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Council
Minutes
All minutes
Minutes of the meeting
of the Council of the M&GN Joint Railway Society.
Held at the Pheasant Hotel, Lower Kelling,
on Saturday,
26th June 2007
Present:
Ashley Barrs (Vice Chairman), Tony Dewey
(Treasurer), Alex Galpin (Minutes Secretary), Hugh Harkett,
Tony Smith, Keith Bonson
Apologies:
David Bickell (Membership Secretary), Ben Fraser, Ian Lake,
Bill Last (President), Christina Kennedy (Secretary), David
Harris (Chairman), Nigel Scarlett, Richard Edwards, Phillip
Starks, Dennis Greeno, Bob Wright.
In Attendance:
Dave King (museum Curator), David Morgan,
Ted Yates, Joe Carr
07/25
Joe Carr was appointed as Museum Curatorial Advisor.
07/26
Minutes
Minutes of last Society Council meeting, held on 19.05.07
were approved and signed by the Vice Chairman.
07/27 Correspondence
None
07/28 BRCS Update
It was reported that the sheds doors were now completed.
Track 4 is due to be completed later in the year. The HLF
have extended the grant until 31/12/07.
07/29 Reports
B12
A B12 Action committee was nominated to progress the
overhaul with a target running date of February 2009. The
Committee's first task would be to fully assess the
potential costs of the work from estimates already provided
and also to consider obtaining further estimates if
necessary.
WD
Work concluded during the previous week using Chatham Steam.
An inspection is due by the boiler inspector during the
coming week. After this work can commence on re entry to
traffic but a realistic date of the end of July was noted.
Wissington
Report was noted
Diesels
More spares had been obtained for the Class 31. Due to the
increasing price of scrap copper, it was looking likely to
be a better deal to buy a whole locomotive, scrap for spares
and offset the additional cost against scrap value. This
option is to be investigated. Options for finance for the 04
are to be investigated.
J15
Report was Noted, with the retube due to be completed in
August.
JHCF
Report was noted
Quads
Report was noted.
Museum
Report was noted.
Marketing
No report forthcoming.
Treasurer
The Finance Report was noted and accepted.
Secretary
The Leases for the BRCS and Museum were still outstanding.
Membership
The membership report was noted.
HRA
David Morgan brought us up to date on the HRA’s strenuous
efforts being made regarding the imminent smoking ban. It
was resolved that all society locomotives would have no
smoking signs placed in unobtrusive places, e.g. inside the
tool box.
07/30 Statutory Accounts
year ending 31 January 2007.
The Treasurer presented the final draft of the full
statutory accounts for approval and explained the formal
letters between the auditors and the Council, neither of
which contained any matters of concern.
Both the full accounts and annual report and summarised
accounts were approved for signing.
07/31 2009
Another Action group was set up in order to progress
planning for this event with all haste.
07/32 AOB
AGM
The schedule of meetings for the day to fit in with the
NNR's meetings was agreed.
Meet the council Day
A suggestion was made for a meet the council day for the
21st October. This was to be investigated with a view to
using this as a type of recruitment drive for volunteers
during special events.
07/33 Date of Next Meeting
The date for the next meeting was fixed - 18th August (AGM)
13.30 at Sheringham Community Centre.
Other future dates
were noted as: 20th October and 17th November 2007.
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