Queanbeyan Netball Association
Council Meeting 2015-02
Monday 23 February 2014, 7pm
Welcome
Mardi welcomed everyone
Attendees
As per attendance sheet (Attachment A)
Apologies
Peta Harding – Secretary
Confirmation of Minutes
The minutes of the Council Meeting of 23 February were circulated to attendees in advance of
the meeting. Moved – Deb Herekiuha Seconded – David McGilvray
The meeting minutes were accepted
Actions & Business Arising from Previous Meeting
 Nil
Correspondence
Incoming
 Nil
Outgoing
 Nil
Notices of Motion
Nil
Reports
 President: Grading began last week and has been going well: big thank you to Kelly and
Danielle for their enthusiasm in taking on the junior and senior chair roles respectively.
Rep Carnivals and State League also began this week, with big thank you to Deb
Herekiuha for ensuring everyone was ready to go.
QNA is in talks with QCC about repairing the cracks in courts and also looking at
upgrading other aspects of the grounds including the car parks. As part of these talks,
the QCC will also be looking more closely at the viability of possibly having an indoor
centre built that can function as both a netball centre and a community centre.
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Mardi has spoken with life member Bev Woodward about proposed changes to the Gala
Day and Bev is happy with the proposed new format and activities.
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Treasurer: Rena tabled a running sheet of payments made to date and added that the
recent community grant of $7500 for the Water Fountain has also been recently banked.
Invoices have gone out to all 11 – 15 age representative players.
The MYOB issue mentioned last meeting has been rectified with the accountant
donating her time to the QNA to help fix it: everything has now been entered and the
accounts are on track. Rena has also been creating new codes for rep matters as quite
a lot was being allocated to ‘miscellaneous’ which was making it hard to reconcile at the
end of the season: these new codes should alleviate this problem and there should be
no further issues going forward.
There were some concerns around the way representative expenses and income are
shown in the statements, primarily:
 Coaching Rep Honorarium: didn’t appear to be paid out of representative money
as there was $11058 expenses and only $4520 income
 Food for State Age ($1399 loss)
 Canteen sales ($3130 loss)
 State Age umpires ($1942 loss)
Given that the registration fees collected for the competition totalled $56405 and the
expenditure to Netball NSW was $24 747, it looks as though the additional income
generated was used to subsidise the representative program. The Executive advised
this wasn’t the case, though running everything from the same account does make the
reconciliation difficult.
There was discussion that rep expenses should run from its own account instead of the
general account and it was agreed that next year should look at changing the way rep
payments are managed.
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Junior Chair: Council have drilled additional holes in the posts on upper courts so more
net set go games can take place up top instead of on the bottom courts. Kelly also
reminded everyone of the connected and communities workshop on 30 April and asked
that at least 1 representative from each Club attend.
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Coaching Coordinator: Tina advised additional numbers are needed for the proposed
Development Course she wants to run otherwise it can’t go ahead. Attendees need to
have completed foundation course first. Between 5 – 10 people needed.
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Registrar: Laura thanked everyone for their work in the lead-up to the start of the
competition and advised she is currently working through late registrations as the
database has now closed. There are 617 registered members this season:
 243 juniors
 214 seniors
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 137 Net Set Go (can still be registered by Clubs)
 23 non-players
These players have been split into ages as follows:
 8&9 years: 7 teams
 10 years: 4 teams
 11 years: 5 teams
 12 years: 7 teams
 Cadets: 15 teams across 4 divisions
 Seniors: 18 teams across 4 divisions
Actions: Rena to be cc’d into all emails re: registration payments from Clubs as she
hasn’t been receiving them; Laura to send all Clubs a list of their registrations to date.

Publicity Officer: Rebecca advised that the Association has been approached by City
News to put in a column with Kevin Chamberlain about the QNA and its history: working
on content with the committee at the moment. A QNA Instagram account has been set
up for people to use for their weekend photos, etc.

Rep Convenor: Deb advised the QNA carnival on 1 March was a success with 41 teams
participating and all QNA teams working hard. The 11s and 17s participated in the
Shoalhaven carnival with the 11s finishing first.
