LEICESTER RADIO SOCIETY
Febuary 13th meeting opened at 7.30pm
Attending Pete John Phil Keith Trev Tony Sandra
Apologies Mike and Alex
The minutes were read from the last meeting and accepted.
1, Pete opened the meeting with information about the rewire and was pleased with how everything was progressing
The clean-up had started and Trev said he had a trailer and a permit for the tip and was happy to help with getting rid of all the rubbish and old chairs and carpet from the house,
2, The car park was more or less done 29 ton of gravel had been delivered and many members had worked really hard to spread the gravel and hedge cutting weeding and tea making. The water / stream is still under investigation
3, the committee decided we would all have defined roll so more would get done and we would all have our own responsibility’s as to the smooth running of the club.
Alex vhf shack manager liaison/car park
Other suggestions
Peter quiz master /cook /and speaker/ building maintenance
John special event station organiser/ training /main key holder
Sandra note taker/ events diary /contest/ training
Phil web site/ keeper accounts /contester
Mike accounts /training /contests/ special events
Tony kitchen/ grounds //maintenance/ key holder
Trev garden/grounds maintenance/ first aider
Keith assets manager/workshop
All of these are not definite and more could be added confirmation at next meeting.
4, The committee discussed bringing the hf and vhf shacks down stairs and leaving workshops up stairs and would be on the agenda for the next open meeting. A budget of £100 was mentioned for benches to be built down stairs.
5,Keith asked why the switches had all been changed in the house as they looked ok but Pete explained to us all the switches did not meet current regulations.
Signatories of the bank account was discussed at the moment john Alex Stan and mike and it was thought that that was enough for the time being to be looked at in future .
Tony asked if the club could have fibre / internet Phil said it was very noisey and would be thought about /T B A.
6, The committee were asked to think about fund raising
For the club for 2017 a bring and buy was one idea.
7,Lottery grant was discussed and Sandra sent Phil a link for forms and they are very complicated and the wording has to be very carefully thought about as its all to do with training disabilities young people/ space / satellites equipment.
8, a trainers meeting was called for the week before foundation course start so as to get organised.
9,the alarm / cctv were discussed and it was said we would discuss them further when rewire was done .
9, work parties we asked for on Saturday and Sunday
Saturday = John Sandra Dave Trev Tony Keith Pete Matt
Sunday = Pete Phil Alex Matt
10, John spoke about special event station wymondam windmill in May was going to ask Sara if we would be able to have the station in the windmill its self as the roof and widows were being worked on and if not we would have to source a tent gazebo for use by club members
And abbey pumping station in June 24th 25th
11, the pump up mast was said to be in a bit of a sorry state and wanted a bit of work done on it and after this was done should be sold on eBay or advertised in radcom.
12,all events for the club were being put in the radcom also on Sunday news and the web site is looking fantastic and all info was updated regularly thanks to phil.
Meeting closed at 2100hrs
