No Formal meeting was conducted as we did not have enough representation from    the houses. The following were in attendance:

President – Synthia Schofield
2^nd VP     - Barb Comeau
Sec/Treas – Joanne Blades
Shearwater – Marc Rapitta arrived late
CFB Halifax – Gina Welling, Darrell Baily
Shelburne – No one in attendance
Greenwood – Pat Robinson
St Bernards - Barb Comeau was acting in both the 2^nd VP and house representtative

Synthia gave a brief update on some of the items discussed at the National AGM.

1. Due to Synthia’s involvement in getting the Parklane funding for the C5 -NS5PBA was awarded a finders fee. This amount was to cover Nova Scotia’s  lanebed assessments for 3 years. This started for last year for the 2005/6 season. This totals 7670.00 for last year and 7160.00 for the upcoming year.
2. Youth Challenge assessment has been lowered to 3500.00 but each province must now supply their own team shirts.
3. Decision on how to spend the Parklane funding was discussed and the final decision was to provide Grants back to all the provinces in the following amounts for the 2005/06 year – 2100.00 and for the current year 2006/07 -4000.00. If more funding is received afterwards a further grant will be provided for the 2007/08 season.
   
   KHP fundraising was brought up and some discussion around the fact that we are responsible to send a minimum of $2500.00 each year or be fined and the last 2 years we did not quite make the amount. There was some discussion about what each house was responsible for and the $.10 from chocolate bar sales. This current year we only raised 850.00 plus the $.10 from chocolate bar sales (still to be deposited) so we are in a shortfall and we basically had to use our excess funds to cover this.
   
   Steve Feltham is looking into the possibility of our association doing a 50/50 at a Mooseheads hockey game and if that happened our $2500.00 should be covered no problem. Will have to wait on the Moosehead organization for a decision.
   
   Next discussion was on the Lanebed fees and how to handle this. The following motion was put forward and approved by those in attendance but full approval is required.
   
   Motion- The Lanebed Assessment will remain at $500.00 for the upcoming 2006/07 season with a Grant of $300.00 to be given to each house leaving a total assessment due for this year of $200.00 that can be paid in 2 installments with the 1^st one due Nov 30 2006 and the final one Feb 28 2007.
   
   Tournament Dates and Fees were next discussed. Please see attached tournament schedule for dates and fees.
   
   The National High Low will be in Halifax this year and we will need volunteers. So far Ed Noftall has volunteered to head up a Transportation Committee and Synthia has already obtained hotel fees etc.
   
   Ivan Saulnier volunteered for the 2^nd VP Position and was accepted to this post. Darrell Baily has taken on the role of Communications Officer and will be working on producing NS a Website and also the Coast to Coast publication  submissions.
   
   Last item discussed was some possible new fundraising ideas to help the National Competitors and the association. Some ideas bounced around were a horse race – a toonie toss at the horse race a bowling challenge between the Candlepin world champion team and our 5 Pin Gold Medal men’s team.
   
   Next meeting was set for Sunday Jan 28 2007