KINDLY SPONSORED BY ‘THE NORTHERN SNOOKER CENTRE’
DELEGATES MEETING
MONDAY 9th DECEMBER 2013
HOLBECK WMC – 7-45pm
With a number of clubs still NOT attending meetings, the Management Committee direct
all club delegates to the current rules 24c, 24d & 24e, and expect a full attendance at this
meeting with NO apologies received. Thank you.
** AGENDA **
 Chairman’s opening remarks:
 Minutes & matters arising from the last Delegates Meeting held Monday 11th
November 2013 – (Minutes posted on the website – “About Us / Documents”):
 PAUL GRIMES – LEAGUE SECRETARY:
o Up to date Snooker league report.
 PETER HAWKYARD – COMPETITION SECRETARY:
o Leeds City Championships – Update,
o Sykes Cup (£5) & Len Lee Pairs (£11) – ALL FEES NOW DUE.
o Stan Brooke Memorial Snooker Singles, Pairs & Team Aggregate Competitions –
Entries can now be made on the website until 15th December for all 3!
 BOB PATTERSON – GENERAL SECRETARY / TREASURER:
o Register of attendees,
o Finances.
 Any Other Business / Correspondence received:
o Nothing received to date.
 Date of the next delegates meeting – MONDAY 13th January 2014:
(to be confirmed at this meeting)
THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL DELEGATES, CAPTAINS,
PLAYERS & THEIR FAMILIES A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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MINUTES
President:
Chris Williamson (CW)
Website Designer:
Michael Woodward (MW)
Management Committee present:
Vice-Chairman – Andy Taffinder (AT) – Acting Chair
League Secretary – Paul Grimes (PG)
Competition Secretary – Peter Hawkyard (PH)
General Secretary / Treasurer – Bob Patterson (BP)
Apologies:
Chairman - Rodney Sims (RS)
Chairman’s opening remarks:
The meeting was opened by Acting Chair for the night AT, deputising for Chairman RS who
was absent due to ill health, touched upon by BP.
Minutes & matters arising from the last Delegates Meeting held 11 th November 2013:
Points highlighted by BP from the previous delegates meeting were-:
o a unique EGM item which officially appointed Paul Grimes as the new
League Secretary retrospectively from the start of the 2013-14 season,
o subsequently, at the delegates meeting which immediately followed, PG's first
league report,
o in the absence of PH, competition fees primarily for the Leeds City
Championships were taken by AT,
o BP in his report as General Secretary, described again the letter sent at the
beginning of the season, to clubs which usually disallowed juniors from
playing in the league on Wednesday night, inviting them to ignore their rules
just for the night, and
o a very disappointing response to the November raffle / lottery.
No other matters were arising out of the minutes.
Proposed as a true record by Adrian Social and seconded by Beeston Hill Social.
PAUL GRIMES – LEAGUE SECRETARY’S REPORT:
PG started his input with a personal thank you to PH, for all his assistance in helping PG
start and settle into his new role.
PG announced points deductions concerning 2 matches in the D & G divisions for the late
submission of results, which show in red figures on the points column of the league tables
tab, but not necessarily which match is involved.
PG also confirmed there were 2 outstanding fixtures both in F division, and named the
teams involved, although he added both were due to be played on 17th December 2013.
Continuing on the same theme, PG told the meeting that quite a few teams were rearranging matches, which he said he didn’t particularly mind providing he is made aware
and told of the re-arranged date, but he didn’t think it was particularly good where some
teams were doing this that had more than a dozen players registered.
PETER HAWKYARD – COMPETITION SECRETARY’S REPORT:
PH gave an update on competitions already in progress or still to start, namely-:
 in the Leeds City Championships, the singles and pairs Snooker were well under
way and the team competition was opened for entries the day before the meeting 8th December 2013,
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 the dates for the semi-finals and finals of all the Leeds City Championships were
now fixed and were now shown on the website – under ‘news & events’ dated
22/11/13,
 the Sykes cup had attracted 93 entries and the draw for the 1st round had been
posted on the website on the 24th November, along with the 1st round for the Len Lee
Pairs;
 the Stan Brooke Memorial aggregate singles, pairs and team competitions were open
for entry but were at the time considerably down on last season,
 the Len Lee Invitation (usually the top 32 snooker players) would be next to start,
 then followed by the 3-man knock out at the end of the league season.
As a general point during his address, PH did ask for delegates and their teams, to try and
support the competitions as much as they possible could, since the actual numbers
entered, will have a bearing on the amount of LBSO funds to be spent on prizes come the
end of the season.
BOB PATTERSON – GENERAL SECRETARY / TREASURER’S REPORT:
BP as usual started by running down the list of clubs not in attendance - 6 out of 58 (10%)
- about average from the last few meetings.
On finances, BP quoted the figure of £8, 319-50 as being the official balance of the LBSO at
the time of the meeting, from £8,006-53 the previous month.
Finally, in an attempt to re-iterate the point made a little earlier by PH, BP told the meeting
that the entries for this seasons competitions to date were slightly up overall (with only the
LL Pairs down by 9 entries), however, with 5 snooker teams fewer in the league this year
(106 from 111), the overall fees deficit was approximately £200 compared to last year!
ANY OTHER BUSINESS / CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED:
None.
MONTHLY RAFFLE / LOTTERY:
Discontinued.
As was declared in the email dated 5th December and circulated to captains / delegates
prior to the meeting, despite the price of each ticket being reduced this season from £8 to
£5, mainly due to a lack of continued support from too many clubs, it has unfortunately
proved necessary to discontinue the monthly draw.
Intended as an item to encourage added interest at delegates meetings for the majority of
clubs attending, and not only for financial reasons, a lack of support by far too many clubs
has meant that the whole process has now become inefficient and more time consuming
than intended as a result.
Therefore, the draw is discontinued but thanks need to go to those clubs which did give the
idea regular support.
DATE OF NEXT DELGATES MEETING:
It was announced during this meeting, that it would be necessary to hold a meeting in
January 2014.
AT concluded the meeting by wishing everybody a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year, and
reminding everybody that the next meeting would be on Monday 13th January 2014.
Bob Patterson.
LBSO General Secretary / Treasurer
18th December 2013
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