BOARD OF ATHLETICS MEETING
WALNUT CREEK
NOV. 20, 2002

1. MEMBERS PRESENT: Bob Bowman, President, Joanne Slaton-Camargo, Secretary George Kleeman, Past President, Bob Podkaminer, Treasurer John Mansoor, Executive Director, Jerry Colman, Vice President Tyler Abbott, Mens LDR, Mike Hammerquist, Youth Field Chr Lloyd Stephenson, MaMLDR, Dan Davidson, Equipment Cynci Calvin, Com Com Chair, Ed Hicks, Officials Charles Desjardins, MLDR, Dick Connors, Officials Bob Rauch, Officials/At Lge, Lori Maynard, Disabled Athlete Fred Baer, Media, Sonny Maynard, At Large Ruth Anderson, Womens LDR, Susan Beck, WLDR Chair Irene Herman, Membership, Phil Watkins, Officials Hollis Lenderking, Mens LDR, Shirley Connors, Officials Dick Iwamiya, Officials, Dan Preston, Youth Charlie Sheppard, Disabled Athlete, Bob Shor, Youth XC Chr Mitch Massey, Guest 2. MINUTES: Our meeting was called to order at 7:45 p.m. The amendments are: date change from November 13th to November 20th; "unestablished athletes" should be changed to "outside or non PA athletes"; under #4, change "increasing the LDR budget" to "increasing the LDR Grand Prix." Motion is made to approve minutes with amendments; seconded and passed. 3. TREASURERS REPORT: Motion to approve cash flow report; seconded and passed. Regarding the small committee working on the financial policies and procedures; the first draft of the first rework is out. Revision information is being collected from the committees throughout November and part of December. It will need to be approved hopefully at our January meeting and amended immediately thereafter. 4. CONVENTION: We were told that we only have sixteen delegates but that will be challenged since we have over 5,000 members; we will have seventeen. This year, the representatives of the committees are also the delegates. We do have a meeting scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning at the convention. First round of voting is Friday morning. Runoffs are Saturday. Every representative/delegate should submit a report to Podkaminer as soon as possible after return from the convention. For the first time every there is an attempt to reorganize the Rules Book so that it follows in the exact order of the IAAF rules book. The wording is not exactly the same but there is an attempt to do so. 5. CHAMPIONSHIPS: Cross Country Championship is still looking for volunteers for anyone available. 5K citizens fun run in the morning. Information is on the website for anyone interested. NCAA meet in Sacramento is waiting for approval of schedule. Also waiting for approval for the official's entry blank. Tickets will go on sale January 1st at the same time as the Olympic Trial tickets; both hosted in Sacramento. The Outdoor Championships in Stanford will only be a four day meet instead of the original five days as scheduled. 6. 2004 OLYMPIC TRIALS: The tickets go on sale January 1st but the first two months to purchase tickets are reserved for Sacramento Regional Sports Unification Foundation members only. There are currently 1,000 members who can purchase up to four tickets each and it is suspected that they will. Which means the best seats will probably be sold out before the general public is allowed to buy tickets. The Junior Nationals meet may also be hosted as part of the Olympic Trials. The additional seating added in the North section will most likely be needed for those additional athletes and their coaches. 7. 2003 PAN PACIFIC MASTERS GAMES: The Sacramento Sports Commission has entered into an agreement with the Gold Coast Corporation. Odd numbers years will be hosted in Sacramento with the even number years in Brisbane, Australia. There are up to twenty sports right now. It is positioned right before the national meet in Eugene so the masters will have an opportunity to tune up before that meet. It will also serve as the Pacific Association Masters meet since we did not have one for the first time. There will be a road race associated with this event, taking place Saturday evening in the Olympic style village as the start and finish of the race. The age is 30 years and up. It's a two day competition probably taking place at American River College instead of Sac State due to renovation to ready Sac State for the Olympic Trials. The date scheduled is August 2nd and 3rd. 8. 2003 YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS: Scheduled dates of June 14-15 for the PAC Championship meet and June 27-29 for the JO Championship meet. The Region 14 meet is in Fresno on July 12-13. The youth committee, does realize there is a conflict with the date of June 14-15, therefore they expect minimal official help for that meet. However, if any official will kindly volunteer their services for the PAC Championship meet (June 14-15) please contact Joanne Slaton-Camargo at [email protected] or leave a telephone message at 510 430-8223 (home) or 510 879-8189 (work). 9. GRIEVANCES: The national office has not moved quickly enough regarding the appeals filed by two youth committee coaches of the PA so nothing has been resolved to date. Therefore the BOA has decided to enforce the 30 day suspension according to the youth operating procedures. A motion is made and seconded to enact the 30 day suspension regardless of what is going on with the appeal process on the national level. The motion carries. MISCELLANEOUS: Membership - 5,062 members registered as of November 20, 2002. Officials - 48 officials have been selected to work at Stanford LDR - All three grand prix are winding down. Their most exciting race was held in Paso Robles. There were seven runners under thirty minutes. Mitch Massey is meet director who put in bid to host the Masters 10K National Championships in Paso Robles. We are working to bring San Luis Obispo County officially into the Pacific Association. An LDR male athlete was sent to the Twin City Nationals. A woman was supposed to go but could not make it. Tyler makes a motion to carry over those funds to next year. John suggests disbursing it amongst the women trying to qualify this year. Seconded. Discussion. Motion is withdrawn. This will now be a youth standing rule - the number of qualifiers in track & field and the number of qualifiers in cross country will be divided into the travel fund proceeds to determine the amount awarded to each youth team. We need the results verified for our 2002 season. Every other committee except youth has in place, a written policy to determine what their disbursement policy is, how to disburse it, who is eligible, how they apply, who qualifies. We need someone or persons willing to go into the data base to extract our eligible youth athletes who actually attended the nationals in Omaha. Bob Shor has done this tedious, laborious feat in the past. The increase in membership from $15 to $20 was because we are running a deficit; even with the increase in fees. If you register online there is a 50 cent discount. The $75 team registration fee: $25 goes to the national body for insurance, rule books, etc. The remaining amount goes toward the general fund to help pay for the expenses of the association which includes the running of the office, travel funds and management supplied to the youth track meets at no expense to the youth committee. The new athletic director from UC Berkeley anticipates conducting a grand prix decathlete championship May 9-10. This is the same weekend as the Modesto Relays. Motion to adjourn; seconded. Meeting adjourned at 9:30. Next meeting - January in Sacramento