NORTH OF ENGLAND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
CHESHIRE COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Minutes of the Meeting held at Frodsham Community Centre on Wednesday 9th June 2004.
Apologies: AG Bunner & E Gore.

1.Present: JL Driscoll (Chairman), S Mcgrath, AFJ Thiemicke, Sandra Littler, J Ashton, R Lynch, J Shellhorn, P Allen, Marian Allen, W Smith & BJ Warren.

2.Minutes of the Meeting held on 4.5.04
Approved after the following changes were made:
a)	Item 4b) the YAL costs £100,000 per year
b)	To read ‘on line sports retailer’
      c) Item 9b) to read The Warrington Wire FM 10K race.
Secretary’s Note: If you are not a recipient of e mail, unfortunately you are at a disadvantage. 

3.Matters Arising from the Minutes
a)	A letter of support for the upgrading of the track at Knights Grange, as described by S McGrath, was sent to the Mayor of Winsford. He responded saying that it was not the responsibility of Winsford Borough but that of Vale Royal Borough, and he passed the letter on to them. C Bottomly  replied welcoming the support but asked athletic clubs in Vale Royal to establish an agreed Borough improvement plan. He also said that he was disappointed that we had no development plan that he was aware of. We do have a plan and a reply will be made.
b)	Item 8a) It is understood that the 2 walkie talkies held by Warrington have been found and  they have bought two.

4. Correspondence
The Secretary thanked the Committee for the award presented to him at the T&F Championships last month.
a)	A copy of the Foster report has been issued to all clubs.
b)	The AAAof E broadly accept the 33 recommendations of the Foster Report.  c)   UKA & AAAof E jointly welcome and accept the Foster report.
d)   Celedar, a TV company are to produce a programme for which they require 2     athletes (1 female and 1 male over 18years old).Details are not forthcoming but auditions are throughout June 2004. The contact in on 0207 1536111.
e)	UKA are reviewing rules and competition for the U17 age group and have requested U17 athletes to complete a diary for Summer 2004.
f)	Further information on the Volunteer Investment Programme.
g)	 YAL Newsletter May 2004.It contains an error. The 3rd round will be at Macclesfield on 27.6.04
h)	NoEAA Newsletter May 2004.Emma Leigh Heighway transferred from W Cheshire to Sale.
i)	Letter from M Rogers with new programme for this year’s Championships at Cudworth. Comments were sought at NoEAA Championships.

5. Financial Matters
    Current position:		Current A/C	2687.00
				Deposit A/C	  712.67
				Building Soc.	2854.94
				Total   		6254.61
The Warrington track hire is yet to be paid. Payment is still awaited for the coach to Birmingham in April.
It was agreed to make a £15 contribution to the 5 athletes who represented Cheshire at the CAU T&F Championships at Bedford.

6.Officials Report
Exam results:	Track			Time Keepers			Field
	JL Driscoll (W Ches)		Kevin Renshaw (Macc)	Jill Van Schie (W Ches.)	Marian Allen (H&FH)	Caroline Dean (W Ches)	Paul Van Schie (W Ches)
	Barbara Murray (Macc)					J Watson (VRAC)
They were good results.
Sandra Littler thanked the Committee for the help given to the Schools with regard to Officials.
She had taken heed of the fact that no teachers came to the H&S course and had complained. Hopefully they will appear in future.

7.Coaching Report
Nothing to report.

8.County Championships
a)	T&F at Warrington on 15/16.5.04
The Committee agreed that the Championships were successful and thanked everyone who assisted, particularly John and Carol Ashton. It was agreed that next year awards will be made to the best male and female performance in both track and field i.e. 4 awards. About 100 Standard Certificates were issued and 72 badges sold (70 last year).
An amateur film maker sought permission to shoot some scenes at the event to use our Meeting as a backdrop. The film is about a disabled female athlete.They duly appeared and we have requested sight of the film before it is issued. As yet there has been no feedback. The contact is John Evans,Tel:07748 623068, e mail j.evans@hsbc.com. 
b)	Track Relays at Macclesfield on 11.7.04
 Invitations have been issued. Track and First Aid have been booked. Refreshments for 20 Officials was requested. The medals are still to be bought. Different medals are required for the U 11s. 
c)	Junior Multi Events on 12.9.04 ay Macclesfield
R Lynch undertook to chase up the outstanding £20 contribution to medals for last year and seek a similar sum for this year.
d)	NW Road Relays in Cheshire on 18.9.04
It has now been agreed that Spectrum will host this at Birchwood. W Smith will take the entries. The Chairman will liase with the other Counties and confirm that the winner of each race will receive a NW Counties award. The definition of age groups must also be agreed. About 230 teams take part in this event contributing about £1000. First Aid costs £3-400 and results will be free if done manually.
e)	Cross Country on 15.2.05
VRAC has kindly offered to host this again at Knights Grange. R Lynch will be the secretary.
f)	J Ashton has drawn up a Photograph Registration form which will be used at future Championships. NoEAA will be asked to approve it.
g)	Cheshire Schools.
Sandra confirmed that there will not be Championship clashes next year with us.
h)	Inter county CAU T&F at Bedford
With a team of only 5, one gold and  two 4th places were achieved. 

9. Road Race Matters
a)	NoEAA  has suspended a runner for 3 months for taking part in a race using last year’s number when his entry was not accepted because the limit had been reached. Cheshire will make this known to future events.
b)	Rule change regarding U17s is unclear. It would appear that some could now run a marathon. This is to be clarified. 

10. NoEAA Matters
a)	At the recent Executive there should have been a Foster Report debriefing but 2 key delegates were off sick.
b)	A key element of the report is that England must have a membership scheme. At present the South does not have one. The North is saying that it will cease its RDC contributions after Sept. ’04 because the South makes none.
c)	The £21M legacy funding is held in abeyance until the report is implemented.
      e)   A request was received from a company called DPR for data protection registration   which looked very dubious. It was unsigned, it had a website which had never been activated etc.  I went to the police who assured me they had thoroughly investigated the company and it was legal though perhaps a little misleading. The County does not need to register.

11. Any Other Business
a)	Mike Hunt, the new RDC, and Leonie Lightfoot of Sport Cheshire are to be invited to our next committee meeting.
b)	The 2 rule changes, which we proposed, have been implemented, however, there is some conflict with the new IAAF rules in the field event time lapse tables.

BJ Warren, Secretary, 12.6.04