posted: 9 Oct 2008

Monday 6th October 2008

ERC Committee Minutes

Meeting held Monday 6^th October 2008-11-02

 

Attendees

Simon Bullock (chair)

Peter Ness

Mark Findlay

Ken Whitson

Colin Russell

Kevin Tait

Jonny May

Andrew Sinclair

 

Previous Minutes

Previous minutes were agreed.

 

Updates on Previous Actions

Updates were given as follows. If an action has no update shown here then it was carried forward.

 

080901_03	Arrange Sponsors dinner	MF	Complete
080901_05	Propose text for constitution revision to cope with electronic banking pre AGM	AS	Complete
080901_06	Chase Gareth re. date for hill climb		Complete
080901_13	Arrange room for AGM	MF	Complete
080901_14	Add 3-year plan to October agenda	SB	Complete
080901_16	Advertise Braveheart ride and offer 50% discount	KT	Complete

 

New Actions Agreed

081006_01	Mark to organise informal end-of-season “blow out”.	MF
081006_02	Ken to circulate ESCA accounts	KW
081006_03	Ken to confirm dates for ESCA AGM	KW
081006_04	Mark to chase for outstanding payments from Bicycleworks.	MF
081006_05	Ken to re-submit SC AGM motion about photo-finish equipment at championship events, but this time noting that SC would be paying.	KW
081006_06	Ken to submit SC AGM motion to remove the rule that prevents club confined events.	KW
081006_07	Submit forms for sponsorship registration to SC	JM
081006_08	Find out more about the HMRC invitation	CR

 

President

Discussion on ESCA. Actions 081006_02 and 081006_03 noted above. Nothing else to report.

 

Vice President

Mark updated us on the progress of sponsorship possibilities.

 

He also stated that there were sponsorship payments outstanding from the Bicycleworks (see action 081006_04).

 

Secretary

Re-affiliated to CTC as of 1^st October.

 

Jonny has had some enquiries already about the winter duathlon series.

 

Jonny now has event registration forms available.

 

Noted that forms for sponsorship registration must be filled in (see action 081006_07).

 

Treasurer

Finances were presented and accepted.

 

Road, Track and Time Trial Section

RTTT spend to-date is £2057.

 

RTTT Results in the past month:

• Joanne Merrit and Katie Whitbread, 2^nd place women’s team in the Trans Austria road race.
• Claire Thomas and Ross Spence, 3^rd place mixed team in the Trans-Austria road race.
• Aidan McIlroy won Lammermuir RR.
• Aidan McIlroy won ESCA RR championship
• Aidan McIlroy won ESCA hillclimb.
• Alison Chisholm Bronze at National 500m TT
• Lee Whitelaw won the Cairngorm Cycling Festival APR.

 

Men’s squad will meet on 20^th October 2008.

 

Women’s squad has a social ride on 4^th October and will have a Squad Management Group meeting on the 13^th October.

 

Both ERC-run events in September (the Lammermuirs RR and the Glenkinchie 2-up) were a great success.

 

Multi-Sport

Results:

• Anne Ewing 1^st woman in the Scottish Aquathon
• Louise Edmonson 2^nd woman in the Scottish Duathlon Championships
• Ben Mitchell 2^nd male in the Scottish Duathlon Championships

 

The Multi-sport section’s annual meeting will be held in November, exact date TBC.

 

Tri training weekend booked: 18^th/19^th October.

 

Coaching

We have been invited to go along to the HMRC building in Edinburgh to present to staff. Colin will find out more about the invitation (see action 081006_08).

 

Membership Services

 

Sport Clothing

<!--[if !supportLists]-->• <!--[endif]-->ImpSport progress: Final design issue with ImpSport should be settled soon week. From the point of finalising design, it should be 4 weeks to the point our members can order on the web.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->• <!--[endif]-->Junior Clothing: Will have no logos. Hoping to have available for Christmas, so order must go in at start of Nov.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->• <!--[endif]-->Sponsors’ Logo: The only logos on the clothing will be Field and Lawn and The Bicycleworks (plus the ImpSport or Reartu logo).

 

Casual Clothing

After discussion, some fiddly technical/design issues need resolved by Image Printers. They should be contacting me soon with a proposal.

 

Newsletter

George working on an end of season issue due end of October. Possibly electronic-only.

 

Handbook

George has agreed to take on the responsibility of producing the next one. George will contact Cliff to get the existing content. Thank you to Cliff for all the work he’s done in the past on the handbook.

We need to decide on the format: glossy or more… restrained.

 

Membership Services Coordinator

Ali will resign his post at the AGM, but Graham Jones is willing and keen to take over. A ballot will be taken at the AGM.

 

Flamme Rouge Items

Some discussion regarding the return of unclaimed items

 

AOB

It was agreed that Kevin could spend some of his 2009 budget supporting riders on the British Hill Climb, even though the 2009 budgets had not yet been approved.

 

The 3-Year plan was reviewed. Ken will present it to the AGM.

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