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2007 SOUTH EAST REGION AGM MINUTES
Saturday 10th March 07 at The Kings Arms, Ockley, Surrey, RH5 5TS
2007 SE AGM MINUTES
Members Present:
Melvyn Pettit - Chairman / Secretary
Selwyn Frostick - Treasurer
Tony Calvert - Z Register Liaison Officer
David Brentnall - Committee member
Pauline Wells - Committee member
Club members present: Russ Wollad + Doritte
Guest: Sarah Wells
Item 1. Introduction:
Melvyn Pettit opened the meeting by first thanking the members present for attending the least active event on the South East Region event calendar. Also explained that you should have a Agenda with the 2007 South East Region events calendar on the reverse side, and copy's of the 2006 AGM minutes and Treasures report.
Melvyn also thanked the Kings Arms landlord Andy for the use of the room for holding the AGM.
Item 2. Apologises:
Barry and Ann Gordge (Birthday treat in New York)
Item 3. Minutes of Last AGM:
Proposed by: David Brentnall and seconded by Selwyn Frostick
Item 4. Chairman's report:
I have once again thank the SE committee members for making the South East Region tick for another year. Special mention go to Tony Calvert for the two cars runs he organised, the August Goodwood run and the September Tulip rally. These type of event take a great deal of time to organise so thanks Tony.
Selwyn Frostick for again collecting and bringing Pauline and Sarah Wells to events. Also the Pub Meal meetings and Christmas lunch he arranged, and of course the up keep of caravan.
At 28th Feburary 2007 the region has 859 paid up club members
And for the 2006 event reports:
Unfortunately the years events started on a bad footing, as the weather worked against us for the first two outside events. WIND and Rain at Brands Hatch WTCC meeting, at least we did get to Nigel Mansell demonstrate the Nurburgring 24hr winning BMW M3 GTR, and the cancellation of the Enfield Pageant in May due to a water logged field. At least the Clubs National AGM at National Motorcycle Museum where we collected our club bronze pins was in the dry!
June - BCE meeting Vosges 2006 in France - once again our trip abroad had its excitement, just take a look at the video of Selwyn’s 02 on the parade lap! That only shows a little of the Tii antics on the trip. Thanks to Kathleen and Ron for making our groups payment easily for the event. Another great adventure to a European Country for a BCE meeting. Tony and I visited the SCHLUMPF COLLECTION - Mulhouse after the BCE meeting, It was only an hour away from Saulxures-sur-Moselotte the meetings venue. The Schlumpf brothers collection reached 500 cars with a large number of Bugatti’s in their collection. I would have included this in the BCE meeting itinerary, as it is well worth a visit.
July - Club Display and South East Region Concours. Hop Farm.
It was good that all the weather forecasts put this weekend’s outlook as hot and sunny and temperatures of 30’ degrees were right and our Saturday Night BBQ went well after the disappointment of watching England go out of the world Cup! Once again the raffle was popular. I have to thank club member Gordon Hyam who kindly donated the top prize of the Alexandra Calder BMW Art Car model, Other items in the raffle included items brought back by Selwyn from his Rally in Germany, plus a Staff T-shirt from the BMW Club Europa meeting Vosges 2006 donated by Peter Rust. Other items donated by Pauline Wells plus the usual BMW models and booby prizes. A big thank you to Pauline and Louise for selling the Raffle tickets. Concours D’Elegance
Class winners are as Follows:
Class D (1971 to 1975): Alan Blowers -1972 - 2002 auto
Class G (1986 to 1990): Gary Lawrence - E30 316i
Class H (1991 to 1995): Michael Johnson - 840ci
(who’s car is up for sale in the clubs March magazine).
Class J (2001 to 2005): Lionel Smith - 2003 - M3
First time Entrant: Gary Hutchins
Furthest Travelled: Ross Harris:
Car of the Show: Alan blowers 2002
The Glenn Wells trophy for Best Convertible present by Pauline Wells
went to David Cooke, for his E46 convertible
I must thank , David Brentnall, Tony Calvert and Selwyn Frostick for Judging in 30’degrees heat.
BMW Car Club South East Region won 1st prize in the Presentation Class at the event, so a very big thank you all the club members who attended the event either on the Saturday or Sunday, and making it another SE winning display.
August - Goodwood Breakfast Club Run - Another great day out, just a pity the breakfast at Goodwood did not live up to the billing .Tony reported that the club members enjoyed the event.
National Club Event at Gaydon.
