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Annual General Meeting.

Scheduled for 7.30 pm Wednesday 16th July 2014

Present: Kyle McElwain, Chris Glackin, Carl Howey, Daniel Farrow (ACA), Megan Scrimgeour, Andreas Baumgartner, Steven Pearson, Mark Hitchcock, Gayle Moyle, Graham Moyle, Brett Bending, Ryan Scivier, Kevin Turnock, Alex O’Dowd, Neil Murray, Mark Norman, Graham Bean, Blake Douglas, Damian Cancare, Peter Gardner, Carl Cachopa, Brad Cachopa, Andrew Cowell, Steve Jones, Ruwan Perera, Michael Clark, Emma McGee-Turnock, Mike McCarthy, Johan Strydom, Rob Jones, Hendrik Van Vauren, Ryan Dannhauser, Greg Johnson

Apologies: Mike McDonald, Michael Cox, Bill Paterson, Craig Cachopa, Jono Sole, Rob ter Braak, Simon Mathewson, Neil Race, James Murray, Wilson Russell, Andre Adams, Russ Glackin, Rob Jane

Minutes of Previous Meeting  Proposed by Chirs Glackin that the minutes of the 2012/13 AGM Meeting be accepted as an accurate record of proceedings. Besides the fact the Andy Baumgartner did not leave.  Moved: Chris Glackin  Seconded: Kevin Turnock  Carried

Matters Arising from Previous minutes Nil

Correspondence Mike McDonald has asked to stand down from the role of Patron due to his wife’s failing health and his need to focus his energies there.

Matters Arising from Correspondence Nil

Presidents Report Carl Howey read the report that had been circulated.

Nil questions coming from Presidents Report

 Moved: Kevin Turnock motioned that the Presidents Report be accepted as read.  Seconded: Neil Murray  Carried

Financial Report Andy Baumgartner presented the Financial Report and advised that the auditors, Hart & Co, had completed the Audit of the Accounts.

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 Many identities contribute financially to the success of the club. Without their help it would almost be impossible to run our club. Special thanks to the following: o Auckland cricket is a major contributor via club hub with funding of $41,728.00 o Hart & Co o Grant Monies received from: . The Trust Charity Foundation TTCF . Lion Foundation . Four Winds Foundation . Pub Charity . North & South Trust . Youth Town . Astron Life o Club Sponsors: . Giltrap Holden (Alan Yates) . Benefitz (Aidan Benett, Blake Douglas) . Douglas Johnson / Kookaburra (Jason Mills) . Massey Recreational Centre (Rod Grove, Richard Hollings) . Cricket Express (Mike Mead)

Questions on the accounts: Kevin Turnock asked about playing levies, ACA levies went up by about 20%. Daniel Farrow did not have an answer at hand so will inquire. Steven Jones asked about the current asset in accounts receivable of $10,254? Is owed to the club but in current standoff, also part of subs shortfall. Daniel Farrow mentioned ACA will send out a blacklist of non-sub payers to all clubs

Proposed by Kevin Turnock that the Financial Report be accepted  Moved: Kevin Turnock  Seconded: Carl Howey  Carried

ACA Report – Daniel Farrow

International Cricket BlackCaps play South Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka prior to CWC. Eden Park hosts an ODI - NZ v Sri Lanka on Saturday 17th January at Eden Park.

CWC begins 14th February 2015. Eden Park games 1. BlackCaps v Australia, Saturday 28th February. 2. South Africa v Pakistan, Saturday 7th March. 3. India v Zimbabwe, Saturday 14th March. 4. Semi Final, Tuesday 24th March.

Club Cricket will have some disruption due to the three CWC games at Eden Park on Saturdays plus the ODI v Sri Lanka. What is proposed is moving most grades to Sundays whilst games are at Eden Park.

Hearts  1st in T20  Runner up in 1 day competition  Congratulation to Katie Perkins, Maddy Green; Sara McGlashan; Holy Huddleston and Sam Curtis for representing the White Ferns and to Georgia Guy for making the World Cup squad.

Aces  Improvement in Plunket Shield – from 6th to 3rd.

2  4th in Ford Trophy (1 day competition) and HRV T20  Congratulations to Bruce Martin, Colin Munro, Kyle Mills, Martin Guptill, Mitchell McClenaghan for representing the Blackcaps.

