GVBD Chairman (James Mcleod) Welcomed All in Attendance
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GOULBURN VALLEY BOWLS DIVISION Inc. Reg No: A0056258A ABN: 23 329 964 504 CORRESPONDENCE: P.O. Box 167, RUSHWORTH. Vic. 3612 Chairman: James McLeod Director Administration (Secretary): Joy O’Donnell Telephone: H: (03) 58 56 1580 M: 0409 997 921 M: 04 195 126 32 Email: [email protected] Email:[email protected] www.goulburnvalley.bowls.com SEASON – 2019/2020 CLUB GENERAL MEETING MINUTES MONDAY – 3rd February 2020 TATURA BOWLS CLUBROOMS Commencing at 10.00am WELCOME: GVBD Chairman (James McLeod) welcomed all in attendance. MINUTE SILENCE: A Minute Silence was held in memory of passed Bowling Members. PRESENT: EXECUTIVE: James McLeod (Chairman): (Directors) – Jean Sprague (Deputy) Rob Sceney: Grace Kenworthy: Gordon Nash: Bill Chilcott: and Joy O’Donnell (Secretary). CLUBS: (Club Representatives in attendance): AVENEL: D. Furletti. Noel Slater. COLBINABBIN: Diane Chandler: Donald Risstrom: DOOKIE: Dan Oster. EAST SHEPPARTON: Noel O’Brien: Pam Hueston: Kevin Cox. EUROA: Max Griffiths: Libby Byrne. HILLTOP: Rod Piggott: Lyn Nicholson: KATANDRA WEST: Barb Tomlinson: Fiona Rourke: KYABRAM: Bev Button. Mal Williams. MERRIGUM: Maureen Shepherd: Wayne Shepherd. MOOROOPNA GOLF: Maree Formica: John McDonald. MOOROOPNA: MURCHISON: Geoff Higgins: Gordon Thompson. NAGAMBIE: Vicki Reidy. RUSHWORTH: Barry Weaver. SEYMOUR: Wilma Atkins. SEYMOUR VRI: SHEPPARTON GOLF: Richard Warburton: Jock Hastie. SHEPPARTON PARK: Paul Becroft: Marg Stibbard. SHEPPARTON RSL. STANHOPE: Greg Fitzpatrick. TALLYGAROOPNA.TATURA: Phil Boyd: C. Johnson. VIOLET TOWN: Leanne Russell- Jones. BUSINESS: As per the prepared Agenda (Circulated). APOLOGIES: Peter Naughton (Director Finance): Gerald Ryan (Dookie): Joe Chant (Merrigum): Ray Booth (Mooroopna Golf): Dave Millard (Stanhope): Seymour VRI Bowls Club Representatives. Motion: It was moved by Noel O’Brien (East Shepparton) and seconded Max . (Carried). 1 Griffiths (Euroa) that the apologies as tabled be received Page 1 MINUTES: Minutes of the last General Meeting held on Monday 2nd December 2019 (As Circulated). Motion: It was moved Marg Stibbard (Shepparton Park) and seconded Jock Hastie (Shepparton Golf) that the Minutes as circulated be accepted. (Carried) BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES: No Business Arising from the Minutes CORRESPONDENCE: Period: 8th November 2019 to 12th January 2020. Detailed listing located at the end of the Minutes. Motion: It was moved Noel O’Brien (East Shepparton) and seconded Jock Hastie (Shepparton Golf) that the Outward and Inward Correspondence as tabled be accepted. (Carried) FINANCIAL (TREASURER’S) REPORT: GVBD Secretary (Joy O’Donnell) tabled a brief report on behalf of GVBD Treasurer (Peter Naughton) on the current balances as follows: Financial Report as at 14TH December 2019 to 12th January 2020: • General Account - $20,097-73 • Term Deposit - $23,186-11 • Income: $2,643-00. • Expenditure: $14,092-80 Motion: On behalf of GVBD Treasurer (Peter Naughton) GVBD Secretary (Joy O’Donnell) moved the adoption of the brief financial report seconded Leanne Russell-Jones (Violet Town). (Carried) REPORTS: GVBD CHAIRMAN: James McLeod I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a great start to 2020. Congratulations to Josh Warren on winning the Men's State Singles Final. Congratulations to Daniel Nichols on winning his first GV Men's Champion of Champions for this season. Well done to Mark Ryan on getting through to the Final. A great game of bowls by both players and it was a pleasure to have marked this game. Also, Congratulations to Jean Sprague on 2 Page 2 winning the Women's GV Champion of Champions for this season. Well done to Olivia Cartwright on making the Final. Well done to both the Men's and Women's GV Sides in the Regional Challenge game. Some great Bowls played and good Sportsmanship by all. Congratulations to the GV Blue side on taking out the Regional Challenge game for the 2nd Year in a row. The GV has had a fantastic year with winning the Men's Ovens and Murray Challenge game for the 3rd year in a row. Was a great day having the Men and Women playing on the same day, with great Team spirit and encouragement was great to see. Thank you to All the GV Clubs who have hosted various events during this season, and to those Clubs who will host Finals in this seasons Pennant Finals. Your support is greatly appreciated. This Season is going so fast and this year is already going quickly, and I wish the Teams playing in the Finals for Pennant of the Midweek and Weekend all the very best and good Bowling. Huge Thank you to the members of the Board and Sub Committees for all their hard work and continual hard work this Season. I really do appreciate it. Some vacant positions will