Royal Dornoch Winter Newsletter 2024

Minutes of the Special General Meeting 2023
Minutes of the Special General Meeting
of Royal Dornoch Golf Club
Held in Dornoch Academy on Thursday
21st September 2023 at 7.30pm
Captain David Bell in the Chair
Present: 169 Ordinary Members, 31 Struie/Social
Members
21 apologies had been received.
The captain welcomed everyone to the meeting
and emphasised the importance of the occasion
for the club.
Captain – The issue in front of us is simply
whether to approve or not approve the resolution
which is to proceed with the construction of a new
clubhouse as per the design approved in 2019 at
the best tender received in September 2023 that
satisfies our requirements.
The captain said that there would be some
opening remarks and then he would open the
floor for comments.
The captain introduced Capital Projects
Convenor, Rob Murray, to comment on the
project thus far.
Rob Murray – Firstly, I would like to thank you all
for turning out on such a miserable evening. Also,
thanks to the Captain for his excellent work in
preparing recent presentations, financial forecasts
and members communications. Doesn’t a year
pass quickly as Captain of Royal Dornoch David!
The past 5 years working on this project has been
an honour and a privilege for me to have worked
with so many talented and professional people. It
has been real team effort. As you can imagine with
the enormity of the task there have been challenges
along the way. I can’t emphasise enough just how
much work has gone into getting us to this point.
However, we now have the road access to the car
park widened, the bowling club have nice new
facilities, the new MUGA facility is in place at the
school and we have a new Common Good Land
Lease in place which allowed us to achieve all of this.
The captain has communicated that the design
and tenders are all in place and the final figure is
very close to where we had hoped and as
communicated at the last SGM. Yes, it’s a huge
amount on money and COVID did us no favours,
but we can afford it.
So, we have all collectively approved designs,
various proposals and funding over the past 5 years
at various presentations and we now just have to
approve the final capital spend. So, we as a club,
Council of Management and the Project Team can
finally deliver a clubhouse worthy of this great club.
Captain – Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for
coming out on this relatively inhospitable evening.
I apologise for holding more meetings than any
other previous captain. This is a very important
occasion for the club. The issue in front of us is
simply whether to approve the resolution:
“Proceed with the construction of the new
clubhouse as per the design agreed in 2019 at the
best tender received in September 2023 that
satisfies our requirements.”
Since it involves finance, a two thirds majority is
required for it to pass.
51