New Swim Club Committee and AGM

Thanks to everyone who attended the DSC AGM last Monday night.

The main agenda items were to elect a new management committee, review the club’s accounts and confirm the calendar and fees for the upcoming season.

Club Committee

The committee for the 2022-2023 year is:

• Adrian Bell – President*
• Liz Maniscalco – Treasurer*
• David Smith – Registrar*
• Duncan Lyon – Race Secretary*
• Phil Hayward – Learn to Swim Coordinator*
• Melissa Kerr
• David Parker
• Matthew O’Connor

* positions to be confirmed at the next committee meeting. It was also agreed at the AGM that there would be no ScoMo style shenanigans with committee members appointing themselves to multiple roles.

Thanks to retiring committee members

Thanks to the following retiring committee members:

Michael Donnellan who has been the club’s Registrar for the last few years, Jodie van Loo and Danni Hale.

Thanks also to Phil Hayward for his work as Treasurer. Phil is handing this role over but remaining on the committee and continuing in the role of Learn to Swim Coordinator.

Calendar for 2022-2023

The season 2022-2023 calendar was discussed and agreed.

It was agreed that the racing season will commence on Saturday the 8th of October not the 1st of October as previously advised. Apologies for the confusion about this!

Squads will commence per previous communications – Adult Squads from the 2nd of September and Junior squads from the 6th of September.

Fees for 2022-2023

It was agreed that membership fees will remain the same as for the 2021-2022 season.

The membership fee for the majority of our swimmers will be $100.

NSW Active Kids vouchers can be applied to this and will reduce the fee for eligible children to $0.

Swimming NSW will open membership portal on Swim Central in early September. The club will set up membership options and start taking registrations shortly thereafter. Keep an eye out for communications about this.