PRESENT: Gavin Stewart, (president), Karen Rusling,
(secretary), Jenny Barnes, (treasurer), and 16 financial
Members,
Marion Prisk.
APOLOGIES: Brian Gray, Peter Henry, and Trevor Weir.
C JONES/G STEWART CARRIED
MINUTES: The minutes of the 7th Annual General
Meeting, of Kiwi Sports Sedans were read and confirmed as
A true and correct record.
T STEWART/A MONTGOMERY CARRIED
MATTERS ARISING:
No matters were raised.
SERIES CO-ORDINATORS REPORT:
Mr. Phil Small was unable to attend, but
Gavin Stewart spoke on Phil’s behalf. It was reported that
Phil was very pleased with our numbers
on the starting grids. Most of the splits and the handi-
capped races went well.
G STEWART/C JONES CARRIED
TECHNICAL OFFICERS REPORT:
Mr. Trevor Weir was also unable to
attend, but Marion Prisk spoke on his behalf. It was reported
that Trevor was pleased with the class.
Marion also mentioned that it would probably be a good
idea, if in the very near future we
thought about somebody else learning how to the Technical
officers job as well.
M PRISK/G BARNES CARRIED
TREASURERS REPORT:
Mrs. Jenny Barnes tabled the financial
report for the previous year. She went into detail explaining
the class running at a lost for the
year, due to there being no sponsorship money in this year, but
also mentioned that the class still has
money in the bank.
J BARNES/G STEWART CARRIED
SPONSORSHIP REPORT:
Mr. Tony Stewart spoke regarding the
company “To hot to Handle” that last year offered to find our
class sponsors for the year, but
unfortunately they started to late in the year and our season
was
already into our 2nd round.
He also mentioned that another sponsor was maybe interested in
our
class, this season. But unfortunately
that has not come about either. Tony took the innovative him-
self
to do media releases regarding our class, for the season, and
with that we got quite a lot of media coverage in various
newspapers around the North Island. It was decided after a
general
discussion that Gavin would talk to Evan Munt, the president of
South Island Osca. If a previous
sponsor from last year would be prepared to sponsor the North
Island as well, as the South?
We
need a minimum of $3,000.00 to cover our series, if this sponsor
is prepared to sponsor the North Island we will run the sponsors
window banners. But if this does not happen we will try to
find
a North Island only sponsor. Mark Allan suggested that he
thought that it would be easier for the class to find smaller
amounts for donations, rather than a large amount. He very
generously offered the amount of $500.00 for I round, if the
class could find the other 4.
A
motion was then put forward that a sub committee is formed
solely to concentrate on sponsor-
ship
and fundraising. The sub committee comprises of the following
members
Cameron Jones
Mark Burgess
Tony Stewart
Chris Coleman
G BARNES/G STEWART CARRIED
ELECTION OF OFFICERS:
SERIES CO-ORDINATOR:
MRS MELAINE COLEMAN
C COLEMAN/M BURGESS CARRIED
SERIES TECHNICAL
OFFICER: MR TREVOR WEIR
G STEWART/G BARNES CARRIED
TREASURER: MRS JENNIFER
BARNES
G BARNES/C JONES CARRIED
SECRETARY: MRS KAREN
RUSLING
G BARNES/A WARD CARRIED
PRESIDENT: MR CAMERON
JONES
G BARNES/T RUSLING CARRIED
COMMITTEE: MR ALAN
MONTGOMERY
G STEWART/T RUSLING CARRIED
MR MICHAEL YORWARTH
T STEWART/G STEWART CARRIED
MR TONY RUSLING
M BURGESS/M ALLAN CARRIED
MR GAVIN STEWART
M BURGESS/C COLEMAN CARRIED
MR GRAHAM BARNES
T RUSLING/G BAGRIE CARRIED
ALL POSITIONS CARRIED AND ACCEPTED
REVIEWING OF SOUTH ISLAND ARTICLES:
Gavin pointed out the differences in the
North Island Osca Articles, and the South Island Osca
Articles, the only thing that was
different to our articles that concerned us was the points.
Gavin
Motioned that we should change our
points system. The members voted it on
IN FAVOUR OF CHANGING POINTS SYSTEM 2
NOT IN FAVOUR OF CHANGING 14
NOT CARRIED
It was also the suggested that we also
should have a separate points system for the following
Classes, GT 1, GT 2, GT 3 and GT 4.
IN FAVOUR OF HAVING POINTS FOR CLASSES 16
NOT IN FAVOUR OF HAVING POINTS FOR CLASSES 0
CARRIED
RACE 1 FASTEST TO
SLOWEST - STANDING START
The South Island formats are also
different to North Island, Race 1 for North Island is a Standing
Start, for the South Island it is a
rolling start. It was decided to vote on the change.
IN FAVOUR OF ROLLING START 3
IN FAVOR OF STANDING START 13
NOT CARRIED
RACE 2 REVERSE GRID, SLOWEST TO FASTEST
It was decided that the split needed to
be changed. It was tabled that the split should now be a
single split for under 20 car grid 107%.
