Bereavements: B. Banfield (Munmorah), W. McGilligan (Morisset), T. Manning (Gwandalan).

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1 MINUTES of the BOWLS CENTRAL COAST MANAGEMENT MEETING of 20 th March 2014 at Orimbah-Lisarow RSL in the Bell Bird Room at 7.30 pm. Chairman: Max Le Guier Present: 39 delegates (representing 26 clubs and 13 Executive and Permanent Committee Representatives) Apologies: A. Heath Treasurer (The Entrance), D. Cameron (Avoca Beach), R. Richardson (Ettalong Memorial), D. Love (Davistown), A. Pollock (Patron Gosford City), Bereavements: B. Banfield (Munmorah), W. McGilligan (Morisset), T. Manning (Gwandalan). New Delegates: J. Dalglish (Gwandalan). Appointments - Jim Phillips has resigned as Secretary of the Selectors after an argument with the Chairman of selectors.. The work that was allocated to this position will be performed by David Cameron on performance data for selection and Tony Pearce preparing and distributing selection notices. Confirmation of the Minutes of Management Meeting of 16th January 2014: Confirmed Business Arising from the Minutes: 1. March/April Newsletter was issued to Clubs. David Lyons has successfully sold all the advertising. KJD commented that the feedback on the Newsletter has been positive. He asked all Clubs and delegates to assist him with information, eg championship results. Clubs were asked to advise KJD if they require more or less copies. Contributions are very welcome. Cutoff date is the end of the month before the next Management meeting. 2. District Boundaries and the Discussion Paper.. See State Councillor s report. 3. Quadrangular Series was a great success both on the green and administratively. The BCC team was undefeated despite the other Zones being arguably the strongest in NSW. A great first up win. The other Zone Administrators were very complementary of how well the event was hosted by The Entrance and how it was conducted by us.. 4. RNSWBA CEO has been invited to attend the May meeting. The intension is that he will be here to attend this meeting and will stay overnight and the next morning do a presentation on computing issues such as membership records, getting around their website and bowls box. 5. North or South Sections for 2015 Pennants. It was moved that the teams in Grade 5 and below be allocated by the Match Committee to sections of all northern or all southern Clubs. A vote by show of hands was held with 28 for and 9 against with 2 abstentions. 6. Business Planning - Michael Beaumont is coming up on 15 th April to assist with the business planning program. SVP Col Bray will be managing this project. Correspondence: 1. Letter from Peter Freestrone 19 th January was read to the meeting. Peter suggested that an Annual Presentation evening be held at Ettalong Memorial BC to make presentations to Championship winners rather than after the game. Concern was expressed that players avoided going to a presentation to collect their winnings. However there was general agreement that change was needed. Delegates advised that they were unaware that they were invited to the presentation evening. It was decided to hold this matter over to the next Management Meeting to allow delegates to seek instruction from their committees. 2. Appeal by Breakers 11/03/14 against diggers using certain players was read to the meeting. Upon receipt Reg Richardson referred the matter to the State Match Committee. There is very little that can be done until the decision of the State Match Committee is known. C. Bray, A Heath and A Tracy who are members of the Match Committee advised that they were not consulted on this matter. The correspondence was accepted Reports 1 Minutes of the BCC Management Meeting 20 th March 2014

