Official minutes of USOF Board meetings
Informal report of USOF Board Meeting held April 12, 2003
by Clare Durand, Pacific Region Representative
Approved a policy to award 10% of sponsorship money from SILVA to the USOF member responsible for securing the sponsorship. A general policy to this effect for any sponsorship or grant is to be drafted by Frank Skorina (VP Marketing) for the next board meeting.
Approved the following Championship Bids:
US Rogaine Champs 2003 - OLOU, 11-12 Oct 2003
US Individual Champs 2004 - MNOC, 16-17 Oct 2004
US Short & Long Champs 2004 - BAOC, 6-7 Nov 2004
US Intercollegiate Champs 2004 - WCOC, 3-4 Apr 2004
US Interscholastic Champs 2004 - OCIN, 17-18 Apr 2004
BAOC bid for US Open Champs 2004 will be considered at a future meeting to give time for the team's consideration and possible other bids.
Liz Kotowski (College Development Committee) asked that in the future the Intercollegiate's get first priority at a mid-April date. (This year the conflict between Intercollegiate and Interscholastic was decided between the clubs prior to our meeting)
Junior Team was allocated an additional $1000 to help with JWOC expenses.
Board passed clarification policy and funding policy for USOF
convention.
Board passed proposed changes to the rogaine rules with the exception
of the reference to relay eligibility. This will be addressed
separately.
Board voted against moving F-18 to the Green course - they will
remain on Brown.
Board passed the proposal from College Development Committee making
full-time students on student visas eligible for US Championships.
Agreed to sponsor a bylaws change for the national convention. Changes include 1) some general housekeeping related to the term "associate" in the bylaws. 2) slight change in delegate counts which deletes the "or majority fraction thereof" language. 3) eliminating the bonus votes for larger clubs. 4) eliminating additional signatures needed on club ballots for larger clubs.
We reversed the decision of the grievance committee regarding the Colony JROTC team and awarded them co-championship in the JROTC category for the year 2003.
Next meeting is at the USOF convention - 12 August 2003
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Informal report of USOF Board Meeting held January 19, 2002
by Clare Durand, Pacific Region Representative
Beatrice Zurcher is a part of the Olympic Torch Relay as it passes
through Vail, CO.
Approved - BAOC's bid to host a WRE as part of their 2003 Fallen
Leaf Lake event. Assumed that BAOC will cover the costs of the
controller.
Approved - COK (Carolina O Klub) bid to host 2003 Intercollegiate
Champs on April 5-6, 2003
Approved - CTOC (City of Trees O Club) bid to host 2003 Relay
Champs on June 28-29, 2003
Some endowment fund business was completed insuring quarterly transfers from the investment account and transferring funds from some Microsoft stock holdings.
Candidates are needed for BOD positions coming up this year,
including Pacific Region elections.
As of this meeting no convention site has been determined. The
executive committee will pick a date for the AGM from fall event
dates.
Discussion of potential Rule changes to Interscholastics. Since the rules committee is still working on this issue, no permanent changes were made. It was proposed and approved to award individual championships at this event just for 2002.
One map loan has been made to a new club.
USOF is working to get the Presidential Sports Award for Orienteering reinstated. It was discontinued due to lack of applicants.
Plan was submitted for the course/class review. An overview of the plan is to be printed in the April issue of ONA. A membership survey will go out in March.
Next meeting is in Chicago on April 27, 2002
Informal Board Meeting Report for meeting on November 3, 2001
submitted by Gary Kraght, Pacific Region alternate
A U.S. Rogaine Championships was added to the list of board
approved
championships (along with the other wording in Eric Bone's proposal).
The
vote was almost unanimous.
The board rejected 7 to 8 a proposal to switch F50 back to
Green. Chuck
Ferguson will be forming a committee to investigate our course/class
structure, and I volunteered Clare Durand and Bill Cusworth for
the committee.
All championship bids were approved (unanimous).
About $50,000 was transferred to our new Endowment Fund.
Next two Board meetings will be at the Georgia A meet in January
and the
Chicago A meet in May.