at the Towns Club
Sittingbourne 19th September 2002.
The Chairman welcomed everyone
and opened the meeting at 2016hrs.
Present; Vice
Chairman & Acting Chairman Garry
Speller
Acting
Secretary Chris
Saville
Acting
Treasurer Janie
Macoy.
Maidstone; Steve Kendall.
Tunbridge Wells;
Medway; Jackie Peckham, Diana Welburn, Tony Earl, Dave
May, Gerry Peckham, Diana Welburn
Dover & Deal; Anne Keen.
Apologies For Absence;
Gill Saville.
Minutes of Previous A.G.M. 14th
October 2001 at the Towns Club.
After due time for comment it
was proposed by Ann Keen and seconded by Tony Earl that they be accepted. –
carried unanimously.
Matters Arising;
Janie Macoy asked about the
actual officers appointed at the last AGM, in that Steve Purkiss was Chairman.
Chris Saville informed her that the current officers had stood in when she and
Steve Purkiss had resigned. Janie disputed that she had resigned, Chris Saville
showed her the minutes of the appropriate meeting.
Tony Earl asked about SCBBA,
Chris Saville informed the meeting that he had written to Simon Tinto to no
effect.
Diana Welburn asked whether
Chris Saville had received the half of the honorarium offered by Janie Macoy at
the previous AGM for his help. Chris said he had received nothing.
Correspondence;
The Acting Secretary C.S. had no
correspondence.
President’s Address;
The President declined the
opportunity to make an address.
Secretary’s Report; (as
dictated and given by Chris Saville as the acting Secretary).
A brief report tonight, a very good friend of mine received some news of the worst kind this morning and so I decided it was more important to spend time with him and sacrifice preparation time for this evening.
Kent has a national champion again this year with Jan Taylor winning the All England Ladies for the sixth tine in ten years. Di Welburn represented us at the All England open and won two of her group matches.
The ‘A’ interleague was won by the original Dover and Deal (East) side for the first time in 25 years. The ‘B’ was won by Medway. All three were played at the Alma and were very successful days. The knock outs day was enjoyed by all present. The Ladies Pairs was won by Ann Keen and Liz Skillen, The Over 50’s by Dave Carliel, the under 22’s by Wayne Wells and the Alternate Rules by Jackie Peckham.
The intercounties has not been played since our last AGM so there are no results to report. Selection has been much easier this year with the new system, but the Open side has again been plagued by unavailability of top players. Three have dropped out in the last few days.
The KBBA site on Yahoo continues to operate and any info I get goes on there.
Finally and sadly our game continues to decline with fewer and fewer players. It is up to you people to sell the game and try to get new players and venues. None of the table companies push our game and Bar Billiards Ltd are looking at the viability of keeping so few tables operating. So its up to you, bring new ideas into the game and push people into playing, if you don’t it will certainly die.
Treasurers Report;
Peter Mercer not being present,
and all efforts to contact him having failed, Janie Macoy presented the current
balance. She had transferred £149 to the Community account (existing balance
£89), cheques for £245 had been paid in to give a total balance of£482.31
Jackie Peckham asked about have
new signatories fro the account and Janie furnished the appropriate transfer
mandate for the new officers.
Chris Saville produced the
interleague balances to show that Dover and Deal were owed £61.99 and that
there was a small trophy bill for approximately £10.
Tony Earl suggested that we
start with a clean slate and start accounting properly again. The Chairman
asked the meeting to propose that we start new accounts from now and all
outstanding items to be included in the new account. This was proposed by Di
Welburn and seconded by Jackie Peckham and was carried unanimously. Chris
Saville said he would record a vote of thanks to Janie for filling in the
details.
Proposals;
There were none.
Election of Officers;
Garry Speller indicated that he
would be prepared to formally assume the chair, Di Welburn had offered to be
Treasurer at the previous meeting. Chris Saville reluctantly agreed to assume
the role of Secretary and indicated that Gill Saville would continue as Minutes
Secretary. Steve Kendall offered to stand as Vice Chairman. There being no
other volunteers. The signatories for the accounts will be any two from the
Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary. Dave May proposed that these people be voted
into office en bloc, this was seconded by Jackie Peckham and carried
unanimously.
Secretary’s Honorarium;
The Secretary suggested to the
meeting that, with the continued contraction of the organisation and the resultant
lightening of the Secretary’s workload, the current honorarium was too high, he
then left the meeting. The Honorarium was set at £125.
Life Vice Presidents;
There were no new proposals.
AEBBA Affiliation;
Jackie Peckham queried what
would happen if we had fewer leagues, Chris Saville said this would not be a
problem as both Hampshire and Northants only had one league.
It was proposed by Steve Kendall
and seconded by Tony Earl that we remain affiliated, this was carried
unanimously.
SCBBA Affiliation.
It was agreed that we KBBA
consider SCBBA to be defunct. Chris Saville said he would get the names of the
other Southern Counties Secretaries and write to them re formally winding up
the association.
Any Other Business;
Ann Keen asked about the names
of the Ladies representing KBBA at the Intercounties. Di Welburn informed the
meeting of the names.
Fees; It was reported that they
are as follows; individuals £5, Team K.O.’s £10, affiliation fees £2 per team
and interleagues £15/£12 for open/ladies. The treasurer reported no need to
increase these, there being no proposal, they will remain the same.
The Secretary informed the
meeting that tables had been provisionally booked for next years interleagues
‘A’/Ladies 15th/16th
Feb. ‘B’ and Knockouts Day 26th/27th April. All of
February was available but this was the only week in April. The Secretary said
the Alma would be available, but asked whether any other league wished to
tender for either weekend. Tony Earl said that Medway were interested but had
not received an answer on their venue. There was discussion on formats if
either Maidstone or Tunbridge Wells should fold or the Ladies not take place.
Chris Saville suggested running the Kent Pairs in place of the Ladies if
necessary. It was agreed we could only progress on the basis of the current
members. The Chairman said that a decision needed to be made today and that the
Alma had been good to the association. It was proposed by Dave May that Dover
and Deal host both, this was seconded by Tony Earl and passed unanimously.
Janie Macoy then received
several text messages that amounted to Peter Mercer was going to call on her on
Sunday and try to produce as much handover info for Di Welburn, the new
Treasurer, as possible.
Chris Saville informed the meeting
that AEBBA were considering moving the AEBBA Open Singles Finals to April.
Date and Venue of Next
Meeting;
Thursday January 16th
at the Towns Club, starting 200hrs. The Secretary will be circulating knockout
entries for this meeting.
The Chairman closed the
meeting at 2146hrs.