Minutes of meeting on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
at Pudsey St Lawrence 7.30pm

 1 Present: Keith Moss (President), Graham Reid (Chairman), Bob Shackleton (Chief Executive), Steve Raistrick (Secretary), Alan Birkinshaw  (Media and Marketing),  Glyn Pearson (Umpires’ Representative), Tom Priestley (Umpires Representative) John France(Life Member), Tommy Mathers (Life Member)
David Young (Treasurer) arrived late

2 Apologies: Mick Illingworth (Club Representative), Babar Butt (Players Representative).

3 Minutes of previous meetings
Suspect bowling action report: Manningham Mills been told he cannot bowl again in a match until his action has been rectified.

Woodlands: A reply received about the absence of the fielding circle for the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Shield semi-final against Undercliffe. Explanation and apology accepted.

Brighouse: Hockey tournament date still not altered.

White Rose: Agm tomorrow with Bob Shackleton attending. Derbyshire and Yorkshire League standing for election. Board are not in favour of admission.

4 Accounts
David Young (Treasurer) reported that the league had made a loss of £2,093. He pointed out that dinner ticket money, collected in March, was not included in the 2007 accounts. A provision of £1,000 had been made for the championship trophies.
He said he had neglected to transfer balance of collections to contingency
Unpaid fines stood at £271.
The loss was an improvement on last year and was smaller because of increased income, however, in his view, the league cannot sustain a loss of £2,000 every year. There is a need to raise income and reduce cost.
Areas of expenditure causing concern are postage and telephones. There was a considerable increase in the costs of the umpires appointment secretary.
He suggested that instead of using postage the league should use e-mail to send out all its communications.
The £200 charity donation will be sent to Martin House.
The stock of centenary ties and books has been written off.
 
Handbook: The costs of the 2007 handbook were offset by increased advertising. For 2008 quotes had been obtained from alternative printers. Phoenix have quoted £3,060 for a handbook identical in style to the 2007 publication. Sauce have quoted £2,700. For full colour throughout Phoenix have quoted £3,873 and Phoenix £3,000. It was agreed that the 2008 handbook would be a black and white publication which would help keep down costs. The job would be awarded to the lowest quote.

Accounts to be paid: Arena £131.61 (photo copier quarterly charge). Viking £103 (Stationery)
£1,000 to junior league

 5 Correspondence
Bradford & Bingley: Applied to stage the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup final. Approved.

YCB Newsletter available: The item which was drawn to members’ attention was the facilities audit.

6 Items for the agm
13 sheets returned all as is
Five returns for league reps Rodney Heyhoe and Mick Illingworth

7 League Dinner
7.15 for 7.45pm on Friday, November 23
Response from clubs has been poor. Secretary to remind clubs at agm that if they want extra tickets on top of the four they have already bought they should contact him before November 7
It was agreed that the raffle would be a signed £5 in an envelope draw.

8 Facilities Marking
Deferred again.

9 Honoraria
Last two years amount paid out is the same Secretary and CEO £750, Treasurer £1,200 Records Secretary £250 Treasurer proposed his honoraria dropped to £750
Proposed £750, £750, £750, and £250

10 Any Other Business
Andrew Carter to address clubs. Huddersfield League request two or three of their clubs can listen in.

Umpires: It was agreed that the match expenses for umpires would rise to £30 for 2008

Board Meetings 2008:  It was agreed that a calendar of meetings should be drawn up and published on the website and in the handbook. Where possible the dates will be parallel with 2007 but the board intends to rotate the venues and share them around different clubs.

Death: Eric Hargate (Farsley) Passed away contemporary of Ray Illingworth and David Jones
 
Next meeting: Tuesday, January 15 at Pudsey St Lawrence
Meeting closed  8.54pm