CLEVEDON SAILING CLUB

Extraordinary General Meeting

7th May 

MINUTES

                   PRESENT:  

                   Mark Crosby   (Commodore)

Angela Cook    (Secretary)

Jill Batt             (Treasurer)

Des Challice      (Bar Secretary)

Carol Gell         (Membership Secretary)

Richard Gell       (Vice Commodore Cruisers)

Howard East     (Rear Commodore Social)

Anthony Ruffle   (vice Commodore House)

Brian Batt

APOLOGIES :

Cath East

Michael Batchelor

Robin Goff

Sue Turner

Stuart Edwards

together with another 25 voting members of the club.

The meeting was called to discuss a proposal put to the members of the Club by Ian Hotchkiss and three amendments to that proposal, the subject being increases in Membership Fees for the Club’s coming financial year.

This was not a proposal which had been proposed and seconded or had six members’ names appended to it - it was something that Ian drew the Committee’s attention to as a starting point for discussion.

The amendments were from Richard Hickling, Howard East and the Executive Committee (see attached).

The Executive Committee’s amendment was considered first as it was the result of collective discussion and agreement by the members of the committee.  When this was voted on it was rejected by 17 to 11 votes, with some abstentions.

Everyone agreed that Ian’s proposal identified three areas which many thought to be important to the survival and growth of the club, namely that:

• a sailing levy should be charged to all sailors
• all fees should to be for individuals with no ‘and partner’ rates
• there should be no reductions for those of pensionable age.

However, the fees were deemed to be too low to constitute a viable fee structure.  If this framework were to be adopted at any time in the future it would need to be reworked.  It was felt that this was probably the way to go forward in future discussions.

During discussions it was pointed out by both Andy Willcox and Colin Beech that our membership fees were well below any sailing club in the Bristol area. 

In the meantime, Richard Hickling’s amendment was voted on.  After some discussion and some alteration to figures it succeeded in winning the vote by 15 votes to 11.

There was a degree of disquiet from some who had not voted, presumably in the hope of voting on Ian’s proposal when it came up.  For them, it was unfortunate that Richard’s amendment was voted in, which closed the door to any further discussion.

The meeting ended at 09:40.

CSC Membership Tariff from 1st October 2008 (new members from 1st June).

*      Discounted at 50% for qualifying retired.

**    Discounted at 50% for qualifying retired.

Cadets (non-family members) £25.00.

Students. Full Member discounted at 50%