{"id":87,"date":"2002-02-09T23:15:16","date_gmt":"2002-02-09T22:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=87"},"modified":"2007-07-23T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T16:00:30","slug":"board-meeting-5th-february-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Trust Board Meeting, 5th February 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Present: James Proctor, Blair White, Tom Phillips, Chris McFarlane, Neil Langtree, George Howie, Eddie Doig<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Minutes of previous meeting (4 Dec 2001)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meeting agreed they were a true record.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Treasurer&#8217;s report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reported \u00a35,700 in the account with income of approximately \u00a3570 per month from standing orders.<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer agreed to investigate the merits of a high interest account.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Membership update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Membership now stood at 73<\/p>\n<p>Chairman stated that an additional 4 former &#8220;Friends of the Rovers&#8221; had joined.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary commented that he had started a rolling programme of writing to members who paid by annual fee. It was hoped that these members would renew their membership but it was inevitable that some might not.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Constitution update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With reference to the Registered Office, the Board had not received a response from Gibson &#038; Spears, Dow &#038; Son.<\/p>\n<p>After this aspect had been confirmed, the Chairman would put in motion the process of formally registering the Society.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman reported that he had received several emails from SISCo which indicated that they were hopeful of some movement on the creation of a Scottish Supporters&#8217; Direct. Board agreed that this might take some time to become established and that it should pursue formal registration as a matter of course.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Next Trust General Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 7th March agreed &#8211; Chairman to confirm use of Raith Suite with RRFC<\/p>\n<p>Agenda to include someone from club to talk about the club&#8217;s youth development programme and how the Trust&#8217;s money is making a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Opportunity to increase the Board&#8217;s strength and\/or invite members to assist with some projects<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Any other business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Euro 2008 &#8211; SISCo was seeking an endorsement from Scottish Supporters&#8217; Trusts for the bid. Item to be on General Meeting agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Trust logo &#8211; final design agreed. GH to arrange headed paper and compliment slrips to value of \u00a3100.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Baxter Memorial Fund &#8211; This would be an agenda item at the next General Meeting &#8211; giving the members the opportunity to vote on whether to make a donation to the fund. ED reported that a disco had been organised for 2nd March with all profits towards the fund.<\/p>\n<p>Quiz &#8211; Supporters&#8217; Club did not want this organised in March &#8211; they have a lot on. The Trust will need to take the lead from the SC on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Dialogue &#8211; Reported that several individuals (non-members) had queried the motives of the Trust. Trust Board agreed to invite them to attend the next Board meeting to put their point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Badges &#8211; Secretary had received quotes for enamel badges. He&#8217;ll circulate the relevant email.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>Dates of next meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Board meeting (TBD)<\/p>\n<p>General meeting: Thursday 7 March (TBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Present: James Proctor, Blair White, Tom Phillips, Chris McFarlane, Neil Langtree, George Howie, Eddie Doig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes-board-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}