Meeting opened Thu 29 July 2010 19:35

Attendees: 
 Tony, Graham, Troy, Mark, Steve, Nathan, Lawrence (chair)

Apologies: 
 none

Previous minutes: 
 Moved to be accepted (Graham, Buddha)

Matters arising:
A Shirt (see last minutes):
 is to be signed by players at the AGM, and then framed (Graham to arrange) for presentation to Standard Chartered Bank.
Draw for next season: 
 Graham & Lawrence to start on it next week, and to contact Standard Chartered Bank. Steve to speak to Kenthurst rep next week for suggested dates for social event(s). Preferred days are Saturdays for competition matches, Sundays for social games, with several 40 over games proposed before Christmas, and with 20/20 games after. Nathan made a request for Illawarra events also.
 Flagged interest by QLD for a NSW v Qld game at Coff's Harbour.
Burwood Council:
 Tony to speak to Ben F. tomorrow re corro from Burwood Council. A deaf group may possibly come in and share the present ground? Also, there is the possibility of a Cerebral Palsy group doing the same - this follows from a contact from Margot thru Graham.
Sponsorship:
 Graham & Lawrence & Nathan to have a sub-committee meeting on Sunday 1st

President's report:
 to be emailed within the next 72 hours

Treasurer's report:
 Term deposits - Nathan proposed to open an IMB charitable account, to benefit from their higher term deposit rates. Decided to hold over for the new committee to do. In the meantime, Nathan is to shift the 10K (see last meetings minutes) into a 90 day account ASAP. Generally agreed, no motion.
 Treasurer reported a prior $13K discrepancy re the Champs may now be a $2K profit. Further work on the books (with Troy) is needed to sort the discrepancies. Peter Gunton is to be the accountant/auditor for The 2009-10 Books.
 Stocks of water and Gatorade held over from the champs are to be recognised in the accounts as inventory.
 Accounts payable: NSW Sports Fed still not paid! Immediate follow-up required.

Membership fees: last year was $60
 Moved (Tony, Lawrence): $70 for playing members age 16+, $35 for non-playing and junior members 
 $15K in the bank is being held in reserve for uniforms and expenses (e.g. travel) for the next champs, Jan 2012 in Brisbane

Game(s) v ACT:
 Graham to speak with Steve Fagg re 2 games this season in Canberra
 Westbus to be approached for a social game (Graham)
 Graham also to approach Vision Australia to float concept of raising funds for a bus, for their use during the week, and for blind sports use on the weekends.

Tony: 
 had a phone call on Tues from a man at AIS Canberra interested in getting involvement with Blind Cricket - Tony is to email details to the committee by the weekend. Refer them to BCA, but with the proviso that if they don't action it within a month then we will follow it up.

Business Plam:
 Nathan is to update the draft business plan Graham circulated, to finish customising it to NSW.

Junior program:
 Nathan expressed support for creating a direction and plan for this.

Windies publicity material:
 Nathan is to chase "Ray" for the DVD of the Barbados game. "Moose" has reportedly posted "thousands of photos" on Flickr. Neil Philips is reported to be creating a disk of photos and video, for which Graham will seek clearance for use on the web site. 

Next meeting:
 the AGM/SGM on August 28th, 10am at Vision Aust, in the Wattle Room. Reminders of this are to be circulated to members, along with committee nomination forms and membership dues notices.

Close meeting: 8:52pm