Minutes of committee - November 6, 2007

In the spirit of New Labour, but without the war, the spin and the corruption, we will be publishing committee meeting minutes from now on. Here are the minutes of the committee meeting of the OCHC held on November 6, 2007.

1. Sponsorship. Decision was made to run a raffle for the sponsorship with tickets to be sold at £250.00 each. Rather than rush it through this eason we would look to sell tickets between now and the end of the season and draw the winning ticket at the end of season dinner dance. This would give plenty of time to ensure we made a real success of this initiative. All club members to try and sell tickets.
2. Life members. A new category of members is to be introduced. A select bunch will be invited to become life members. A list will be drawn up and published accordingly.
3. Social committee. A modest profit was made from the fireworks although turn out from some sides was poor. Sarah T was congratulated for her efforts and should now come on to the committee in a formal capacity. For future events each team’s social committee member must push the sale of tickets and be pushy in this regard. The next event is the 8th December at the club with ticket prices to be set at £5.00. Must start selling these straight away.
4. Mixed league. Although the meeting did not know the number of teams whohave committed themselves to the concept of a league – form recollection it was 4 – and so unless more can commit to the league it would be best to shelve the ide for this season but ensure we have a league in place for 2008/9.
5. Subs. A list of payees and non payees will be circulated by MW and captains will be asked to press those hwo have not paid. After a further 2 weeks the non payers wil be listed on the web site.
6. Teas. Away teams will be given teas. 8 teas will be provided as a matter of course with the club paying for any extras that are ordered by the away side up to a maximum of 12. MW to liaise with Alison Breton.
7. Availablity. The problem has been huge. DT will circulate a spreadsheet used by Steve Harmer so all captains can use this process. Team captains must be encouraged to ensure they know their likely squad availability by Monday lunchtimes to avoid 11th hour problems. Players who say they are unavailable must be asked if they are able to play elsewhere in the club as often their not being available is only due to a timing issue of their particular game.
8. Umpires. The 1st XI in particular and other club members must be more willing to umpire other teams. An initiative used by the girls ought to be introduced club wide of encouraging the home teams to produce 2 umpires so that when playing away we do not need to provide any umpires and vice versa.
9. Dug outs. These are to be situated on the stand side of the pitch. MW to liase with Ed Breton. Any German speakers please come forward so we can interpret the cnstruction notes for the second dug out and goals..
10. Easter tour. A volunteer or volunteers are needed to organise this if we wish to enter a tournament with a mixed team being the best idea.
11. Kit. The new kit has arrived. Before distribution captains must have a list of the number of the shirt given to each player. This is imperative to enable a track of the shirts to be kept.
12. Next meeting. 12th December to enable us to assess the event involving the school as we will ned to follow this up properly. 20.00 at TD.