2 1. State Councillor a. On the boundaries, it is in KJD s State Council report and it was raised at the State Council meeting in January. Boundary review closed off at the end of January. The next stage in the process is for the Men s board and the Ladies Association to review all feedback in house, with the aim of preparing a second draught for discussion. About 400 responses have been submitted, a lot relating to the distances to be travelled under the new Zone boundaries for Pennants. b. Membership cards have not been issued as yet. They cost about $30,000 to produce. We are the only Association in Australia to have cards. A report from the Royal yesterday was that the cards are on track for circulation at the end of this month. No member will be disadvantaged in any way because of the absence of a membership card. 2. Publicity a. We have been getting somewhere with the Express Advocate. b. Thanks to the Clubs that have submitted Club histories. c. Now completed the Bowls Central Coast History booklet. Each Club has been given a booklet. If Clubs would like to order more copies they should advise the Secretary by the end of April. Cost will be around $5. The Zone History is also available on the web site. 3. Web Site Manager a. Tournament Software has been improved to cover more competitors and more rounds. 4. Under 18 Manager a. Norma Barry reported that the U18 Championships close Tuesday 25 th March. General Business 1. Creighton s sponsor BCC to the tune of $2,000 per annum. A requirement of their sponsorship is that they give a 30min presentation on prepaid funerals. We will be inviting them to do this at one of our future Management Meetings. 2. Frank Simpson queried if we must send a copy of our minutes to the RNSWBA. 3. Tom Cain Everglades complained that wet matches are played on Sunday when the commitment is for play on a Saturday. He suggested that lay days be allowed for wet matches. If a wet match must be played on a Sunday it should be on a special Lay day when the players have plenty of notice. To be considered by the Match Committee.. Executive to check if the Sunday week for wet match convention 4. List players who change clubs on the Web site. Might be possible but Zone not advised of clearances. 5. Executive Committee asked to consider if we should start these meetings at 7.00 pm. Next meeting at Orimbah-Lisarow 15 th May. Meeting closed at 8.50 pm. Reports for Executive and Management Meetings to be held 18 th and 20 th March President Max Le Guier Saturday 8th February - I attended the finals of the Zone 4's at Ettalong Club in company with many other Zone Execs. All games were good to watch with some fine bowls played by all players. The Event was won by the Terrigal Team of Jeff Watson, Grant Spurway, Darren Morrison and Bruce Jewell. President Reserve 4's was won by Trevor Hilliard, Kevin Ivins, Kevin Dring and skipped by Darren Hooper - a Team from Breakers. Congratulations to all Players. 3rd March Seniors trial at Cessnock against Zones 6 & 2; the first against Zone 6 our team won quite comfortably; the second against Zone 2 was played on the carpet which played different to the grass. Our team came back from 31 shots down to only miss out by 2 shots from another win. Well played by all teams - Thanks for the effort. Most Execs were in attendance on the day. State Councillor - Kevin Dring State Council - The following topics were discussed at the SC meeting of 24 th Jan 2014: - Communications - Presentation by RNSWBA CEO Greg Helm of the various methods of communication in use by the Association and the target audience for each. He indicated his availability to meet with Zone Executives and/or Delegates to address these issues and was put on notice that BCC Zone 15 would be extending an invitation to attend a future Management Meeting 2 Minutes of the BCC Management Meeting 20 th March 2014

3 Membership Cards To be progressively rolled out commencing the end of January based on clubs financial years. The CashBack City sponsorship of cards and Pennants represents a cost saving of $30K to the association Umpire Reaccreditation New officiating structure to begin 1 st Jan 2015 Working Guidelines - Board to prepare written guidelines as to their expectations of the role of State Council and conversely what feedback the Council expects from the Board. Boundary Review - The next stage in the process is for both boards to review all feedback in-house with the aim of preparing a second draft for circulation and review. The biggest theme of feedback appears to be travelling distances. Bowls NSW Volunteer Awards Meeting endorsed continuation of these awards. All Zones asked to start giving consideration to nominations for 2014 Next State Council Meeting - Recommendation from Zone 15 that the next meeting be held in Sydney and not at the Inter-Zone Seniors Championship as it was becoming too costly for Zones. Subsequently agreed by the Board that the next meeting to be 10 th April at Bowlers Club York St Sydney NSW. Publicity Kevin Dring Express Advocate - Met with Steven Maher Sports Editor of the Express Advocate in an endeavor to improve exposure of lawn bowls in the local paper. Some progress! Club Histories - Club Histories have now been posted on the BCC web site by nine (9) clubs i.e Bay Bowlers, Breakers B C Wamberal, Davistown RSL, Gosford City, Halekulani, Ourimbah Lisarow RSL, Umina Beach, Woy Woy, Wyong. BCC Zone 15 History 1945 to A condensed history of the BCC History in booklet form will be circulated to Clubs at the Management Meeting. Bowls NSW Magazine: -Good exposure for Zone 15 in Jan/Feb edition including a feature article on Albert Heath. Newsletter No 3 Feb /March 2014:- To be circulated at Management meeting Clubs NSW Community Awards:- Albert Heath 25 years Continuous Service article has been entered in the Clubs 2014 Community awards by Cheryl Strong the Bowls NSW new Marketing and Communications Manager Secretary - Doug Rose Quadrangular The initial involvement of Bowls Central Coast in this series against ACT, Newcastle and Illawarra was incredibly successful both administratively and on the green. BCC/Zone 15 won the event undefeated and the other Zones were highly complementary of the organisation of the event by BCC and the host club, The Entrance. Particular thanks were extended by the other competitors to myself and Tony Windley. In a unique initiative the ACT ladies played the CCDWBA ladies which was also won by Central Coast. Working with Children Check BCC has registered as an employer for the purposes of these checks. Next year it will be a requirement that all sporting bodies be registered. Administrators, Umpires and alike don't need to register unless they have face to face contact with children unsupervised, but Coaches will need to register. Sponsorship Congratulations to David Lyons for finding sponsors for the Newsletter (Valhalla Village, Broadwater Air and Energy, and Road Runner). Also the inside back page of the pennant book with Harvey World Travel, Lisarow. Creighton s have once again sponsored the Veteran s Day, inside front page of the pennant book and the BCC web site. Website Manager and IT Advisor Geoff Graham Pennants:- Please advise your members that in the event of inclement weather on a Pennants day Clubs that have closed their greens will be listed on the Home Page of the Website as soon as the information is relayed to me from the Match Committee. Web address:- Apparently some members are still having trouble finding us on the Web. at our new address which is Tournaments:- Halekulani, Umina Beach and Terrigal (x 3) presently have Tournaments advertised on the Tournaments page of our website. Please don t forget to send in your Tournament details as soon as possible. Results:- Pennant and Championship results are normally available on our Website by 6.30pm on the day of play. Coaching Academy David Cameron On Monday 17th February Ettalong Bowls Co-ordinator and Coach, John Roberts gave a very interesting and detailed report to coaches at the Academy bi-monthly meeting. John spoke about working with juniors, motivation and keeping them interested in our game, John emphasised the need to ensure that young players have a positive life balance ie. school work, leisure and bowls. 3 Minutes of the BCC Management Meeting 20 th March 2014

