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ABC Board Meeting Minutes8/21/2019Meeting called to order 10:11amEast: Eric, Rich, SamMid-West: Shannon, SeanWest: Jerry, AndreaSouth: Mikey, Deanna, ToddSouth Central: Mark, David, Blake (reserve), ChadVP: Mike Move to appoint Ali Gates as temporary SecretaryCommittee works together to bring things to the board.Records Committee, History Committee, Rules and By-Laws Committee, Officials Committee, Awards Committee, Barefoot Badge Skier Development Committee, Technology Committee (live streaming, how we can do better live scoring), Team Select, USA Waterski Representative, PanAm World Barefoot CouncilNeed updated physical addressesMotioned for an automatic second and ratified all votes in 1cTreasurer’s ReportRegional dues of $300 are due for each region. Needs to be paid by September 1, 2019.We just sent up a Venmo accountBank account totals: a relatively low balance. 2016 saw a big fundraiser at Nationals and Worlds. This year’s theme: make money. Next year’s theme is to make moneySouthern Region donated entry fee for all athletes in RegionDeposits for airfare and training have already been made for team athletesShould we take advantage of the current currency situation and the US dollar being weaker currently?Rules and ByLaws CommitteeVersion 4A (26 slides)We do not have a consensus on our committee, therefore we do not have a recommendationIssue 1: How do we calculate the point cores for skiers who ski in multiple divisions?Motion to approve option 4 as we do it in Open. Motion withdrawn.Motion: committee create a spreadsheet with variables. Propose a rule and back it up with a spreadsheet. Looking for this rule to be consistent. Motion to put Rich Kaufman on the committee with spreadsheet. Withdrawn. Motion to include calculation for overall placement.Mark needs a general sense of the board to go back to the committee: Direction: to be consistent in rule from Open and across Divisions.Affecting this tournament: how should we score this tournament? According to the Open Rule in the rulebook, or as we have been doing it with Division and Event?Will follow the rule in B – Open PlacementIssue 2: Do we want to require mandatory open participation?Do we have a skier representative? What do our master skiers say?Ethical question: do the rules stipulate, or is it up to the skier?Motion: no change to the rule. Agreed. Issue 3: Do we want to change method of qualifying for higher rated ability based Division?Motion: no change to the rule. Agreed.Issue 4: Do we want to change the age that juniors move up in age bracket?Needing clarification on the ski year and how the age is determinedDo we want to confirm ABC rules to World Rules?Motion to make the ski year the same as a calendar yearEvery rule affected by a “year” should be reviewed to make sure nothing gets inadvertently affectedAmendment: adjust our age division to the World bracket.Should we change the juniors age in the chart to 16?Rule 1901Does the 2-year period start January 1, or the day after Nationals?Making the changes effective January 1, 2020 to give time to all skiersMotion: change from ski year to calendar year effective January 1, 2020. Approved.Motion: change the definition of Juniors 103c to match language in rule 1901a1 in the World Rulebook. Approved.Issue 5: Adaptive Performance DivisionCommittee has not yet vettedWill be sent back to committee, and wants to be assessed at the World’s level. Would like a skier representative for this division.Andrea would like to be added to Rules Committee. Rich and Andrea are both added.Officials CommitteeWant continued upgradesHave maintenance requirementsIf officials haven’t met their maintenance requirements they will be dropped at the end of SeptemberWestern Region ReportOne more tournament left in the West September 28th. Numbers are low. What is being done to bring in more numbers? Let’s do more to incentivize – first tournament entry fee is waived. There is a boom division. South Central offers 50% registration fee for college students. Jerry is worried about reducing the fees and will be losing money for tournaments. Adam Page is doing good things with the Colorado Barefoot Ski Club – what more can be done to support him and his efforts?Want to encourage collegiate participation – perhaps include a step-off start? Step-offs are not a defined start, currently because they are a safety issue. Should we allow a step-off start and add points, the issue is giving points for something that is not in the World Rulebook. Solution: double sanction the tournament for RC and fun.South Central would like additional tricks for points. Which can be done in a fun/experimental tournament. Looking for a published list of suggested tricks. Rules Committee and Skier Development Committee will be responsible for this. Deadline of December 1st. In the future, take some of these tricks to the World Rulebook. Ski with Legends – growing every year. Raising lots of money. All disciplines are there and are encouraging to ski in other divisions. Would it be possible to do more media around this, perhaps an interview? October 