Minutes of Monthly-ish Meeting, 10 November 2010

The meeting commenced at 20.15pm at Ebeneezers, 10 November 2010

Present
Adi Mowles: Paul Mitchell: Craig Buckley: Andy Mills: Nick Warrick.
Apologies Ben Donnelly: Daniel Ferguson- Thomas.

Membership sectetary updated the membership details:
168 members. 132 Adults, 11 Children, 6 family 1 x 5 year subscription.
An astonishing and disappointing 149 members from last season have not rejoined.
Some of these can be put down to various youngsters who have gone off to university and now live away from Peterborough and a fair number are under 16s which may be a result of Dad not renewing. The committee agreed that we would e mail the 'missing' where possible and see if we get any feedback.

Christmas Fun Day:
The Christmas fun day that we were all looking forward to (except for maybe the kids) would unfortunately not take place this year due to the lack of home fixtures in December and the decision of the police to move the Rochdale fixture to a Friday night due to the EDL march. As there is no other home fixture on a Saturday before Christmas suitable for the fun day Santa has said he is unable to make it.
This is a shame as last years was good fun although the young mothers were surprisingly unwilling to sit on Santa lap.

Treasurers report.
Funds stand at £5435.

Hall of fame evening:
Everything is looking good for the night, both Tyles and Faz are looking forward to it and Adi and Andy are in the process of getting hold of as many ex team mates of them both to come along for the night.
Kit Carson is already on board and a great night should be had.
Adi will try to get a really special prize for a raffle..
The PISA member of the year was discussed and the recipient agreed, obviously the name will remain secret until the night.


PISA shirts:
Sales are very good and have been very well received. It is pleasing to know that there are POSH fans wearing PISA shirts all over the world, well Scotland, America Wisbech and Sith Ifrica.

The Ebs sign:
The committee discussed the sign that used to hang outside the club before being replaced by the large canopy that now covers the smoking area. John our host is in the process of getting a new one designed and made.It was agreed that we would help out with the cost towards this as the sign will read: Eberneezer's, Home of PISA 2000 and feature the PISA2000 logo.
This was deemed a good thing to do for a variety of reasons not least because John has put up all the PISA memorabilia over the past two close seasons at his own expense.

Friday 10th December V Rochdale:
The committee agreed that the PISA side of Ebs will be open from 6pm, however John advised us that there was an event booked that evening as obviously he was unaware there was to be a game. If he is unable to postpone the function the other side will still be open to PISA members.

Donation from Paul Donnelly:
Way back in 2000 Paul and fellow PISA founder Mick Bratley both loaned the organisation £1000 to help set up and to cover costs. A few months after that first meeting Mick got his money back but Paul had never received his, to be fair he hadn't asked for it previously as it was not very often that PISA were in a financial position to repay him.
It was agreed that as requested we would repay Paul and on behalf of all PISA members, now and since 2000, we would like to thank him for his financial input and of course his continued support.


The meeting finished at 21.45.