4 There was also a interactive discussion on team disciple, team bonding, pennant practice. The next meeting of The Academy will be on Monday 14th April at Diggers. Special guest will be Aron Sherriff topic is Mental Toughness Umpires Report Leo Finn AGM - The Umpires panel had its AGM in February 2014 where Leo Finn was returned as Chairperson, Fred Trounce and Ken Willoughby as vice presidents and Tony Hegyi as Secretary Treasurer. With the committee basically the same all Club and umpires are advised that no changes will be implemented prior to early 2015 and therefore business will continue in this Zone as it has. Course accreditations and re-accreditations - will still be performed by the Zone Umpires Panel as needed but accreditations may only last till 2015 but hopefully longer completing tenure (four years), when every umpire will be required to be re-accreditation under the new proposed system. Match Report Reg. Richardson 2014 Pennants - The Pennant season has commenced unfortunately round 1 being washed out with the exception of the ent who were able to get their matches played. The results are on the Zone web site. The washed out matches are now scheduled to be played Sunday 9 th March with 9.10 am Trial ends for 9.30am start Zone Major 15 Fours Championships - Winners : TERRIGAL s Jeff Watson, Grant Spurway, Darren Morrison and Bruce Jewell. R/Up DIGGERS Stephen Edwards, Brian Pandelis, Mathew Watts and Neil Dell President s Reserve Fours Championships - Winners: BREAKERS Trevor Hilliard, Kevin Ivins, Kevin Dring and Darren Hooper. R/Up: ETTALONG s Graham Beddy, Wal Quirke, Ian Hillhouse and Bruce Raynor. Congratulations to all Fours Winners. The next championships to be played - the Under 18 (Junior) competition which commences Monday 17/04/2014 and is scheduled to be completed by Thursday 20/04/2014. Thanks - As chairman of the Zone Match Committee I would like to thank those willing workers who assisted my wife with the distribution of the Pennant Books during my enforced stay in Gosford Hospital. Selectors Report - Richard Love Quadrangular - We have had a busy and productive start to the year. Our team of 4 open rinks, 1 x seniors rink and 1 x U25 rink played a great tournament against Illawarra (Z 16), Newcastle (Z2) and the A.C.T. State team at the Entrance in January. On the last day we came from 25 shots behind to beat Newcastle by 9 shots and finish as the only unbeaten team. A highlight of the two days was Darren Morrison s rink winning 28 to 9 against Irish international Jeremy Henry who is the Australian Indoor Singles champion. It was great to welcome back Michael Stead and to the side. Along with Michael, Bruce Jewell and Pat Reynolds will be available for selection in the next Open side. Our Open and Emerging squads - have been working hard at training on Monday nights where a variety of topics have been covered before skills training on the green. Our Zone is very fortunate to have David Cameron, Chairman of the State Coaching Committee, actively involved in these sessions and providing feedback and video analysis where required. Thank-you David. Seniors round robin was played at East Cessnock on 3/3/2014. In the morning we played Zone 6 and won on 5 of 6 rinks. Our top rink played a great game against Rex Johnston losing by 2 shots. In the afternoon we played old rivals Zone 2 who played both games on the carpet while we had to adjust from a slow grass green. We showed great fight to come from 36 shots down with 20 ends to go to lose by 2 shots on the big board. A mighty effort. We will soon select the 12 players to represent the zone at the State interzone Seniors championship at Lake Conjola/Ulladulla Steve Glasson - Finally we have arranged for Steve Glasson to speak to our squads on Monday 5th May at Terrigal at 7pm. Steve is the current Australian coach and will talk to the players about taking their game to the next level and personal and team disciplines. The evening is restricted to those players who have been active in our training programs and the Seniors team selected for Lake Conjola/Ulladulla. Under 18 s Report Norma Barry Emerging squad training - On 20th January, I attended the Emerging Squad Session at Terrigal. Then on 10th February, I attended the Emerging Squad Session at Ettalong. Afraid I was unable to attend the Session at Halekulani on 25th March. Mitchell McDonnell At Ettalong I asked the father of our current BCC U18 Singles Champion Mitchell McDonnell (Halekulani) to let me know how Mitchell did in Melbourne in the Under 18 Australian Open, Mitchell played very well but lost his 3 games to ACT s Luke Hansson (21-18), WA s David Dowley (21-13) and Tasmania s Lachlan Simms (21-18). However all these players represent their State and 4 Minutes of the BCC Management Meeting 20 th March 2014

