Present: : Adrian Darnell, Ann Squires, Susan Penswick, Den Kerry, Jill Hancock, Roger Hancock, David Thompson, Nigel Martin, David Emerson and Peter Sykes
Apologies: John Portwood
Minutes of 7th November 2017 : Accepted
Matters Arising:
To Report: a) Duplimated boards have now been introduced for the afternoon session
b) The Charity day ran successfully and raised £513 for Tin Arts (including £213 from the raffle for which the Secretary bought a bottle of whisky as 1st prize (£26)). This has now been presented to Tinarts and pictures of the presentation are on the website
c) "Information for players" is now on the website under "Guidelines for Aspects of Bridge" and members' attention should be drawn to this.
d) The Secretary has bought a buzzer for timing the play of hands
e) Improvement of the website is ongoing. A system for archiving items is needed
FMYCC Christmas Fayre 9th December: Agreed that the tickets should be 50p. each. The stall would be run by David Emerson and Ann Squires (and Den Kerry offered to help)
Christmas Parties on 12th December: Arrangments:
The Secretary would arrange for the food (and it was agreed that catering for 14 tables in the afternoon and 9 in the evening seemed reasonable)
The Chair would be responsible for getting the prizes (winners, runners-up, spot and quiz) and the drink
Renee McMahon would supply short quizzes for both afternoon and evening
For the afternoon it was agreed that it would be a none EBU event with a simple Mitchel movement and aggregate scoring producing NS and EW winners
For the evening the movement would depend on the number of tables
More savoury compared with sweet items was requested for the afternoon and hand wipes should be provided
The Treasurer suggested that an overall spend of c£700 (compared with last year's c£600) was reasonable
Monday night Christmas Party: Jill Hancock reported that the Monday night group had organised their own party for 18th December and the committee agreed that the club would provide money for drink and prizes
Locking and clearing up on Tuesday evenings: There was some feeling that this responsibilty was not being fairly distributed currently. It was agreed that the Chair should produce a rota for committee members who regularly played in the evening. 2 members (not partners or spouses) should be allocated to an evening and agree between them who was responsible for that night. Whichever was the keyholder would ensure that the key was available to his/her partner.
To improve the pattern of clearing
a) the director should ask at the beginning of the final round that players would quietly clear their table including bringing the boards in the right order and orientation to the case
b) the hand sheets should be put at the top of the room near the case for boards
c) the boxes in the cupboard should be more clearly labelled (Nigel Martin to supply sticky labels)
Information for Interclub team members: It was felt that there needed to be more information available for those who had volunteered to play about the composition of the three teams. It was agreed that the membership of all three teams should be published on the website as soon as possible with thanks to all who had volunteered. However it was recognised that it was often not possible to get the teams agreed as far ahead as one might like and last minute changes could often not be avoided
Sykes Cup : the missing Sykes Cup had now been found and it was agreed that it should continue to be awarded to the winning pair of a designated evening session and presented at the following AGM. The Secretary would check whether is was possible to repair the slight damage to the cup.
The Replacement Sykes cups : It was agreed that the club would introduce a new event to next year's calendar which would be a swiss pairs evening session for which these cups would be awarded. The Secretary would arrange
to get the current engraving changed
Donated Cup : George Cansino who is a regular afternoon player has kindly donated a bridge trophy won by his brother Jonathon Cansino at Deauville in the 1960s. The committee agreed that, if it met with George Cansino's approval, the 1st Tuesday afternoon session played in each month should be for the Cansino cup and the winning pair would be the pair with the highest average out of the best 8 played. If accepted this competition would start in January 2018 and the cup would be presented at the following Christmas party
Afternoon Misscoring : The Chair has produced a form to be filled in if an incorrect score has been entered or a board has been misorientated. The scorer can then deal with the problem at the end of the session.
Arrow-switching : The committee felt that there was no reason to change the current system
Report from the NEBA Council meeting: The Chair and Secretary had attended the meeting. It was reported that the Interclub bottom groups would be returning from North/South division to groups E and F. Further details would be available from the Council minutes.
The suggestion from Bev Godfrey at the meeting that beginners could be encouraged to join the main competitive sessions of clubs (a problem which many clubs in the area seemed to be experiencing) by getting experience competing against beginners from other clubs was approved by the committee. It was reported that the current Monday group of beginners had already organised something of this nature for themselves with Seaham. The club would contact Bev Godfrey to see what could be arranged.
Tables: It was agreed that the Chair would buy 10 new tables and we would get rid of those that are now unstable
Next Meeting: Tuesday 9th January (if needed)
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