Not Present: Bill Ball, Brian Carey, Mary Anne Condon, April Haskell, George Miles, Tim Quill, Lauren Taft, and Kathleen Walsh.

The meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. by General Chairman Steve Carroll.

Approval of Minutes: A motion to accept the minutes of September 20, 2000 was made, seconded and approved.

Approval of the Agenda: The agenda was accepted as published.

Announcements: Steve Carroll announced that the following CSI members were appointed to national committees at the USAS Convention: Bill Ball, Open Water; Ellen Johnston, Senior Committee; Bill Krumm, Safety Committee; Tim Quill, Camp Committee; Judy Snow, Registration Committee and Mary Anne Condon was elected to the Age Group Committee by the Eastern Zone.

Bylaw Revisions: Clark Cooper explained that the recommended changes fall into two categories: 1. Housekeeping and 2. Substantive. What our bylaws say and what is actually in practice should coincide. Each chair should review what is relevant to his/her committee and provide input.

Nominating Committee: The committee has not met. The following positions are up for election: 1. Coach at Large, 2. Program Operations, 3. Age Group Chair, 4. Technical Planning, 5. Treasurer, 6. Officials, 7. Safety and 8. Membership/Registration. All incumbents are eligible for re-election except for the Technical Planning Chair, George Miles. All incumbents, if willing to run, will likely run unopposed. The Technical Planning position will likely be contested.

Elite Camp: This topic will be discussed at Tim Quill’s February Senior Committee meeting. Only the budget will be approved by the board.

Office Laptop and Credit Card: Motion made, seconded and approved to authorize $2500 for the purchase of a laptop computer for the office. The Board also authorized the acquisition of a business credit card for the office.

Capital Purchases for LSC Championships: Upon further investigation it was determined that the Wesleyan scoreboard has been repaired and is working satisfactorily. There no longer is a need to purchase equipment to make the scoreboard functional.

Treasurer: Susan Lecza informed the Board that the audit was completed and the books were found to be in good order. She has also submitted the tax report to the IRS.

Finance: John McCann stated that CSI, Inc. was in sound financial conditions. He suggested eliminating the one-dollar surcharge to enter a meet since that would lessen the financial burden for all swimmers. Another suggestion for using the surplus was subsidizing the Banquet for the swimmers. There will be a budget committee meeting on February 21, 2001.

Age Group Chair: Ken Block told the Board that his committee was preparing for the LSC Championship and that Clark Cooper would be the meet referee.

Senior Committee Chair: In Tim Quill’s absence, Steve Carroll reported that the committee was set for the Senior Invitational; Pam Libertiny will be the meet referee. SCSU will provide the meet committee with anything needed for the meet weekend, possible to include Pelz Pool and a van to shuttle swimmers, if needed. Out of state teams will be cut first.

Program Development: Bill Krumm stated that it has been difficult to find a Zone Coordinator, but Bonnie Fisher and Johanne Taft had agreed to serve. LC Zones will return to the former format with the swimmers traveling on their own and CSI providing the staff.

Program Operations Vice Chairman: Pam Libertiny announced that the LC bid package has been mailed to all CSI clubs. Pam mentioned including open water competitions in future bid packages. Pam will accept any open water non-scheduled meet for this upcoming LC season. Pam is concerned about communication problems between herself and teams. Information is not always accurate. Several teams have requested surcharge relief; these will be discussed at the next Program Development meeting.

Coaches Representative: Not present.

Athlete Representative: Not present.

Coach at Large: Jeff Allen was present, see noted regarding Task Force.

Safety Chair: Not present.

Officials Chair: Bill Repass stated that all was going well. Steve Carroll added that the policy requiring all teams to have certified officials has been modified to allow teams to get a commitment from officials from other teams prior to their meet announcement going out.

Registration/Membership: Judy Snow reported that we have 3,900 registered swimmers to date. PAC and NLSS clubs did not renew. Thus far, we have had 100% compliance with athletes registered before competing in CSI meets.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:15pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Barbara Ehmer