Committee Meeting Mins 26th March 2010
BAPCO North East Region Committee Meeting
26th March 2010 at
Highways Agency NRCC, Wakefield, WF2 7UA.
1. Attendance:
Gordon Ross, Kevin Robson, Ian Lund, Maggie Carter, Paul McAfee, Tracey Mott, Martin King
2. Apologies:
Terry Johnson, Ian Maughan, Ian Thompson, Malcolm Davies, Ray Trotter
3. Minutes of previous meeting:
Minutes of previous committee meeting were accepted by all as a true record.
4. Matters Arising:
Database Proposal – Ian Lund spoke about the fields we will need on the new database to enable him to collate the information needed to record the skills of our members. Ian will send suggestions for categories to the committee but there will be the flexibility to be able to alter these if need be in the future.
Survey of Members – Gordon Ross ran though the results of the survey – a copy of which is attached to these minutes. It was suggested that we put something out nationally to mirror this to gauge the topics of genuine interest to our members on a wider scale. For instance looking at these results a day seminar on Business Continuity would be a good subject.
Future 999 Services – No real progress has been made. However BT wrote to The Fire Minister for a meeting which has now taken place at which they were asked if they would take on the project under Cabinet Office Resilience – no definite answer has been received. At ACPO , CFOA, Ambulance & Coastguard they have agreed to form a group to oversee the future of 999.
5. National Report:
Tracey Mott reported that at the last executive meeting Hayden Newton took over as Chair and President due to Olaf Baars resigning. Ian Readhead was voted to stay on another year as past president. Two names were put forward for office Sue Lampard and Alan House and these will be announced at the AGM.
The roadshow dates have been confirmed as 6th October at Hamilton Racecourse, 20th October at Doncaster Racecourse and 3rd November at Windsor Racecourse.
The Marketing Advisory group are looking for a representative to join the group from each region and names for this are to be put to Ray Trotter.
Stand space is selling well for the main conference and delegate numbers are about where they were expected to be at this time.
6. Regional Events.
Ian Lund reported that the last event was at the EPC and feedback was very good with those attending preferring the smaller groups this time. The next suggested dates for a course are 24th-26th November these dates are yet to be confirmed. SERCO has taken over the EPC all apart from 3 Cabinet Office staff.
7. Regional Members Monitoring
Tracey Mott reported that the region currently has 115 members, a few members (8 in total) were gained nationally from the recent EPC course with 5 of those being from the NE region.
8. Action Plan Update
Terry Johnson is to be asked to submit an article for the website and Journal as a Chairs update for the region. – Action GR
Meeting minutes will be posted on the website once they have been passed by the committee and emailed to NE region members.
EPC events will be counted as our regional events as we have input into the course content.
NE day visitors to the conference will be targeted for membership once we have the data available.
The membership information of breakdown of members/ prospects will be updated prior to the next meeting and circulated to the committee – Action TM
9. AOB
At the next meeting staffing of the event at EPC in November will be discussed.
10. Next Regional Meeting Date:
The next meeting will take place at Viking Communications, YO41 4DF on 6th August. At this meeting members will be invited to attend as the AGM will take place.