Regional Board of Directors
Present:
Sean Wendt – President
Joy Rasmussen - VP
Larry Seidman - Secretary
Kent Bailey - Treasurer
Jim Flint - Officials
Mark Balsinger –
Mark Mico – New Mexico On phone
Celeste Callahan - National Board of Directors
Michelle Cox – Palmer Lake, CO
Membership numbers are up to 85,000 nationally.
The region has 5300 which is up from last year’s
2715 and 2479 two years ago.
Youth was under 200 annual 2 years ago. It is now at approximately 1700. This was the big jump in annual members from 2005 to 2006.
There was success in youth programs, because of the
Youth number might have increased because youths could not get a one-day and had to get an annual license.
The rebate program has changed. We still get $2.00 back per adult but now only $0.25 per youth member.
Regional Races:
The sprint national championship has been awarded to Rattlesnake.
The ITU continental cup, a series of elite draft legal races will have a race in our region.
The junior youth elite national championship will be in
They don’t have they grand prix series anymore, national wide or in any region.
Each region is supposed to come up with one race and we will know more about this tomorrow.
Budget:
We will be on a spend down of $2.00 per member
10,600 is the max we can spend in 2007.
We have $20,000.00 in the account.
$7800.00 is the anticipated total rebate for 2007.
Lines of communications:
The Lines of communication broke down last year.
Information comes from national staff and national BOD to Sean, the President and
Joy, the VP of regional BOD. Then Sean and Joy will inform the rest of the board.
Big Item Issues:
Website and Newsletter
The newsletter barely passes requirements
The Mid-Atlantic and
The region still does not maintain a list of email addresses for our membership.
company will organize a newsletter. This company will also keep the email list.
Sean needs a volunteer to compile the newsletter content and send the content to the newsletter company. The newsletter company takes the content and organizes it and makes it looks nice.
Mark Balsinger will report on NM races.
Joy will be the newsletter coordinator and will determine the sections and categories.
Sean will get dates of deadlines to Joy for the newsletter.
There is no limit to the number of pages, and the newsletter will also be put on the regional web site.
Concern about design of the website:
We can spend between $1200.00 and $1500.00 to redesign the web.
After the redesign, Larry will keep website current and Jim is the back up.
The website redesign is open for requests.
Sexual harassment:
There are USAT policies on-line, and every board member needs to go and review these online then send something back to Sean that we have reviewed the policies.
This also includes workplace harassment.
The regional board members are representatives of USAT and need to adhere to USAT policies. This is in covering USAT liabilities.
The next board meeting date:
We are required to have one face to face meeting, and four meetings a year.
The next meeting will be a conference call, Sunday March 18 at
The Board is now 11 people with the addition of Michelle Cox.
Officials:
There are 25 officials in the region. Jim is going to try
for a clinic at 5430 long and would like for a clinic in
Alan Ley has resigned.
Larry will take the speaker phone, and will make sure the conference call number will work for the next meeting.
The board has approved newsletter expenses of $300.00 for initial set up and $200.00 per quarter.