Council Meeting Minutes – May 2015

THE LEEDS ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS

Minutes of the Council Meeting held at 7.15pm on Thursday 14th May 2015 at the Cornerhouse Club Leeds.

  1. Attendance.  A. Kibler (Immediate Past President) in the chair with, J. Aldersley, I. Scholes, M. Murray, and I. Blakeley.
  1. Apologies for absence. G. Toulson, K. Hegarty, B. Yates, A. Rogers, J. Shergill and J. Bentley.
  1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting, dated 2nd April 2015 were, approved & signed.
  1. Matters Arising. Nothing to Report. 
  1. Treasurers Report. Mr. Bentley had submitted his report by email which we briefly discussed. Our only query related to whatever money was collected from the people attending does not seem to appear in the credits for the ladies evening unless this was reported at a previous meeting. The following is Mr. Bentley’s submission:-

Treasurer’s report for Council May 2015

Current A/C Bank statements 25 March and 24 April 2015. 

Debits

Leeds City College Ladies Evening                £412.50

Ditto                                                                                £33.00

Quicksilver donation                                            £100.00

Church plaque and web                                      £483.00                                          (Web £57.58  Plaque £426.00)

Headingley Golf Club (Annual Dinner)      £1424.00

Credits

3 ½% war stock dividend                                    £20.35

Subscriptions                                                             £15.00

War stock Investment repaid                          £2160.53

3 ½% Consolidated stock Dividend               £4.81

2 1/2% Consolidated stock Dividend           £3.75

2 ½% stock Investment repaid                          £275.00

Balance hidden for publishing on Internet                 £*****

Note that Investments repaid keep us in credit on this statement. See credit below.

Transactions not in above statements

Debits

REA Cleckheaton Room Hire up to AGM     £81.00

Nigel MacKnight Speaker expenses                £50.00

Lord Mayor’s Charity                                                £65.00

Made up from £62 cash collected to “round number”.   Mayor has responded and says Lady Mayor has recovered.

Credits

Subscriptions                                                               £15.00

Dinner Raffle                                                               £62.00

Cheques for Dinner  to LAE not Alex             £275.00

Cheque from Alex for Dinner                             £1025.00

Cash A/C

Payment

D. Jagger Annual Dinner Speaker                 £75.00

A. Kibler Hull Dinner Expenses                       £87.00

Dinner drinks   (Andrew +JB)                          £25.00

Church Lunch                                                           £140.00

Tip collected and Paid                                         £11.00

Cash in hand                                                              £13.20.

Savings A/C no change

Note that our investments have been repaid and the last one is due to be repaid in July. We have no option with this, it has been repaid and that is it. At least we get full face value.  We therefore lose about £75 a year on dividends.

Graham Malinson our Auditor has waived his fee for this year and says he will not charge next year as the job is so easy now !  I suggest we invite him to our 150th dinner as a guest in recognition of the work he has done over the years.

I will retain the ‘high’ current account to cover payments we may need to do to pay for the Golf Day until Steve Stacey collects all payments.  J.B.

  1. Church Commemorative Plaque. A date is to be set in July 2015 for placement of the Plaque in its final position in the Lady Chapel at Leeds Minster.  Kibler commented on a good attendance at the Annual Church service by our membership and how well the Leeds Association of Engineers were brought into the service by the temporary Chaplain.  He also commented that the meal after the service at the Palace Public House was very good.
  1. Correspondence.  Nothing to Report.
  1. Membership.  No new members, although Mr. Murray reported possible interest from a company he deals with, he is trying to persuade them to become a corporate member. Mr. Aldersley said he has someone at the model engineering club who might be interested and will pass their details to Mr. Murray (membership secretary).
  1. Current Programme. Murray suggested the lake at the back of the Casa Restaurant at Brighouse could be a possibility for the mid- summer walk, he will try check out the route to see if it is appropriate. Walk date is 18th June so it needs to be decided quickly so we can publicise.
  1. Next Session. Yates is well on with the programme although many of the things he has pencilled in at the moment are subject to confirmation. Mr. Kibler said he thought a visit to look around Leeds Minster could be a possibility, he thought the Church Warden Peter Hart might be the person to approach. Mr. Scholes has started work on producing a new programme sheet but of course this will keep changing until programme is finalised.
  1. Website.  Nothing to report other than it is all up to date.
  1. Journal.  Nothing to report.
  1. Golf.  Mr. Murray to contact Steve Stacey for information to put out on the flyer.
  1. Annual Dinner. Mr Kibler commented that people who attended were happy with the new venue and felt the menu and quality of the meal had improved. The feeling around the council table at the meeting was that we like the formal dinner we currently have and we should discuss it very seriously before changing the format in the near future (after the 150th anniversary).

Any other Business.  Having no other business Mr. Kibler closed the meeting.

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