Delegates
meeting 9th January 2014
The Chair welcomed and
thanked everyone for attending the meeting.
Apologies Received: Colin, Evelyn, Corinne, Denise and Chris.
Minute’s last meeting:
All present read the
previous meeting's minutes
Matters arising..
Mike confirmed that he
is still awaiting a copy of the Cardiff Skittles rules and regulations.
Apparently the Cardiff
league allows anyone registered to play for any team so long as it’s for
another league.
Graham expressed that
the Penarth League is the best league in South Wales. The rules state that Penarth League games MUST
come before Cardiff games.
Liz confirmed that
this is an investigation, and is being carried out to see if we can assist
teams who are having to cancel games. Games
have been played with only 6 players on one team... Men’s teams have at least 2 by’s and are
having terrible trouble getting new players. Liz stated that we need to look at
a range of options, from rule changes, closer working with clubs and pubs and help
with recruitment, and no decisions will be made without the agreement at the
AGM.
A few people agreed
that sending letters into the Penarth Times have given good response to recruit
new team members.
Losing skittle teams
also puts pressure on pubs and clubs staying open. Many may close down if teams dwindle. Llandough had 6 teams and now only have 3!! Any more pulling out will most definitely
close the club.
Mike said that the
‘Rock & Bowlers’ have claimed the match, which his team are not happy with
as it was agreed that the captain would come back to Mike with further dates to
play the game. Gerry rang Terry to claim
the game, giving the reason that Mike’s team didn’t turn up. Mike stressed that he was told by Gerry that
he would call him back with potential dates when his team would like to play
this game.
It was agreed that a
meeting would be arranged by Terry with Mike, Terry, Liz and Gerry White before
the next meeting, preferably in the next week.
Provisionally try for 7.30pm on Tuesday 14th January, at the
Conservative Club.
Muriel Wills proposed
and Joan seconded that the minutes are true and correct.
Women's fixture
Secretary’s report:
Nothing to report
(Corinne wasn’t able to attend).
Men's fixture
Secretary’s report:
Terry has had an awful
month and has been unable to collect the trophy in person and apologises for
this. Terry is going to ask for the
Trophy to be posted to him.
Terry has put forms
behind the bar in the Conservative Club, for the Summer competitions but the
dates are incorrect. Terry has been
unable to print these as his printer isn’t working.
The chair questions
why we were still doing a lot of printing when the web site was designed to cut
back by providing copies of the relevant
The secretary said
that it would be more cost effective to print forms commercially than print at
home. Terry is to email Sue the form for the Summer competition and she will
get quotes to get it printed without dates so these can be used each year.
Treasurer's report:
Liz read out a report
given to her by Chris:
Deposit account: £1335.30
Current account: £ 963.42
No figure for the
Marie Curie Account
Ann Young brought the
statement as she is still the main signatory that confirms differing
amounts. Liz is to arrange for Chris,
Liz and Ann to get together to go through the bank account to match up with the
written accounts.
AOB:
Sue has resigned from
her skittle team and would like to resign from the Meetings Secretary. Sue is still a registered player and will
keep the position until someone is found to take her place. Liz had someone approach her that may be
willing to do this.
The Penarth Times have
made a mess of the tables through no fault of the Fixtures Secretary’s. The correct tables are placed on our website which
are correct. Once the list of team
captains email addresses are up and running the forms and tables can be emailed
for each team to print out and be kept more up to date with what is happening
in the league.
A suggestion was put forward to print the
tables out on the back for the Agendas and to be handed out at each meeting -
this was agreed. It will be the team
captain’s responsibility to attend meetings to obtain this.
The wrong entry was put down for the Cons A
and the Cons B, there was a mix up with the Home and Away Team - Terry is to
look into this and put right.
The next meeting will take place on Thursday
13th February 2014 at the Conservative.