Our region was well represented in the National Concours at Gaydon.
Allan Blowers 2002auto was runner up in the Presidents Trophy class.
Gary Lawrence E30 316i was runner up in the Master Class.
Lionel Smith E46 M3 came third in Master Class
Winners in the Open Class were: Group G : Tony Wakeling E30 M3
Group H: Chris Brown E46 Compact Group J: Gordon Hyam E46 M3csl
Well done all.
September - Tony’s Tulip Rally - Tony reported that the run went smoothly even though he had to do it in a hire car as his ZM Roadster need a little repair from a mishap in the rain.
Also in September the club was invited by Graeme Fillmore from the Daimler and Lanchester Owners’ Club to join their Stanton House event. And for the few who did attend thanked Graeme for a excellent day out.
December - Christmas Lunch - Again thanks to Selwyn for arranging and the staff of the Kings Arms for a excellent lunch.
Add in the monthly Pub meetings and again the South East Region members had the opportunely to take part in many different type of events in 2006
Item 5. Treasurers report: by Selwyn Frostick
Selwyn reported that invoices paid by the National office total was £117.89p
Petrol to tow Caravan to National club event at Gaydon: £70.00
Camping at Gaydon event: £11.50
Spark plug and Oil for generator: £8.99
Camping Gas £27.40
TOTAL £117.89
Proposed by: Melvyn Pettit and seconded by David Brentnall.
Item 6. Events Report for 2007 by Melvyn Pettit
Future event programme: for the region in 2007
1. JANUARY
Saturday 13th : Pub Meal - 7pm for 7.30p meal
2. FEBRUARY
Saturday 10th : Pub Meal - 7pm for 7.30p meal
Saturday 24th / Sunday 25th : London International Classic Car show
Alexandra Palace - 10am to 5pm- BMW Display by the 02 Register & 6-Series .
3. MARCH
Saturday 10th : SE AGM & Pub Meal - 6pm AGM - 7.30p meal
Wednesday 14th : Day of Champions - Brands Hatch - Free
4. APRIL
Sunday 1st : British Touring Car Championship - Brands Hatch
(TEAM RAC running 2 BMW 320si in series, BMW I series Diesel)
Saturday 14th : Delegates meeting - National Motorcycle museum, Birmingham
Sunday 15th : SE club visit to the New Mercedes Benz World at Brooklands.
Sunday 29th : A1GP World Cup of Motorsport - Brands Hatch
5. MAY
Saturday 12h : Pub Meal - 7pm for 7.30p meal (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Saturday 26th to Monday 28th : The Enfield Pageant of Motoring
6. JUNE
Sunday 3rd : Car rally to raise funds for Hospice in the Weald.
Thursday 7th / Sunday 10th : ADAC Zürich - 24hr Nurburgring
Saturday 9th : Pub Meal - 7pm for 7.30p meal (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Sunday 10th : The 19th London to Brighton Classic Car Run
Friday 22nd / Sunday 24th : Festival of Speed - Goodwood Park
Sunday 24th : Bromley Pageant of Motoring - Norman Park, Bromley
Saturday 30th / Sunday 1st: The Hop Farm - SE Concours
7. JULY
Sunday 1st : The Regions Concours and display - The Hop Farm
Saturday 14th / Sunday 15th : Essex Classic Motor Show - Saturday 28th / Sunday 29th : SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS 24hr.
8. AUGUST
Sunday 5th : BMW Car Club (GB) National Festival - GAYDON
Saturday 11h : Pub Meal - 7pm for 7.30p meal (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Sunday 19th : British Touring Car Championship - Brands Hatch.
9. SEPTEMBER
Saturday 1st / Sunday 2nd : The Goodwood Revival - Goodwood
Saturday 22nd / Sunday 23rd : World Touring Car Championship, Brands Hatch.
Saturday 22nd / Sunday 23rd: BMW 02 INTERNATIONAL MEETING
10. OCTOBER
Saturday 13th : Pub Meal - 7pm for 7.30p meal (TO BE CONFIRMED)
11. NOVEMBER
Saturday 10th : Pub Meal - 7pm for 7.30p meal (TO BE CONFIRMED)
12. DECEMBER
Sunday TBA: THE SE Christmas Lunch - (TO BE CONFIRMED)
There is just one more event to add to the Calendar on the back of Agenda.
That is the National event on Sunday 14th October 2007. The Bimmerfest is moved from Donington to Stoneleigh Park, Staffordshire. The club is looking for Region and Register displays at this 50% larger venue. So we hope the SE can put on a display.
