AGM Notes - 8:00pm Tuesday 15th June 2010

This year's Annual General Meeting saw twenty-six members of our eighty-strong club attending; well in advance of the constitutional quorum of two out of three officials and ten members, but, perhaps a little disappointingly short of a good percentage of the membership.

Conducted in an impressively constrained and ordered manner it nevertheless drew passion from the supporters of the three tabled resolutions.

The notes below are - just that - notes and in no way constitute minutes but may provide an adequate aide-memoire for those present and a guide for the absent.

Reports were presented by the 2009 -10 Chairman Tony Croft, who thanked the many club members both in and outside of the Committee and presented the two coaches, Terry Hellings and David Rigby, with bottles of wine in appreciation of their contribution, the Secretary Roy Stevens, who reported on the good attendance at the year's twelve committee meetings and the Treasurer Nigel Thompson, who outlined the expenditure and indicated a end-of-year balance of over £7,000. He also mentioned the help provided by Peter Cooke in auditing the accounts. Tony Croft also reported on the progress of the Junior Section. All the reports were adopted.

Election - Officers and Committee members were elected as below. Secretary Roy Stevens chose to retire.

Officers: Chairman………….Tony Croft

Hon. Secretary…….Nigel Simpkin

Hon. Treasurer…….Nigel Thompson

Committee: 1. Dawn Lock - Vice Chair and Women’s Relay Captain

2. Laura Ashworth Women’s Road captain

3. Mel Koth - Membership Secretary

4. Julia Rolfe - Women's Cross-Country Captain

5. Dave Dunn - Men’s Road captain and Championship Secretary

6. Sarah Tatton - Publicity and Club Kit

7. Sue Samme - Welfare Officer

Auditor: Peter Cooke

Other Duties: Colin Nelson - Men's Cross-Country Captain
Colin Laidlaw - Press Officer

Resolutions - Three resolutions were tabled, their proposers were allowed the first chance to speak and later to reply, after which comments from the floor were allowed. One of the resolutions succeeded.

Club Bronze Award - Bill Lock proposed:‘A Bronze Certificate may be claimed for having completed a race at any one of the specified distances. A Bronze Medal may be claimed for having completed races at four different specified distances while in the same age category.’ FAILED

Club Championship - Sarah Tatton proposed: ‘I propose that only first claim members of the club shall be eligible for its Club Championship competition.’ FAILED

Windmill Plate - Dawn Lock proposed: 'It is proposed that from 2011 onwards the winner of the Windmill Plate shall be the candidate from a list of nominated candidates, who receives the largest number of votes cast by members of the Club entitled to vote.' SUCCEEDED

Any Other Business - Terry Hellings asked for a list of club record holders to be constructed.