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effectively subsidised to date by Les Lowe’s legacy gift to the VTTA. The current arrangement
however, whereby increases in the national subscription effectively have to be approved a year
in advance by the AGM, makes it more difficult to plan sensibly for NEC income and expenditure.
Following discussion, Alex Munro (Scotland) suggested the NEC notify groups in September
about an increase in subscriptions for the following year. This would warn groups in advance
when they set their subscription fees in October. The AGM could then retrospectively pass this
increase at the January 2021 AGM.
It was proposed and agreed that there should be a fee increase in 2021 and the 2021 AGM
would endorse this as described above.
There was a discussion about reallocating the Stevens Memorial Trophy, the Brafman Cup and
the Pett Trophy to national championships owing to ongoing confusions with the event
organisers regarding the floating allocation of these trophies. It was agreed to keep the
allocations for this year, as already published in the agenda papers, but to review the suggested
reallocation for 2021.
Rules and Regulations Changes
Several proposals were non-contentious technical changes required to reflect changes to opera-
tions within VTTA. These were all approved with little discussion, but were:
1. NEC membership now includes both road and track records secretaries and IT manager.
2. Simplified procedure for membership quarterly returns between national and group treasur-
ers.
3. Group motions to national AGM may now be submitted by group committees where their
AGM falls after the cut-off date.
4. Joint membership definition clarified.
5. Rule requiring standards plaque can be awarded in lieu of 4 medals amended to give groups
discretion on quantity.
6. Process for claiming national and group age records amended following implementation of
website records system.
7. Clarification that all qualifying rides for BAR and other competitions must be completed
whilst a VTTA member.
8. Group recorders now have discretion over evidence required with season long competition
claims; printed result sheets are no longer mandatory since results are now generally availa-
ble on CTT website.
9. Kent's proposal regarding extending membership benefits for partners of DLMs and HLMs
following the death of that partner attracted some discussion (although affecting only a
very small proportion of the membership). It was agreed that groups would be given discre-
tion to continue membership benefits (such as VTTA publications) to the surviving partner,
with no subscription payable.
10. London & Home Counties proposed that for all national championships tandem riders
should be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals and the winners should also receive
champion's jerseys. Similarly trike riders should have separate championships with the
same range of awards. Their belief was that this would increase participation.

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