Minutes of the meeting of the Plymouth Bridge Club Committee held on 15th May 2017
Attendees: Steve Lacey (Chairperson) John Lankshear (Vice Chair)
Committee members: Richard Ayres, Diane McGregor, Sue Murkin, Jim Dunn, Pete Tunnicliffe, Anne Worthington.
Apologies: Charles Greenlees (Treasurer) Ailie Henry (Trustee) Jenny Young (Trustee)
Chairman’s welcome to the new committee
Steve Lacey welcomed all new members to the committee and said how delighted he was that we now had a full complement albeit we still had a vacant Secretary position. He felt that the three main challenges to face the committee this year were:
To encourage more people to play.
To restore the reputation and image of the club.
To continue to maintain and develop the building and to ensure that we involve and take the membership with us,
Minutes of the meeting of 6th March 2017.
The minutes were approved.
Matters arising from the Minutes not covered in the Agenda
None.
Correspondence received
Letter from Jenny Young sending apologies for non attendance due to a holiday arranged prior to her election as Trustee. Jenny was honoured to have been elected a trustee and asked for specific information about the club in relation to her duties.
AP Steve Lacey to send written reply and advising Treasurer will be asked to provide the information requested upon return from his holiday.
Letter from Mary Chambers asking for a grab rail for the front doorstep.
Agreed.
AP John Lankshear to take forward, Steve Lacey to reply to Mary.
Agreed
AP Steve Lacey to order the new Laws of Duplicate Bridge 2017 and advise Andy.
Letter from Ruth Edmondson requesting withdrawal from position of Website manager and advising that she and Brigid wouldbe stopping lessons from July.
AP Steve to send letter to Ruth thanking her and Brigid for their long service to the Club.
Steve to be temporary editor of website.
To allocate various positions within the Club following election of new committee.
After discussion it was decided that positions would be filled as follows:-
Secretary Dianne MacGregor to be co-opted
Tournament Committee Richard Ayres, John Lankshear, Pete Tunnicliffe
Membership secretary Gloria Lankshear (non committee member) Gloria not present but John confirmed she was willing to undertake these duties.
Conduct Committee Chairman Jim Dunn
Discipline Committee Chairman Steve Lacey
Pianola Administrators Steve Lacey, Andy Carpenter
Web Page Manager Pete Tunnicliffe
House Manager John Lankshear
Social Secretary Anne Worthington, with Sue Murkin and Dianne Macgregor
Room booking coordinator Anne Worthington
To accept new members
Applications had been received from Roma Keogh,,Jenny March Clive Gliddon, Linda Parry, Ann Preston, Digby Hole, Joan Paul, Susan Wright, Miranda Lloyd Gregg and Ros Bate. These were accepted by the committee
To arrange for the installation and briefing of the new trustee.
Steve would arrange with Charles to put together the information Jenny Norman our new Trustee needed and would make the necessary arrangements to get her legally assigned as a trustee
To agree a code of conduct for the new committee
A draft had been produced and was put to the committee. Some amendments were suggested by Jim who offered to produce an amended version for the next meeting. This was agreed by remainder of committee.
To agree the arrangements for Thursday afternoon Bridge
Minutes of meeting of 6th March 2017 stated that Thursday afternoon Bridge sessions were open to all players regardless of grading or systems played. Monday afternoons would continue as Acol only with the restriction that two players with more than 25 Green points each would be unable to play together.
Club Website to agree what will be published
Agreed that once new Website Manager has been enabled a review of the site will be undertaken and any new competition dates would be published and old news removed.
Competitions
Richard Ayres produced a list of Competition dates from June 2017 to March 2018.
AP Richard to put Competition list on noticeboard and Steve and Pete to put on Website.
Dates and format of future meetings.
It was agreed to leave the existing arrangements in place for the present.
Date of next meeting Monday 5th Jun 2017 at 5pm.
Meeting closed at 6.45pm.