WDA Pre AGM notes from Secretary

WEST DURHAM AMALGAMATION

AGM
ESH WINNING
DATE Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 8-00pm
PROPOSALS
OFFICIALS
A/P--All Officials re-elected, Seconded by D/Ton, D/V, CF, CK
CK—Weather Committee:- P.Matthews, S.Meadows, M.Wade. If willing to accept-AP
CK—Emergency Committee, P.Matthews, S.Meadows, M.Wade, A.Brown, A.Coils if willing-AP
T/D—Emergency Committee to have power to bring race forward and have ability to alter race
point- ALREADY HAVE POWER
D/V—Other Feds to have a say on weather committee rather than all from top side-WD

O/Bs INLAND, PROGRAMME ON GRAPH

D/V—O/B all up together. Seconded by CK
D/V-- Replace Eastbourne & Billericay with new race points -WD
A/P—Replace Eastbourne Nat with Maidstone, having 2 Maidstones-DV
A/P—Replace 1st Billericay race with Buckingham or similar distance-DV
A/P—Find replacement point for Billericay, O/B &Y/B Seconded by W/D
W/D—Basket normal times on Saturday if race postponed, O/B & Y/B Seconded by N'C
T/D—Billericay Yearling race be part of WDA programme and all ages allowed to be sent for Club
and Fed honours only, All yearlings sent be £1-WD
T/D-- Normal basket time for Billericay, O/B & Y/B-CON
N/C—Basket 1 hour early for Billericay, O/B & Y/B-AP
N/C-- Basket 2 hours early for Maidstone, O/B & Y/B-CON
T/D-- O/B Programme, see graph
CF—DISPATCH:- In the event of a race being put back 24 hours pick up times to be left to
discretion of officials, O/B &Y/B-DV
Looks like o/b race programme same as 2017 with maybe EASTBOURNE and BILLERICAY
replaced with ????

CHANNEL

CF—Longest race be Tours-AP
A/P—Only one open race and that to be Queens Cup-AP, DV, CON, WD
T/D—Support all NEHU races, Seconded by N/C
Looks like channel will be BURBURE/??, ROYE QC, TOURS, ROYE NAT, BURBURE/??

Y/B GROUPS

CON—Any Fed proposing groups are forced to vote for putting rule 13a &13b back in the rule
book
D/V—Re-instate rule 13a & 13b, Secondered by CON, CK
N/C—North/South groups for 1st 4 Y/B races, North group, T/D, A/P, N/C, South group, 3cs, d'ton
W/D, All up together at T/Hall-D'TON
D'Ton—North & South 1st 4 races, South Section be D'Ton, WD, CK, CF, North Section as other
Feds want, South Section will take any Feds left.-CON
W/D—Y/Bs North & South or all up together Seconded by T/D
CK--1st 4 Y/B races in groups, 1 group to be 3cs or 2cs-CON
CON—3cs, 2cs or single lib-CROOK
A/P-- Revert back to 9 YB races, Seconded by T/D,D/V
CK—Lib times:-1st 3 O/B races and ALL Y/B races no libs before 9am with no time restrictions
on allother races-COCKFIELD
N/C—Liberation times O/B & Y/B be 7am-CON
N/C-- Y/Bs no libs after 10am Seconded byT/D
D/V-- No Y/B liberations after 12 o'clock from more than 150 miles [to garage?]-WD, D'TON
Anything could happen between all up together or each Fed having a single lib
my bet is 1, North:- [T/D, AP, N/C], 2, South:- [W/D, D'TON,] 3, [3Cs] with D/V to choose
any 1 from 3

Y/B PROGRAMME ON GRAPH

A/P-- Y/B Programme,
T/D-- Y/B Programme, see graph

CONVOYING

N/C-- Transporter pick ups to be as North group:-N/C, A/P, T/D-T/D
CON—More training-AP
A/P-Training to be pre season and mid week in blocks of 4 for £20, dates arranged and kept to-CON

TO FINANCE MEETING

CF—WDA Birdage costs same as 2017 if viable
CK—20 birds per basket on all races over 250 miles
N/C—Strays at WDA stray centre be returned to clubs on Friday nights, charge £5-CON
Against DEFRA rules, No strays allowed on transporter with race birds [no proof of
vacination]
T/D—For members who do not drive or are unable to pick up strays at stray centre arrange to be
transported on a Friday to clubs [during racing season] and charge £5 per bird
Against DEFRA rules

BREEDER/BUYER
W/D—Breeder/Buyer to have 2 sales 1 North, 1 South-D'TON
D/V—WDA Breeder/Buyer to be held at Bearpark, dates and times to be confmed, sec by CK

VARIOUS

D/V—Would it be possible to mark out the WDA boundaries to show North, South, East, West
instead of grid referance
Alan Brown handed out a map showing boundaries, This needs to be passed at the AGM as
the DEFINATIVE MAP of the WDA BOUNDARIES and placed in the minute book