Item 7. South East Region web site report by Melvyn Pettit
The SE web site was slightly redesigned in 2006. Late in 2006 the RSS news feed link was added to site. In 2006 there were technical troubles when Wanadoo was sold to Orange, the site hosts. This lead to some times the site being offline. Hopefully now all the integration has been completed. I have also added pictures in flash slideshow format to site. The E-Newsletter has grown to over 400 on list.
Web stats over the period of 4th March 06 to 4th March 07 are as follows:
33,875 new visiters tp web pages
Top 5 pages visited were:
1st - Homepage (20.92%)
2nd - Dealership + Links (8.31%)
3rd - News and web site updates (7.06%)
4th - Event reports menu page (3.65%)
5th - 2006 Calendar page (2.86%)
People from 112 counties have visited the site. Top 10:
1st Great Britain 72.03%, 2nd United States 7.28%, 3rd France 2.39% up from 6th last year.
4th Germany 2.06% down one place, 5th Belgium 1.59%, 6th Canada .96% up from 10th
7th Netherlands .92%, 8th Hong Kong . 75% , 9th Australia .5% , 10th Russian Federation. .67% of pages visited
73 search engines pointed people to the site
Top 3 Search Engines:
1st search.msn.co.uk (24.72%) up one place 2nd google.co.uk 20.31% down one place , 3rd uk.search.yahoo.com (14.06%) up from last year
Top 3 Browsers: 1st Internet Explorer (92.61%) up from 88.59%, 2nd Firefox (5.26%) down from 8.66%, 3rd Safari (1.09%) down from 1.24%
Top 3 Operating systems: 1st Windows 98.22% up from 97.70%,
2nd Macintosh 1.55% down from 1.99%, 3rd Linux .13% down from .19%
Out of the Top 600 Keyword strings entered into search engines: bmw dealerships was again top with over 8% of total.
The new design of the E Newsletter with direct links to the SE web site item has worked well over the year.
During 2006 I uploaded 13 videos to Google Video web site.
To date there have been 24,045 viewing of videos and people have downloaded free 542 videos.
I am planning to upload videos from 2007 events to the Google web site
The web site is sponsored by me and therefore no cost to the region.
I have also updated the information on the South East Region page on the main clubs web site.
Item 8. Election and re-election of Committee members:
Sarah Rootes for personal reasons resigned from the SE committee in 2006 and will not stand for re-election to committee.
Barry, David, Melvyn, Pauline, Selwyn, and Tony are to stand down and put themselves up for re-election.
2007/8 SE committee;
Re-elected: Melvyn Pettit - Chairman / Secretary
proposed by Dave Brentnall and seconded by Selwyn Frostick.
Re-elected: Selwyn Frostick - Treasurer
proposed by Dave Brentall and seconded by Melvyn Pettit.
Re-elected: Tony Calvert - Z Register Liaison Officer
proposed by Melvyn Pettit and seconded by Selwyn Frostick.
Re-elected: David Brentnall - Committee member -
proposed by Melvyn Pettit and seconded by Tony Calvert.
Re-elected: Pauline Wells - Committee member
proposed by Melvyn Pettit and seconded by Selwyn Frostick.
Re-elected: Barry Gordge - Committee member
proposed by Tony Calvert and seconded by Melvyn Pettit.
Elected: Peter Armstrong - Committee member
proposed by Selwyn Frostick and seconded by Melvyn Pettit.
Item 9. Any Other Business:
1. Melvyn asked if there were any questions that he should ask at the delegates meeting being held in April.
One main item that would need to be asked at delegates meeting related to the events calendar page in the club magazine.
Due to only being one or two months events in the publication, it needs to inclued a full years events lists published (on a rolling month basis). This would help club members arrange more easily their BMWCC event time.
2. Would club members who are helping out at events be asked to pay to enter the events. As the Chairman’s Chat in the March issue of the club magazine seems to imply that helpers will still have to pay to enter the event.
3. Selwyn asked why the organiser of Crews Hill, Enfield, Pub meeting which is advertised to be a South East Region did not have a contact number in the event calendar page. As he is getting telephone calls, and he knows nothing about it, and it makes us look disorganised. (Melvyn reported that he has already brought this up with Andrew at the club office, and is waiting a reply).
Item 10.:
Date of next AGM. - TBA - Proposed date is March 2008
The meeting started at 6.30pm and concluded at 7.25pm followed by a meal at the Kings Arms