DM Meeting @ 2012-05-10 18:00:00
Minutes of the DM meeting held on 10 May 2012
6:00 pm
The Bar, Rootes Social Building
Present: Tim Green, R.H., Mike Joy, Vanessa Kok, George Marshall, James McLachlan (Chair and minutes), Liam McNamara, Kat Sroga, Natalie Tyldesley
In attendance: Jorja Ellison (trainee DM)
1. Welcome
The Chief DM was unable to attend. James was chairing the meeting for the 69th time.
2. Apologies for absence were received from Harry Austin, Robert Gardner and Edward McCutcheon.
3. Rotas
- "Full DMs" were arranged to supervise Kat's and Tim's shows as "New DMs".
- The spare training slot in Week 3 was filled.
4. 'Ask the Exec'
James announced that this session would be held on 16 May at 5:30 pm in L3. He encouraged DMs to attend if they had any questions for the exec or wanted to know what the exec had been doing since the handover in February.
5. Banking and safe update
- The main points in Edward's email to the DM mailing list on 9 May were repeated by James.
- The SU are to provide WSC with a coin counting tray.
- Tim presented some ideas for where the safe could be installed.
6. Licence and admissions policy
- At the exec meeting held on 3 May, the admissions policy was changed, with immediate effect, so that any University member is allowed multiple external guests.
- At the exec meeting to be held on 13 May, it will be discussed whether to change the admissions policy so that members of the public may attend screenings without having to be the guest of a University member.
The concerns raised by Front-of-House Committee members about admitting the general public were as follows.
(i) Some audience-related incidents might be exacerbated by not having every ticket associated with University ID.
(ii) There might be an increase in unsavoury or disruptive behaviour.
(iii) There might be frequent cases of having to refuse admission.
(iv) It might become necessary to perform official checks of age at 15- and 18-rated films.
James is to express these concerns, and the suggestion that members of the public have to contact the exec in advance for tickets, at the next exec meeting.
7. Time and date of next meeting
These are to be decided on the DM mailing list.
8. AOB
- George asked whether DMs still had to complete the NatWest banking forms. It was established that DMs should continue with the forms until notified otherwise by the Treasurer or Chief DM.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:26 pm.