MINUTES of a meeting of the Bury St Edmunds Branch of the Referees Association held at the British Sugar Social Club on Monday 5th November 2007.
1 OPENING OF THE MEETING
The Chairman Mr Alan Gardiner opened the meeting by welcoming those
present.
Members present were P.Tebbit, A.Gardiner, T.Pollard,D.Rayner,I.Friend,
M.Chapple, M.Burroughs, B.Rogers, D.Stobbart, T.Baker, R.Jarrold, B.Chapman, B.Newall and N.Catterwell.
2 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
C.Brame and W.Sturman
3 CLINIC
No requests.
4 MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
The October minutes were available on the website. A proposal from N.Catterwell, seconded by B.Newall that the minutes were a true record was passed unanimously and the minutes were signed by the Chairman.
5 MATTERS ARISING
No reply had been received from K.Bayliss, but M.Watson had been elected in his place. The Secretary agreed to write to him and the Secretary of County FA to try and obtain feedback/minutes.
The Chairman reported that the Sunday League wished to sponsor the Branch Quiz next month.
6 CORRESPONDENCE
a) Emails re tonight’s meeting.
b) RAE newsletter October 07.
c) Email re website from B.Newall.
d) Letters of thanks to Leagues re last meeting.
e) Email from Polish badge collector.
7 REPORTS
Treasurer- Nolan Catterwell reported a bank balance of £1809.10 and cash in hand of £61.21. There were no new members. A cheque would be paid tonight to BSSC re the children’s Christmas party.
RA- Nolan reported that Tony Trevers had expressed some concern about closed dates and missed appointments. In future poor administration would result in a warning with a £10 fine for a second offence. CRB checks expiry would be reviewed in the close season. Training sessions for new referees now restricted to Ipswich/Lowestoft/Stowmarket/BSE. Long service award nominations and grant applications had to taken back to January meeting. Therefore inform Nolan at next branch meeting.
FA- nothing.
Press- T.Pollard urged caution and constructive comments only in view of recent Green ‘Un comments.
Web- updated whenever possible (but some problems).
Secretary- Peter Tebbit reminded members that all correspondence and minutes were available for perusal.
8 ANY OTHER BUSINESS
The Hill Petersen Shield for 2006/07 was presented to Trevor Baker by the President Kelvin Morton.
Bowling night arranged for 29/11/07 – liaise with D.Rayner
T.Baker raised the question of first aid kits being available at local league matches. This was discussed in some detail and it was agreed that A.Gardiner and B.Rogers would take feedback to their respective leagues.
9 GROUP DISCUSSIONS
Introduced by the Chairman, Kelvin Morton and Bill Newall gave very interesting and constructive talks on Player Management and Offsides and Lining respectively. Some very good points and learning opportunities were identified.
10 RAFFLE was drawn.
Meeting closed at 21.30.
Signed………………………Chairman ………………Date
AGM 2006 Minutes
The Annual General Meeting of the Bury St.Edmunds Branch of the Referees Association was held at The British Sugar Corporations Social Club on the evening of Monday 8TH May 2006 commencing at 8.15pm
1. OPENING OF THE MEETING.
Chairman Bill Newall opened the meeting and welcomed everyone present and asked for the adoption of the Standing orders, this was proposed by K.Crabbe seconded by K.Brame and carried. He apologised for the delay in the start of the meeting due to the books having to be collected from the Secretary at late notice. An e-mail from the Secretary to the Chairman and President had not been received.
MEMBERS PRESENT
D.Coverdale, M.Chapple, R.Barker, P.Tebitt,K.Crabbe, A.Mapston, K.Morton, W.Newall, K.Brame, J.Dumican, B.Rogers, M.Burroughs, A.Gardiner, S.Pass, D.Rayner
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
Messrs. A.Sheldrick, G.Rayner,T.Pollard, N.Catterwell, T.Baker, R.Jarrold, I.Friend, S.Frost-Palmer, P.Jay.
2. MINUTES OF THE 2005 MEETING
These minutes which had been placed on our website were read and were accepted following a proposal to accept by Kathy Brame seconded by David Coverdale and were signed by The Chairman as a True Record.