Auckland Age Groups  The recently introduced ‘Developing Future Aces’ Programme has had its first intake of 18 players; aged between 16 and 19. The programme commits its players to 9 months a year for potentially up to three years.  Auckland had 4 players in the NZ U19 world Cup – Congratulations to Brett Randall; Dane Watson and Shaun Hicks and Robbie O’Donnell (cpt).  Congratulations to Auckland U17’s boys and the Women’s U21 for winning their National titles. 1st.  A’s finished 4th and U19s 3rd in their respective national tournaments.  Auckland U18 women, for the second successive year, played in the Australian State Championship. A great opportunity and a first for any MA. The team won three games and lost five.

Future at Eden Park. Whilst there remains some media interest in a possible move to Western Springs, Auckland Cricket is committed to ensuring it protects its interests at Eden Park.

CITH update. This year Auckland Cricket will invest $610k into its 14 Principal Clubs and 2 Community Clubs. This is an increase of 160k over the past three seasons.

The idea of the programme is to invest in clubs, so they in turn can invest in management and development with the goal that each club has a consistency of administration through which they can develop the sport in their local community.

Whilst we invest in a management solution in each club, ACA acknowledges that clubs cannot function without the countless hours donated by Boards, Committees, mums and dads and Volunteers within your club. Please accept our sincere thanks for all that each of you do to make each weekend so successful and a great experience for players at all levels.

Playing Numbers. Overall playing numbers have risen again this year, almost principally due to the success of in-class primary school sessions being run throughout Auckland, but the real story is one of concern, particularly with regard to club midget players; club junior players and secondary school numbers.

But first the successes ….

Primary School Programme – over 15,000 primary school children were part of an in-class cricket programme which lasted for at least four weeks. This is an increase from 11,500 last year.

Girls – 30% growth in the last five years. Encouragingly Youth girls’ team numbers have tripled in the last five years as we try to retain as many girls as possible from junior to junior cricket.

Adults It’s worth noting initially that more teams (261) are played in either mid-week twilight cricket or ‘festival type’ Sunday cricket compared with traditional Saturday cricket (222).

3 This is not to say that senior numbers have dropped - they haven’t - there are 222 teams compared to 216 last year and 213 the previous year. It’s simply a case of growth in club based twilight and Sunday. The success is that twilight numbers have risen whilst not impacting on club adult numbers.

Areas of concern

Midget numbers (school years 1-4) have decreased 12% in the last 5 years Junior numbers (years 5-8) have decreased 20% in the last 5 years. Secondary schools playing numbers have decreased 20% in the last five years

So what are we doing about it? Revamp of the Club is the Hub Programme- the Service Levels Agreement that will be used this year for the first time look to detail ‘best practice’ for clubs around processes and targets.

A new initiative - Cricket Blitz - is being introduced in term 1 2015. This is a Region wide after school competition – never tried before on a regional level within Auckland. Target 160 teams in year1. There are four competitions covering teams from years 5/6 mixed; years 7/8 boys; years 7/8 girls; years 11+ boys. Fast; regional; everyone bats and bowls’ aimed at social to semi-serious player. Viewed by Auckland Cricket as our biggest development initiative since Club is the Hub programme began twelve years ago.

Umpires Last season 59 different umpires stood in at least 1 game of Premier, Reserve or Premier A schools cricket. This was up from 40 different umpires from the previous year. This led to an increase in standing days from 720 to 936. The goal is to provide enough umpires to cover Premier Men and Women, Premier Reserve and Secondary School Premier A within 2-4 years. To do this we need to be able to cover approx. 1250 standing days.

Grounds The Auckland Cricket Regional Facilities Plan was published in 2011 and over the past 12 months Auckland Cricket has made great progress in the achievement of the plans key objectives. The region has seen a raft of new facilities come online including new turf wickets at Orakei Domain (x1) and Barry Curtis Park (x2) and new artificial wickets installed at Western Springs outer oval, Mt Wellington War Memorial Park and Pt. England Reserve. A major achievement this year will be the completion of an Auckland Cricket Facilities Register in June 2014. This is a complete audit of all cricket wickets in the region (including schools). It records the wicket condition, boundary size and categorises each wicket into to three clear grades Senior (min. 50m boundary), Junior (min. 40m boundary) or Midget wickets (<40m boundary). Competition management system and live scoring Last season we moved our competition management system to CricHQ. Auckland Cricket have committed to supporting this system until the end of next season at which point the agreement between NZC and CricHQ is up for renewal. The system has had its s challenges and we hope this summer we will see a significant improvement on what is delivered to clubs.

