In Attendance
Mike Eckles (President)
Nick Gladwell (SCMS Technical Advisor)
FIona Dando
Marien Vos
Marcus Lankford
Steve Clarke
Karl Pizzey
Petar Andreev
Mark Lockie (Vice President)
Paul Owen
Chris Gladish
Harry Martinez
Pieter Verhoeff
Simon Oakes
Steve Roberts
Stuart Gladwell (CEO)
Ed Geary
Richard Langman
Christopher Fairgrieve
Jim McDonald
Allan Larsen
Simon Cormack
Christine Gladwell
Apologies
Maurice Perrin
Paul Johnson
Cedric Loughran
Bob Barnes
Norman Finlay
Colin Hart
Charles Bevis
Tijs van der Wiel
Lionnel Parant
irving Levington
Rogier van der Horst
John Taylor
Minutes
Ordinary Business
1. Minutes of the 2016 SCMS AGM
These had been circulated earlier and hard copies were available at the AGM. These were considered and agreed. Proposer Mark Lockie seconded by Steve Clarke.
2. To receive proposals of Office bearers
As Mike Eckles has served his term as President it was proposed that Mike now becomes Past President and Mark Lockie becomes President. Proposer Fiona Dando seconder Ed Geary. Vote for unaminious.
Applicants for the post of Vice President were invited. Nick Gladwell was proposed by Chris Fairgrieve and seconded by Ed Geary Vote was unamimous. The second post of Vice President was proposed as Allan Larsen by Mike Eckles and seconded by Karl Pizzey. Vote unanimous
Graham Slack, Marcus Lankford, Simon Oates and Allan Larsen were formally adopted as co-opted members on to the Council. Proposed by Nick Gladwell Seconded by Ed Geary.
3. Presentation of the Unaudited Financial Statement
These had been previously circulated and printed copies were available at the AGM. These were presented by Nick Gladwell and questions regarding specifics answered by Petar Andreev. The accounts were in two sizes as per previous years, a short version and the full Statement. The items of note were the loss of £79,000 due to the Southampton move and redundancies plus legal fees regarding staff changes and the new office and staff contracts. It was stated that during the present 2017 year we were on track with the proposed budget and were making an estimated surplus of between £25,000 and £28,000. Paul Owen asked about the benevolent Fund and it was confirmed this presently stood at approximately £240,000 and the only call for a pay-out had been to Peter Hicks. An article in the recent Link Magazine explained the situation and welcomed suggestions on donations to suitable recipients.
Menzies had been the SCMS accountants for 2016 and were proposed to continue in 2017. Proposer Nick Gladwell seconder Ed Geary.
4. Presidents report
Mike Eckles gave his report regarding his term as president since the previous AGM. He related how things have progressed in leaps and bounds since the office move to Southampton, especially regarding the MCA Code work. The efficiency of the office is much improved. Changes in office management happened in that Nick stepped down from CEO to Technical Advisor and Stuart was made CEO in Feb 2017 and has brought about big improvements such as the new website. Membership has increased by about 20 new members in the last year or 10% which is good progress. Mark has organised 2 training days which were well received with good feedback. Norman has produced 2 editions of the Link Magazine. Thanks to Nick, Mark, Paul, Norman and Stuart for their support during his time as President as well as the other Council Members.
5. Training
Mark Lockie advised about the training days that had taken place in 2016 and early 2017. Three more training days are planned in July 2017 and later in the year on the topics of Fire suppression systems and Enclosed spaces; MLC; Crew Certification and also on Modern Instrumentation and Software. Proposals were received to consider topics such as material corrosion.
6. Articles Review
In view of recent discussions at Council and regarding questions raised at the AGM the proposal was received and was agreed to review the Articles and suggest changes in order to bring them up to date.
These included a proposal by Mark Lockie to change the articles regarding in future allowing Members as well as Fellows to be elected to Council as opposed to being co-opted. Proposed by Ed Geary seconded Chris Fairgrieve. It would now be considered in the review of Articles and proposals would be circulated as the next stage.
7. MCA New Code
Nick updated Members on progress regarding the MCA Draft “Under 500 GT Code”. Presently SCMS and MECAL were being included in the working group with a view that they would be appointed to carry out these code surveys which were limited to Cat 2 Domestic work.
The AGM was closed at 1845 hrs.