28th. Andrea and Jerry will create a story to put on and the FB page.John Martines – chair of Technology CommitteeConcern about the scoring program. Has been resolved with the Lion program. What is lacking is the history – the database from the Heeney program. Still want to export the information from Lion and put it into the historical database. Need to decide what we want to do moving forward with the skier and official history.Recommendation: stay with the Heeney program because of the official history.Access database is available to anyone who downloads the program. IWWF initiative to create an IWWF platform to combine Lion data and Heeney data. Ideal: link skier bios and videos, and has funding behind it. Right now, data must be double-entered and there is no interface between the two.Issues: lack of redundancy in Heeney, no skier history in Lion, no official history in Lion, we need a central database for everyone to query.More than scoring: Splash Eye, Live Streaming. Would like more input from other experts and CommitteesWould like to make recommendations to the committee for requirements for a software solution that we need. ABC board will take this on and provide these recommendations.Break for lunch 12:20pm – 12:30 pmMidwest Region ReportHeld 4 tournamentsSouth Central2 events future site of national tournamentUsing new technology from David WheelerEastern RegionOne tournament – 2 boats running in different directions, seaplane rides, local news coverageWill be holding a second tournament – will be having a lot of first-time tournament skiersWorking well with stick skiers and other clubs in the areaMotion for a waiver to let Eastern Regional skiers jump at Nationals since they did not get to jump at Regionals. Approved.Motion to change the rule to compete in each corresponding event at Regionals and drop the corresponding language with this rule. Approved. One opposition by Andrea.Team Select ReportJim is at the siteTeam trials on SundayPanAm TournamentFirst tournament in 15 years outside of Guadalajara. Hosted at Carlos’ lake, the President of Waterski in Mexico. Nov 1-2Anyone who has participated in barefoot waterski tournament in past 2 years qualified to participateOne level down from a World Level TournamentJunior, Elites, and Senior divisionsSanctioned under Pan-Am IWWF rulesCoincides with the weekend of Dam to Dam, will be having competing events for skiersChange in sanction cost for WorldsSkier DevelopmentPaul Stokes with #passthestokeBarefoot family and friendship formed over the years is our greatest assetWant to expose people to the sport in a non-competitive fashion. Get around people who are more competitive. Get them convinced to come to a tournament.F-3 series of events: “Footin, Family, Fun”. Not a competition, not a tournamentLocation that can host multiple boats. Switch crews, switch boatsCan throw in a tumble off and an egg relayLow pressure and not formal competition, a fun eventPro exhibition – just the top skiers that are out thereGoal: want to bring people into the family. Invite past competitorsThe serious barefooters are the ones that need to be there to be mentoringWant to have these grassroots and fun tournamentsWant to have an F3 series in 2020Records CommitteeRequest to use 4K camerasRequest to downgrade the points in a surface turn. Advised to please send a letter to the committee.Request to add Age Division, Betsy will bring to Brian in the Heeney programAwards CommitteeBetsy’s last year and has a detailed way of doing thisAthlete of the year comes out in November. January awards at the USA Waterski BanquetFundraising/Media Development CommitteeDeanna DeanSouthern RegionWant to grow the baseOfficials ClinicWant to add one more competition to qualify for AustraliaBidding for 2020 Nationals. Motion to accept the bid. Approved. August 13-16 20202021 Senior WorldsSenior Worlds separate from Junior and Elites since 2006IWWF and WBC has approved bid – over 35/45/55/65Open tournament, each skier gets to ski twiceMike personally donated $5000 for seed moneyCompetitive yet social tournamentSeptember 20th, 2021. IWWF wants every discipline to have an event the same weekend, which may affect the date. Seniors are not constrained by school year, wanted distance from Nationals, didn’t want to run into Labor DayHeld at new USA Waterski LakeGlobal organizing committeeHistory CommitteeRoadblock because Hall of Fame is currently packed Creating a barefoot history timelineLooking for the best photos to addUSA WaterskiAll board members must be Safesport compliantNew BusinessWould like to have 1-2 athletic reps on the board. Mandated by the IWWF, mandated by IOCAlex Youngblood would like to be the athletic rep. Criteria: must be an elite athlete. Motion to approve Alex. Approved. Her first job is to organize a skier meeting. Should copy the way Worlds does this.Will ask Jackson Gerard, as well. Will bring up at the skier meetingNeed to assemble a nominating committee for next ABC President. Betsy will create the committee: Mike, Mark, Andrew, Jerry, Shannon ................
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