BAYSWATER BULLETS

LITTLE ATHLETICS CLUB

2005/2006 Annual General Meeting Minutes

Saturday 1st April 2006

at Bayswater Park Tennis Club

Present:   Amess, Barton-Smith, Bole-Brown, Clissold, Egan, Elliott, Holdway, Mellahn, Moore, Nolan, Norton, Pecek, Thomas, Walton

Apologies:  Rob Holdway

Meeting Opened:  3:20pm

Minutes: From previous AGM dated 2nd April 2005 read out to all in attendance

Passed:            Merren Clissold             Seconded :   Chris Walton 

Business arising out of previous minutes. –  None

Presidents Address: Given by Dean Barton-Smith

Passed :            Andrew Mellahn             Seconded:    Libby Egan

2005-2006 Report Presentations: 

Team Manager's Report – Read by Maree Amess   (Donna Moore had laryngitis)

Passed :            John Griffiths                       Seconded:            Andrew Mellahn

Treasurer's Report::  Maree Amess

Passed :            John Griffiths                       Seconded:    Mike Thomas

Appointment of Auditor for 2004-2005: Auditor Dhanesh Amarisi – Cabot Square Accountants  – accepted

  Passed :            Melissa Norton                     Seconded:            Merren Clissold

Election of 2006-2007 Committee: Chaired by Dean Barton-Smith

General Business:  

The Chief Official role will be by Rob Holdway and another one will be sought to rotate the task weekly. Stephen Egan to be an emergency Chief Official.

Meeting Closed: At 3:50pm followed by the Trophy Presentations and a speech by special guest presenters Life Member Kerry Semfel and MP Peter Lockwood. Jim Moore also told us of his experiences as a Commonwealth Games volunteer at the MCG.

BLAC President Report 2005-06

On behalf of the Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club Committee it is with much pride that I present the President Report for the 2005-2006 season.

What a season it has been. With our season being shortened due to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, the committee and our athletes has been quite active across various areas with exceptional results.

Bullets Outgun Themselves

With the season beginning on a relatively ‘quiet’ note with consistent performances by our Bullets including a number of early PBs recorded and club records being broken. However, and as the results will show in this annual report, there must have been something in those Santa stockings that led for a late surge of performances by our Bullets seeing a significant rise in not only in the number of PBs achieved but club records broken and placings won.

In fact we have seen 17 club records broken and in the Knox Championship Day 20 of our athletes competed returning with 10 Gold, 12 Silver, 9 Bronze, 12 Fourth Place ribbons, 9 Fifth Place ribbons and 7 Sixth place ribbons won. This is the best Summer Track & Field season result since the 1996/97 season. Was it any of those red, black or green jellybeans or extra weetbixs they have been taking?

We have also seen quite a few of our Bullets competing at other Open day events as well as regional and state championships. Well done!

Nevertheless it was great to see our Bullets giving it their best shot (even during some of our most torrid weather we have experienced – at times very hot or very wet). I was also pleased to see a number of our Bullets taking their losses on the chin and personally congratulating the place getters. This is great sportsmanship and hope we can continue to instil on this important principle of ‘doing your best’ and accepting your win or losses with pride and grace in the future.

Bullets Becoming A Visual (and) Active Target

This season the Committee has undergone a review of its past operations as well as introduced a number of new systems and initiatives for the future. This was due to the fact that in any sport or business, ‘the only thing constant is change’ philosophy needs to be applied. As many sporting organisation compete for growth in membership and financial stability so too should clubs such as BLAC in order to survive. Hence the Committee has become quite active in a number of activities this season such as, but not limited to:

Ø       Developed Draft  BLAC Strategic Plan including memberships, marketing and fund raising plans;

Ø       Reviewed the BLAC Budget and developing clear and achievable targets;

Ø       Introduce the 12 PB Certificate;

Ø       Introduce an ‘Incident Report’ system to ensure issues or complaints are raised in an efficient and effective manner;

Ø       Introduce a ‘Club Record Form’ to ensure records are appropriately endorsed and recognized;

Ø       Created and distributed our new BLAC Competition Uniform;

Ø       Created and distributed BLAC Team Polo Tops and Team Caps with exceptional results;

Ø       Developed and distributed our first annual BLAC Club Survey;

Ø       Identified and undertaken new fund raising activities such as the Chocolate Drive and planned stalls for later this year;

Ø       Reactivated our relationships with our feeder schools based within Bayswater;

