Board Minutes May 28th, 2020

GMCL Board Meeting – Held on ZOOM, remotely

May 28th, 2020

AGENDA.

1. Chairman’s report – Martin Kay
   • Apologies sent from MK.
2. Cricket Lead Report – Mike Hall
   • Premier League Application – Informed the board that the Premier League application has been sent to the ECB. They are reviewing the words and the evidence; this is then passed to a committee at Lords. No date on this yet. Thanked all for their support and hard work.
   • Flagged to the board that we will have to think how we operate going forward, surrounding performance report mechanisms required by the ECB. Mike will put a paper together on how we manage ourselves to comply with this. We will need to evolve and effect positive change..
   • May 28^th Update – No 1^st class Cricket until 1^st August. Recreational cricket continues to be suspended until further notice, not before 1^st August. Unlikely to see any league cricket, in the traditional sense, this year. 
   • Phase 1 – Opportunity for cricket – Focus on junior activity to play some form of cricket.
3. Compliance Lead Report – Bill Elkin
   • Ball order Update - Half order of balls packed and ready to ship. Would be easiest for clubs to purchase balls now, and have them for next season.
   • 60% of ball invoices paid.
   • Little activity on finance front. 
4. Restarting Cricket
   • Agreed to reiterate the ECB guidance, should any questions be directed towards the league.
   • Planning stage deferred for the time being.

5. CricHQ Update – Simon Lowndes
   • Latest correspondence surrounding subs for players. Nothing confirmed. 
6. Marketing & PR – Kieran Coe
   • Marston's and Carlsberg to merge to form CMBC. Carlsberg and Marstons.
   • Brewing restarting at start of July
7. Legal & Regulation – Richard Hepworth
8. Discipline – David Fare
9. Umpires – Alan Naylor

• Good take up in online umpires courses, with a number of GMCL umpires completing stage 1 courses.

10. Integration – Thomas George
11. Junior Cricket – Nigel Stock
12. Club & Player Liaison – Will Halton.

• Met with Jen Barden & Meg Fairclough.
• Meg Fairclough will take on a roll with the GMCL. Women and Girls Cricket Lead. Non-executive role.
• Questionnaire lined up for clubs to answer what their girls and women’s situations and set up’s are.

13. Any other business

Groundsman update – Update from grounds association now on GMCL website.

Next meeting  - Thursday 18^th June – 20:00