NHARA Board of Trustees
Minutes of Meeting - St. Paul’s School
13 September 2004
Present: Board of Trustees 13:25
Programs/Mountains 10:31
BOT: Emily Crane, Paul Cremeno, Marilyn Leaman, Dan Marshall, Ted Newman, Bev Oliver, Gerd Riess, Herta Sutton, Kris Blomback, Bill Everett, Peter Holland, Dave Salathe, Jill Firstbrook.
Guests: ` Michael Herz, Jim Green, Carl Anderson, Mike Workman.
Call to Order: 7:02 pm
Secretary’s Report: approved as printed (with corrected typo). T. Newman/H. Sutton/Unanimous
Treasurer’s Report: Jeff away. One report was passed around for viewing. $400 paid to St. Paul’s School for BOT, CRC and Race Scheduling meeting space.
Executive Secretary’s Report: Membership applicants were sent out August 30th to individual members. Numbers of registrations received to date: 95 Seeded racers, 78 JIIIs, 61 JIVs, and 66 JVs.
NHARA BOT Committee
Appointments:
Executive Committee: President, Dan Marshall; Vice-President, Paul
Cremeno; Secretary, Bev Oliver; Treasurer, Jeff Brimblecom; Coaches Council
Chairperson, TBA; ACC Chairperson, Craig Bowden; CRC Chairperson, Gerd Riess;
Past President, Alex Bass.
Motion: To cast one vote for the Executive Committee slate D. Marshall/E. Crane/Unanimous
BOT At-Large & Committee Chairpersons: Peter Holland, At-Large; Bill Everett, At-Large (remove Anna McIntyre & George Capaul); AO Committee, Ted Newman; Masters, TBA; Seed Review, Emily Crane; Activities, Marilyn Leaman, Finance Committee, Jeff Brimblecom; Nominating Committee, Alex Bass; ACC, Craig Bowden; Review/Appeal, Alex Bass; Racer Support, Dan Marshall.
Motion: To cast one vote At-Large and Committee Chairpersons listed above. D. Marshall/H. Sutton/Unanimous
Committee Reports:
A.C.C.: The fall Eastern meetings are 9/24 at the Regency Inn in White River Junction. Jesse Hunt, Walt Evans, and Finn Gundersen from U.S.S.A will present the updates on the National Team, The National Development System, and Coaches Education. Each will give presentations, and then be available for questions. The Eastern Development Committee, Children's Committee and the Eastern Staff will also present the final fall and winter project plans. The ACC is not formally meeting in the fall. All are encouraged to attend.
Seed Review: The Senior Team has been named and confirmed. The Development Team is still tentative – awaiting confirmation from a number of athletes.
Coaches Council: David Edry has submitted his resignation as CC Chairman. The meeting scheduled for August 30th has been postponed to a date TBA.
Alpine Officials: All referees in the system must attend a clinic this year in order to be recertified. Only currently certified referees may be used at races this season. A list of approved referees will be posted on the NHARA website. Current plans are to add an additional referee’s clinic in the Lakes region toward the end of October. It may also be possible to combine a referee’s update with a CC meeting soon.
Children’s Racing: Fall meeting is 10/6 at St. Paul’s School. Ken Jones has cut back some funds for JIII sponsorship due to the closing of the Nashua store. There may be a possibility that Lange/Dynastar will sponsor the BWL Champs. Ivar Dahl has left Tecnica/Volkyl and has taken a sales position with Lange/Dynastar. He will continue to be the Industry Representative to the BOT.
Handbook: Printing will be late this year due to lack of information and ongoing changes. The printer has been contacted; 1500 copies are planned.
Banquet: Marilyn Leaman is the new Chairperson. WV room has been reserved for 12/4 with deposit paid. Increase in $ fee for meals is expected. Fleet has already given financial support for this year. This will need to be renegotiated for future years due to the bank merger. Marilyn will contact the Conference Center and get the updated info to Herta by October 1st.
Masters: No report.
Adaptive: No report.
Web Site: No report.
Racer Support: $500 mailed to Sam Norden for USST Development Camp. Expect requests in the spring for support from athletes attending speed camps in Chile this summer.
Review/Appeal: The request by Nashoba Valley for re-instatement in NHARA was denied.
Industry Rep: No report.
Ski NH Liaison: Kris Blomback will be the new representative to the BOT.
· Hosts for Open races – still looking for a host for an Lafoley SS SL race 3/05
· On Line Registration Task Force report: David Edry is the contact person. Nothing has been done yet. Dan will follow up on the issue with Jeff Brimblecom. Since it is late, it does not look like on line registration will be available to us this year. Information relating to on line registration should be removed from this year’s Handbook.
· State Team Discussion
o Mattie Ford has confirmed; she will be at Holderness
o Roger Brown will not be a member as he will be racing out of Park City.
· Return from injury – Craig Leaman
After some discussion, it was suggested that this is a special incidence.
Motion: To nominate Craig Leaman to the 2004 - 2005 Development Team P. Cremeno/G. Riess/Unanimous
· Coach of the Year – David Edry
Apparently there is some question as to the voting procedure. Paul Cremeno will do research on this.
Meeting adjourned 8:30 p.m.
Next Meeting: October 25th, 7:00 p.m.
Bev Oliver
Bev Oliver, Secretary, NHARA Board of Trustees