Strathmore Cricket Club Annual General Meeting Season 2018/19 13 May
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STRATHMORE CRICKET CLUB ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SEASON 2018/19 13 MAY 2019 1 | P a g e Agenda 1. Minutes from previous meeting (see attached) 2. Season reports • President • Treasurer 3. Season 2019/20 Executive Positions nominations • President • Vice President / Junior Coordinator • Secretary • Treasurer 4. Season 2019/20 General Committee nominations 5. General Business 2 | P a g e Meeting Minutes Meeting: Strathmore Cricket Club Annual General Meeting 2017/18 Date: 14 May 2018 Attendees: Frank Merzel (Chair), Trevor Doody, Steve Papastergiou, Peter Wenlock, Steve Houlden, Yvonne Dodd, Danny McConville, Lou Marini, Ross Higgins, Tim Elliot, John Bassi, Allison Dodd, Peter Hinton, David Tate, Denis James, Graham Matson, Tom Dukic, Darren Gregory, Ben Bowden, Jayden Hocking, Jayde Lee, John Pantland, Lee Evans, Brad Ang, Jack Merzel, Nick Sabatino, Chris Williams Apologies: Jason Cuthbertson, Steve Jones, David Hosking 1. Minutes from previous meeting • The minutes from the 2016/17 Annual General Meeting were tabled by the Chair. • Minutes accepted by Steve Papastergiou and seconded by Denis James without change. 2. Season reports President’s Report (Trevor Doody) • Trevor noted the huge turnaround in financial position. $2016/17 loss $34K, 2017/18 profit $12K • We put our first Girls team on the field and this will continue to be a focus. • 2nd XI and 3rd XI won premierships. 20 of the 22 players played juniors at the Club. Vets 1 won a premiership Under 12(2) team won a premiership. • 8 junior players played Representative Cricket. • With the assistance of the Sporting Club and the Football Club we constructed an indoor training net. • We inducted 4 new life members (Lui Marini, Lee Evans, Stephen Houlden and Luke James). • 1st XI finished 6th. The injury loss of Club Captain, John Bassi for most of the season had an impact on the team. Even though John was injured he still had a major impact on the playing group. • The recruitment of Chanaka Welegedara was a success with Chanaka taking out the Stan Trebilcock and Tim Stapleton Awards. • The focus continues to be junior development. We are looking to recruit a Senior Coach and an established batsman for 2018/19. • A key positive for the season was the large people who volunteered to support the club in some form. Trevor thanked all for their assistance who, along with sponsors, make it possible to run the club successfully. • A huge thank you to all our Sponsors who continue to support our Club. • Trevor advised that he would not be standing as President but would continue to be a part of the General Committee. 3 | P a g e AGM report contains more information on these and other matters. Treasurer’s Report (Steve Papastergiou) • The Club officially posted a profit of $12,123 this season. This is a great result considering the $34K loss made in the previous season. • Greater Financial Control and regular Financial Reporting enabled the Committee to have greater over sight of finances. • Net income had increased by $41K compared to 2016/17 while Operating expenses has reduced by $4.5K. • During the season we purchased a bowling machine which was an one off cost of $3.6K. • Events such as Breeky on the Park, Xmas Raffle and LMS make a major contribution towards the profit. o 3. 2018/19 Executive Positions • President: Allison Dodd nominated by Denis James, seconded by Graham Matson. Allison elected unopposed. • Vice President / Junior Coorindator: Danny McConville nominated by Allison Dodd, second by Nick Sabatino. Danny elected unopposed. • Secretary: Frank Merzel nominated by Allison Dodd, seconded Lui Marini. Frank elected unopposed. • Treasurer: Steve Papastergiou nominated by Nick Sabatino, seconded by Lee Evans. Steve elected unopposed. 4. General Committee Positions The following people were elected to the General Committee: Nominee Nominated by Seconded by Steve Jones Frank Merzel Lui Marini Jason Cuthbertson Frank Merzel Steve Papastergiou Trevor Doody Lee Evans Stephen Houlden Jayde Lee Danny McConville Allison Dodd Tom Dukic Trevor Doody Ross Higgins Lucas Kennedy John Bassi Stephen Houlden Peter Hinton Lui Marini Trevor Doody Chris Williams Steve Papastergiou Graham Matson Denis James Ross Higgins Danny McConville Jack Merzel Alison Dodd Steve Papastergiou 4 | P a g e John Bassi Denis James Danny McConville Darren Gregory Denis James Lui Marini Brad Ang Denis James Stephen Houlden Ben Bowden Denis James Jayden Hocking Nick Sabatino Trevor Doody John Bassi Jayden Hocking Brad Ang Trevor Doody Allison thanked those who had nominated and accepted positions on the Committee and noted the significant contributions of those that are stepping off the Committee, namely David Hosking. The room acknowledged and thanked Trevor for all his energy, effort and challenging work he has put into the Club as President over the last 4 seasons. Further nominations for the General Committee will be accepted prior to the season at the discretion of the Executive Committee. 