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19 Aug 2025
Minutes to the Gladstone Tennis Club AGM – 30th July 2025
Confirm attendance and quorum: It was agreed that the AGM had the necessary Quorum as there were 22 voting members in attendance
Confirm minutes from last year’s AGM. Antony read through the summary of the 2024 AGM Minutes and a unanimous vote agreed to have these entered into record
President's Report. Antony presented the Presidents Report.Â
There was questions from members about the use of the recent Survey that the club is conducting and whether information from this would be used in finding a replacement Head Coach – it was agreed that this was one of the reasons why the survey was conducted. Â
Treasurer's Report Jeremy presented the Treasurer’s report.Â
There was no material question from Members at the committee but there was general agreement the current strong financial position of the club was in a large part due to Jeremy’s work as the Treasurer
Jeremy did say that this would be the last Treasurer’s report that he would be presentingÂ
Head Coach Update. Antony presented the update on the Head Coach
There were comments from the Members about the ability for the new Head Coach to adopt a booking system for individual and group lessons. It was agreed that this was a very good idea
The Committee was reminded that the new subscription year started on the 1st Sept. It would be idea that the new Head Coach would be in place by this time.Â
Antony said that it was hard to know if this was achievable or not (as we had not needed to look for a head coach before) and Jeremy stated that the replacement Head Coach would be someone that we wanted to be in place for a long time. So it was unsure if we could have the replacement Head Coach in place by the 1st Sept. However,:
we were close to securing Trent and Will as the Club Coaches for the ‘interim period’ so that coaching session would remain available to Members,
Gladstone offered an excellent opportunity for a Head Coach to come in and make improvement whilst still offering Members good value and options. So it was though that we would get a good number of applicants
we had to follow a process to make sure that we hired the best person for the club whilst maintaining members the coaching opportunities that required.
Update on the requirement for GTC to adopt a new club constitution. Antony presented the paper on the requirement for the Club to adopt a new constitution,
Terri-Ann Scorer (Chairman of TNZ) attended the AGM and gave more details as to why the new constitution was so important and recognised the amount of work that they, Tennis Auckland and Clubs had put in to make this change.
Confirm Committee Members for 2025/26 year. Antony presented and discussed the proposed 2025/2026 committee and this was unanimously passed.
Confirmation on Club Subscription pricing for 2025/2026 year. Antony presented the proposed increases to the 2025/2026 subscription rates and this was unanimously passed
Update on the court resurfacing. Antony presented the paper on the update for the court resurfacing.Â
We had a question on if we would look to replace all 5 courts at once. It was agreed that we should do all 5
We had a question on when this would be done. It was agreed that we needed this to be done during a quite time for the club and whilst the weather was good. It was agreed that Jan 2027 would be a good target for this.
There was a question as to differing results at other clubs who had resurfaced. It was suggested that we should look to engage ‘Love Your Court’ to act as a project manager as they could control the sub-contractors better than the Club alone.
Other business. There was no other business and the AGM concluded at approx. 7:50pm