A double split for over a 20-car grid, which will be
105% and 110%.
IN FAVOUR OF CHANGING SPLITS 14
NOT IN FAVOR OF CHANGING SPLITS 2
CARRIED
RACE 3 HANDICAPPED
The drivers discussed not having the
breakout penalty in the rules, but it went to vote.
IN FAVOUR OF KEEPING BREAKOUT PENALTY 15
NOT IN FAVOUR OF KEEPING B/OUT PENALTY 1
CARRIED
After that a discussion then arose with
the drivers about the breakout time for this race. Some felt
That it should be changed from .5sec to
1.0sec. A motion was then tabled to change this.
IN FAVOR OF CHANGING .5 SEC TO 1.0 SEC 15
NOT IN FAVOR OF CHANGING .5SEC TO 1.0 SEC 1
CARRIED
ROUNDS: After a general discussion regarding the rounds,
and where they would like to race, it was voted on
TO DO 6 ROUNDS - 3
TO DO 5 ROUNDS - 9
UNDECIEDED - 4
CARRIED TO DO 5 ROUNDS
There will also be the opportunity for
drivers to race in the South Island, but they will not receive
Series points for the North Island if
they race.
Members also asked it if we could now
return to Pukekohe, for one of our rounds? It was
decided that if we can get a meeting we
will attend, and this will be included in our five round
series.
M YORWARTH/C JONES CARRIED
The other 4 rounds, will be held at
Taupo and Manfeild, but as the conference has not yet been we
can not decide on the dates. Cameron is
attending the conference and will try to get the bigger
profile meetings. Dates for these are to
be advised.
NUMBERS: There was a concern of the drivers having to
change their numbers, when the South Island drivers
attend our meetings. Gavin said that
there was a verbal agreement with the South Island that when
we raced in the South Island, we would
change our numbers. And when they raced in the North
Island they would change theirs, but
this did not happen. There was then a motion put forward by
Marion Prisk that we should put in our
Series Articles that when visitors attend our meeting racing
under Osca, if we have a double up of
numbers the visitors are to change their numbers.
M PRISK/A ANDERSON CARRIED
REMITS: There was 3 remits tabled, but it was noted
that we could not accept or decline the remits as they
have to be tabled at South Island AGM.
Cameron and Gavin are attending and they will table these
remits to the South Island Committee.
SETTING OF FEES FOR SERIES PERSONNEL:
These were adjusted last year, and it
was decided that they are to stay the same.
A WARD/M YORWARTH CARRIED
PATRONS TROPHY:
Marion was asked whether she would like
to run the Patrons Trophy again this year, she replied
yes, but also indicated that this is her
last year in Motorsport, she feels that it is time for her to
step
back, and have a rest and enjoy watching
a few meetings instead of working at them all the time.
so this is possibly the last year of the
Patrons Trophy, unless another Patron wishes to continue with
this. Gavin thanked her for her support
for another year.
GENERAL BUSINESS:
The secretary regrettably forgot to put
the Subscriptions on the agenda so this was tabled under
General business.
A motion was put forward to increase the
current subscriptions from $70.00 up to $100.00 for a
Competing member due to the increase in
everything from paper to postage, also including
payment for the series personnel. The
fee of $20.00 for a non competing member is to stay the
Same.
G BARNES/C JONES CARRIED
Karen Rusling advised the meeting, that
Trevor Weir had offered our class in conjunction with the
Manawatu Car Club to run/host a meeting
at Manfeild. As Trevor was unable to attend Karen asked
Marion to help with the numerous amounts
of questions that the members had. The Manawatu Car
Club gets 15 free days a year from
Manfeild Trust, to use at their own discretion. A couple of the
members were sceptical about possibly
doing this, what will it cost? How do we get the drivers?
Is it advertised as an OSCA meeting? A
lot of the drivers talked about the meetings that they have
helped to organize and explained how to
get the drivers, Marion explained briefly overhead costs.
It was then decided that as Karen attend
the Manawatu Car Club meetings, that she is to follow
this up, as the majority of the drivers
thought it was a fantastic idea. She is to report back to
OSCA committee after the next monthly
meeting with Manawatu Car Club.
G BARNES/A ANDERSON CARRIED
Marion Prisk pointed out that in our
Series Articles we should also have it noted who our official
Points person
is. M PRISK/G STEWART CARRIED
Marion also mentioned to the members
that were not aware of the Manawatu Car Club magazine,
which is published monthly, that we are
more than welcome to use this for buying, selling, and
any other info about our class.
Karen mentioned to the members that
didn’t also know that they can join the Manawatu Car Club,
with being a member this offers them 50%
of the price of test days at Manfeild, just by being
a member.
The committee had also decided that Ms
Marion Prisk would be verbally given a Life membership
of OSCA North Island, at the prizegiving
later that night, in recognition of her tireless work, help
and advice with our class which is now
OSCA North Island and under the pervious name of Kiwi
Sports Sedans.
This being no further business the
meeting closed at 4.25PM
GAVIN STEWART
PRESIDENT
