ACES COUNCIL MEETING NOTES, 20


APRIL 2012 Andrew Wearmouth


Andrew was Valuer and Estates Surveyor at St Albans City and District Council from October 1989 to January 2010. He is currently a member of ACES Council and was ACES RICS Liaison Officer until 2011.


Matters discussed ACES Council met on 20 April 2012. There were 22 members present. The following matters were discussed.


1. The meeting stood for a few moments’ silence in memory of Tony Ives and Kenneth Blessley, both of whom had recently died.


2. Matters Arising from Minutes of Previous Meeting on 20 January 2012 and not on the current agenda.


a) Fellowship. As requested at the previous meeting, Colin Bradford had obtained a quotation from Fattorini’s for the striking of new medals to present to new Honorary Fellows. The initial “appliance”, the striking mould, will cost £802, and each medal from it will be £185.00 (both plus VAT). The medals are of solid hallmarked silver. The new ones will have the correct updated name of ACES, ending in “... in the Public Sector”, as opposed to the old one which was “... in local government”. It was agreed to order an initial five medals for future use.


Keith Jones has accepted the invitation to attend the next national AGM in November, at which he will be presented with a newly struck medal. It was agreed that this was more appropriate, given his role with the Public Sector Board at the RICS and his wide recognition by all.


ACES plaques had previously been acquired for presentation to hosting council chief executives and dignitaries when meetings or conferences had been held with ACES. It was agreed that at present further ACES plaques would not be ordered, and that presentation framed certificates would be used instead. The consensus was that this may not represent a financial saving, but a certificate was more likely to be placed on display.


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b) FPS. At the previous meeting, the President remarked on the fact that FPS appeared largely to be supported financially by CIPFA, using its asset management fund. She intended suggesting to RICS that it becomes more active to balance out the interests involved. RICS meanwhile were considering whether they could assist with some funding, to also reflect the property interests for asset management as well as accountants’ interests.


c) The Secretary reported that as requested, he had enquired of members whether some might wish to receive The Terrier in electronic form only. The majority had indicated that hard copy was preferred.


d) It was remarked that the website was not up to date, the Minutes of the January meeting not being uploaded until soon before the Council meeting.


3. Financial Report. Finances remain healthy, although some concern was expressed at the current level of take-up for the Spring Conference.


It has previously been the case that the Branch funding cheques were sent on two occasions in a year, once in April, and a second “mopping-up” cheque in August after late sub payments had come in. A recent decision had been made to reduce this to just the one cheque in April (the last amount being deferred till the following April), which simplified matters for the Treasurer, however it was remarked that this causes cash flow problems for some Branches. It was agreed that the Treasurer would revert to the previous arrangement.


4. The Post of Treasurer. The future role of the Treasurer, succession planning etc, has been under discussion since the January meeting by “three wise men”, being Jim Ross, Lee Dawson and Ian


THE TERRIER - Summer 2012


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