District/Club There is a change of format to Boys District Cricket tournaments next year. There are now separate competitions for each school year - from year 7 and year 11 - plus a combined year 12/13 competition. Teams are based on school years as opposed to e.g. U16 or U18.

Each district is entitled to one team per competition and further teams are considered on application based on the districts relative strength. As a rule of thumb, the older the boys, the more difficult it will be to have more than a single team in the competition.

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Girls District cricket remains the same.

Overall cricket in Auckland Cricket is in good health and we would especially like to thank each club for the delivery of cricket into the community within Auckland.

Questions to ACA: 1. What is the plan for club cricket? Looking like all club cricket will be moved to Sundays when there is world cup game on. 2. What is happening to Colin Maiden Park? The council has now purchased that park and will stay a sporting ground. 3. What is the plan with the Eden Park Outer oval? ACA has been based there 100 years and they board are looking to stay strong. 4. With the increase in umpires, how has this been done, they are more than welcome to approach clubs, as we have not heard anything? ACA is now looking after the umpires association, and increasing the hours on it per week. 5. What is the prospect of premier women getting umpires? Desire is yes, there is a ranking system, but are looking to cover women premiers, but will depend on numbers. 6. There has been a lot of change in staff at ACA over the last few years especially with Coaching and high performance, what is the plan? There is a new HP Manager and has restricted the programmes, to look at working at individuals and player pathways, and has brought in coaching mentor, talent ID. Club Development Officers are still going around the schools, ACA are looking at getting 8 more CDO’s. 7. Is there any chance premier cricket will start a week or two later? Doesn’t look like it anytime soon, but is in the 10 year plan to look at that, but comes down to facilities.

Election of Officers

Patron Nominations:  Carl Howey nominated Neil Murray to be nominated as Patron  Seconded: Graham Moyle  Elected Unopposed

Vice Patrons Nominations:  Carl Howey nominated the vice patrons: Russel Glackin, Peter Coutts, Allan Yates, Graham Rouse, Jason Mills and Alex O’Dowd .  Seconded: Gayle Moyle  Elected Unopposed President Nominations:  Kevin Turnock nominated Carl Howey  Seconded: Graham Moyle  Elected Unopposed

Executive Chairperson Nominations:  Carl Howey nominated Chris Glackin  Seconded: Greg Johnson  Elected Unopposed

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Senior Chairperson Nominations:  Steven Pearson nominated Kyle McElwain  Seconded: Blake Douglas  Elected Unopposed

Junior Chairperson Nominations:  Chris Glackin nominated Mike McCarthy  Seconded: Kevin Turnock  Elected Unopposed.

Treasurer Nominations:  Carl Howey nominated Andy Baumgartner and Mark Avis  Seconded: Steven Jones  Elected Unopposed

Secretary Nominations:  Gayle Moyle nominated Ryan Scivier  Seconded: Megan Scrimgeour  Elected unopposed

Clubrooms Management Nominations:  Carl Howey nominated Robert Jane  Seconded: Steven Pearson  Elected Unopposed

Women’s Chairperson Nominations:  Carl Howey nominated Peter Gardner and Damian Cancare  Seconded: Megan Scrimgeour  Elected Unopposed

Auditor Nominations:  Carl Howey nominated Hart and Co  Seconded: Kyle McElwain  Elected Unopposed

Honorary Solicitor Nominations:  Neil Murray nominated Bill Patterson  Seconded: Brett Bending  Elected Unopposed

6 General Business:  Chris Glackin reported about the strategy meeting a few months ago, and how it is important to TDCC to keep the ideas from this moving, Kevin Turnock is going to be the forefront of this operation.  Elfriede Chooi (nee Komp), has accepted the role as the Hearts head coach, so can no longer assist the Women’s premier team, but we have people keen to do this position.

Thank You

Chris Glackin thanked Kevin Turnock for his 8 years with the women’s cricket and 5 and half years as women’s chairman. He has been underpinning the success of the club, and especially women’s cricket over the last few years.

Meeting closed by Carl Howey at 8:58

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