Fencing North Committee Meeting
Thursday 1st September 2016, 7.30pm
Meadowbank Community Centre, Meadowbank
Present:
Eric Buisman
John Garelja
Oliver Agnew
Linda Boyd
Daniela Ravera
Jessica Gracie
Hamish Bulmer
Karl May
Apologies:
Adrian Roberts
Meeting starts 7.30pm:
Minutes from previous meeting:
Eric moves that we accept the minutes from previous meeting, Linda seconds.
Matters arising from previous meeting:
Oliver and Laura still to do retrospective on SS Individual.
Treasurer’s Report:
Oliver Agnew moves that we accept the Treasurer’s report, Jess Gracie seconds. All in favour.
Payments:
Hall hire to be paid to Massey High School $1,748.00
Tape to Michael Hoskins $148.59
Oliver moves that we make both these payments. Daniela seconds. All in favour.
Pistes:
New fencing pistes have arrived, John to look at cases for them.
Sport Auckland Report:
Hamish and Daniela met with Sport Auckland earlier this week and delivered a verbal report. Sport Auckland can assist with developing coaches, referees, administration structure, but don’t do a High Performance Programme.
Karl and Hamish to reach out to Millennium institute.
Secondary School Teams recap:
Foil – 35 teams.
Epee – 7 teams.
Sabre – 8 teams.
Forward planning worked well.
Finding referees was hard.
National Secondary School Champs:
Competition is this weekend. Organisation is going well and all ready for the competition.
Fencing NZ News:
Many delays and frustration getting things organised via FeNZ
Other Business:
Query from Hamish about scheduling of open events. Hamish to look in to alternative scheduling.
John mentioned that we should buy some more spools and ground wires – to determine numbers and ask Daniel Chan for a quote.
Meeting closed at 9.05pm