Annual General Meeting

Leicester Radio Society

Minutes of Annual General Meeting held on Monday 15th January 1979,

Committee Members

With 30 members present (including the committee) the chairman opened the meeting at 2010 GMT.

There were no apologies for absence.

The minutes of last year's meeting were read and accepted as a true record of the proceedings; proposed by Warren G3ZJS and seconded by Tony G4CWY..

Chairman's Report.

The chairman reported that last year had been very satisfactory one both financially and socially.

The club had achieved 24th place out of 59 in HF NFD and in connection with this event the chairman wished to accord very special vote of a thanks to John G3MYI for his sterling efforts.

The club had come 11th out of 102 in VHF NFD and in connection with this event the chairman wished to record personal vote of thanks to Garry a G8JVP and Geoff G3TQF.

He referred to the activity of club members on interesting projects not directly concerned with the club - in particular John G3MYI's involvement with the Markfield repeater GB3CF .

The chairman thanked the following members for giving their time and energy to prepare and present their lectures.

John G4GVC - Printed circuit board construction.

Warren G3ZJS - Presentation of color slides.

Cliff G3PBC - Operating procedures.

Stan G3HYH - Teleprinters

The chairman offered a personal vote of thanks to Warren G3ZJS for his outstanding efforts in producing a scheme for alterations to the club premises, Due to insurmountalble technical difficulties the project, unfortunately, had to be shelved. The meeting warmly endorsed the chairman's remarks.

Again the chairman offered his thanks to Warren G3ZJS, this time for his initiative and effort in the very successful equipment sale.

Taffy and Geoff G3TQF were thanked for their very hard work in connection with shack improvements .

He referred briefly to the loss of the club receiver and said that fortunately we received suitable compensation from our insurers.

Finally he gave a personal vote of thanks to Mel for his continued outstanding work at the tea - pot.

Treasurer's Report.

The treasurer presented his balance sheet

He said that the balance of £209.48 required careful explanation. In fact without the sale of surplus equipment and the insurance payment, the difference between income and expenditure would have just been £1.25. Fortunately the insurance claim was met with very little trouble. '

Compared with the previous year, subs. were only up £2 and income from tea sales by £1.50. Normal equipment sales (excluding Warren's special effort) were down by £40. Rates, electricity and insurance were all up on the previous year by £5, £4 and £7 respectively.

The treasurer predicted that with approximately 34 paid up Members and without some means of boosting the lncome over the next 12 months the club would not have an excess of income over expenditure. He did not wish to propose an increase in the subscription rate himself but recommended that it should be given urgent consideration, perhaps under any other business.

He intimated that raising the subs. to £4.00 would just allow the finances to break even.

Cliff G3PBC proposed and Dave G80BP seconded that the report be accepted.
The meeting unanimously agreed.

Election of Officers and Committee Members.

Tony G8BMF proposed and Mike G3RYN seconded Ian G8JGP for the office of Chairman.

Alan G4GMD proposed and Dave G80BP seconded Tony G8BHF for the office of Treasurer.

Tony G8BMF proposed and Dave G4FSS seconded John G4GVC for the office of Secretary.

There being no other nominations, these proposals were put to the vote by a show of hands and were passed unanimously 'by the meeting.

Election of committee members .

A secret 'ballot of the following proposed members resulted as follows -

A hand vote to decide the tied 6t. place resulted as follows -

G8OBP 5 votes

G3MYI 11 votes *

G4GMD 3 votes

G8NTD 3 votes

G3PBC, G3TQF, G4CWY, G3ZJS, G4EPA and G3MYI were duly elected to the committee for 1979.

Any other business.

Equipment Sale.

Warren G3ZJS recommended that an attempt to sell the remaining items should be made at a suitable rally, i.e. Drayton Manor park. This suggestion was generally favoured by the meeting and it was recommended that the new committee should adopt this course of action.

John G4EPA suggested that one of the remaining AR 88's should be purchased by the club as a general coverage receiver to replace the one which was stolen. The committee was requested to come to a decision on this matter.

Manor House

The chairman and Geoff. G3TQF outlined the possible use of Manor House (off the Narborough Rd.) as an alternative club meeting place. The general consensus of opinion was to stay at the present premises but thanks were offered to Ian and Geoff for their efforts.

The possibility of reconsidering alterations to the clubhouse was raised. Warren's original proposition was discussed but as Warren pointed out, it requires a complete rethink because of the current building regulations pertaining to staircases,

Tony G8BMF proposed and Geoff GBTQF seconded a motion that the committee should reconsider the scheme to alter the existing premises. A hand vote showed

16 for the motion with 5 against and 9 abstentions.

Subscriptions

A vigorous discussion took place on this subject. Warren G3ZJS proposed and Garry G4ERT seconded a motion that a list of paid up members should be permanently displayed in the club. A hand vote showed 17 for the motion and 2 against with 11 abstentions.

The treasurer reminded the meeting that some consideration should be given to an increase in subs. Consequently four propositions were put to the

meeting and the voting was as follows.

Proposition One

proposed by Tony G8BMF and seconded by Warren G3ZJS
that there should be no change in the subs.

Proposition Two

Proposed by Roy G8NMR and seconded by Warren GSZJS
that the subs. should be raised to £4.00 to be effective from Jan 1st.

Proposition Three

Proposed by Alan G4GMD and seconded by Andrew G4GSD
that the subs. should be raised to £4.00 to be effective from Feb. 1st.

Proposition Four
Proposed by John G4EPA And seconded by Ian G8JGP
that the subs. should be raised to £5.00 to be effective from Jan. 1st

Results of voting,

Proposition One 2 votes
Proposition Two 25 votes
Proposition Three 1 vote
Proposition Four 2 votes

The second proposition was 'therefore adopted.

Finally Geoff G3TQF proposed a formal vote of thanks to Mel for his dedication to making a welcome cup of tea. This was heartily endorsed 'by the meeting.

There being no other business the meeting closed at 2130 GMT.