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COMMITTEE MINUTES – 22/01/2026

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Date: 22nd January 2026

Time: 17.00hrs

Location: Marina Yard Tower

Attendance

Joe Pilcher

Jason Mesilio

Edgar Colton

John Canepa

Pepe Figueredo

Andrew Camilleri

Johnny Buttigieg

(Apologies)

Suresh Mahtani

Gareth Jones

Graham Olivero

BROUGHT FORWARD FROM PREVIOUS MINUTES

1.           Meetings with the Minister and CoP

2.           Forklifter repairs

3.           Water Leaks

4.           Marina Survey (Marinetek)

Minutes of the last meeting of the December 2025 were approved.

Agenda:

1.  Forklift Repairs

•             The secretary had contacted the mechanics a who had recommended that the Forklifter was sent to Malaga for repait. All told it was expected that the overall cost would be some £2000. This was approved unanimously and the Secretary was tasked with getting it done. Situation still the same although Secretary had found a mechanic that was going to look into it.

2    Nissen Hut Winterisation

•             Mr Canepa advised the Committee that the works had now complete and the Hut now held some 20 vessels. There was another vessel winterised outside the Hut but the overall income to the Yard would be some £22,000, slightly in excess of what had been anticipated. We were still awaiting the certificate of fitness but this was being followed though by the Vice Chairman

3. AGM

•             The Captain advised that the Theatre in the Mac Hall was not available during March 2026 for the AGM and recommended the Charles Hunt room with a capacity of 90 members. There was a discussion on the ability to hold the meeting there given the number of members in then Association but given past experience of numbers, the Committee voted for the Charles Hunt room to be accepted as the venue. The meeting would be held on Thursday the 26th March 2026 at 6pm.

4. Meeting with the Captain and Minister for the Port

•             As advised meetings had been held with both the Captain and Minister for the Port. The Captain had advised the members present that the Port was undergoing certain change in personnel and would revert at the end of January 26 with a new system of liaison between the Port and the MHSBM Association. The president summarised the meeting as below:

1. BERTH ISSUES ACTION POINT: ONCE DOCK CONTROLLERS ARE DESIGNATED (APPROX BY MID JANUARY), MEETINGS WILL BE HELD WITH MHSBM EVERY 2-3 WEEKS.

2. SIZE OF BOATS BY PONTOON ACTION PONT: WORKING ON ROADMAP TO IDENTIFY BOATS IN INADEQUATE BERTHS AND REORGANIZE BERTHING

3. EMPTY BERTHS FOLLOW-UP ACTION POINT: COP APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR VESSEL TO BE OUTSIDE BERTH FOR OVER 3 MONTHS

4. DERELICT SITUATION REF CHANGES IN REGULATIONS ACTION POINT: REGULATIONS TO BE SIGNED BY MINISTER AND LETTER TO BE SENT INFORMING BOAT OWNERS OF THE DESTRUCTION PROCESS 2

5. RED BOOKS/INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS ACTION POINT: PROPOSAL TO SEPARATE THE RECREATIONAL LICENSE (RED BOOK) FROM THE MOORING PERMITS

6. EMERGENCY BERTHS ACTION POINT: NO BERTHS DESIGNATED AS EMERGENCY BERTHS

7. WATER METERS ACTION POINT: MHSBM TO DECIDE WHETHER NON-POTABLE WATER OR CLOSE THE METERS DOWN AND ADVISE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ACCORDINGLY

8. BUDGET AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME (ATTACHED) & ANY OTHER BUSINESS ACTION POINT: NO ACTION REQUIRED 9. ANY OTHER BUSINESS ACTION POINT: GPA TO CONTACT MHM ON THE SECOND OR THIRD WEEK OF JANUARY TO ARRANGE A MEETING

In relation to the meeting with the Minister, she had advised that the Advisory Board members would be appointed shortly and the first meeting of the Board would be held wit the Minister and the CoP to numerate all the problems facing the Marinas and these would be taken up by the Board with recommendations to the Minister (Government) which would be taken on Board.

