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Minutes of the Central Lancashire District AGM and Branch Meeting
25th April 2016 Leyland Trucks Limited, Croston Road, Leyland, Lancashire PR26 6LZ
Committee Members Present: Jeff Lambert, Francis Woodward, Bill Mercer and Stephen Barnes
IOSH Members Present: Michael Shaw, Stephen Clark, Neville Whitham, Richard Parker, Paul Fleck, Geoff Jeavons, John Lowis, Howard Prosser, Elaine Knox, Marian Crossley, Sean Lowry, John Westmoreland, David Holliday, Alan Perry, James Paul, Paul Aston, , Laura Smith, Terry McElhone
Non Members Present: Cefyn Grafton and Lionel Westall
Apologies: Carmel Preston

AGM Meeting 2016

1.  Chairman’s Remarks

·  Welcome to all those in attendance.

·  A brief review of previous meetings

·  An invitation for volunteers for 15-20 minute presentations “A day in the Life”

·  Apologies

2.  Apologies

·  Carmel Preston

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3.  Minutes of the AGM held on 27th April 2015

·  Minutes proposed by Francis Woodward

·  Seconded by Bill Mercer

Accepted as a true representation.

4.  Treasurers Report

·  A balance sheet extracted from the branch accounts had been prepared for the AGM and displayed on the screen

·  This showed two years figures for income and expenditure

·  Encouraged to plan projects or seminars that require no income as monies are available to fund

·  Monies are available to increase hospitality for the District meetings if the members require

Signed on 31/3/16 by M.Nixon (22122)

5.  Chairmans Report

·  Look at the last minutes nothing changed too much. Carmel has resigned as she has become President of the Soroptimists.

·  IOSH Tripartite event at Widnes. 8th June ‘It’s happened, what do we do NOW?’

·  https://www.iosh.co.uk/IOSH/Home/Events/Event%20details.aspx?Name=2016

6.  Election Of Officers

·  One new Member nominated themselves to join the committee.

·  Jeff stated the term of Office regulations.

·  Election of Officers

·  Nomination forms had been completed and seconded by electronic means

·  Following a unanimous show of hands for nominated personnel the following were elected.

o  Chair Jeff Lambert

o  Vice Chair Francis Woodward

o  Committee Member Stephen Barnes

o  Committee Member Mike Shaw

o  Committee Member Bill Mercer

7.  AOB

·  None

AGM closed at 19:30