KENT CONTRACT BRIDGE ASSOCIATION
COMMITTEE
Minutes of the meeting held at Shorne Village Hall at 10 a.m. on Sunday 6th September 2009
Present
Stephen Pierce (Chairman)
David Anning
Anita Asparo
Brian Crack
Mike de Winter
Malcolm Lewis (Secretary)
ITEM 1 – APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
These had been received from Keith Ashcroft, John Cullingworth, Geoff Smith, Susanne Walsh and Jeremy Willans.
ITEM 2 –MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING
The minutes of the previous meeting held on 31st May 2009 were approved and signed by the Chairman.
ITEM 3 – MATTERS ARISING
BC stated that lack of manpower at the EBU would mean no changes in the immediate future to the Master Point structure.
ITEM 4 – REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND SUB-COMMITTEE
a. Chairman
1. Val Reeves has agreed to be responsible for the running of the Pearson Cup, but declined to join the Committee.
2. Re-imbursement of expenses for Committee members should added to the agenda for the next meeting.
b. Secretary
1. The county has 46 affiliated clubs of which 7 (Bromley North, KSB, T. Wells, Sittingbourne, Rainham and Otford) are currently unpaid; 1040 members of whom143 are unpaid, 1 U25 Junior, 1 U17 Junior, 253 BFA members.
2. It was noted that one or two partner/teacher clubs could have difficulty fulfilling the EBU requirements for affiliation.
c. The treasurer had nothing to report.
d. Tournament Sub-Committee
1. One-day Green Point events for 2011 were requested to be the same Sundays as 2010.
2. Consideration was given to making the Congress fully Green Pointed, but the date for it could not be changed to a GP weekend and the present One-day GP events would be lost.
e. Competition Secretary (by report)
1. The competition handbook should be out in the next few days. KA promised to check that website and handbook rules and regulations matched. It was agreed that regulations should be reviewed in July ahead of the handbook being compiled.
2. The committee was requested to take a lead in entering teams for the Arnold Cup.
f. County Captain (by report)
1. Metropolitan Cup. Kent is entering a full complement of A, B and 2 C Teams for this at Ardingly on Sunday 13th Sept. Details of teams are on the Kent website. JW always welcomes suggested names for future teams.
2. There will be no Daily Telegraph Cup this year due to lack of interest.
3. Kent has had to decline an invitation to the Champions Cup (run by LMBA) as none of the qualifed teams is able to play on the date allocated.
4. The Kent A Team won the T8 National Final for the Howarth Challenge Cup in July. The committee expressed its warmest congratulations.
5. It is hoped that a new captain and players could be encouraged to come forward to represent Kent in the Home Counties League, but that advertising on the KCBA website had produced no response. (The closing date is 1st October.)
6. The team that successfully defended the Tollemache Cup has been approached
initiate the defence at Hinckley on 28th/29th November.
ITEM 5 – PURCHASE OF BRIDGEMATES
Following a request for the consideration of this at the AGM, it was agreed in principle
that it is a very good idea. Concern was expressed that without the necessary IT
competence, it would lead to many problems. The committee therefore agreed to the
purchase of 20 of the new Mark 2 models along with the training as soon as 2 or 3
volunteers for that training were found.
ITEM 6 – CORRESPONDENCE WITH HAMPTON BRIDGE CLUB
SP explained that 2 lapsed EBU members had arrived to play in the May GP Swiss
Teams at Canterbury. The directors were alerted to this and explained that they could
rejoin then or as soon as possible afterwards. The players declined and left.
Correspondence then followed between the secretary of Hampton Bridge Club and
SP. The committee decided that SP had dealt sufficiently with all the points raised
and requested SP send a letter to this effect.
ITEM 7 – DATES OF FUTURE MEETINGS
These were agreed as Sunday 17th January 2010, 18th April 2010 and 6th June 2010.
There being no other business, the Meeting closed at 11.50 a.m.
J. M. Lewis (Secretary)