Minutes of Meeting held on Thursday 22 May 2014 At Cranford Bowling Club
The Chairman opened the meeting by welcoming everybody to the new venue - a temporary move as the usual Mere venue was being used as a polling station for the European Elections.
- Apologies for absence Ken Barker, Alan Perks, John Glover (Equiport),Jim Gray (Chelford), Mike Grocott & Fred Taylor (Oughtrington) Maryke Todd (Cranford) and Dennis O'Neill (Knutsford BC).
- Minutes of previous meeting held on 23 January 2014 were discussed and accepted. Proposed John Leah (Chelford) seconded Derek Hurdle (Goostrey).
- Matters arising There were no matters arising.
- Officers’ ReportsThere were no reports from officers other than those to be discussed under specific agenda headings. Alan Perks had briefed Chris Grice and given him documentation for the Agenda headings.
- Handicaps. The latest handicap sheets were handed out and considered. No anomalies were highlighted.
- Individual Competition. There were 30 entries and the draw was made. Full details of the draw and order of play would be posted on the web site.
- Team Knockout. Documents for the next round of the team knockout were issued.
- Pairs Competition. Entry sheets for the pairs competition were issued. The competition will be held at Chelford BC on Saturday 5 July and entries must on this occasion be sent to the Treasurer (address and e-mail is shown on the entry form) or brought to the meeting.
- Presentation Evening. Alan P. had asked for some discussion about the format of the evening. Was the much reduced attendance at the 2013 event an indication that players were becoming bored with the format of the evening and if so were there any suggestions for changes? The view that it was the venue that had caused the reduction was reiterated, this had been thoroughly aired at the last meeting. No desire or ideas for change in style was evident. As the 2014 event would be at Mere, it was felt that the numbers attending would increase. There was a suggestion that Mere should be the permanent venue but the Chairman pointed out this could only be decided by the AGM and if that was desired a member should make that proposal.
- Any Other Business. A number of issues arose. Some of these involved the 'courtesies' of match conduct and planning. There had been an instance of two K/O teams cancelling a match but failing to inform the neutral green organisers; at one match a captain wanting to play a particular player in the first four completed the 'draw' only to find that the player's opponent didn't arrive until 45 minutes later. But contrasting these bad-manners incidents was a thank-you for the consideration shown by one team in making a rearrangement of a match possible. None of these issues was a matter that would be helped by amending or adding to the rule book. The Chairman asked that Captains simply observed good manners and remembered the primary ethos of the KFBL was that the League was one of a friendly social nature not one of fierce competition.
There was a question and discussion about the use of email/web site for communicating or organising matches, meetings and competitions. It was recognised that some Captains did not use computers but the Secretary always ensured that all Captains received the necessary communications. Obviously the most efficient and least onerous way of doing this was for him to use the internet. The web site was an information tool and emails the primary but not exclusive business/organising tool. It was mentioned that it was not necessary for a captain to have a computer but it was helpful if such a captain would nominate a player with an email address to act as the captain's post box.
- The Chairman thanked everybody for attending and reminded them that the next meeting would be at Mere at 8pm on Thursday 19 June.
The meeting closed at 8.40pm