Minutes of GDJCA AGM - 2003 Gordon Club, Chatswood, Monday, 28 July 2003, 8 pm

Present
Tim Wilkinson, Terry ODonnell, Stephen Clarke, Stephen Henry, Steve Chippendale, Dave Chippendale, Damian Henry, Jason Lowe, Paul Coffee, Craig Reid, Matt Whitaker, Matt Seldon, Michael Clear, Ross Rheuben, Tony Barnes, Stephen Henry
Ian Thomson (Roseville - guest)

Apologies Jon Osborne, Phil Carney

Minutes of Previous AGM Distributed & confirmed (27 August 2003)

Matters arising from Minutes Nil

Presidents Report, Annual Report, Financial Report
The report is written in the Annual Report which was circulated at the meeting. The report was accepted and approved by the meeting.

Presentation of trophies 
Trophies were presented to winning teams, and to bowler/keeper/batsman in each grade. Refer to minutes of previous exec council meeting for names.

Election of Office Bearers for 2003/2004 
All positions were declared vacant, and Terry O'Donnell took role as acting chair of the meeting. After the election of Tim Wilkinson as President he took the chair.
The following were elected:
President - Tim Wilkinson (Wanderers Hackers)
Patron - The Mayors of Willoughby and Kuringai Councils
Vice-President - to be elected at exec council meeting after AGM
Hon Secretary - Terry ODonnell (West Pymble)
Hon Asst Secretary - Vacant - (Tim Wilkinson would continue the Hon Secretary duties if required)
Hon Treasurer - Ross Rheuben (Maccabi)
Records Officer - Stephen Clarke (West Pymble)
Delegate to NSWDCA - Ross Rheuben (Maccabi)
Hon Auditor - Ken Crocker
Additional Exec Council Members - Stephen Henry (Winnie Bs), Jason Lowe (Philbys), Tony Barnes (Macquarie Uni), Matt Seldon (Pigs).  There were 4 additional vacancies (usual 8 extra members), but there was an impending vote to reduce the Exec Council to 4 extra members.

Amendments to Constitution/Rules
Tim Wilkinson/TOD had put forward several rule & constitution changes which had been circulated.
· Change the constitution allow for the change of name, change to an incorporated body (Dept of Fair Trading requirements), and to reduce the quorum for meetings (to reflect smaller number of affiliated clubs)
· Change rules to a different format, slightly rewritten.  The only substantial rule change was related to declarations in 1 day matches.

The changes were approved by the AGM but the rule changes will need to be ratified at the next delegates meeting.

The new Cricket North Shore logo was approved.

Honoraria for Executives
Secretary & President: $500, Assistant Secretary & Treasurer: $300

Dates for 2003/2004 Season
The season would commence on Sat 11 Oct, with finals occurring on the last weekend on March 2003.  The later date was for teams having difficulties with numbers at the beginning of the season.  Since grounds were hired from end of Sept, teams could ask the secretary for a ground for trial matches.

Separate One Day Comp
There was general agreement to the proposal to keep a separate table for one day games.  All one & two day games would contribute the usual premiership with the regular points.  One day games only would go the one-day table, with a points system equivalent to domestic/international one-dayers - 4 points for win, with bonus points.  There was discussion whether this should be first past the post, or playoff 1 v 2, on the last scheduled one day round of the season.  This would be finalised later.

Insurance
TW mentioned the possibility of insurance for the entire association and planned Cricket Australia insurance program for all players.  He would circulate more information when available.  There was some discussion on how this might affect (bigger) clubs who took out their own insurance.

Future of the Association
TW spoke about the future of the Association.  WP and Wanderers were planning to enter their B Grade teams in NCSA, due to the small number of B Grade teams.  This left us in the difficult situation with potentially only one grade of 8 - 10 teams.  The meeting agreed that TW should discuss the following two options with NSCA; either standing alone as one grade, or merging with NSCA (there would need to be some guarantee concerning a 'C Grade North" comp with assurances re fees and grounds).  TW would report back ASAP.

Other Business
* Coming meetings - to be advised
*  TW invited all to drinks at the bar.

Meeting was closed at 9.15 pm.




Signed and dated as true record of meeting.

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