Ø       Attend the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Come and Try Out day held in Rowville;

Ø       Participating in the Melbourne 2006 Queen Baton Relay;

Ø       Secured a few media articles in the local newspaper;

Ø       Attend to Bayswater South Primary School (Twilight) Athletics Day

This is also on top of our usual activity such as:

Ø       Being the only Little Athletics Club that has a very active website containing a wealth of information;

Ø       Undertaking our usual Christmas Raffle, Tattslotto, Cake Stalls and Twilight BBQs;

Ø       Ensuring  our Parents Duty are monitored and in accordance to the requirement set by the Knox Little Athletics Committee;

All this helps make the club function effectively and provide services to our Bullets and their parents. Thanks must go to the following people for their contribution to the club:

In addition special thanks / congratulations must go to the following people:

2006-07 Season and Beyond (Approaching 40 Years)

  As 2005-06 season comes to a close, there are many opportunities for this club in the future. One of the great things about this Committee (which I have enjoyed) is that they are always on the look out for new opportunities and improvements as well as taking on board parents and children’s suggestions.

  For instance the club will be implementing a revised point scoring system which identifies season best and person best performances as part of the club points system, acknowledging those who compete in cross country, new awards such as Club Person of the Year.

  In addition the Committee has identified (and in some cases put in place) new fund raising /marketing related activities and I hope that we all can continue to support the club as we move towards a major milestone which is when the club will become 40 years old.

  This is a major milestone for this club especially given that the club’s first day of competition was on 2nd November 1968, straight after the Mexico Olympics, so we are (unofficially) looking at a proposed date for the Anniversary to be Sunday, 3rd November 2008 in season 2008/09 which will be during our 41st season. Hence planning needs to start very soon in order to celebrate this important milestone. A number of excellent suggestions has been put forward and these will be reviewed further by the Committee.

  Let’s see if we can grow our membership from 28 today to over 30 or even 40 by end of next season. I encourage all of us to walk the talk, promote the club, encourage the children to partake in sport (little athletics preferably), share ideas and thoughts so that we can continue to grow and maintain the special mateship and principles this club serves.

  When I say ‘we’ I mean not only the Committee but also the Bullets and their parents. We are all part of the journey and every journey has its benefits whether it be for the Bullets partaking in athletics (and becoming healthy in the process), meeting new friends, parenting capturing those special moments or to learning new skills. One only has to listen to some of our successful Commonwealth Games athletes and officials to learn how they first took part in the sport and why.

  Lastly, congratulations to all those award winners mentioned later in this report. On behalf of the Committee we look forward to seeing you again next season or even having a go at Cross Country, which starts very soon!

Dean Barton-Smith

President  

Team Managers Report 2005-06

Well another good year of little Athletics has finished, over the 2005/2006 season we have seen our club grow and become larger, the kids look like they are enjoying themselves and having more fun .Over the season we have had a lot of records broken, lots of kids have improved their performances and have become more confident.
 
I would like to thank the committee for making my job a lot easier by helping out when needed, it has been good to see more people on the committee. In the 2003/2004 season we only had 4 people on the committee,  this year we had 7 members so it spread the work load out. I would like to thank Stephen for all his hard work updating the website, he has done a fantastic job and I am sure all the parents and kids appreciate it. It great for the kids to see their names and results on the web and it gives them a bit of pride.
 
 I would also like to thank my daughter Brydee for coming along and filling our parent info box each week, also thanks to Amy Clissold and Amy Breed for helping with the whiteboard recording. 

To Michael for cooking the BBQ even though some nights it looked like we not going to have one because of forgotten gas bottles . A big thankyou to those parents who did there regular duty and also helped out on other occasions when needed.

I have really enjoyed working with all your children again this year it is a busy but rewarding job, thanks to the kids for their good behaviour. I just loved seeing their smiling faces when they know they did well or got a PB. 

Hopefully next season we will see you all back again ready to compete again and we will see the club grow bigger and stronger . 
 
Enjoy your break 
 
Donna Moore

Team Manager
Bayswater Bullets

Special Guests 

 Kerry (Hodgkinson) Semfel

Our Special Guest, Kerry (Hodgkinson) Semfel is a Club Life Member, elected in 1996 and was involved with our club’s golden era during the 1990’s. Throughout this time period, we had many athletes who had reached the highest level of Little Athletics.

