenda will be..

1. Apologies for absence
2. Approval of minutes of 2017 AGM and matters arising
3. Committee Officers report
4. Approval of accounts.
5. Motions received
6. Election of Officers
7. Date and venue of next AGM Noon, 14^th April 2019

• Last year’s Minutes and budgets are available on the club website from 1st April
• No Motions or Nominations can be accepted from the floor of the meeting. These have to be submitted before April 1st to the secretary.
• Subs will be due at the conclusion of the AGM

The terrain is under a few inches of snow which ain’t gonna melt with subzero temperatures. The surroundings are icy, snowy and dangerous. Forecast for tomorrow afternoon is snow showers and sunshine with a temperature of -1 or 0. I don’t think there’s any way we can hold a competition in 24 hours so reluctantly we have to cancel Sundays event.

This morning a hurriedly arranged video shoot took place at Greenhead Park. KMC had a team looking at all the activities in the park and filming people with the strapline Try it?. Dozens of people wearing bibs were moving from activity to activity and trying them all. Walking football, Tennis and of course petanque. Brendan, Fred and Paul were there to help out and over a dozen people tried Petanque for the first time. One intriguing game took place and was videoed where Team A played a good first boule and Team B played all its 6 boules and failed to beat it. The cameraman handed 3 more boules out and told Team B to keep playing. Even with 9 boules they didn’t take the point. Made good footage tho’.

Later on they interviewed Paul as a talking head direct to camera about the game. It was quite surreal as the interviewer was the cameraman and he didn’t actually know what questions to ask so it was all unscripted and impromptu. Hope it comes out OK.

We were told we could have copies of the videos so we could put them on our blog.

The camera crew was local outfit so I said I’d put a photo of their business card on our site.

Here you are Quickfoot Media.

Sue resigned as Treasurer today with immediate effect. This is not good news for the club as she has been there from the beginning and has done a tremendous amount of organising and fundraising and we will struggle without her input.  Brendan has agreed to take over as Treasurer in the short term.

There have been some issues raised by Sue and other members in recent weeks and the committee was thinking about holding an Open meeting so these issues could be aired. This must now take place before the AGM so we can talk about the development of the club. AGMs are very formal and much is predetermined. An Open meeting will give the members more opportunity to have their say without the constraints of the AGM process.

The date will be set soon and members are invited to send in any questions or issues that concern them so we have an agenda. Even so issues can be raised on the day.  Any substantive issue can be voted on which will require the committee to reconsider the matter if the vote goes against them. Contact a committee member to put your concern on the agenda by talking or writing or use club Email

Issues so far are

1. Members should have voted on the lease.
2. We are concentrating more on Northern events
3. What about members who can’t play because of Northern events
4. Members should have been consulted about the bowling green offer.
5. The committee needs more members to share the workload.
6. What events should be in the Summer Calendar

The date for the meeting will be announced soon. It will be in the community room prior to a regular session.

This Sunday’s tactics talk has been postponed. It will be re-arranged.