Newcastle Hang Gliding Club “Zoom” Meeting Minutes 29/07/2020
Present:  Adriaan, Jamie, Prudence, Kyle, Conrad, Frans, Ian Ladyman, Gary Herman, JOD, Alan Giles, Gary ,  Craig Hand, Mark Kenney, Brad Patfield, JT, Don Gardner, John Harriot, Ben.
Apologies - Billo
Last Minutes – moved Craig Hand 1st, 2nd Prudence, 3rd Alan.
Business Arising from last meeting Minutes
Watagans Launches
Landing at the bottom of NE Heaton only in an absolute emergency otherwise land at Carmels.  Adrian, Karl and Royce are in the process of approaching landowners at the base of NE Heaton to secure an emergency bomb-out paddock.
The working bee at NE Heaton was absolutely amazing 40+ people turned up to help with the finishing touches.  Big thanks to all that turned up.  Special thanks to Morgan for the use of his work truck to transport the astro-turf.
Ongoing work is a weather station at Heaton Telco tower.  If not successful a suggestion was two weather stations, one located at Heaton and one at Hunter.
New signage for the Watagans launches is also still to be organized.
Conrad added that now the Hunter launch is fixed and will be much busier, Christmas presents to the landowners needs to be sorted, so we can give to them in November.  To be included in the next meeting agenda.
Hickson St launch
Hickson Street Signage: Adriaan has communicated with Kate who informed him that the lady responsible for doing the signage is now available and should be producing the final design. She stated that guidelines for signage are very strict and that we should expect the final result to be different from what we imagined
A new weather station was erected at Hickson St launch by Ian Ladyman. (https://tempestwx.com/station/4555/graph/48782/wind/1)  Ian said to look at the max wind rather than the average.  Rain drops affect the wind readings so ignore the readings when it is raining.
New Business
Karl Kindle nominated for life membership for his long-standing service to the club in various roles including president – Zoom poll 100% yes result.  Well deserved.  Thank you very much Karl!
AGM Board Election
Zoom poll results
President – Adriaan Mulder – 100% Yes
Secretary –Jamie Oorschot – 100% Yes
Vice President – Rory Duncan – 100% Yes
Treasurer – Craig Hand – 100% Yes
Competition Director – Karl Kindle – 100% Yes
Congratulations!
Big thanks to Ben for his 3 year stint as treasurer.  In that time he has gone from bachelor to family man!
Also a big thanks to Frans for his help getting the club website online pay system up and running.
Flying
Despite it being winter there has been a fair bit of flying activity,
-    Sunday after Watagans busy bee a bunch of Paragliders and Hang Gliders flew Glennies (a note from Ian Ladyman – you don’t need to sign a waiver to fly Glennies)
-    A HG towing day at Denman.  John Harriot and friends boating around at 5-6k cloud base for a half our or so.  One HG pilot was learning to tow.
-    Jamie and John Boy did nil wind launches off the new NE Heaton launch in their HG floaters.  Straight glide to Carmel’s landing with 250-350ft to spare.
-    PG pilots off new NE Heaton in Int wing (100kg).  Made Carmels with 100ft to spare!
Financial Report produced by Ben:

Newcastle Hang Gliding Club Financial Report FY 2019-20
Income & Expenses
Income Expenses Profit/Loss
Club $10,303.79 $7,688.11 $2,615.68
CWC 19 $11,225 $10,847 $378.20
CC 20 5486.71 4,976 $511.06
NSWST 20 $5,431.20 $5,029.90 $401.30
Total $32,447.10 $28,540.86 $3,906.24
Assets
Cash (End of FY2019-20) 24136
Profit / Loss $3,906.24
Cash (End of FY2019-20)
Predicted $28,042.24
Actual 28253.37
Notes
1. Cost of sanctions for CWC ($337) and NSWST ($292.50) not included in expenses here
as paid for by NSWHPA
2. Profit for the financial year included income from grants for the current Watagans
Project, with payments for this incomplete at end of financial year. If all income & expenses
associated with this project were excluded the club would have a loss of $2231 for the
financial year.

Meeting closed.