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Minutes of the Salisbury Camera Club Committee Meeting held on
Wednesday 29th April 2009 at 108 Bouverie Avenue South, Salisbury.
Present: -
(Chairman) Tony Oliver, (Vice Chairman) Peter Woodhouse (Secretary) Richard Temlett, (Treasurer) Peter Read, Rose Snape and Phil Clegg,
1. Apologies: -
Roger Ellway, Tim Kidner and Ivor Smith
2. Minutes of last meeting:-
The minutes of the Committee meeting held on 28th January 2009, were circulated. The minutes were approved by the meeting and signed by the Chairman.
Tony Oliver reported that Trinity Photography had been in touch with him and asked if the club would like to have another evening at their studio. Tony Oliver said that he had not got any further with the workshops for beginners but would bring it up at the AGM.
4. Treasurer's Report: -
Peter Read reported that there is £ 2984.04 in the savers account £254.41in the current account and £1.80 in Cash. Subscriptions for 2009/2010 were discussed and it was decided that as we had nearly £3000 in the savers account the subscriptions should remain unchanged. The purchase of a Digital Projector to meet the requirements of the SPF League was discussed leaflets for 4 possible projectors were provided by Richard Temlett a Panasonic PT-AE3000E at £2199.95, although this has all the bells and whistles it was decided that the cost was more than we wanted to pay. This left 3 the Mitsubishi HCSS00 at£1270.55 the Epson EH-TW2800 at £1276 and the Sanyo PLV-Z700 at £1112.99. Richard had not seen any of these working but the technical details would appear to meet the requirement. A computer would also be required, it was agreed that Richard Temlett would look into this with a view of the club purchasing both a projector and computer by the start of the club year in September. A ceiling of £2000 was put on the purchase of both items.
5. Secretary's Report: -
Richard has received the minutes of the last SPF Club Reps Meeting No. 177 held on 12th February 2009 and the SPF Quarterly Meet 178 Agenda 2009 AGM. These have been forwarded to Peter Read and Tony Oliver as Richard will not be able to attend. All other communications to the club had been received by email. These had either been replied to, or forwarded to the Chairman and/or Peter Read to post on the SCC web site News
6. AGM Post Nominations:-
Tony Oliver produced the nomination form that had been on the notice board for the last 3 weeks, this only had 4 names on it. After some discussion Peter Woodhouse agreed to be nominated for the Chairman’s post if there were two Vice Chairman posts, Tony Oliver and Phil Clegg agreed to be nominated. Peter Read agreed to carry on doing the Treasurer’s job if no one else was prepared to do it. Richard Temlett agreed to do the Secretary’s job if no one else was is nominated. The Assistant Treasurer’s job has no nomination so it was decided to ask Roger Ellway if he would continue. There 4 nominations for the committee posts Amanda Herridge, Dawn Walters, Tim Kidner and Rose Snape. It was decided that Tony Oliver would ask members at the next meeting if there are any members to fill the last two vacancies. As the SPF require named people to for SPF competition Secretary and Digital Projection Coordinator it was agreed that these names would be selected from the committee, Tony Oliver volunteered to be the clubs SPF competition Secretary and Richard Temlett agreed to be the Digital Projection Coordinator. An amended nomination form with all the members so far nominated would be ready for notice board by the next meeting.
7. Bi-monthly Competitions:-
All the members with prints eligible for the Toomey Trophy and the Chaplin Bowl have been informed to bring them in on the 11th May 2009.
8. Spare Trophies:-
After some discussion it was decided to change the use of the JOHN BURKE TROPHY (Silver Cup) would now be awarded to the member scoring the highest aggregate score for the 5 Bi-monthly competitions in the Gold section. The Miss SLOANE STANLEY CUP (Silver Cup) would be awarded to the member scoring the highest aggregate score for the 5 Bi-monthly competitions in the Silver section. The CLUB TROPHY (Plaque) would be awarded to the member submitting the best Digital Image Presentation with Music, this item is in the programme on the 23rd November 2009. The GEORGE SANGER TROPHY (Shield) would be the same as last year, for the Open Competition for Digital Images in the programme on the 4th January 2010. The competition rules will be amended to reflect these changes.
The Programme for 2009/2010 is now complete and has been printed for distribution at the AGM.
There was no other business.
11. Meeting Closed at 9.30 p.m.
Signed ...................... Hon. Chairman Signed ..................... Hon. Secretary