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Committee Meeting 4, 2006

By Catherine Jones



Unconfirmed minutes of meeting 04/06 of the Monash Gryphons Cricket Club, held at 6.30pm on Wednesday 23rd August in the MONSU meeting room.

Meeting Opened: 6.34

1. Attendance & Apologies
Present:
David Harrison (Chair)
Catherine Jones (Minutes)
Katherine Broome
Piyush Chhajed
Ben Gordon
Megan Robinson
Stephen Pearson
Matt Varcoe

In Attendance:
Caroline Cooksley (Monash Sport)


2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

It was moved:
‘That the committee accepts the minutes of meeting 03/06 as a true and accurate record, with amendments’
Moved: Megan Robinson Seconded: David Harrison
Carried Unanimously

3. Treasurer’s Report
3.1 Membership
Stephen notes that the City of Melbourne has increased the ground rental amount by 10%, which means that the MCA has no other choice but to increase the fees for clubs. The amount that we will be paying to the MCA will be around $2300.

Cat notes that she and Piyush have come up with the idea of giving playing shirts with memberships instead of practice balls. The reasoning is that everyone complains about the quality of the practice balls, and we could increase the amount of balls used at training by the captains giving the balls back to Ox at the end of each round. Shirts also don’t cost that much to make, and it will be as simple as raising the already agreed on membership fees by $10. It also means that every player will have a Gryphons playing shirt.

Cat to create a membership form for season 06/07

3.2 Website & Logo
Piyush would like Steve to add the Timbercorp logo to the Gryphons website, and include a new ‘Sponsors” page.

4. Correspondence In
4.1 Bills from Council
There is bill from the council for electricity. Concerns were raised about the date of the bill, and why we were paying it. After consulting the paperwork, it was discovered that the period covered by the bill was Feb till May, so it was ours and not the football club.

It was moved:
‘That the committee authorise *** for the payment of the council electricity bill”
Moved: Catherine Jones Seconded: Megan Robinson
Carried Unanimously

Piyush notes that we also have to pay *** to the Melbourne Cricket Centre for pre season training.

It was moved from the Chair:
“That the committee authorise *** for the payment of the Melbourne Cricket Centre net hire”
Carried Unanimously

5. Practice Matches
David notes that there has been correspondence between himself and Latrobe Uni Cricket Club about having a practice match against them.

Cat notes that there has not been a good response from the girls.

David asks what the committee wants to do about the men’s teams, considering we will be having an intra-club match. He asks Steve when the ECR grounds are available. Steve notes that the main oval will be available the week before the season starts, and the little oval will not be available until the first weekend of the season.

David asks what the committee thinks of having two weekends as practice matches. Megan notes that she will not be able to take both weekends off to do the kiosk.

David asks whether we could use Duncan McKinnon oval, and If so we will have to book soon.

Megan asks whether it is worth having two games: will we get the numbers.

Matt suggests that we stick with the one intra-club match and train on the Sunday mornings.

Steve asks whether we have contacted Gunbower. Matt asks about Burnley.
David responds that they have not been contacted.

It was decided that there was to be only one intra-club match, to be held on the 1st of October. David to talk with Latrobe university about one men’s practice match.

Megan and Cat to organise publicity. RSVPs for players interested to go to David.

6. Coaching
David tells the committee that he has been contacted by John King who is interested in coaching the men’s teams this season. He is currently playing for Emmanuel.

Caroline notes that if we are looking for someone else, David Nankervis is now back from overseas. Steve notes that he might already have prior commitments to Frankston

David notes that he thinks that John is a “genuine” cricketer, and a good communicator. Apparently he has been offered a position at a higher level, but wants to coach us. His only requirements for payment are that his subs are paid, along with that of two friends he will be bringing to the club, and a tab for the season on the bar.

David wants him to coach and to play, and notes that his friends will bring added strength to whatever side they play in.

Matt and Ben both note that he has the qualifications to do it.

Piyush has concerns over paying the other two players subs. Steve notes that if they are not financial members then they might not be covered by insurance.

Piyush also notes that he does not want John to use his tab to shout others drinks.

Matt asks the committee what the difference is between us paying their subs and those that are life members.

Steve notes that we have to be seen to actively collect subs.

David notes that to him this is a bargain, and that John has also shown interest in captaining the 2nds.

Piyush notes that he has to play where he is selected.

Caroline notes that we need to draw up a contract for him. She has a template that we can use.

Megan is concerned about Piyush not agreeing, and that the decision should be a consensus amongst all of us.

Dave suggests that we ask him to come to a meeting, and Piyush suggests that this would be a good time to get him to bring in documents.

