NEW ENGLAND SWIMMING BOARD MEETING

COMMUNITY CENTER, WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS

OCTOBER 15, 2002

Board Members Present:� Isabelle Fraser, Bruce Mohl, Priscilla Davis, Caitlin Grant, Joanne Gallahue, Bill Geary, Dan Warner, Ray Grant, Fred Catalano, Marjorie Blackwell, Harriet Kinnett, Dan Mascola, Dave LeBlanc, Pam Warner.� Guests:� Mary Riddell, Rick Osterberg, Harold Whitney

Secretary�s Report:� Minutes accepted.

Treasurer�s Report:� Balance as of 10/1

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Considerable improvement in Zone budget and expenses.� Convention account was considerably less because of 9/11.

Reimbursement:�� Request for waiver for CCSC swimmers made by Mark Solomon.� Motion carried.� No motion on Connie Brown because her coach never asked for waiver.� Otherwise, reimbursements requests were all approved.

Swimposium:� Over 200 swimmers, coaches, parents officials attended.� Very successful forum.� Seekonk Dolphins will most likely not be giving New England a bill for use of the facilities.� Amy Parratto wants to do a mini-swimposium next year at the annual meeting.� Would most likely be for coaches and officials and New England would run it.� Would like more feedback to better define what she wants.� Also, Amy would like to have 2 Catch the Spirit camps and a distance next year on May 17-18 at 3 different pools.� Could be one day.� Would probably have no meets scheduled for that weekend.

Banquet:� Mary Riddell reported that Ryan Berube is the speaker.� Will start � hour earlier to accommodate Ryan�s schedule.

Technical Committee: Dan Warner presented the report from the last technical meeting.� Revisions were made to items #4, 5, 6, and #8 was eliminated.� Also, changes made to the lottery process.� Technical report accepted with revisions.

Calendar:� See attached for long course proposed meet schedule.� Schedule was accepted.� December 1 is deadline for long course bids.� The calendar committee will meet at 6:30 before the next board meeting in Wellesley to award long course bids.

Time Standards:� Ray Grant tightened up some of the time standards for the 9-10, 11-12 age groups short course yards.� Needed to adjust Districts and Bronze time standards, accordingly.� It was reported that senior time standards are to remain the same and paired events will be added, also.� Thirteen and over time standards for the long course open meet not included in this report. Motion carried to accept the proposed time standards.

Reimbursement Policy Document:� One check will be paid out to each team for reimbursement for the sectional meet.� After some house keeping items were made, the athlete reimbursement policy was accepted.

Ordering of Awards:� Mary Riddell will contact Kathy Dacey and Marielle Allard to order awards.� Will go with the best deal and order medals for the next two years worth of meets.

Athletes Report:� Joanne Gallahue thanked all her chaperones for taking care of her at Convention.� Want to have 1-2 athletes from each team to form an athlete�s committee.�� Will put a request on the athletes� web page for volunteers for the committee.� Also, the athletes would like to do something special for the senior meet.

Officials:� Five clinics posted on line for stroke and turn and two for starting.

Coaches Report:� Swimposium fairly good regarding attendance.� Speaker was excellent.� Safety training well attended.� Dan Mascolo will send an email out to the coaches asking for opinions on the lottery process.� There are two safety training courses for coaches posted on the web site.

Web Report:� Rick Osterberg is working on a template for standardized meet information.� Will be voluntary for use in long course.

Other Business:� New England Swimming needs a policy for those who are approved to go to convention by the chairman that are not voting members.� Bruce Mohl will submit a draft for discussion for Demember�s meeting.� Priscilla Davis has been named chairman of the United States Swimming Safety Committee by Ron Van Pool.� Rick Osterberg stated that meet information must to be sent to him 11 business days before it is to be posted on the web site.� Marjorie Blackwell will continue as treasurer until the end of her term (she is moving to Connecticut in December).� The Eastern Zone web site will be linked to the New England web site.� A New England team may lose their ability to run swim-a-thons since they haven�t paid their sanctions.

Next meeting: December 10 - 7:00 p.m. at Wellesley Community Center.

Motion was made to adjourned and accepted.

Meeting adjourned at 8:55.�

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela Warner