CHESHIRE COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Minutes of the meeting held at Frodsham Community Centre on Wednesday 28th May 2008 
Apologies: Marian Allen, S McGrath, AFJ Thiemicke & AG Bunner.
       1.  Present: P Allen (Chairman), E Gore, D Wall, J Ashton, M Lamb, JL Driscoll, W Smith & BJ Warren
2.	Minutes of the meeting held on 9.4.08
Approved.
3.	Matters Arising from the Minutes
Dealt with subsequently.
4.	Correspondence
a)	Cheshire has now affiliated (cost £50) and we are now listed on EA’s Affiliation web site: www.englandathletics.org/editmyclub but a user name and pass word is required to access it, which I have.
b)	UK Inter Counties T&F Championship for the Meeting on 25/26.5.08 entry forms etc came since the last meeting and were copied to A Thiemicke.
c)	The AGM of the UK CAU also took place on 25.5.08 in Bedford.
d)	The Performing Right Society remind us that we must register if we wish to play music at our Championships.
e)	Booklet from the Office of Fair Trading detailing new regulations regarding Consumer Protection and Unfair Trading Regulations. 
5.	Financial Matters
Current A/C		5497.85
Dep. A/C		  130.83
Building Soc.		5104.70
			          10,733.38
  In addition, a further £583.50 from the unattached levy fees and £216.50 from the T&F Championships has just arrived, bringing the total to £11,533.38.
6.	Officials Report
Nothing to report.
7.	Coaching Report
Details of an updated list of coaching courses, is being incorporated in the Newsletter, which is just about to be issued.
Concern was expressed that there appeared to be a shortage of places on the courses.
8.	County Championships
a)	T&F at Stanney on 10/11.5.08
A very successful meeting from all aspects. A comment was received regarding one of the Best Performance Awards, which has since been answered.
b)	Track Relays at Macclesfield on Sat 5.7.08
AG Bunner is acting as secretary. Entry forms have been issued. A request was made for refreshments to be made available for officials.
c)	NW Road Relays at Marbury Park, near Northwich on 13.9.08
A request has been made by EA North West, that Cheshire, and the other participants, should make no charge for any entries this year. Any costs for staging the event should be borne equally by the participating counties. At our previous meeting we already agreed to give free entry to one team per age group per club, and the meeting was agreeable to this extended gesture.
JL Driscoll still has some health and safety problems on the course 
(barbed wire on corner posts and congestion) which he hopes to resolve soon. The swimming pool changing rooms have been provisionally booked from 10.30 to 16.30 based on an 1100 start and last race starting at 14.30.
The Secretary for the meeting is R Lynch.
d)	Cross Country Championships in Jan. 09.
It was agreed that they would be at Knights Grange, Winsford on Sat. 10.1.08. It was understood that a lady from VRAC was interested in doing the secretarial work.
9.	Road Race Matters
The 5th of the Grand Prix Series will be next Sat. at Hollings Green.
10.	National/Regional/Northern Matters
Nothing to report.
11.	Any Other Business
a)  Cheshire constitution. JL Driscoll agreed to produce a draft for discussion at the next meeting. No guidance from above has been given on this matter, so we have a free hand, which will inevitable result in every county having a different one. This does not sound like good business practice, but we should turn it to our advantage.
We have of late, held our meetings every 6 weeks, and since we finished at 9pm this time, it would appear that this time scale is satisfactory. The constitution must reflect this.
b) Congratulations go to Adrian Thiemicke on receiving the John Young Award this year.
BJ Warren, Secretary, 31.5.08