MATTERS ARISING.
a) CRB Checks Mr. Pearce duly certified those members forms as required.
b) Treasurers report... The fund raising evening i.e. Race night was held and proved to be a major flop.
c) The matter raised by Brian Chapman re our Branch not claiming the £120 we were due covering the training of twelve new referees was followed up, and it would seem that the letter from the SCFA re this matter did not reach either he Secretary or the Training people, as a result we wrote to the SCFA explaining why we hadn’t claimed he money, and they accepted that their may have been a problem with the letters and they duly paid us the £120. (The secretary enquired if we had applied for this years as he had received no correspondence on the subject)
d) The Dinner took place at Beyton White horse in February.
e) Appointments to friendly matches. Later referred to.
f) The pre-season get together with the two leagues to run through any law changes and to be followed by a race night was held at the BSC and as stated in 3 (b) was a flop
g) Carl Finch Memorial Match was played, but as agreed the dance will no longer take place.
4. CORRESPONDENCE
a) Letters from Mark Oliver Bury Sunday League re Cup Final Invitation to Members.
b) Agendas for hand out for the forthcoming County RA AGM (8th June)
c) Letter from County RA Sec re Nomination for Chairman (Mr.John Ransome) we supported this nomination (Our Executive member to vote accordingly)
d) Letters to and From Darren Cann congratulating him on being appointed to the FA Cup Final. (Included in these minutes in time to announce it to the members prior to the event)
e) 5. SECRETARY'S REPORT
The Secretary Gordon Rayner report was read in his absence .. he had been very disappointed in the drop in membership and subsequent attendance figures. Briefly outlining the past seasons activities he thanked everyone for he help in the past season... he was very disappointed that Barrie Rogers had decided to resign from his three positions i.e. Vice Chairman, Press Officer and Committee member, on the bright side he was delighted that Mr. Keith Crabbe had been awarded the LMSA national RA award, and that Stephen Pass had received the County RA Burchel Award for the most promising referee in he County
Résumé of 2005/6 Season
September Meeting ..Kelvin Morton showed some clips of recent sendings off in the Premier League (unfortunately the DVD which we were to have used was not compatible with our equipment we had on the evening, as a consequence we have since purchases a new one
October Meeting We were privileged that the two local leagues again sponsored our branch quiz, which was won by Peter Tebbit and Nolan Catterwell, Thanks went to Question Master Alan Gardiner, and Gordon Rayner for providing the prize.
November Guest speaker was Premier League referee Peter Walton.
December we reverted back to watching a match on TV between Birmingham and West Ham, Alan Gardiner produced a half time quiz which was won by Barrie Rogers, and after the game members enjoyed a discussion on the referees performance chair by Kelvin Morton and a buffet.
January we accepted an invitation to join Stowmarket Branch where guest speaker was Premier League referee Steve Bennett. Nine of our members actually attended this event (Steve had been a recent guest speaker at our Branch).
(Committee met on January 24th for its half yearly review).
February Kelvin Morton Video Evening, Kelvin had a good supply of Video incidents which were discussed.
The committee met .following the branch meeting to discuss various resignations
March meeting we were privileged to have Premier League (and FA Cup Final) assistant referee Darren Can as our guest speaker
April Group discussions, topics were before and after the match (Bill Newall); marking out of 100 (Kelvin Morton) Report writing with Alan Gardiner
May 8th Annual general Meeting.
5A TREASURERS REPORT
The Treasurer Nolan Catterwell was not present due to being on holiday and had asked the secretary to remind members who had not yet sold and returned the raffle tickets with monies to him to do so as soon as possible, and that he would be sending out the new membership forms very soon. He has asked our Auditor to present his second report by way of the Balance Sheet
Mr. 5b) SOCIAL SECRETARY/PRO Mr.Stobbart had only been in office a couple of months when he was co opted into the position (also onto the committee) following the resignation from this position by Barrie Rogers reported that he would be continuing to put articles in the Green-un again next season,
5c AUDITORS REPORT (See Rule 2 )
The Auditor Kelvin Morton presented his report a copy of which is attached. The main points included; Complimented the treasurer on the manner in which the accounts have been handled and on the balance sheet ;Approx £300 excess income against expenditure but this would be reduced considerable when the officers expenses (which will be decided later in the meeting) have been approved ; Decrease in Subscriptions, and Donations due to a drop in numbers of members, which also obviously reduced the profits on the branch raffle ticket sales, Slight increase in the national raffle sales, and the FA Grant. The auditor stated that he would be recommending a £1 increase to the subscription in any other business.
