Present: Mason Galloway, Francis Scarborough, Ian Spearman, Jim Hartson, Paul Yabsley, Andrew Herbert, Jack Adams, Stephen Green.

Apologies: Matt Potter

1 Election of Committee/Officers

• Chair: Mason Galloway
• Secretary: Stephen Green
• Fixtures Secretary/Ref appointments: Ian Spearman
• Child Welfare Officer: Jake Chidgey
• Treasurer/Registration Secretary and Verifier: Francis Scarborough
• Referee Representative: Jim Hartson

Committee voted in unanimously by all at meeting.

2 Financial Reports

Francis ran through the accounts for the 2017/2018 Season.

He clarified that all teams had now settled their accounts and the outstanding balance in the account should be used for development within the SBL, with suggestions that this should be used to run both referee and coaching courses.

It was suggested that this was looked at to tie in with Gary Carter and the Tigers development.

Team entry fees were agreed at £325 per team. Individual player registration would be extra to this.

3 Registrations

Francis pointed out to the meeting that he was unable to take registrations at present as his required certificates for child protection etc had expired and that he needed evidence of both the new committee (which is now in place) and certificates from the Child Welfare officer to pass on to England Basketball for this to proceed.

It was now agreed by the meeting that to resolve this was a matter of urgency.

Francis was unsure if the Child Welfare Officer would also need a Time To Listen Certificate and would pursue this with Basketball England.

4 Fixtures

Ian issued out a referee appointments/fixtures sheet and would update this and issue out to clubs in due course.

Contact details for referees would be on the bottom of this sheet

Mason would contact clubs for info on club colours, venue details, tip times, contact numbers etc in due course.

5 League Website

All at the meeting were happy for this continue in its present form and Paul pointed out the need to give match score sheets to him as soon as possible after the game preferably by taking a photo of the sheet and sending it over.

Paul requested in the event of game cancellation or postponement that details be sent to him to post on the site.

6 Policies and Procedures

There was general discussion on disciplinary measures and Mason/Ian would issue out some info for further discussion shortly.

A separate committee to deal with appeals would consist of Francis, Ian and Jim Hartson and would be heard within 48hrs if possible of receiving a referee report.

In the event of game cancellation or postponement it is important clubs involved contact both the referees involved as well as informing Ian of the situation giving as much notice as possible.

7 Development

The meeting agreed that both Level 2 ref and Level 2 table were badly needed with Level 2 Coach also required and that the league could afford to pay for several aspects of running courses such as venue hire etc.

Further research would be needed to establish where and when these could be held and Jack offered to speak with Gary Carter for more info.

Paul could then publicise these on the website.

Steve pointed out that the Comets were looking at a young official’s course at Ufculme over the October half term and would publicise this in due course.

8 Any Other Business

Andy informed the meeting that although it was too late now to enter a Wincanton Wizard Men’s team into the league that they would be happy to play as many friendlies as possible with a view to entering the league next season.

Jim had contacted Basketball England with regards to establishing nationally agreed costing’s for games but was struggling to get a response on this.

Junior CVL Competitions

A separate committee meeting was held for the clubs involved in this competition with those entering – Comets Wizards Bucs and Tornados.

It is assumed there will be no Millfield this season as the coach has moved on from the school and no news on replacement.

It was generally agreed to continue the existing format of U12’s cross-court followed by U14’s full court in the morning then U16’s in the afternoon and clubs would review things as we go along.

It’s difficult not to name dates for these tournaments without clashes in other competitions but initial plans are as follows:

• Oct 21st Comets host at Uffculme
• November Bucs to host date TBA
• December Tornados to host a Christmas festival possibly at Huish
• January Wizards to host date TBA
• February Tornados to host date TBA
• March Finals day Richard Huish College date TBA with Gary Carter

Jack is to look at dates for other competitions that clash with the tournaments and then the clubs can look at restricting certain higher ability players if possible from entering the cvls.

Steve pointed out the importance from an insurance point of view to get all players registered by the first tournaments.

Trophies would be sorted out towards the end of the season with discussion with Francis.

Meeting Notes End.