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Minutes of the meeting of� June 18, 2002

UN-Approved

(Quorum equals 10 people)

Present at the Meeting

Executive Board Members:� Sue Griffin, Dennis Dale, Cathy Thwing, Blair Buccicone, Paul Lundsten,��

(Not Present: Joel Shinofeld, Dave Hulit)

Other Board Members:� Tim Mann, Rocky O�Neil, Kathy Czuprynski, Michael Bougie, Jean Freeman, Chad Krastins

�(Not Present:� Bob Pearson,)

Appointed Committee Members (Voting): Marlene Goblish,

�(Not Present: Ron Murphy, Elizabeth Aby, Dave Shapley)

Appointed Committee Members (Non-voting): Paul Windrath,

����������� (Not Present: John Witzel, Jack Boder)

MSI Staff: �Cassy Shapley, Sheryl McGuire

Non-Board Members:� Bruce Decknagel (BAC/MFS), Steve Nagy (HUT), Megan McNair (STC), Jeff Rodriguez (EDI),

Jerry Simpson (SEMS), Rick Dunham (M3F), Ellen Youngers (ROC)

Meeting was called to order by the General Chair at 7:42 p.m.

Motion:� To approve the minutes of the meeting for May 21, 2002 with Corrections (Typo). Seconded;�

Passed Unanimous

Officer Reports

General Chair:� Sue Griffin

• Reminder:� The Executive Committee will meet immediately following the regular meeting.
• USA-Swimming Attendees (Confirmed): Sue Griffin, Bob Pearson, Cassy Shapley, Paul Lundsten, Sheryl McGuire

Waiting to hear from: Joel Shinofeld, Jean Freeman, Dennis Dale, Mike Cagley (Please confirm with Cassy by the end of June.

• Reminder:� Next month is the bid meeting.� Please remember that according to USA-Swimming Rules & Regulations, meets cannot be sanctioned if the host team has not submitted financial forms (Page 1 & 2) for previously hosted meets.� Sheryl has a list in the office.
• MSI may decide to honor a member with a USA-Swimming life membership presented at the USA-Swimming membership.� If you have any recommendations about this, please get in touch with me.

Administrative Vice Chair:� Joel Shinofeld�� ����������� ����������� Not Present / No Report

Senior Vice Chair:� Dennis Dale ���

����������� Need reimbursement requests -� still waiting for some to be returned.

Age group Vice-Chair:� Cathy Thwing

• Megan McNair has been named the Zone coach for 15-16 girls.

Finance Vice-Chair:� Dave Hulit ���� Not Present / No Report

Senior Athlete Representative:� Blair Buccicone ����������� No Report

Junior Athlete Representative:� Chad Krastins����������� No Report

Senior Coach Representative:� Paul Lundsten �

Opened the possibility that MSI award a �Coach of the Year� for the American Swimming Coaches Association if the Minnesota Chapter of ASCA is not going to present its own award.� Paul will talk with M-ASCA President when� he returns from out-of-town.

Junior Representative:� Jean Freeman�� ����������� No Report

Ex officio General Chair:� Bob Pearson �� ����������� Not Present / No Report

Technical Planning Chair:� Rocky O�Neill� No Report

Safety Coordinator:� Kathy Czuprynski������� �����������

• There will be a national survey on pools where meets are hosted.
• The LSC will host a Risk Management workshop in the fall, date TBA.

Officials Committee Chair:� Michael Bougie

� There are a total of 122 Officials:� Certified Referees:� 37; Certified Starters:� 17; and Stroke and Turn: 68.

� BAC appeared to ask that the fine levied against them withdrawn.� The fine was levied due to a lack of proper number of officials during the meet hosted on June 8 � 9.�� No motion was made so no action was taken.

Legislative Chair:� Betsey Aby����������������� ����������� Not Present / No Report

Adapted Swimming Chair:� Marlene Goblish

• Four swimmers competed at the National Disability Championships held in Federal Way, WA
• Judy Mielke (FAR), Justin Zook (M3F), Sarah Galbrecht (NLA), and Anessa Kemna (UNA).�
• Each swimmer earned a medal in at least one event. Zook and Kemna took Gold!
• Zook set two American Records.
• Special Thanks to Rick Biggs and Mike Bougie who both officiated.

NTV Chair:� David Shapley� ����������� ����������� Not Present / No Report

Equipment Chair:� Ron Murphy������������ ����������� Not Present / No Report

Registration - Membership Chair/ Office:� Cassy Shapley

� 6408 Athletes in June 2002 (6428 June, 2001, 6326 June 2000)

• 5250 Regular (5177, 5006)
• 1158 Seasonal� (1251, 1320)
• Non-athlete members:� 599� (617, 610)
• Clubs: �71� (70, 65)
• Organizations 0 (3, 2)

New Club Approval:� Swim America, Inc.

����������� Motion: Made by Michael Bougie.� To approve Swim America, Inc as a club. Seconded.

����������� ����������� Passed Unanimous.

Swim Meet Sanction Coordinator:� Sheryl McGuire����������� No Report

 Records Chair / Top 16 Coordinator:� Paul Windrath����������� No Report

Outreach Coordinator:� Joel Shinofield� ����������� ����������� Not Present / No Report

Board of Review:� John Witzel�� ����������� Not Present / No Report

Old Business:

����������� Orca Sanction Issue re:� December B/C Meet (Tabled at February 19, 2002)

Motion made by Dennis Dale.� To respond to Orcas request for reimbursement of meet fees of their own swimmers, not the visiting swimmers, in the amount of $635.00 that relates to their December 2001 B/C Meet.� Seconded.� Passed, Unanimous.

Motion to adjourn at:� 8:06pm� Seconded. Passed Unanimous.