LIST OF FINAL RESOLUTIONS AS PASSED BY THE SGM OF EXETER (SUMMERWAY) JUNIOR LAWN TENNIS CLUB HELD ON 20.01.2007
1. That the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club deplores the procrastination exhibited from May 1999 to April 2006 by Local Government in failing to respond to the Club’s repeated requests over the period for an extension to the 1978-2006 lease of the premises.
2. That the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club deplores the failure of Local Government to respond positively to the widely distributed letter dated 11th May 1999 addressed to the Devon County Sports Development Officer by offering terms for an extended lease conditional upon the Club obtaining the necessary funding and planning permission for the needed development of the premises.
3. That the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club deplores the effective withdrawal of Local Government from the bilateral partnership that existed between Club and Councils from 1972 to 2006 to the benefit of Children and the Community.
4. That the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club believes that Local Government is acting contrary to the policy of National Government to the detriment of the health of children by withdrawing its support from a registered Community Amateur Sports Club.
5. That the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club is firmly of the opinion that where consultations have existed with the Club regarding its future they have been either perfunctory or meaningless as Local Government appears to have its own agenda.
6. By supporting unsupervised public facilities in the place of a structured supervised and proven Community Amateur Sports Club, The Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club believes that Local Government undervalues and undermines the spirit of ‘Community’
7. That the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club calls upon Local Government to provide in the Whipton locality those Services previously supplied by the Club to the Community which have been lost by the effective withdrawal of Local Government from its partnership with the Club.
8. That, as a consequence of the totally unacceptable burden which Local Government is trying to impose on the Club in the proposed Draft Heads of Terms for a new lease, the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club vacates the current premises at noon on Monday 26th February 2007 and notifies officers of the Devon County Council and Exeter City Council accordingly.
9. That the Exeter (Summerway) Junior Lawn Tennis Club continues in existence as a registered Community Amateur Sports Club without premises and in partial quiescence while it seeks re-establishment.