5. General Business • Allison shared with the room her vision for the future. In particular succession planning across Committee roles and greater integration of Junior and Senior Cricket. • Lui Marini provided an update on Senior cricket including recruiting of coach and experienced batsman. Majority of seniors have recommitted for 2018/19. Practice match 8&9 September versus West Coburg in the country. Indoor net • Tom Dukic raised the issue of who do we access net during the off season. Lui Marini and Ross Higgins to arrange to have access to this facility from June. Next Meeting: May 2019 (date TBC) 5 | P a g e PRESIDENT’S REPORT To all club members, sponsors, players and supporters of the Strathmore Cricket Club, Season 2018/19 was the year we as a club made history. A year where we pushed ourselves on and off the field to achieve the ultimate success of a VTCA Senior Division Premiership, a moment in time that I couldn’t be prouder of our players, committees and supporters. A year where we made the decision to take our club to the next level with our senior recruitment, training regime, game preparation and mental strength. Club expectations were high on what we believed we could achieve on the field, and equally high on what we thought we could do off field. Season 2018/19 was not a ‘one hit wonder’. The planning for this success started nearly 10 years ago when we as a club decided we didn’t want to play small, we wanted to be the best club on and off the field we could possibly be. Previous committees worked hard to get our club into a financial position and to have a management structure that would mean we could ‘hit the go button’ when the time was right. It should be noted that senior success does not happen without a strong junior development program that we at Strathmore have had in place for many many years. The strength of this program was evident when looking at the ‘home grown’ players who helped steer our first XI to premiership success. Are we perfect? No, and we never will be. Were we pretty good this year? You bet we were! In fact, we were better than pretty good BUT complacency is what hurts clubs, we have a model that works well, other clubs are now asking us how we do it, but to rest on this success would be ego driven and to be frank, irresponsible. We want more, we will achieve more, but to do this we need to keep innovating and building on our vision of a strong pathway from juniors through to senior cricket. There were many pieces of the puzzle that needed to work together this year. Off Field General and Executive Committee Members - Thank you will simply never be enough. At the last AGM 22 people committed to driving our great club forward. Whilst our Executive Committee remained the same, our General committee consisted of 11 new faces, each one hand picked for their passion, knowledge and skills they could bring to the “off field team”. We were fortunate enough to have 10 senior players on our general committee, in what at times was a big ask of all of them, to contribute to and oversee portfolios from social, communications, fundraising and finance and that’s before they even stepped on the field. As an off field team, we were committed to building on the great work of Past President Trevor Doody and his committee and building on the fabulous grand final victories of our 2nds and 3rds in season 2017/18. 6 | P a g e Creating a culture where we were one was also a key objective. There was to be no division between senior teams, we were to bridge the gap between juniors and seniors, and we were to became a place where supporters and spectators wanted to be. This season we fielded 6 senior sides and 11 junior sides (boys and girls). There were many highlights from this season that we should acknowledge: Sponsors It goes without saying, sponsorship is critical for our club. It is becoming more challenging year after year to secure sponsorship and as such, this is a key area of focus for our club in the coming off season. The sponsorship forecast for season 2019/20 will be aggressive and ambitious, a goal that we must work very hard to achieve to ensure our ongoing success. We were lucky to secure new major sponsors for the next two years in Frank Dowling, Mortgage Choice and LTYB Strathmore. A huge thank you to Johnny Bassi and Nick Sabatino for brokering the deal with LTYB. We regained the support of Gusto’s Bakery in Napier St for another two years thanks again to Steve Jones for managing that relationship.