Persons Present
Chris Bromley FSMAE Area Chairman
Roy Allam Area V/Chairman / Ach Sch Co-Ord / FCMFA.
Steve Ogden Area Secretary / PMAG
Derek Gilbert Area Treasurer / Sale MAC
.Mike Colling FSMAE / Area Delegate / Wigan MFC
Sue Reeves Area Education Co-Ord / PMAG
David Lloyd Jones Area PRO / CCMAA
Alan Cantwell Oldham DMAC
Gerry Ferer Timperley MF
Max Lloyd Lleyn MAC
Jim Radcliffe Timperley & DMFC
11 Persons Present 10 Eligible to vote. Meeting opened at 8.00pm.
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1) APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
Geoff Pomfret and Tom Anyon could not be present.
2) CORRESPONDENCE
Steve Ogden (Area Sec) has received a request from a NW Area Club (Longsdon
Flyers) to be reallocated to the Midlands Area. Roy Allam (Area Ach Sch Co-Ord)
asked that discussion on this matter be deferred until his report.
3) MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING
16/09/03
There were some minor corrections noted
These were proposed as a true record by Timperley MF, seconded by CCMAA
Passed unanimously.
4) MATTERS ARISNG
Mike Colling (Area Delegate) forgot to inform the meeting that he could not
attend Area's Council. DLJ stood in for him.
Chris Bromley (Area Chairman) stated that as expected the proposed increase in subs were not approved. There followed a discussion on the way that discussions take place at the AGM. Chris Bromley concluded that better preparation for the AGM helped things to run more smoothly. There followed a discussion on who was a paid employee of the society and who was working as a volunteer.
5) OFFICERS REPORTS
Chris Bromley continued by apologising to anyone that has been expecting him
to reply to a telephone message. His answerphone had gone down resulting in
the loss of several messages that had not as yet been dealt with.
Roy Allam (Area Ach Sch Co-Ord) stated that there is still the re-occurring
problem of other Area's ACE's taking tests in the NW Area. He thought that part
of the problem is that other Area's don't supply their ACE's with clearly defined
boundaries within which they can operate. Chris Bromley said that he could produce
a map of each Area's boundaries and distribute them to all the Area's. This
should help a little as long as ACE's adhere to them and didn't cross into other
Area's. Roy continued by asking for the Area's feelings about the Longsdon Flyers
request to change Area's. The meeting concluded that we should not sanction
this change but that we could allow another Area's ACE who belonged to that
club to operate as an ACE ONLY WITHIN LONGSDON FLYERS until the club had enough
club examiners. Roy said that he would write to the club to inform them of our
decision.
ACTION AREA ACH SCH CO-ORD
Derek Gilbert (Area Treasurer) stated that we had a healthy balance, income from saleable goods would not appear until the next annual report. He added that the AGM buffet would cost about £30.
6) COUNCIL MINUTES & AGENDA
Tech Council Agenda 25/10/03
The meeting felt that there was nothing it wished to discuss.
Full Council 20/09/03
Chris Bromley reported on a new, World record having been achieved by Ken Morrisey.
The meeting felt that this was a great achievement and congratulated Ken for
his efforts. Chris also reported that the "Showtime " event had made
around £4,000 profit for the society.
David Lloyd Jones (Area PRO) said that he found the idea of a County based
strategy for acquiring funding very interesting. He asked if a notice could
be placed within the next Area Mins asking clubs to report if they had achieved
any success in this area.
ACTION AREA SEC
Gerry Ferer asked whether any FF rule changes were on the agenda. Chris Bromley responded by saying that only FAI rule changes went through Council.
7) BMAC
Sue Reeves (Area Ed Co-Ord) asked for volunteers for the event at Cosford on
the 15th November. There was no response. Sue added that next year the event
would definitely be held at the NEC in July.
Chris Bromley added that web based side of the event was disappointing and was serving only to put teams off. The site incompatibility with some browsers was also annoying.
8) NW AREA INDOOR R/C FLY - IN
DLJ reported that the event was quite successful with 35 transmitters being
handed in. Financially £120 was collected and the cost to the Area would
be £90. The meeting decided that this matter should be agendered for further
discussions after the AGM.
ACTION AREA SEC
9) REQUEST FOR CHANGE OF AREA FROM LONGSDON FLYERS
This item was dealt with earlier.
10) PNW EDITOR
The meeting was asked if anyone would like to take on the position. As there
was no response the item was to defer this matter to the next meeting.
11) AOB
CCMAA asked on behalf of John O'Donnell what was the situation over Barkston
at the moment. Chris Bromley responded by saying that the licences were being
negotiated at the moment.
The meetings ended at 10.40pm
These minutes are provisional until approved at the next meeting.
S.F.Ogden North West Area Secretary