A fantastic NZACA Executive meeting yesterday with so much discussed and sorted. We begin the year with a very sound financial base and have in ever increasing membership base. We also have incredible support from other entities within the whole recreational fishing sector. The NZ Angling & Casting Association is in a very good space. We also welcomed our new Secretary Nadia Gillies. Not only did she turn up to take the minutes she bought a fantastic spread for morning tea and lunch. The Executive also welcomed the new Treasurer, Jack Sanders of Sportslink.
Some of the agenda items of note were.
The adoption of the draft Distance Casting rules. These rules are a very well written and incorporate those wishing to cast NZACA (NZ Rules) or under International rules. They are for our Regional casting events only and once we have tweeked a couple of them they will be announced, both on here and the NZ Distance Casting page.
Speaking of Casting. I must take a moment to acknowledge the efforts and time that Jock Bielski, our previous Casting Coordinator, who has decided to not continue in this position. Jock was a very passionate person when it came to casting and became very well known and respected all around our membership. Thank you Jock. You passion will be missed and you will be hard to replace.
We are going to improve our Trophies and Cups. This may require us to replace like with like, as some are in a poor state because of age. Our number of Trophies, that overlap, is also being looked at.
The updated Constitution has been signed off and will be heading to the appropriate authorities next week.
We discussed a Junior Championship.
We now have a complete Registered Membership list on a Data base. Whilst this is now loaded on our Website, it is only accessable via password. I must mention the top effort from Marko Lucas from the Gisborne Club for getting this all up and running. New forms will be out to Clubs next week also. Take a look at these when they come and you will see how simple they are to complete.
New NZ and Association flags, new Casting Court are also being purchased.
So much more was tabled and discussed for revisiting at our next meeting.
Another matter of note is, the Executive are taking the meetings around our regions. The next four will be in Auckland, BOP, Gisborne and Hawkes Bay. From there we have discussed Taranaki. This allows our members to sit in and see how we are looking after them and also to have a guest speaker to address us.
A big thank you to all twelve who took time out on a horrible day to give your time.