PAYNESVILLEBRIDGE CLUB Inc.

MINUTES

of meeting held on Wednesday 19^thOctober, 2011

PRESENT: HelenTyler, Hank Loreman, Brian Johnson, Ron Wilson, Mary Turnbull, Chris Heesom ,Ruth Spears.

APOLOGIES: John Haylock

MINUTES OFPREVIOUS MEETING: The Minutes of the previous meeting, as circulated, were accepted on a motion by Brian Johnson, seconded Ron Wilson.

BUSINESS ARISING FROM MINUTES:

1.      Christmas Party – due to a double booking  by the Paynesville Bowling Club, this has now been rescheduled to the 21^st December – cost $20 per head. Discussion was held as to whether we can continue fully subsidising this event in 2012 and whether we should move to having a spectacular afternoon tea instead. It was decided to continue with the Christmas lunch but the Club will ,instead of paying the full cost per head, subsidise each financial member $15.00 e.g. if the cost remains at $20 per head next year, each member will pay $5. Chris to arrange for a list so that people can book in.

2.      2012 Programme Book. Chris Heesom and Mary Turnbull will attend the meeting to finalise the Programme Book at Bairnsdale on Thursday 10^th November at 10am. If Sale are unable to continue producing their Programme Book with Traralgon, it was agreed that PaynesvilleBridge Club would have no issues with them joining our group.

3.      Resource Library, outside signage and “the wall”– in John’s absence this was again deferred to the next meeting. Ron has a contact who would be able to construct the trophy case.

4.      Men’s Shed – future usage of the Men’s Shed will be discussed at their next meeting on 10^th November.

TREASURER’SREPORT:

Mary Turnbull presented her report showing a balance inthe bank of $5,143.27, plus $9,838.46 in a Term Deposit. Expenses during themonth have included petty cash, new timer clock, hall hire and ABFmasterpoints. The term deposit will mature before the next meeting and it was agreed to add another $3,000. Mary moved that her report be accepted, seconded Helen Tyler.

GENERAL BUSINESS:

1.      Weekly column in East Gippsland News. The first of the weekly press releasesappeared in the EG News today under the “Paynesville” section. Chris willcontinue these news items on a weekly basis in an attempt to raise the profile of Paynesville Bridge Club.

2.      Supervised/socialBridge. Helen Tyler will be recommencing the supervised  bridge sessions in the Uniting Church at 1p.m. on Monday 24^th October. Helen has sent out emails to previous participants and an announcement was made at bridge today. We will try to have it announced at Bairnsdale on Friday and Saturday.

3.      “Pink”afternoon tea – 26^th October. Chris has arranged for a meat tray from the Gourmet Butchers in Bairnsdale to be used as a raffle prize.  We will have a book stall – gold coin donation. All proceeds from book stall and raffle to go to Breast Care SupportFund of East Gippsland. This fund provides financial assistance with trave lcosts for treatment, vouchers for fruit and vegetables and subsidising the purchase of wigs, etc.

-         Chris to bring raffle books, cocktail frankfurts, jelly cakes, orange juice and bottles of wine for Club Championship Pairs prizes.

-         Mary to organise a fruit platter.

-         Helen to bring sandwiches

-         Ruth to bring 2 casks of wine (red and white),cupcakes, buttered bun, beetroot dip and pick up the cake from Anna Kearon on Wednesday morning.

4.      Sale vPaynesville Interclub Teams – each club to field 6 teams including 3 Open and 3 Restricted (1 all players under 150, 1 all players under 100 and 1 all players under 50 masterpoints as at 1.1.2011). Entry sheet is on the Bairnsdale noticeboard. Match to be played on Sunday November 6, commencing 10am, bring own lunch – table fees $4. Bairnsdale are charging $35 for the use of their room. Chris to direct and score.

5.      GNOT Representative Team. It was agreed to support the local representative team(Joan Courtemanche, Frank Power, Mike Larcombe, George Campbell and LibbyThomson) with a cheque for $100 to help defray some of the costs involved  in travelling and staying in Tweed Heads to contest the Grand Final of this event.

6.      Brian Johnson reported that Lakes Entrance are considering running a Congress in 2012 – possibly in March/April and they have asked whether Paynesville Bridge Club would be interested in assisting as equal partners or alternating on a yearly basis. After some discussion it was felt that the Programme book was already pretty full and that we did not feel that our committee had the time or expertise to assist.

7.      Helen Tyler raised the issue of having an afternoon tea break during the session at Paynesville. It was agreed to trial it, although Chris pointed out that we would have to play less boards in order to finish before 4.30pm. Maximum number of boards with an afternoon tea break would be 28.

8.      Helen Tyler has recently returned from Bribie Island where the local bridge club held an “Open Day”, with morning tea and speakers giving information about the game of bridge. From this Open Day they were able to get 8 people signing up for lessons. Helen suggested we give somethought to having a similar event in March next year, with lessons scheduled to commence the following week. A publicity campaign a couple of weeks before the date may encourage attendance.

9.      Afternoon Tea – Ruth and Mary will take responsibility for providing the afternoon tea at Paynesville on a monthly roster. Chris and Helen to assist when required.

10.  Brian Johnson has taken on the job of making sure that the bridge tables are stacked away neatly in the crate after each session. They were being jammed in roughly with the result that tables could have been damaged. We need to chase up a couple of side tables from Bairnsdale Bridge Club (1 white and 2 yellow), and 2 wooden card tables.

11.  Ron Wilson and Hank Loreman will assist with setting up tables on Wednesdays – the hall is usually open at about 11.30.

Meeting closed 5.25pm