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Fencing North Meeting - September 2016

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