Minutes of Kent Bar Billiards Association

Held at the Towns Club Sittingbourne, on Thursday 5th June 2003.

Those present; Steve Kendall (Vice Chairman), Diana Welburn (Treasurer), Chris Saville (Secretary), Jackie Peckham (My), Dave May (My) & Craig Carlson (D&D), Ann Keen (D&D),

The Vice Chairman opened the meeting at 20:10hrs.

Apologies; Gill Saville (D&D),  Greg Dennis (TW), Gary Speller (Chairman). Jerry Peckham (My), Tony Earl (My), Dave Howarth (D&D), Janie Macoy (TW).

Minutes of Previous Meeting; The  minutes of the meeting held at the Towns Club on Thursday 12th December 2002 were taken as read. Jackie Peckham proposed and Tony Earl seconded that they be accepted as a true record, this was passed unanimously.

Matters Arising; 

• Ann Keen asked about rule books, the Secretary said that draft books had been given out at the last meeting. The Secretary added that he had received corrections from Di Welburn, but these had not yet been added.  

Secretary’s Report; 

• The Secretary informed the meeting that he had no business that would not be covered in other parts of the agenda.

Treasurer’s Report; 

• The Treasurer reported that following contact between herself, Chris Saville and Marion Wraight, a signed cheque with an apology for the delay had been got from Peter Mercer. She would be seeing Janie Macoy (signatory to old account) and would remove the balance from the account and add it to the new account. This was well received by the meeting.

• The treasurer added that the reserve account contained £54.12 and the cheque account £291.70, a cheque for approximately £95 was owing to Dover and Deal for hosting the interleagues.

• The profit from the interleagues and K.O.'s were £193.65 and £33.78 respectively. The difference being that the table charge had been levied against the second weekend.

KBBA Competitions;

• N.B.B.A. Pub Team; The secretary reported that there were two entries, The Chantry Club (D&D) and the Rose & Crown (TW). The match was drawn with the Chantry being the home team, to be played on The Towns Club, on or before Thursday 18th September.

• Ladies Singles; The secretary reported that there were two entrants, Diana Welburn and Jan Taylor. The match was drawn with Jan being the home player, to be played on The Plough & Harrow Bridge, on or before Thursday 25th September.

A.E.B.B.A. Business;

• Open Inter County; The Secretary reported that Paul Sainsbury, John Fullager  and Mick Nichol had declined. Chris Saville, Garry Speller, Tim Hayes, (+ Mark Brewster & Doug Phillips since) had accepted. Medway reported that Kevin Clarke would be unable to accept an invitation. The wildcards were then considered and placed in the following order. Mike Callanan, Peter Sainsbury, Keith Symes Mick Smith, John Mitchell, Alan Smith and Brian Stevens (Mike Callanan & Peter Sainsbury have since accepted).  Chris Saville accepted the captaincy, subject to successful recovery from his imminent eye surgery.

• Ladies Inter County; The meeting decided to follow the current interleague rankings as all the top players were covered. Jill O'Brien, Di Welburn, Jackie Peckham, Jan Taylor, Ann Keen, Janie Macoy and Tracie Speller. Marina Morrison and then Karen Keen would be asked if necessary. Di Welburn would be the skipper and would make contact with the players. Di would also ascertain the availability of sufficient players to form a 'B' team.

• Kent Classic; The Secretary, on behalf of Tunbridge Wells, outlined the excellent work by that league in resurrecting the competition which would be held at the Teen & twenty Club, Tonbridge on 6th July,

A.G.M. Business;

• The A.G.M. will be held at the Towns Club on Thursday 4th September, starting at 2000hrs.
• The committee discussed the interleagues next year with the problems over the cessation of sponsorship by Bar Billiards Ltd. The problem being that there was unlikely to be any profit to encourage any league to hold it. It was generally agreed that any hosting league might need to be offered a donation if the situation did not change.
• The committee agreed that a proposal be forwarded for A.G.M. consideration that A.G.M. voting be limited to three votes per league instead of the current five.
• The committee also agreed to submit a proposal that voting at committee metings be limited to one delgate per league plus league officers.

SCBBA; The Secretary reported that the association still appeared to be defunct.

  Any Other Business;  

• There was none.

 Date And Venue of The Next Meeting; The next meeting will be the A.G.M. at the Towns Club on Thursday September 4th, emergencies excepted., Meeting was closed by the Vice Chairman at 2145hrs.