be available at the end of this season, and I encourage those who would like to put their hands up if you think you have something to offer to do so. All positions entail a great amount of hard work and we shouldn't be critical of those who are trying to do the best for the GV and Bowls in general. See you all around the Greens and the Finals. WELFARE, PROMOTION & SPONSORSHIP REPORT: Grace Kenworthy Since the last general meeting there haven’t been many requests from the clubs for Get Well or Sympathy cards to be sent to members or the families of deceased members. Those that were sent are as follows: Get Well cards to Bill Wood, Mal & Trish Delahey, Hilda Biach and Dennis Taylor. Sympathy cards to Roy Harrison, Bob Canute, Bob McLean and family, the family of Tom Brodie and Ivan Hall. I encourage all clubs to notify our secretary, Joy, of the passing of members or any family member of a club member, both past and present. Also please notify Joy of any illness or injury being suffered by a club member. GVBD LAWS & UMPIRES: Gordon Nash Selectors are asked to familiarise themselves with Page 97 of the Bowlers Handbook, “Selection of Sides” – Rule 20. I have been asked by several Umpires when will GVBD Umpires Co-Ordinator (Doug Maconachie) be having a reaccreditation exam. 3 Page 3 Umpires need to go to Bowls Victoria website, download the application form, have it signed by the Club Secretary. Bowls Victoria will then advise GVBD Umpires Co-Ordinator (Doug Maconachie), who will arrange exams. There have been instances of unacceptable behaviour on the green lately, the Law provides instantaneous penalties, the Umpire on appeal will regard the end as completed and the Opponent will be awarded as many shots as there are bowls in use. A second offence will see the Player excluded from the game and a sub is not allowed. GVBD (Weekend) MATCH & PENNANT COMMITTEE: Rob Sceney The Weekend Pennant Match Committee has continued to organise and run the Weekend Pennant and the Goulburn Valley section of the State Events successfully. There have been few teething problems along the way, but they have been able to cope with and solve those problems. Special thanks to Bill Chilcot for helping at short notice in running the Champion of Champions finals. The have been some changes of venues for GVBD Events due to clubs renovating greens, the unavailability of others with consideration given to clubs who have helped when needed and they have run successful events. State Events The GVBD Men’s Singles Champion for 2019-20 is Josh Warren from Shepparton Park. The GVBD Men’s Singles Champion of Champions for 2019-20 is Daniel Nichols from East Shepparton The GVBD Men’s Pairs Champions are David Daws and Brad Orr From Shepparton Golf The Champion of Champion Pairs, the Weekend Pennant 2-4 and 5-6 Pairs will be run concurrently in April at a venue yet to be decided. Pennant Our Weekend Pennant for Divisions 1 to 5 has run smoothly all season. Congratulations to all the clubs for their cooperation and diligence. Division 6 has given us some headaches this year with some clubs overestimating their ability to consistently put teams in the field. The GVBD Chairman James McLeod has supported the clubs with a player pool and having players from clubs having a bye or extra players have offered their services. The problem still arises. We as the GVBD board and WPMC will need to be extra careful about the 2020 season in making sure that clubs have ample players to cover the teams that they wish to enter in the GVBD weekend pennant. Night Games There has been an excellent response to the invitation for clubs to hold weekend pennant games at night under lights. There have been games in Divisions 1, 2 and 3 held at night during the season. It is very pleasing to see clubs working together for the betterment of bowls in general. Finals The WPMC has set the finals agenda as follows: The First, Second and Preliminary finals in all sections will be held on the Saturdays allocated at venues chosen by the WPMC. Single greens will be used where appropriate. These venues will happen be chosen after consulting with the greens committee’s inspections of the clubs’ greens and 4 facilities that applied for finals. Page 4 The Grand Finals will be held at clubs that have two greens and facilities suitable for the occasion. Divisions 3 to 6 will be held on the Saturday at two venues. The combination of which divisions will depend on which clubs make the grand finals. The Division 1 and 2 grand finals will be held at the one venue. Division 2 will start earlier at 10:00 with the Division 1 starting at 1:00. All clubs that have applied for finals have been allocated at least one final. The finals venues will be released to all the clubs of the GVBD ASAP when the makeup of the final fours of all Divisions are known.