OCEAN REEF SEA SPORTS CLUB ANGLING SECTION MONTHLY MEETING Minutes of Meeting: Date: Wednesday 3th July 2013 Place: Mason’s Bar – ORSSC Chairman: Gary Bell Attendance: As recorded in the attendance book Apologies: Graeme Smith, Graeme Cole, Adrian Broadbent, Braden Gillespie New Members: Visitors: None Meeting opened at 8.00 pm 1. Minutes of Previous Meeting: Moved: Seconded: 2. Andy Cass Colin Salter Matters arising from minutes: None 3. Correspondence In: AAA regular letters. 4. Correspondence Out: None 5. Boat Fishing Report: Results as listed in the Tide and on the website. 6. Beach Fishing Report: No Competition since the last meeting, next competition is weekend of August 17-18th 7. Mid-Month Fishing Report: There was a competition this month with the full results listed in the tide. Joe Wettinger won the men’s Alyse Wettinger won the ladies. Madison Gaston won the min juniors Page 1 of 5 ORSSC – Angling Section 8. July 2013 Minutes Safety Report: Members were again reminded that they should check flares are in date. The new rules apply from 1st July 2013. There is a $160 fine for non-compliance It was also suggested that epirb expiry dates were also checked. 9. Records: Western AS Salmon 5.4Kg caught by Daniel Bell Proposed: Terry Bell Seconded: Andy Cass 10. Passed by section. Fund Raising There was a Raffle run at the June Angling meals night, thanks to all who helped on the night. We raised a further $495.00 and the next Angling meal is 27th July. 11. Management Report New club shirts with 40th Anniversary design on will soon be launched in several colors. There will be a new system where shirts can be bought directly online. With some held behind the bar. 40th Birthday celebrations will be held on the 28th July with entertainment from just for Kicks and plenty of games and bouncy castle for the children. A lunch for past Commodores and Vice Commodores will be held and invitations have been sent out. 11.0 Feedback to Management Can we get clarification of what is happening with the shed? Can we have the shed or move dive gear out of fishing shed as we now have no room or power. Sailing members are leaving trailers in front of club rather than in the car park and this is causing congestion and should not be done as it affects other club members. 12. Special Events Patrons Cup will run on the 7th Sept 2013, same day as the September competition and will be fished out of MAAC, Andy Cass is the coordinator. 12.1 Commodores Ball is on the 13th July. There will be a 9 piece Jazz band and cost $100 per person. Tickets are available through Gary Bell. 20 per section. 12.2 Masons Bar Beach Classic- Species list to be changed to add Skippy and remove Tarwine. 12.3 The Angling section wind up is booked for 21st September. Gary Bell has tickets for sale @ $25 each, Children $ 12. There will be a door prize and some sponsorship for prizes. Please buy your tickets early to help with the planning. 13. General Business Terry Bell asked if he could have approval to order some more weigh-in books. Cost will be covered by the section unless we can get the printers to sponsor them again. There was a break before we moved onto section AGM, where we voted on Notice of motions and elected the Angling Section committee for 2013/14. Page 2 of 5 ORSSC – Angling Section July 2013 Minutes Ocean Reef Sea Sports Club Angling Section Notice of Motions July 2013 1 Proposed: Chris Gaston Seconded: Terry Bell From the start of next Season (Oct 2013) the Mid- Month Fishing competition Species list is changed to be exactly the same as the Beach Fishing Competition Species list. PASSED 2 Proposed by Richard Platt Seconded by Chris Gaston Propose that the Beach Fishing competitions be expanded from the current six comps per club year to eight comps per club year. The extra competitions are to be placed at third weekend of January and at the third weekend of July. An Amendment to the Motion adds that: If there are 2 new competitions added, then the current rule of dropping 1 (lowest) competition score from the overall annual championship total is increase to dropping 2 (lowest) scores for each year. PASSED 3 Proposed: Terry Bell Seconded: Mick Mason Boat Fishing - To add Blue-Eye Trevalla to the competition species list PASSED Page 3 of 5 ORSSC – Angling Section 4 July 2013 Minutes Proposed: Terry Bell Seconded: Mick Mason Boat Fishing - To add Bass Groper to the competition species list. PASSED 5 Proposed: Terry Bell Seconded: Mick Mason Boat Fishing - To add Hapuka to the competition species list. PASSED 6 Proposed: Ray Bruce Seconded: Braden Gillespie No Competitions to be run on Grand Final Day DEFEATED 8 Proposed: Terry Bell Seconded: Andy Cass Hand held electric reels are allowable in all club Boat fishing competitions. DEFEATED The section then voted in the Section Committee for season 2013/14 The elections resulted in the following office Bearers being elected. Page 4 of 5 ORSSC – Angling Section July 2013 Minutes OCEAN REEF SEA SPORTS CLUB ANGLING SECTION 2013/2014 Officer Bearers 1 Rear Commodore Angling GARY BELL 2 Vice Rear Commodore Angling RAY BRUCE 3 Secretary MICK MASON 4 Boat Fishing Captain JOE GAUCCI Vice-Captain MICK MASON 5 Beach Fishing Captain DEAN BRUCE Vice-Captain TERRY BELL 6 Mid- Month Fishing Captain CHRIS GASTON Vice-Captain FRANCIS McKEOWN 7 Weigh-In Officer FRANCIS McKEOWN Assistant Weigh-In officer ANDY CASS 8 Records Officer TERRY BELL 9 Safety Officer SCOTT SINCLAIR 10 AAA Reps & AAA Boating Sub-Committee PETER OSBORNE ERIC LEE 11 Patrons Cup Coordinators ANDY CASS AND ROLLY BUEGGE In addition the section elected Graeme Smith to take on the new role of inter club/ special events organiser. Page 5 of 5