Minutes of General Meeting held on 31st March 2008

 

1.0 Chairman’s Opening Address.

 

Welcome to the March Meeting.

 

Thanks to Lee Petrucci from the Cambridgeshire Fitness Centre for his presentation.

 

Notable milestones:

 

Alan Poulain – 10 years as Hunts RA Secretary

Paul Barnes – his 200th game

George Raisbeck – retiring at 78 years old

Congratulations to all those who have been given out of County Cup games, Will Hardie, Phil Crossland and Neil Smith.

 

2.0 Apologies.

 

List to be added to book.

 

3.0 Minutes of February meeting.

 

Proposed: Dick Stephens

Seconded: Nick Evans

 

4.0 Matters Arising.

 

There were no matters arising.

                                                                                                                

5.0 Secretary Report.

 

Reminder that the renewal of RA membership is now due.

National RA raffle tickets have been sent out, please try to sell as many as possible as 50% of sales comes back to our RA funds. Additional books are available from Alan.

Dinner Dance on the 19th April.

 

6.0 Treasurer Report.

 

No report available for meeting.

 

7.0 Hunts FA Report.

 

Mark Frost not present at meeting due to County Business but sent apologies, and Mike Hair is unwell.

 

Russell Matthews gave report as follows:

 

County Cup finals are all in process.

 

Summary on the new “Respect” campaign being trialled across the country this may go national next season.

 

Any referee wishing to be considered for promotion should be contacting the FA now and be sure to advise Laurie Cook on appointments.

 

2007-08 Promotions.

 

Congratulations to the following for gaining promotion:

 

Martyn Allen               -                       Level 6

Neil Smith                  -                       Level 5

Paul Banister             -                       Level 5

Colin Ford                  -                       Level 5

Paul Osbourne          -                       Level 5

Russell Palmer          -                       Level 5

 

Good luck to those new Level 5’s above who are up for consideration to Level 4 promotion and also

 

Ian Wilson

Paul Dodds

 

8.0 AOB

 

Alison McCaul gave an overview on the new Hunts FA Referee Forum and was congratulated for her work.

Nic Evans advised that the last Bonus Ball winner was Chris Dance.

 

 Date of next meeting: 28th April 2008. Paul Barnes will be organising a quiz for this evening.