Minutes BFACT Council Meeting
at CBC Friday 15 April 2011 commencing at 5.35pm
1. Present
Roy Nixon (President), Emlyn Williams (Treasurer), Peter Kahler (Tournament Secretary), Rebecca Plush (Vice President), Gordon Henderson (BFACT), Bruce Crossman (South Canberra), John Yoon (Youth).
2. Apologies:
Val Brockwell (Secretary) Ian Dalziell (Capital), Dora Theunissen (Monaro)
3. Confirmation of the Previous Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the meeting held on 19 February 2011 were confirmed.
4. Business Arising from previous minutes
None raised that were not covered by the agenda.
5. President
No specific report
6.Treasurer
Noted that things were proceeding normally. SCBC noted that they would expect to receive an account for $280 for the State Open Teams Selection event they ran recently. Set entry fee for Selection Finals at $80 per player except Youth.
7. Tournament Secretary
Reported back on recent BFACT events including the Last Train and the Swiss Pairs. Noted that there had been a problem with the posting of the State Open Pairs Selection Event despite his efforts to copy in both the Director and the CBC office.
8. ANC 2011
The Secretary had circulated the 2011 Entry form and entry fees. Rebecca Plush again offered to handle the ANC entry and will liaise with the Treasurer re-cheques to pay the Victorian Bridge Association. Teams will need to be ratified and subsidy level set at next meeting.
9. CBC Representative
No report.
10. Retrieval of Minutes
The Secretary reported that she had received minutes for the October council meeting and the BFACT AGM from the former Secretary.
11. BFACT Marketing Report
The President noted that he and the Secretary had written the 2011 report on how we had spent the 2010 grant - thanks to those clubs that provided information on their use of the money provided. The ABF had thanked us for our report. It is expected that the ABF will continue the grants at existing levels in 2011. The ABF has also recently appointed a National Marketing Coordinator who we can expect to contact us in due course.
12. CBC Request for Marketing Funds for 2010
The CBC representative submitted a request for $2,000 from the residual of the 2010 Marketing Grants towards a dealing machine. The CBC has said it would make the machine available to other clubs and the Youth if required. A motion was proposed by the Treasurer, seconded by the President that BFACT approve the Treasurer paying $2,000 to the CBC for this purpose. Motion carried.
13. BFACT Gold Point Event
There was a general discussion about the background to the ABF's note to us that we consider a possible Floriade timeslot for a gold point event on the 2012 calendar. It was noted that the ABF runs the Summer Festival in January in Canberra (at considerable profit) and it was felt that holding another event later in the year would present problems especially as it would be close to existing Gold Point events (Australian Swiss Pairs and Spring Nationals). It would take a lot of effort to get it going. In the meantime BFACT will lose the $2,000 "annual compensation" negotiated by the President a couple of years ago. President to inform ABF of our views.
14. Youth Coordinator Email
There was some discussion of the email from John Yoon about Ginnan-Williams being allowed to trial for this year's ACT Youth Team. Council agreed with view of YC that they would be considered eligible and should be allowed to compete. Foreign students were also considered eligible while they study in Canberra.
15. Other business
Gordon Henderson submitted an email to Council to go to affiliated clubs re the running of the GNP in 2011 - this will be attached to the minutes.
Next meeting: Friday 27 May at 5.30pm at CBC.