Meeting opened at 2.30pm
Committee Members present:
Steve Cann (Club Manager)
Mike Haswell (Treasurer)
49 club members were in attendance.
Steve Cann opened the meeting and welcomed all club members and thanked them for attending.
Debbie Smart, Graham Douglass.
All members were asked to sign in and last years minutes were handed out.
Last years Minutes agreed
Proposed: Pete Tims
Second: Nathan Parker
Steve Cann presented the report. The 2005/2006 Winter Series well attended however numbers were down in the Summer. The Colin Felstead and Adrian Jacob Memorial meeting was well attended and £1300 was raised for the British Heart Foundation.
The annual KO GP was again very well supported, the BTCC due to heavy downpours was sadly a washout and the STCC well supported. Steve extended his thanks to all those who have helped in the running of all meetings throughout the year.
We have purchased two new electronic information boards this year which have been a great asset and have been the biggest spend for the club. The wish for the forthcoming year is to obtain a new race control with a larger rostrum hopefully this will come to fruition.
Despite the spend on the above mentioned information boards (approx £2000) the club funds remain healthy. There was an invitation to members for them comments or questions but none received. Copies of Accounts were readily available.
It was asked if the club membership was to go up and Steve confirmed there was no plans for the price of membership to change.
Names of summer series award winners were called out.
4 Special awards were handed out as follows:
Adrian Jacob Award for Best Newcomer – Simon Lightfoot
Paul Howard Award for Most Improved Senior – Damian Giddins
Mark Bedford Award for Most Improved Junior – Nick Annett
James Howarth was awarded the Colin Felstead Award. First time this has been awarded. Colin set high standards so may not always be possible to select a winner that would meet this criteria. Most likely be an occasional award not necessarily for the same category.
Steve Cann has agreed to continue as Club Manager for the next few months work permitting.
Steve was unsure whether Debbie Smart would continue in her role current role as Club Secretary but he may have a stand in if necessary.
Mike Haswell will continue as Treasurer.
Brian Gibson previous club secretary stood aside during 2006.
Graham Douglass stood down as competition secretary during 2006.
Steve intends to rope Nigel Peaks into the Committee even if it is only as official ‘dogs body’.
There followed a vote on the current Committee to be re-elected for 2007.
Proposed: Stuart Cann
Second: Sylvia Hauser
Vote carried unanimously.
The 2006/2007 AGM date was agreed for 11th November 2007 following the same format as 2006.
There followed a vote on the AGM date.
Proposed: Pete Tims
Seconded: Timothy Hamm
Vote carried unanimously.
Proposal by Graham Douglass:
For the summer championship when there are less than 10 heats, run 4 rounds of qualifying otherwise only 3 rounds. For the winter championship run 3 rounds of qualifying due to shorter hours. Bonus meetings at the race directors discretion. The reason: for the summer championship this will let drivers know where they stand in terms of batteries as soon as the heat listing is posted.
Second: Tim Tims
Vote carried unanimously.
Proposal by Graham Douglass:
Adopt BRCA rule of extra point of winning the A final instead of the FTD.
Second: Remo Casadei
Vote carried majority for
1 against
Proposal by Graham Douglass:
Limit the cell capacity in stock to 3700. The reason: these cells are cheaper thus more affordable for beginners (which is who the stock class is meant to be for). Any club driver found running higher capacity cells at anytime during the day will score no points in the championship for that day.
No one seconded this proposal
Proposal not carried.
Proposal by Graham Douglass: Seconded: Steve Cann
The next proposal was broken down into 3 parts
Proposal by Ian Diboll
Any “commercially available” stock motor (27t with fixed 24 degree timing) to be used in the Stock touring class.
Amendment proposed by Lee Campbell
To include use of Novak 13.5 in Stock touring.
Seconded by Spencer Jones
Vote carried majority for.
1 against
1 abstained
Support on multi-venue series
Tamiya – With only three current club members participating and relative small return to club… Sadly declined running a meeting in 2007.
STCC – Not yet been approached with regard running a meeting in ’07… Quite a few club members supported this series in 2006… Relative low return to club.
SLCC – Have asked if we’re interested in ‘hosting’ a meeting in 2007… Need answer asap. Several club members have shown an interest… So it’s a yes!
BTCC- Despite this year being a ‘washout’ hopefully they will return in 2007. Good return for club. Not yet been approached.
BRCA – Not sure if it’s one or two meetings for 2007.
KO GP- Have not yet spoken to Helger re: 2007 will approach them soon…
Additional GP Style meeting ?? Discussion centred around whether this could be fitted in to an already full calendar… Would it ‘water down’ support for other ‘special events’ (KO & Memorial)… Consensus was to decline opportunity for 2007.
From Peter Chang: People that run a 2.4 radio system during open practice head off up the drivers stand to take the first available front line position to practice, meanwhile Jo/Joanne on 40/27mhz system wait patiently for a free peg and then after getting their peg have to wait again on the stand for a position to practice. Peter says this seems unfair to people on 40/27 mhz systems.
A suggestion was made that a new pegging system be put in place for 2.4 radio system. It was agreed to give it a try at the next summer series. (Roddy to organise!)