In the U/13 Australian Championships, Ben Sword won two Gold’s in the 100m & Relay and Hayden Lacy won a Silver Medal in the High Jump. In the Victorian Championships during Kerry’s involvement with our Committee, our athletes had won 20 Gold, 6 Silver and 13 Bronze Victorian State medals, some of these by her daughters Peta and Lindel, both of whom still hold many of our club records.

Kerry joined the Committee in the 1989/90 season and finishing in 1997/98 and has been the Vice President, Team Manager, Knox Executive Member, Club Historian as well as on the General Committee.

At the Knox Centre level, Kerry has been the Vice President, Centre Team Manager, Competition Director, Referee, Open Day/Championship Day Co-ordinator and Region Delegate.

Kerry also spent six years on the Knox Centre Cross Country Committee from 1990 to 1996 as the Recorder/Point Scorer and Chairperson for 3 years apiece.  Kerry became a Knox Centre Life Member in 1998 and for five years was involved at the VLAA Regional level as the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Secretary.

Bayswater Labour MP Peter Lockwood 

Our other Special Guest is Peter Lockwood, the Labour MP for Bayswater and former Knox City Councillor. Peter will help Kerry present the Trophies and PB Medals to our winning athletes.

Peter has a genuine interest in sporting activities, which includes Little Athletics. He did not just only appear at the Knox Centre season Opening Ceremony, but has been sited quite a few times throughout the season at the Knox track. Peter has visited us up in the Grandstand as well as being invited to present some medals at the Knox Championship Day.

On Wednesday 8^th February 2006,  MP Peter Lockwood made a speech in the Victorian Parliament about his visit to the washed out Knox Open Twilight and about Little Athletics in general. Our club, Bayswater Bullets got a mention along with Wantirna, Boronia Bolters and The Fields from the Knox Centre as well as some teams from the Ringwood Centre.

The Queens Baton Relay came our way on the Labour Day Monday, 13^th March 2006. Runner 102 was our Club President, former Olympian and dual Commonwealth Games Decathlete Dean Barton-Smith.

Dean’s leg was from outside the Knox City Council Civic Centre and while the crowds were building up, the Salvation Army was playing and the Knox Mayor Cr David Cooper was handing out Knox City badges and pens out to the children.

The Queen’s Baton, which started out in London, travelled over land, sea and air on its epic journey to Melbourne for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

This Queen’s Baton Relay is the world’s longest, most inclusive relay, travelling more than 180,000 kilometres and visiting all 71 nations of the Commonwealth in a year and one day.

Out of 300,000 nominations within Australia, only 3,000 runners were selected for the relay.

We set up our support at the end of his leg to get a full view of the procession of support vehicles and Motorcycle Police.

There were many other groups in support too with Little Athletes from other Knox Clubs, Dean's Deaflympic team mates and Bayswater South Primary School students amongst some of the groups. There were quite a few former Bayswater Bullets athletes that came along too. It was certainly a great experience for all.

What a crowd there was too, outside of the Knox City Offices and right up along Burwood Highway as far as you could see. The applause and cheering started a soon as Crimes Victim Support President Noel McNamara came around the corner to hand the Queens Baton to Dean and continued right up to the handing of the Queens Baton over to Shaun Panayi, the 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games Diving Gold Medallist.

The best part for us was when we came into view and upon Dean seeing all the orange within our group, punched his fist in the air yelling “BULLETS !!!” It made a great start to the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

The link to the rest of the photos are on the Knox Little Athletics Centre website at: www.klac23.org.au/images/2006T&F/BatonRelay/BatonRelay.htm

New for season 2005-06 onwards

“Best Club Person” Award"

For season 2006/07 onwards to recognise parent contribution outside of the Committee, we will be introducing a “Best Club Person” Award for the person who most helps out the club throughout the season, probably in the form of a Plaque.

Instances of helping out will be noted throughout the season and will be analysed and voted on by all Committee Members at the final meeting before the AGM/Presentation Day. Some instances noted will be:

- Pre-season "working bee" day attendance as Bayswater Bullets representative   (the Saturday before Registration Day)

- Bayswater Bullets representative for pre-season envelope filling for Knox Centre mail out  (a weeknight which lasts around one hour)

- Chief Official Duty  (Duty rate is once every 2 weeks, rather than 3 – and you get a Chief Official Polo Top)

Personal Best (PB) results now carried over to the next season

Season Best (SB)

Club Records

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