Laura Gow has taken on the role of 14s Manager and Yasmine has taken on the same
role for the 17s. All managers have received player invoices for distribution and the
uniform orders are completed.
Club Reports
 Bungendore: held a meet and greet for the Club and have attracted three additional
senior players
 Jerra: all teams have been created and coaches allocated with teams starting training.
 Royals: 5 senior teams and 3 confirmed junior teams though trying to get an under 9s
team given some last minute registrations that have been received. The Top Pub will
continue as Club sponsor for the 2015 season
 Sunrise: numbers are looking good and have closed registrations as all 29 teams are at
capacity. Any additional interested players that contact QNA are to be directed to Laura
who can see where players may be needed across the QNA.
 Waratah: big thank to Jenna for her wonderful help within the Club. Are fielding 2 x
Cadets teams and look like may be able to field a div 3 senior team as well.
Discussion held around inclusion of 11 & 12 year olds in Cadets teams as it was
considered to be a bit of a “grey area.” Council disagreed, stating the policy is quite clear
and that players of 11 & 12 are not to be registered to play Cadets unless there is a
policy change: agreed that Registrar should police this and be checking team score
sheets.
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General Business
1. Nomination of Umpires Convenor and Senior Chair Person: Mardi advised there have
been nominations received to fill both positions and sought Council endorsement.
Senior Chair: Danielle Booth
Moved:
David McGilvray
Seconded:
Deb Herekiuha
Umpires Convenor:
Moved:
Seconded:
Virginia Cater
Catherine Clift
Kathy Fahey
Both positions were confirmed.
2. 2015 Competition Set-Up: Discussion was had around the set-up of the junior and senior
competitions based on grading and number of teams expected to be in each division.
Juniors
Proposed times for age divisions were:
8-9 years:
10am (8, possibly 9, teams)
10 years:
9am (4 teams)
11 years:
10.30am (5 teams)
12 years:
9am (8 teams)
Cadets:
mixture of 10.30am and 11am
Given the number of teams in divisions 1 and 2 of Cadets (3 and 2 respectively) it was
agreed that these should be combined into a single division throughout the season
before splitting at finals time. As such, it was agreed that Kelly go back and re-arrange
the times based on this change and have final game times out to delegates by COB
Thursday.
Seniors
Agreed that the best time slots for senior games are 1 and 2.30pm.
No big upsets during the grading weeks as all teams were quite fairly graded. As such
the break down for seniors will be:
Division 1 – 3 teams
Division 2 – 5 teams
Division 3 – 6 teams
Division 4 – 4 teams
No divisions will be combined throughout the season.
3. Proposal to re-vamp Gala Day: Delegates endorsed the proposed changes to the Bev
Woodward Gala Day based on discussion at the March Council Meeting and Mardi’s
subsequent discussion with Bev Woodward and obtaining her ok.
Agreed that activities will get underway at 10am. Clubs are running individual stalls:
Waratah: Sweets, Popcorn, Fairy Floss, etc
Jerra: Lolly Bags
Sunrise: Sweets
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Bungendore: Tombola
Royals: TBC
4. 2016 Sports Expo: Rebecca Jensen gave delegates a run-down of a proposal to run a
Sports Expo to give community members an understating of the sporting options
available to everyone around town.
Meeting Closed – 9pm
Next Meeting – Monday 27 April 2015, 7pm
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Attachment A
Attendees at Council Meeting 2015-03
Name
Deb Herekiuha
Mardi Croke
Danielle Booth
Kelly Lolesio
David McGilvray
Rebecca Jensen
Rena Spears
Tina Phillips
Sadya Tonelli
Terri Davis
Laura Gow
Catherine Clift
Elaine Clift
Kathy Fahey
Jenna Spears
Peter Newham
Narelle Wright
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Club
Waratah
President, QNA / Jerra
Bungendore
Jnr Chair, QNA / Sunrise
Jerra
Publicity Officer, QNA / Sunrise
Treasurer, QNA / Waratah
Coaching Coordinator / Sunrise
Vice President, QNA
Royals
Registrar / Jerra
Sunrise
Sunrise
Sunrise
Waratah
Royals
Bungendore
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