The President also reminded the Minister of the fact that there were almost 80 empty berths which were not paying berthing fees and asked the Minister to correct this. The Minister advised that the Government would soon be advising on the way forward for the Empty berths and would take our request into account. She also asked the Association to recommend changes in the law since it was her intention to change the Rules to cater for the removal ad disposal of vessels within the Marinas. The changes were dicusssed and approved as below:

RULES

  1. In the INTERPRETATION, the new words “mechanically propelled” has to be further defined  to enhance “working mechanically propelled”
  2. Need to specify the difference between Hull Length for the purposes of the Ordinance as  defines a small vessel and the overall length which the MHSBM Association uses to charge boats as per Schedule 3.
  3. NO MOORING WITHOUT PERMIT,  (1) should be further enhanced a to add another step to be taken by the holder of this permit. It should include and “berth authorisation granted by the MHSBM Association.” The idea of this is to ensure that the holder of the permit cannot berth his boat in the allocated berth until the MHSBM Administration has ensured that all the payments have been done and the boat is perfectly legal and has paid the necessary berthing fees. This is not known by the Port on the allocation of the License. If necessary the MHSBM Association can require that the overall length of the boat is confirmed by the MHSBM Pier Master.
  4. In the Interpretation, the term DERELICT needs to be defined e.g. a vessel which given its unkempt condition or is not deemed to be able to be mechanically propelled.
  5. GRANTING A PERMIT should be amended to shall be valid for (5) b) or any other period determined by CoP in his absolute discretion. In the future we might wish to license for a specific period whereby the owner would have to re-apply
  6. REVOCATION OF PERMITS  a paragraph should be added which gives CoP determines is considered a Derelict.
  7. Rule 6A (4) should be amended to include any debts owed by owner to the MHSBM Association.
  8. The legislation should further enhance the definition of “a House Boat”.
  9. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS should be repelled except 18 (1) (a) referring to RULES 2016, should be kept which ensures that there is no retrospectivity under the law.
  10. Schedule 3 Part II should have
  11. An initial fee which will be considered as a deposit equivalent the annual Berthing fee.
  12. The Overall length multiplied by the overall beam in meters, as determined by the MHSBM Pier Master as outlined in the XXXXXXX, multiplied by £27.
  13. Many parts of the ordinance particularly Schedule 4 are now obsolete.

CONSTITUTION

  1. 2 B (VII) “a deposit equivalent to Annual Berthing Fee.
  2. Add 2 B (XII) Ensure that all vessels are berthed legally within keeping of all pertinent laws and to ensure that the vessel is properly “licenced” (has a RED BOOK or equivalent) and properly insured. All relevant information would have to be made available to the MHSBM Administration.
  3. 4.1 Needs to be enhanced to add “after paying the relevant fees”.
  4. 19.1 Date of the annual meeting should be “when the accounts of the previous year are ready but no later than the end of May of any year.”
  5. 19.after Rule 3 New (d) to read “any nominations for any position in the in the Committee must be handed in and sponsored by a minimum of 10 members at least 7 days before the date of the AGM.
  6. Rule 19.3 (f) should read “Any Motions from the Committee or members, which should be handed in at least 7 days before the date of the AGM”
  7. 19.8 to be changed to 14 days. It should also have “An agenda showing names of the persons eligible for the new committee and Motions should be published at least 5 days before the AGM and posted in all the MHSBM Noticeboards.
  8. Annex A should reflect that the Membership fee is now £5.
  9. 1.  Forklift Repairs

5. Marintek

• Marinetek had submitted the report on the overall situation of the Marina and had made certain recommendations. The report had been made posted in the What’s up group and there was a hard copy in the Office. They had also sent a costing and felt that the overall cost would be some £100,000. The President advised the Committee that the budget this year contained an amount of some £36,000 which had been put aside for the Works required. It was not possible to cater for the £100,000. The Operations committee would discuss the matter with Marinetek to see whether this could be done on the basis of starting with the urgent repairs and then concentrating on the rest over the next year. A teams call hade been arranged for Monday the 26th January and the President would report back to the Committee on the outcome.

5. Gibtelecom Internet

• Gibtelecom had undertaken a survey t=o identify the cost to the Association of providing Internet facilities for the Marina. The overall system would be met by Gibtelecom but the system would then be rented by the MHSBM at a cost of some £1500 per month. This was felt too expensive and the Committee did not take up the Gibtelecom Offer.

THERE BEING NO OTHER BUSINESS. THE MEETING CLOSED AT 18.30 hrs.

Action Items

1.           Meetings with the Miniter and CoP

2.           Forklifter repairs

3.           Marina Survey (Marinetek)

Next Meeting

•             Date: Thursday 26th February 2026

•             Time: 1700 hrs

•             Location: Office at Marina Tower