Minutes of the Jeffreys Bay Co-ordinating Committee meeting – 25 June 2010.

Attendance.
J. Thiart, H. Thiart, M.Ungerer, B. Vosloo, G Botes, D. Benson, J. Coetzee,
J Coetzee and D.Aldendorff.

Apologies
N. Botha and P.Butler

The meeting was chaired by D. Aldendorff in the absence of N. Botha and opened with a prayer by M.Ungerer.

Confirmation of the minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes of the previous meeting were considered and approved. Proposed by
J.Thiart and seconded by B. Vosloo.

Matters arising from the minutes
The meeting noted that although the closing date for membership was 31/05/2010 all branches should continue recruiting new members. Money collected for outstanding subscriptions and new members should be paid in on a regular basis at the Humansdorp office as in the past.

The meeting agreed that house meetings were excellent venues for recruiting new members and that all Wards should continue to arrange these.

The strategic plan for the 2011 municipal election
The Chairman reported that due to the absence of N.Botha the outline of the proposed action plan for the 2011 municipal election would be discussed at the next meeting.

It was noted that a meeting to discuss the Kouga strategic plans was due to be held in Humansdorp on June 28.

After discussion the meeting agreed that although a strategic plan for all the Wards would have a number of common objectives, certain of these might not be of equal importance to all Wards. For example, re-registration of voters was not as important to Ward 3 as it would be to Ward 8, where success depended on the IEC visiting Jeffreys Bay on a regular basis to register voters.

It was reported that parts of Hankey had been added to Ward 8 in the latest recommendations of the Demarcation Board but that the DA planned to object to this.

DA blog (DAtanet)
B. Vosloo reported that the blog was up and running. Its purpose is to serve as the mouthpiece of the DA in the Jeffreys Bay region. The success of the blog depended on contributions from the Wards. The Chairman of each Ward was requested to ensure that copies of the minutes of all their meetings, as well as newsletters, details of proposed fundraising events, meetings, etc., that need to be communicated to their Wards, are forwarded to him. His e-mail address is vosloobj@telkomsa.net. Details of the blog will once again be sent to some 400 email addresses currently on record.

The meeting congratulated B.Vosloo on the success of his project.

Wards were requested to send him the the email addresses of any new members.

Finance
M.Ungerer reported that donations totalling some R3 900 had already been collected from the farmers in the Patensie area and further meetings with them were planned.

The fundraiser featuring artist Tony Noble realised an amount of some R2 100. She thanked H.Thiart and other volunteers for their assistance.

Although the golf day was a success, no actual figures of the amount raised were available at the time of the meeting. The meeting noted that some of the participants had criticised the prizes on offer. The meeting expressed their concern that this could negatively affect the success of next year’s event.

Closure
The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to M.Ungerer for the refreshments and use of her home for the meeting.


The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs M. Ungerer, 11 Cherry Street, Wavecrest, on Friday 6th August 2010, at 15:00.