Winter League
We have previously reported on the new 'Decline Promotion' rule change voted in by the teams at the Winter League Annual General Meeting last week but that wasn't the only business conducted. There were two other rule changes voted in. Both very straightforward as teams voted in favour of starting League matches at the earlier start time of 11.00am. This in turn triggered a deadline for teams to be informed of any postponements no later than 10.00am on matchdays to be made by the host club.
One rule change that failed to attract the majority vote was the proposal to limit the number of promoted and relegated teams in each Division to one team to go up and one team to go down. There was very little support for this change and it fell well short of a majority vote.
All the currennt serving League officials and Management Committee members offered to stand again and all were voted back into office en-block.
The Treasurer produced a Financial Statement covering the last year and that showed that the League had a total income of £1,249 which more than covered the £777.14 expenditure and no increase to the £15 annual League fee to clubs is planned. However the cost to teams for their weekly fix of bowling is to increase from the £10.00 to £12.00 (£3 per bowler) for the new season. All this income goes to the host greens in return for green fees, hot drinks and biscuits and a raffle ticket per bowler. This is the first increase in this fee in the 5 years that the League has been in operation.
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