5 Mitchell can be very proud of his efforts against them. Mitchell's 12 year old sister Hayley is hoping to join the Under 18's Juniors Squad. BCC Under 18's Juniors Championships - are coming up, closing date 25th March. Commencing 14th April Financial Report Albert Heath CENTRAL COAST DISTRICT BOWLING ASSOCIATION - ZONE 15 INC. Financial Report for Jan-Feb 2014 No 2 Account - Opening Balance $39, Zone Championships Jan-Feb 2014 Singles Majors $0.00 Championships -$ Singles Seniors $0.00 Special Events -$2, Singles President's $0.00 Pennants -$1, Veteran'sSingles $0.00 Mid-WeekTriples $0.00 CoC Singles $0.00 Recruitment -$ RookiesSingles $0.00 Under 18 $0.00 Pairs Majors $0.00 Under 25 $0.00 Pairs Seniors $0.00 Mixed Pennants $0.00 Pairs President's $0.00 WebSite $0.00 Veteran'sPairs $0.00 Clothing -$ CoC Pairs $0.00 Capitation $3, RookiesPairs $0.00 AffiliationFees $0.00 Triples Majors $0.00 Interest $0.00 Fours Majors -$ Sponsorship $ Fours President's -$ RNSWBA $0.00 Total -$ Sundry Income $0.00 Special Events Administration -$2, Seniors vs 2, 6 & 9 $0.00 Honoraria $0.00 Maj/Res vs Zone 2 & 6 $0.00 Donations -$1, $5, Open vs Zone 9 $0.00 No 2 Account - Closing Balance $33, Open vs Zone 6 $0.00 Quad v 2,16 & ACT $0.00 Less Commitments and Reserves OtherGames $ Recruitment Fund $5, Seniors Inter Zone -$ Accom & Travel Seniors $2, Inter Zone Sides $0.00 Badges For 2014 $2, Under 25 Inter Zone $0.00 Flags For 2014 Pennants $3, Pat Geary Shield $0.00 Volunteer's Day $0.00 $12, DelegatesDay $0.00 Total Available Operating Funds $20, Veteran's Day $0.00 PresentationDay -$1, No 1 Account Term Deposit $30, OtherEvents -$ Total -$2, Recruitment Funds Administration b/f from 2012/2013 Financial Year $3, Postage -$60.00 Income 2013/2014 $6, Stationery -$ Expenditure 2013/2014 -$4, Internet -$ less Commitments and Reserves -$2, Phone/Fax -$ Funds Available $2, BankFees -$17.50 Mtce & New Equip $0.00 Zone ExecMeetings -$ Insurance -$ Audit Fee $0.00 Travelling Allowance $0.00 Badges -$80.00 Albert Heath Sundry Items -$ Treasurer Total -$2, Confirmed as Correct M. Le Guier 15th May Minutes of the BCC Management Meeting 20 th March 2014

MINUTES of the BOWLS CENTRAL COAST MANAGEMENT MEETING on 21 st May 2015 held at The Entrance. Commenced: 7.00 pm. Chairman: President Col

MINUTES of the BOWLS CENTRAL COAST MANAGEMENT MEETING on 21 st May 2015 held at Diggers @ The Entrance. Commenced: 7.00 pm. Chairman: President Col Bray Present: 40 persons in attendance, representing