Committee Masters

Venue Methodist Church, Blossomfield Road, SOLIHULL, B91 1LG

Time and Date Thursday 12th March 2020 @ 7.30pm

Present: Jean Childs (JC) Tony Ward (TW) Dave Fereday (DF)Trevor Clark (TC) Mandy Garrott (President WMR)

Minute Agenda Item Details Action

22/53 Apologies Peter Holmes (PH) Helen Weeks (CDO)

22/54 Welcome The committee welcomed Mandy Garrott, Swim WMR President to the meeting. President 22/55 Minutes from Agreed as a true record. the last meeting 22/56 Matters Masters Secretary Job Description was sent out again. Arising Inter-Counties 2019, Enough officials were in attendance, and we had 7 counties compete. Lincolnshire did not send a team. East and West Presidents were invited and attended the event. Midland Masters 2020, will not be at Braunstone, it was changed to Rugby, but we are looking at possibly changing the date and possibly the venue. Inter-County Masters 2020, the venue will be The New pool at Coventry on Sunday 1st November. WMR President was asked to attend next meeting and is now in attendance this evening. Rooms have been booked for our future meetings.

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22/57 West Midland Nothing known yet as to whether this will happen. Need to JC Masters check with Helen Weeks. Development Day 2020

22/58 Midland Was to be 16/17th May 2020. Moved from Braunstone to Masters 2020 Rugby. Decision needed as to whether we move to later in the year, stay as it is, or something else.

Agreed that we can’t hold in May, as there is now not enough time to get it sorted. This is due to difficulties in acquiring a suitable venue. Agreed to go with later in the year and look at Rugby to see JC if we can have the pool on 12/13th Sept. Also ask if Coventry is available on the same dates. Discussed the issue of whether to split up the West and East and have two separate championships. Looked at whether this could be a workable option and agreed that this committee would like to make the change to having separate championships. As this is a proposal that JC needs to go to the Regional Board for agreement or otherwise, it was decided that it could not be implemented until 2021.

Due to the need for the Joint Committee to confirm arrangements with the East and West Midlands committees and arrange facilities, the decisions regarding the 2020 Championships have given us considerable problems. We believe that in future, arrangements need to be agreed at a much earlier stage.

Agreed to look at seeing if Coventry would be available in JC May 2021 (15/16 May 2021)

Check if Bob Powell is available to do entries and results, for DF the Midland Champs this year in September. Depending where the Champs will be held, an AOE operator may be needed.

22/59 Inter-Counties 1st November 2020 at the New Pool Coventry. Will need to 2020 know in due course who will be taking part. SE send out the information to each county later in the year. Check if Oliver JC Coleman is free to do entries and results. Check if Helen Ward is available to announce.

22/60 Records New update on the records, and they are for 9 months this time as the financial year has changed. 2019 Records broken (9 months)

Individual - Female 29 Relay - Female 3 Individual - Male 29 Relay – Male 5 Relay – mixed 4 Total 58 12

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Previous 64 5

Female total 32 Previous 47 Male total 34 Previous 21 Mixed total 4 Previous 1 Total 70 Previous 69

22/61 Amalgamation It has been suggested that we amalgamate the West of 3 Midlands Masters, the East Midland Masters, and the Joint committees Midlands Masters Committee into one. into 1 After some discussion it was felt that it would not be the best way to move forward to amalgamate, but to split the Midlands champs into two separate championships starting in 2021. Therefore, two committees West and East. This will JC need to be confirmed by the Regional Board that they will be happy for this to happen. May need to review who will organise the Inter-counties. West Midlands committee would be happy to still organise the event, if the East Midlands agree.

22/62 AOB British Nationals in 25/26/27th April 2020. Entries are still open for this event. On the Saturday it is oversubscribed already, which could cause some problems.

Date of next 2nd July 2020 meeting

Meeting closed at 8.55pm.

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SUMMARY OF AGREED ACTIONS MIN ACTION REFERRAL REF REQUIRED TO RMB

WM Masters Development Day 2020 22/57 HC Is there going to be one

Look at dates in September to hold the 22/58 JC Midland Masters, Rugby and Coventry pools to be asked if they have 12/13 Sept free.

Split up the Midland Championships to 22/58 JC Agreement two separate ones, East and West to required by start in 2021. the Board Report to go to Regional Board for approval

See if Coventry pool is available for 22/58 JC 15/16th May 2021

Check if Bob Powell can do 22/58 DF entries/results for Midland Champs later in the year Check if Oliver Coleman is available to 22/59 JC do entries/results for the Inter- counties 1st November 2020 Next Meeting 2nd July 2020. Check with JC Hayley that the room is booked

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