Annual General Meeting Friday
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2019 AT 6.30pm President's Opening Remarks: Mrs Valma Grady welcomed everyone to the Annual General Meeting: 'Good evening ladies and gentleman thank you for coming this evening. Almost exactly a year ago I took over from the very long serving David Reynolds. But apart from being 80 years old I am still passionate about the Conservative Party. I would like to thank all the Councillors and our MP Philip Hollobone who does absolutely stirling work for this constituency.' Mrs Grady gave tremendous praise to Philip and also said that there was no better M.P. Attendees: Mrs F Aldridge Mr G Aggett Mrs H Ayres Mrs D Bayman Mrs D Bindley Mrs D Blumire Cllr J Burton Cllr R Carter Cllr Mrs C Carter Mrs M Cerrone Mr E Childs Mrs D Clarke Mr P Clarke Mrs A Cobley Mr J Cobley Mr B Creasey Cllr J Currall Cllr A Davies Cllr M Dearing Mrs E Edwards Cllr S Edwards Mrs P Evans Mrs P Goodman Mrs V Grady Mr D Half-Hide Mr P Hollobone MP Cllr D Howes Mrs S Howes Cllr I Jelley Mrs S Jelley Mrs J Kirton Mr P Lord Mrs M Lord Cllr A Matthews Cllr P Marks Cllr Mrs D Miles-Zanger Mrs J Mitford-Barbiton Mrs S Osborne Mrs J Pearce Mr J Perry Cllr Mrs V Perry Mr J Putt Mr R Quincey Mrs L Roberts Cllr R Roberts Mr G Smart Cllr Mrs J Smith Cllr Mrs S Stanton Mr R Stanyon Cllr M Tebbutt Mr K Thurland Cllr Mrs L Thurland Mr K Underwood Mr G Warman Mr T Webster Mr K White Mr O Wyeth Apologies: Cllr L Bunday Mrs B Everard Lord R Freeman Mr J French Mr F Hart Mr R Jackson Mrs S Jacobi Mr A Jacobi Mrs B Loasby Mr A Lodge Mrs B Lodge Cllr T Morrissey Mrs J Peck Mr J Peck Mr I Ramsey Mrs V Ramsey Cllr M Rowley Mrs J Rowley Mr M Sandell Mrs H Sandell Cllr Mrs M Talbot Mr D Talbot Cllr G Titcombe Mrs J Welch Mr S Welch Mrs B West In Remembrance of Members & Donors: Mrs Pamela Mackay O.B.E. – St Michael’s & Wicksteed Mrs Stella Jackson – Ise Mr Dennis Lane – Kettering Mrs ‘Fred’ Moulson – Rothwell Mrs Marion Lamont – St Peter’s / Slade Miss Jean Holt – Harrington, Loddington, Orton & Thorpe Malsor Mrs Mary Malin – Desborough Mr Alan Baillie – Barton Seagrave Mr Gordon Diaper – Kettering Mr Michael Ward – Desborough Mrs Hilda Armstrong – Barton Seagrave Mrs Mary Maxwell – St Michael’s & Wicksteed / Corby Approval of Previous Year's Minutes: The Minutes from 2018 were approved. Proposer: Mrs Dawn Bayman Seconder: Cllr Ian Jelley Address by Leader of KBC (Cllr Russell Roberts): Cllr Roberts said: I just want to take this moment to reflect on the past year and think of the future. We want to give our people a better future, we have achieved this by freezing the council tax for 10 years. If we had not been asked to help the Council financially, in other areas, we may even have been able to bring council tax down. The tide of history is now going with us and I am very proud to be on the team that is helping the County Council out. I would like to thank you all, as without your support we would not be able to do this. We had a top team of Councillors, Leaders and MP's in London determined to do the best for Northamptonshire. Treasurers Report – Receive and Adopt Accounts for Year ending December 2018: Cllr Mrs Dianne Miles-Zanger gave her report: I hope that you all have a copy of the account for 2018, and I will take you through some of the figures as seen. Most of our income is derived from membership fees. Then there are various events held by different branches – good social occasions and we are extremely grateful for these events. We also have the “200” Club. There were 4 lucky winners in 2018 and I have to admit I was one of them. The number of Association members at the end of the year was 369, including 68 Patrons. Expenditure – Great effort goes into keeping the costs down. We did incur some costs for repair work as a one -off invoice on this building for electrical work. The cost of secretarial help was also reduced in 2018. I have tidied up the accounts combining the two deposit accounts into one and closing the Market Harborough Building Society account. That money was transferred to our NatWest current account. We have not transferred any monies from the deposit account into the current account during 2018. There is an amount of £12,585.00, this is ring-fenced purely as “fighting fund” for the Association and is included in the deposit account. There is always a need to attract more members and