Mr. Burroughs proposed the adoption of the reports; this carried unanimously.
EXPENSES for season 2006/2007 (to be on 2006/07) BALANCE SHEET.
In accordance with the proposals within his Auditors Report, the following expenses for the period ending 31st.March 2006 were put forward by Mr.K.Morton..
Secretary to receive £276.................................
Treasurer to receive £90...................................
Training Officer to receive £30............................
Social Sec/Pr Off to receive £15 B.Rogers and £8 D. Stobbart............................
Webmaster to receive £ 35............................................
A proposal of acceptance of this recommendation was made by B.Rogers and seconded by M.Burroughs and approved unanimously
6. ELECTION OF OFFICERS The following were all elected
PRESIDENT MR. K.MORTON ............................................................
CHAIRMAN MR. W.NEWALL ............................................................
VICE-CHAIRMAN MR. R.BARKER ..............................................................
HON SECRETARY To be confirmed ( Mr. G. Rayner not standing for re election)
HON TREASURER MR. N.CATTERWELL.......................................................
PRESS OFFICER MR. D.STOBBART............................................................
TRAINING OFFICER MR. W. NEWALL ...................................... (all ex officio)
COMMITTEE I.FRIEND, K.BRAME , A.GARDINER,
HON AUDITOR MR. KELVIN MORTON
7. ANY OTHER BUSINESS of which 7 days notice was given for A,B,C,D,E,F.
A) NEXT SEASONS PROGRAMME
SUGGESTIONS FOR PROGRAMMES FOR NEXT SEASON
The suggestion was for the following to take place;
September: Law changes etc
October: . Neale Barry
November: TBA
December: Quiz and Social night
January: Kelvin's Video Night
February: TBA
March: Group Discussions,
April: .
May: A.G.M.
(Two ideas for the committee to discuss Possible County FA Officers and Managers Panel.
B) RULE CHANGES -¦The auditor proposed an increase to the Branch Subscription by £1 to cover the increases to ourselves from the National Association. This carried unanimously.
C) APPOINTMENTS TO FRIENDLY MATCHES. Due to Bury Town's senior status requiring a high level referee there will be limited opportunities for Branch members.
D) MEETING VENUE FOR COMING SEASON ..Agreed to stay at the British Sugar Club carried unanimously
E) SOCIAL ACTIVITIES (agreed to be dealt with by the committee)
F) CARL FINCH MEMORIAL CUP Following discussion the floor agreed that the football match would no longer be played, the last thing wanted was that the occasion becomes devalued, Mrs Virginia Finch has agreed with this decision and various alternatives were discussed including possibly holding an annual quiz or a sports (pool, crib, darts etc) night with Carl's ex colleagues from the Village.
The following matters were also added on the night at the discretion of the Chairman.
G) Thanks were recorded from Mark Oliver on behalf of the Sunday League for all of the help the members had given during the season and at the finals.
H) It was noted that Life Member Alec Mapston was now entering his 50th year as a branch member
I) Keith Crabbe asked that all people involved in assisting with the successful application for his National RA LSMA award be thanked.
J) Mr.Mapston asked if he could propose Mr.K.Crabbe to be the recipient of Bury St. Edmunds Branch RA Life Membership award, The President informed Mr. Mapston that our rules were amended to prevent such proposals being approved without going through the correct procedures. It was agreed that this proposal be placed before the committee and then on the 2006/7 AGM agenda for discussion.
K) It was suggested that we try to trace the whereabouts of Messrs Hill and Peterson to inform them that their trophy is still being presented. (Reg Barker offered to look into the possibilities of this trace).
8. PRESENTATION OF THE BURCHELL/LEVER TROPHY (See AOB K)
The trophy was awarded by to Gordon Rayner for his outstanding contribution to the Branch, through what was quite a difficult season and, due to his absence, will be presented on another occasion.
8. PRESENTATION OF THE HILL/PETERSON AWARD.
This award which is made annually to the most promising level 6 or 7 referee who has also made suitable contributions to the branch was awarded to Reg Barker..
The Meeting closed at - 9. 12 PM following Kathy’s raffle ( and a vote of thanks to Kathy for her hard selling of the raffle tickets at each meeting.
Signed __________________________Chairman
Date.
