THE LEEDS ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS
Minutes of the Council Meeting held at 7.15pm on Thursday 3rd October 2013 at the Cornerhouse Club Leeds.
1. Attendance. A. Kibler (President) in the chair with J. Shergill, J. Aldersley, B. Yates, M. Murray, I. Scholes, J. Bentley, A. Rogers and I. Blakeley.
2. Apologies for absence. J. McClarty, K. Hegarty and G. Toulson.
3. Minutes of the Previous Meeting, dated 5th September 2013 were, approved & signed.
4. Matters Arising. None.
5. Treasurers Report. Mr. Bentley reported the following transactions.
Withdrawals: –
Cash – £100.00
Headingley Golf Club (Room Hire) – £ 34.40
Taxi (cash) Kevin Hegarty – £36.00
Income: –
Wetherby Engineering – £40.00
He said we are still owed £495 from a company for the Golf Day, this is a significant sum of money when you consider last years income was just £1192. Mr. Rogers will find out whether they are accepting charitable donations in lieu of flowers at Michael Armstrong’s funeral. We agreed that £100 would be an appropriate amount.
6. Church Commemorative Plaque. Mr. Kibler contacted Tony Bundock (Vicar Of Leeds Minster) by email, to establish the procedure for getting approval for a commemorative plaque in the Minster. The reply was read out at the meeting. Essentially it described the process of making a faculty application. Tony Bundock offered his assistance in making the application, we decided the first step would be to visit the Minster and look at existing plaques so we could design a plaque in keeping with the others. A date needs to be arranged for this visit.
7. Correspondence. We received an email from Andrew McMahon saying he hoped to attend one of our lectures in the near future, however he would not be able to give us a talk due to his current work commitments.
8. Journal. Nothing to report.
9. Current Programme. We still have two spaces to fill. The Quick Silver and Interesting Bygones lectures are confirmed. Nigel MacKnight (Quick Silver) has agreed to deliver the lecture for a £200 donation to their project fund, plus his travel expenses. We agreed to place a donations bucket in the lecture theatre for the Quick Silver project, Mr. Kibler will provide appropriate bucket. Mr. Kibler and Mr. Murray have visited the Silver Birch (public house) at Cleckheaton where we have agreed to go for a carvery buffet after the ladies evening. They said the food is excellent and good value for money, the Landlord is prepared to section off an area of the pub provided we advise him our requirements in advance. Mr. Yates will give us a lecture on the 30th January 2014 on Zero Point Energy, Mr. Murray to follow up a lead he has on protective plastics for tanks, Mr. Rogers will speak to someone who might give us a lecture on Mine Engineering and Mr. Shergill will contact Leeds University to try get a lecture on Urban Development.
10. Membership. Nothing to Report.
11. Next Session. Nothing to Report.
12. Website. Nothing new to report, Mr. Scholes to send a photograph of himself to the Webmaster (Mr. Toulson) for adding to his profile on the council page of the website.
13. Golf. Nothing to report.
14. Annual Dinner. Mr. Rogers has written to the Lord Mayors office inviting the Mayor to next years Annual Dinner but has not received a response. It was suggested that a lady pilot from the flying club frequented by John Kelsall would be an ideal after dinner speaker. Mr. Yates will investigate whether she is available to speak at our dinner and what the cost will be. We agreed that we should keep the charge to our customers (members) to £25 but decided that we should be prepared to pay Leeds Seventeen more per head to secure a better menu. We also discussed the possibility of putting 2 bottles of wine on each table, but we need to find the cost before making a decision.
15. New Trustee. Due to the sad loss of Mr. Armstrong we need to nominate a new trustee. Mr. Yates proposed that Mr. Blakeley should become a trustee, he accepted and was seconded by Mr. Murray, it was agreed by a show of hands of the Council members present but needs ratification by the membership at the next AGM.
16. Lecture Venue. Mr. Rogers will confirm with our Cleckheaton venue (Scandura Club) that the hall is available for our proposed meetings.
Any other Business. Having no other business Mr. Kibler closed the meeting.
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