CHESHIRE COUNTY ATHLETIC ASSOCAITION

Minutes of the meeting held at Frodsham Community Centre on Wednesday 27th January 2010
Apologies: C Boyce, W Smith, Marian Allen & SR Whincup.

1. Present: P Allen (Chairman), R Lynch, M Cutler, JL Driscoll, AFJ Thiemicke & BJ Warren.

2. Minutes of the Meeting held on 9.12.09
Accepted after the 3rd sentence of 9c) was removed.

3. Matters Arising from the Meeting
To be dealt with under subsequent headings.

4. Correspondence
a) Notification of UK Counties Union T&F Championships on 30/31.5.10 at Bedford
b) Tina Beresford has recently taken over from Deborah Beresford as Education Coordinator-Officials (North). With it was an up to date list of courses. This can be seen on www.englandathletics.org.  It is also on the Cheshire web site.
c) The NW Regional Council is to hold its next meeting on 17.2.10 at Stretford.
d) Request from Weather Commerce Ltd to put a weather forecast on our website in return for their logo and premium rate telephone no being displayed on the website. What is the committee’s wish?
This was formally the weather forecasting service of New Zealand which it is rumoured the BBC might adopt! I have asked Ashley for his views.
d) A company called ACM Training based in Ludlow offer a host of training courses see: www.trainingdevelopment.biz.
e) Preliminary notice of AAA AGM on 14.3.10 in Birmingham.
f) A man representing ‘cafe2u’ called on me recently offering to supply a host of different coffee drinks at athletic events. I told him that T&F locations had their own facilities and Road Race refreshments were the discretion of the organiser. We have no jurisdiction. 

5.Financial Matters
County vests have been ordered and are ready for collection. They will cost about £400.
		Current A/C		2,083.46
Deposit A/C		  131.16
Building soc.		9,938.78
Total		            12,153.40
No change from last month.

6.Officials Report
It was proposed by R Lynch that an EDM course be arranged for this year.
The Committee felt that it should be stressed that referees must be nominated at all road races.

7. County Championships
a) Cross Country on 13.2.10 at Reaseheath
The date had to be deferred because of the icy conditions in January. The new closing date in 6.2.10.It was agreed that the County is obliged to make refunds for the entry fee, provided the request is made before the new closing date.
b) Inter County Cross Country at Cofton Park, Birmingham on Sat 13.3.10
A double decker bus has been booked. There will be 2 pick up points where parking will be available.
c) T&F at Macclesfield on 8/9.5.10
The track and St Johns have been booked.
d) Track Relays at Crewe on 3.7.10
The track has been booked and S Matthews is sending the invoice to the Treasurer.
e) Junior Multi events at Macclesfield on 12.9.10
The track has been booked.

8. Road Race Matters
a) The Helsby Half Marathon, last week, had 1500 runners. Electronic timing was used but there was a problem with one batch of chips. Fortunately, some manual recording was made which saved the day. It is to be recommended that manual back up is always provided.
b) This year only one Cheshire Championship Road Race is to be staged-there were 5 last year. The distance is yet to be decided. The belief that Cheshire Championships inspired more entries was unfounded.  The Grand Prix Programme has now been fixed.
c) The NW Road Relays will be hosted by Merseyside this year and it was agreed that Sat. 11.9.10 is a suitable date. R Lynch will tell M Dooling of our agreement to the date. George Jones is the organiser.
d) More club runners have taken part in Road Running that in the past 2 years.
e) The Parkland Runs have been very successful in which participation is free. The financial background to this remains a mystery to the committee.
f) England Athletics has introduced ‘Running England Scheme’ to encourage road running in which Alison Lysons plays a leading part.

9. England Athletics/NW Region/Northern Athletics Matters
The NW Regional Council will hold a meeting on 17.2.10 in Stretford to try to resurrect the body. Currently there are only 4 members: S O’Donnell, M Dooling, R Lynch & M Harris and I understand that A Johnson is to join it.
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10.Any Other Business
a) Athletics Network has submitted a new bid which has been accepted in principle but 3 more appendices have still to be sent in, The Network is open for others in the County to join.
b) The Cheshire AGM will be on Wed 17.2.10 at Frodsham Community Centre .No nominations or motions have been received by the Secretary yet.

BJ Warren, Secretary, 31.1.10