also encourage branches who do not, as yet, put any money into the kitty. However, during 2018 there were NO elections and come next year 2020 we will have the costs of Parish, Town and the new Unitary elections and perhaps even a General Election so we need to build up the current account in readiness for these costs. I have spent many hours getting to grips with the figures and now have a clearer understanding of the Association accounts. We are still waiting for the go ahead with on-line banking. All the necessary forms have been completed and returned to Nat West, and I have written to the bank asking when this facility will be up and running. Hopefully we shall not have to wait much longer. On a personal note I would like to thank Pamela for all her help and guidance given to me over the past twelve months. Finally, I would like to thank Smith, Hodge and Baxter for their help and assistance in interpreting and auditing these accounts. Thank you. Dianne was then thanked and was commended on her commitment and work. The Treasurers report was approved. Proposer: Mr Paul Clarke & Seconder: Cllr Paul Marks Deputy Chairman Political and Campaigning Report: The main aim is to get more Conservatives elected. Our big focus is the Saturday morning campaigning. It is just 2 hours of your life. The following four people were awarded their star award for doing 10 sessions. Philip asked that they stand up for recognition. Cllr Paul Marks Cllr Mark Rowley Cllr Shirley Stanton Cllr Mike Tebbutt They are outstanding individuals who are leading by example (everyone gave a round of applause). We hope to follow up with a postal vote and a survey of voters we know nothing about. This is to focus our time on people who we know will vote for us. Deputy Chairman Fundraising & Membership Report: Mrs Victoria Perry said: 'I would like to give a big thank you to Pamela Goodman as, unfortunately shortly after being elected I was appointed to Children Services which was an all consuming position at the Council and also my father was very ill and subsequently died. Pamela very kindly stood in and supported me. Going forward I am no longer on the Cabinet and will be able to spend more time on the position. CWO Chairman's Report Report from Mrs Merle Lord: Good evening, it is my privilege to give you the work done by the women's organisation of the Kettering group 28 April 2018 £500 to KCCA handed over at Suffragette coffee morning 18 July 2018 £500 to KCCA handed over at the tea at Geddington 22nd January 2019 £500 to KCCA handed over at the savoury coffee morning 22nd February 2019 £500 to KCCA handed over at the coffee morning 3rd March 2019 £500 to KCCA handed over at the Pancake and coffee morning and then it was decided to hand over another £500, here at the AGM 22nd March 2019. Since the 2018 AGM £2500 has been handed over to KCCA. Fundraising for 2019 is well in hand and will be in the Diary Dates. We thank you for your generosity and making each event so enjoyable, thank you all. Chairman's Report Good evening, first I would also like to welcome you and thank you all for taking the time to attend this, your AGM. This will be my final report of a three year term of office. Those of you who know me well, are aware that I am hot on the three year rule. There can be exceptions where a fourth year may be agreed. For this to happen I needed to apply to the Area Management Executive – which I did, to then apply to my own Executive Council, to ask them to allow me to put forward my name. That I did and followed the example of the previous Chairman, by writing to the Executive members to ask their consent. However, as Philip reminded me, para 5.5 of Schedule 7 of the Constitution states – there must be a meeting of the Executive, therefore my nomination became ineligible. I had fallen foul of that word ASSUMED. Therefore my name will not be on a ballot paper. I do want to say, in all honesty, that the letters I received in reply were humbling in their content and to those people I say a heartfelt ‘thank you’. To the people who did not reply I also say 'thank you'. It was enlightening. However, if truth be told I did rather take exception to being called a backstop, particularly in these Brexit times! Moving on - As we have heard from the Treasurer, our financial state has improved considerably this year – with a great deal of help from all of you, sitting in this room.