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SPEEDSCENE April 2008
NEW CLUB PREMISES
The club now has a new club premises at 10/22 Jaygee Crt Nerang (off Spencer Rd) Ph 55272522 Fax 55272566. It is being manned by Kathy Thompson every Wednesday, Friday & Saturday for Membership & Licence renewals. We will also be using it for Management & General Meetings.
CLUB MEETING DATES
The club will be holding it’s general meetings on the following dates starting at 7.30pm 8th of April, 6th of May, 3rd of June, 1st of July, 5th of August, 7th of September, 7th of October , 4th of November. All these meetings will be held at 10/22 Jaygee Court Nerang.
RACE MEETINGS IN 2008
The club has finalised the following dates for away race meetings this year 24th August & 19th October at Cooloola, & the 23rd of November at Toowoomba. The next meeting will the one at Cooloola on the 24th of August , this meeting is on just before the Closed Queensland Titles which will also be held at Cooloola in September. Racing will be clockwise. We may be able to hold another race meeting at Cooloola in October (using their date) this will be run anti clockwise. This will be confirmed shortly.
CLASSES WE WILL BE RUNNING AT ALL OUR RACE MEETINGS
Rookies,Midgets, Junior National Light, Junior National Heavy
Officials for Race Meetings
The AKA (Qld) has requested that we canvass our members for more people to be trained as officials for race meetings in Queensland. Please contact the Club if you are interested and we will pass your details on to The State secretary.
E-NEWS SIGNUP
Please help the club by letting other karters know that we now have our E-NEWS section of our website up and running.
Thanks must go to Gemma Beckett and Ken Wooton for making this happen. Now that we haven’t got a track, e-news is the main way we have of letting our members know about stuff that is happening.
We will be sending out e-news whenever we have something to pass on. There are only about 150 people signed up at the moment. SIGN UP NOW ON THE CLUB’S WEB SITE
PRESIDENTS REPORT April 2008
There has been a lot of water under the bridge since my last report on the 4th of February. It was a big job to remove from Day’s Park all the equipment that we might need for the future.
We now have 3 containers full of stuff stored temporarily at Parklands.
It will probably have to be moved within 12 months, to a new location, (hopefully that we will own.)
I was disappointed with the amount of help we received from ordinary club members. As usual it was left to a few. Thanks must go to Pat Buckley, Geoff Salmon, Robert Akes, John Sewell, Mick & Francis King, Kathy Thompson & Robbie Daniels.
Our focus now is on relocation & basically at the moment we are waiting to see the master plan for the proposed i-METT motorsport precinct. This is due out in June or July, once this happens we will be able to identify suitable blocks of land that will be adjacent to the proposed motorsport precinct. At the moment any land we find, we can’t act on without knowing where it will fit into the precinct, and this isn’t available until June of July.
The Government won't be making a decision on the go ahead for the project until the end of the year at the earliest. In the meantime we will trying to get a meeting with Paul Lucas the Minister for infrastructure & planning to see, how he sees the clubs involvement, and to try to short circuit the approval process.
At our last meeting with i-METT we agreed to exchange letters confirming in writing the basic details, under which we may be able to proceed with our involvement with the i-mett proposal, these include:
Time frame for approval by the Qld Government. Date for commencement of construction.
Cost of land if it was purchased from i-METT. Possibility of the establishment of a temporary circuit.
The Beaudesert option is still under consideration with few developments to pass on. Though I am pleased to tell you that we will be having a meeting with the Department of water resources regarding some crown land which is ideally situated 10k from Beaudesert & about 40k from Nerang.
Our first away race meeting was held at Warwick on 27th of April with about 84 entries which I thought was great, A big thank you to Jo Yarwood for organising everything. Also thank you to the WKC members who also helped. We really need more club members to step forward and help if we going to be able to continue running away meetings.
FORMATION OF TRUST
APPROVED
At our special general meeting held in March it was resolved by the members that the club form a trust to own the clubs assets.
This has been approved by the Dept of Fair Trading.
A draft of the trust deed is being drawn up by our lawyers and will be presented to the club members for approval in the near future. This trust will be independent of the Clubs Management Committee, although the committee will be represented on the board of the trust . All the details are due to be discussed and decided upon in May.
VOLUNTEERS
The Club has an urgent need for people to help out on race day.
The Volunteers who have been doing the race entries and the AMB timing system have burn’t themselves out and we need some new people to give them a break. The Jobs are generally in an airconditioned environment and involve working the till, typing in entries & lap scoring
For more info please please please please
contact :
The Race Secretary
Jo Yarwood. 0418 730 744
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