Matt suggests that David and Piyush should be the ones that meet with him, as it doesn’t need to be the whole committee.

Megan suggests that someone from the 1st XI should also be there. She also asks Caroline what this kind of contract would mean for the grants form MONSU. Caroline notes that as we have already received *** for this year for coaches, because of how our seasons run, we can only apply for another *** . If we pay for John’s subs, this is a club expense, and not directly linked to paying him for coaching.

Cat notes that we could still apply for the grant for Tim.

It was suggested that the contract for John be only for a year.

David is to draft a contract. Caroline will send him a template.

7. Captains
Cat has received only two applications for captains: Steve for the 4th XI and Vittesh for the 2nd XI.
Steve notes that he is now on the Executive of the MCA committee, which means that he has to play at least 4 games in the MCA league. He asks whether he can change his application to captaining the 3rd XI. The committee agree that this can be done.

Discussion arises as to who can captain the 1st XI and the 4th XI. Steve and Cat both suggest Nathan Goode for the 4th XI, and Cat notes that she has had a few of the 1st XI players nominating Ben Gordon for the 1st XI captaincy.

Steve will speak to Nathan and ask him if he is interested.

David asks Ben whether he would like to be 1st XI Captain. Ben notes that he will not be able to play one match out of the season. The committee note this and encourage him to take on the role.

Cat notes that Linda Morris has agreed to captain the women’s 1st XI.

Steve asks whether we can put John in as a captain. Both David and Piyush note that he is not captains material, and Steve adds that it is a huge job being both captain and coach. It is best that the tasks are separate.

It was moved:
“That the committee endorse and appoint the following players to their respective captaincy positions: Ben Gordon (1st XI), Vittesh Lilani (2nd XI), Stephen Pearson (3rd XI) and Linda Morris (Women’s 1st XI) “
Moved: Piyush Chhajed Seconded: Catherine Jones
Carried Unanimously
8. Equipment Purchases
Piyush notes that he has ordered the net. It should arrive soon.

8.1 Ball Purchases
Ben reports that we have 11 mens and 11 girls balls left from last season. He has been looking into prices for match balls.

Steve notes that it is easiest to purchase them from Greg Chappell. The MCA will provide the first two matches worth of balls, and any team that has an exec member on it will be trialling the orange balls.

Piyush asks why this is happening. Steve notes that it is because of daylight savings.

We will need to purchase balls for the games up to Christmas.

The MCA are the Regulation balls, stamped MCA on them.
The SDCCL are the Red King balls, stamped SDCCL on them.

Piyush asks where the stamps can be done. Steve replies that Kookaburra get them done, with kickbacks for the associations for the stamping.

Piyush asks about training balls. Ben suggests that we get at least a dozen. Steve notes that we should be getting the captains to return the match balls to use at practice.

8.2 Merchandise
Cat notes that the responses from the survey indicated that the players are interested in having merchandise, especially stubby holders and training uniforms.

Caroline asks whether the Monash Sport logo could go on the training shirts. The committee did not have a problem with this.

It was moved:
“That the club organise stubby holders for the 2006/07 season”
Moved: Megan Robinson Seconded: Cat Jones
Carried Unanimously

Cat notes that she has found companies that have “Breezer” shaped holders which could also be good to get. She will not be putting a year on them so they have a better longevity.

8.3 Liquor Licence
Steve reports that Belinda is not well and will need to handball the liquor licensing work to someone else. David notes that he can take on the role.

Steve suggests that as the football club also uses the kiosk, we should think of having a joint license with them.

Caroline asks where this is done through, is it the council.
Steve responds that it is consumer affairs.

9. Delegates reports
9.1 VWCA
Katherine notes that the last council was mainly discussing the annual report. They had a representative there that strongly suggested all women’s clubs having juniors.

Steve responds that the university strongly discourage it as we are meant to cater for university students, and there will be problems with insurance.

Cat notes that the women’s team has been placed in the new District Thirds competition.


9.2 MCA
Matt reports that the MCA election happened, and that there are minor changes in the people that are running the competition. There have also been a few rule changes.

Matt also notes that the money to the MCA has been paid.

Steve reports that there will be no ‘E’ grade this year. Those that want to play one day competitions will do so in a lower two day grade. The representative matches have also been canned.

Discussion took place over the rule changes in the MCA.

9.3 SDCCL
There has been no SDCCL meeting.

10. Other Business
Megan notes that the hall has been booked (much to the amusement of the council) for the Trivia night on the 10th of March and the Presentation night on the 5th of May.

Meeting closed 7.59