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Royal Varuna
Yacht Club
Present: Alex Skaria In attendance: Duncan Millar Apologies: 1. Agenda Approved 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Approved 3. Accommodation Update New building started. Charlie Zbinden appointed to oversee drawings and progress. Approved to remunerate Charlie Baht 1,000 per time involved plus costs of travel to and from the Club. Application for land use permit to be made shortly following sign off on the drawings. Initial invoice of Baht 400,000 approved for payment. 4. Expenditure Items for Approval (i) Replacement for K Pu - approved on salary and with benefits as set out in Duncan's e mail of previous week (ii) Approved increase of waiting staff salary - Ek/Nick - Baht 1,000 and Nung Baht 500. Agreed to review again in six months time. Noted in relation to (i) and (ii) that costs of staff in Pattaya are rising fast and we need to keep competitive with the market if we want to recruit and retain staff. (iii) Approved increase in cleaning staff at weekends when occupancy is high and especially when we have the new accommodation. Duncan given discretion to action this and recruit suitable staff on terms to be agreed by Duncan. (iv) Approved purchase of pictures of food to place over pizza oven. Baht 3,000. Duncan to organise and Alberto to provide. (v) Approved upgrade of road at back of accommodation for Baht 15,000 (as per quote). Agreed to sign contract now for action closer to the end of the rainy season. (vi) Approved repainting of Seaview using boat boys when time allows. Budget to be approved later. Duncan to advise committee of budget. (vii) Approved attendance of staff at Hotel and Catering Expo including travel and daily allowance. Duncan given discretion to approve level of payment. Agreed to defer approval of works at the Beach Bar pending Committee members viewing what needs to be done over the next weekend. Also noted that there would be an interview with a potential new assistant manager the coming weekend. 5. Treasurers Report Report available from the RVYC office. Noted that sailing courses in the summer months had helped increase income in a low period and we should look to do more for future years. Excluding depreciation the Club remains cash positive. Noted longer term need to repay bonds which should be borne in mind. 6. New Land Noted that the current lessee has indicated to Marine Sports that he wishes to surrender the lease. Committee agreed in principle to accept this and to set off the deposit paid against outstanding amounts due and refund the lessee the balance. The Committee will give some thought as to what can be done with the new Land. This was seen as a good opportunity to review the position as the current lessee had failed to develop the land. 7. New Members Approved subject to Dave Littlejohn interviewing three junior sailing applicants. George Layton to submit written questions prior to the next Committee meeting on membership categories for discussion. 8. Marketing Report Noted that there would be a combined Opti/windsurfer course organised in the near future. 9. Sailing Sailing Secretary report available from RVYC office. 10. Junior Sailing Noted that 6/7 September there will be an informal junior laser championship together with Sattahip sailors Noted that thanks to Kevin RVYC will be able to nominate a team for selection in the Thai Opti team. Noted there will be more joint sailing with Sattahip. Noted there is an appeal by Opti sailors for racing sails. George Layton kindly made a contribution to this appeal.
Duncan to convene an informal membership/marketing committee meeting at the RVYC at 4.00pm on Saturday 23 August. Interview with potential Assistant Manager at 5.00pm at RVYC on Saturday 23 August. Agreed that we can host both the ASEAN Optimists and the ASEAN Bytes at the same time in December. Agreed the Club should join the International Schools Association to get more access to international schools for marketing purposes. Agreed that the Club e mail list should be reviewed and updated. Agreed to put a list of members for whom we do not have current e mail addresses at reception and to encourage all members to review this list to see if they know the e mail addresses. Speakerbus to be invoiced for RVYC sponsorship. Agreed to move the October meeting to 18 October at the RVYC. Meeting adjourned at 2130. Next meeting at RVYC on Saturday 20 September at 0900. |