Committee of Management

Club Appointments

The February General Meeting will be Friday 27th March 2009 at the Community Hall on the corner of Todds Road and Ellis Street Lawnton commencing at

7:30 pm

The next working bee will be Sunday 5th April 2009 starting at 8:00AM.

MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING HELD AT LAWNTON COMMUNITY HALL ON 27 FEB 2009.

Meeting opened: 7.37 pm

Chairman: P Atkinson

Members Present as per the Attendance Book.

Apologies: G Grant, L Wherrett, R Garcia.

Confirmation of minutes of previous meeting: moved: D Thomas seconded: D Anderson carried.

Business arising from the minutes: Appointment of a bookkeeper - held over until next meeting.

President's Report: As published in Airwaves

Secretary's Report:
Inward Correspondence: As per Correspondence Book
Outward Correspondence: As per Correspondence Book

Treasurer's Report: As circulated.

CFI Report: One Bronze Wings was presented.

Field Maintenance Report: At the next working bee on 1/3/09 jobs to be done: fix drainage between runways, repair shadecloth in pits.
Committee to investigate digging of sullage pit.

Fuel Report: Methanol stocks received. Premix fuel now available in 4Lt containers at $25.

PRO Report: P Tompkins gave a talk to the Pine Rivers Rotary Club about PRAMS, and showed the certificate of appreciation that he received.

Library and Airwaves Report: Three new DVDs on order.

Moved that the reports be accepted: moved B Evans seconded P Benson carried

General Business: Amalgamation with Wamuran Club - no progress - waiting on Moreton Regional Council decision re Uhlmann Rd field.

C Parry has resigned from the Amalgamation Sub-Committee. P Heatherman has taken his place.

Moved D Harper, Seconded P Tompkins that a vote of thanks be given to D Anderson for all the work he has done installing the new generator. Passed by acclamation.

Victorian Fire Disaster Appeal: moved B Evans, seconded D Wherrett that $100 be donated by the club to this fund.

Moved D Anderson, seconded P Benson that the amount be increased to $500. The amendment was carried, and the amended motion that the club donate $500 to the Victorian Bushfire Disaster Appeal was carried.

We have been invited to put on a static display at Caboolture Airfield on Sunday August 2nd 2009. Any members interested please inform P Tompkins.

Meeting closed at: 8.15pm

COMMITTEE BYLINES
At the recent committee meeting the following subjects were discussed:
In order to keep better control of who has breakfast at working bees tickets will be issued to attendees up to 8.30am on that morning only! Anyone turning up later than 8.30 will be given working bee credit and breakfast at the discretion of the convenor.
A notice warning of helicopter spraying operations in progress is to be kept in the TX pound, Any member becoming aware of the helicopters in the vicinity is asked to display the notice in the Tx pound so that later arrivals are aware of the situation. The notice only to be removed once the heli pilot has signalled he has finished or the mandated 45 minutes has elapsed since the last sighting.
As the subject of the lease for the Uhlmann Rd site has not yet come up at a Moreton Region Council meeting, no further progress has been made.

LIBRARY NEWS
The latest DVDs have arrived - they include a 3D tutorial, two on the IRCH Jamboree 2008, Giant Planes USA 2008, Warbirds Over Delaware 2008 and the Tucson Aerobatic Shootout 2008. All are proving very popular!

Dave Harper

Letter to the Editor
Dear Sir or Madam
We have finally got our new market place web site up and running. Over the period of our first month, we had in excess of 5,000 hits with just over 1,800 people open our site and view the listings.
The only thing we need urgently now is new items for sale. LIST & SELL FOR FREE!
We ask for any assistance you can offer in getting the details of our new site out to your members inviting them to list their surplus hobby items.
Our success is directly linked to the success of those who sell and buy through our market place.
Any feedback in regards to the categories and subcategories and any recommended changes would also be greatly received.
Thanking you in anticipation. Kindest regards

David Grube Phone: 07 5451 0492
david@hobbies4sale.com
www.hobbies4sale.com

Forthcoming Events

See also the PRAMS 2009 Calender on the noticeboard at the field!