������������������ ������������������ Minnesota Swimming, Incorporated��� Board of Directors
Minutes
of the meeting of January 15, 2002
(Quorum
equals 10 people)
Present at the Meeting
Executive
Board Members:� Sue
Griffin, Cathy Thwing, Dave Hulit, Paul
Lundsten, Blair Buccicone
Other Board
Members:� Tim Mann, Rocky O�Neil, Michael Bougie,
Appointed
Committee Members (Voting): Marlene Goblish, Ron Murphy
Appointed
Committee Members (Non-voting): Paul
Windrath, Jack Boder
MSI
Staff: �Sheryl
McGuire
Non-Board
Members: Megan McNair (STC), Ellen Youngers (ROC), Bob
Peterson (HOP), Jerry Simpson (SEMS), Mark Davis (FOXJ), Larry Thoen (MVSC),
Rick Dunham (M3F), Olga Splichacova (SCSC), John Sfire (ROC)
Meeting was called to order by the General Chair at��� 7:35�
p.m.
Motion:� To approve the minutes of the
meeting for November 13, 2001��
Seconded; Passed Unanimous
Officer Reports
General
Chair:� Sue Griffin
The
Finance Vice-Chair Report moved to front of agenda to accommodate the
schedule of the accounting firm representative.
Finance
Vice-Chair:� Dave Hulit
The balance sheet provided in the
report has some late revisions (see attached).�
He introduced Jeff Kletcher, a representative of Muellerleile &
Harrington, Ltd that performed the audit for MSI.� Mr. Kletcher presented the audited financial statements and a
management letter.� The Board will
review both items.� Recommendations and
suggestions are expected at the next meeting of the Board.
The General Chair then completed her report.
Administrative
Vice Chair:� Joel Shinofeld:�
Not present / No report
Senior
Vice Chair:� Dennis Dale:� Not
present / No report
Age group
Vice-Chair:� Cathy Thwing
Senior
Athlete Representative:� Blair Buccicone:� No report
Junior
Athlete Representative:� Chad Krastins: Not
present / No report
Senior
Coach Representative:� Paul Lundsten
Presented a radical new idea for meet format for
consideration.� This format would
eliminate the bidding process for any meet below the �A� level.� Each month would have a bid �A� meet. No
sanctions would be granted to meets that included �A� swimmers scheduled either
the weekend before or after the bid �A� meet.�
This would enable the �A� swimmers to compete against each other without
diluting the pool of swimmers with multiple meets and protect the host of the
�A� meet.� This would allow teams to
attend or host meets when convenient and formatted to their needs.� The largest justification is that B/C meets
are too long and all teams are losing swimmers because of it. It was recognized
that there are a number of factors to consider and many details to be discussed
before this format can be adopted.�
Cathy Thwing mentioned that is was similar to an idea floating around
the Meet Scheduling committee, though not as radical.� Mr Lundsten deferred to the Meet Scheduling Committee to continue
the discussion and development of the idea.
Junior
Coach Representative:� Jean Freeman:� Not present / No report
Ex
officio General Chair:� Bob Pearson:� Not present / No report
Technical
Planning Chair:� Rocky O�Neill: No report
Safety
Coordinator:� Kathy Czuprynski:�
Not present / No report
Officials
Committee Chair:� Michael Bougie
There are currently 140 MSI
Officials, 42 have obtained Referee certification, 17 certified Starters and 81
Stroke & Turn officials
Legislative
Chair:� Betsey Aby: Not present / No report
Adapted
Swimming Chair:� Marlene Goblish: No Report
NTV
Chair:� David Shapley: Not present / No report
Equipment
Chair:� Ron Murphy:� No
Report
����������� Approximately 3950
registered swimmers, some on hold due to missing information.
Swim Meet
Sanction Coordinator:� Sheryl
McGuire:� No report
Records
Chair:� Paul Windrath
����������� Records
information has been received, updated on the website, certificates are
forthcoming.
Top 16
Coordinator:� Vacant
Outreach
Coordinator:� Joel Shinofield:� Not present / No report
Board of
Review:� John Witzel
Absent, written report submitted
by the Chair.�
1.
The Board of Review officers were elected at the
organizational meeting.� ����������� ����������� ����������� ���Chair:� John Witzel;�� Vice-Chair: Tom Norgel; and Secretary: Paul
Windrath.
2.
Regular member Beth Oelke has resigned.
3.
There is one matter pending for a formal hearing.
Unfinished
Business:
����������� Orca Charter Decision (Ellen
Youngers)
Motion
was made by Blair Buccicone (Junior Athlete Representative) to overturn the
General Chair�s decision to follow National�s recommendation that the Orcas
charter be effective as of June 8, 2001.�
Motion seconded by Ron Murphy (Equipment Chair).
Discussion:� Since the Board of Directors approved the
decision; the correct course of action would be an appeal to the Board of
Review.� The motion was withdrawn.
Motion made by Blair Buccicone (Junior Athlete
Representative) to discuss the sanctioning of a quad meet the same weekend as
the meet held by Rochester Swim Club Orcas.
Motion seconded by Rocky O�Neill (Technical Planning
Chair).
The Rochester Swim Club
Orcas questioned whether it was proper for MSI to sanction a quad meet
involving four teams that were zoned to attend their meet.� The Orcas do not have a quarrel with those
teams not attending their meet and understand the difficulty of changing meets
at the last minute.� Although, these
teams would not have attended the meet because of the confusion over the
re-zoning of the weekend due to the vacancy of the Age Group Chair at the time;
the Orcas felt that MSI sanctioning that meet was a breaking of the
contract.� They did not have a suggested
remedy for the situation.
Motion
was made to table the discussion item until next month and allow the Orcas to
present a desired outcome.� Motion was
seconded, approved:� unanimous.
New
Business: �None.
Motion to
adjourn at:� 9:00pm��
Seconded, approved: unanimous.
Respectfully submitted,
Tim Mann
MSI Secretary