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Present: Jeff Allen, Bill Ball, Ken Block, Peter Boucher, Steve Carroll, Eryn Crane, Ed Dunn, Sean Farrell, Jeff Gray, Bill Krumm, Susan Lecza, Jason Paige, Bill Repass, Barry Silver, Judy Snow and Todd Stevens.

Not Present: Nick Cavataro, Larry Frost, Ann Hughes, Dave Reilly.

Also Present: Nan Cooper, Ellen Johnston.

Chairman Bill Krumm called the meeting to order at 7:31 PM

Approval of the Agenda: A motion to accept the agenda was made, seconded, and approved with the following changes. Add discussion of finances of 2004 LC regional meets, request for meet announcement to be posted, change of club code, and request to be on website to new business.

Approval of Minutes: A motion to accept the minutes of June 16, 2004 was made seconded and approved.

Announcements: Bill Krumm expressed his excitement to have the opportunity to work with this board in his new position of chairman.

The election for volunteer of the year was conducted. Bill Repass was nominated and will receive his award at the awards banquet.

Board of Directors Appointments: Bill Krumm recommended and the board approved Bill Ball as coach at large and Mike Huffman as officials chair.

Committee Review: Committee chairs were asked to submit their meeting schedules and memberships. This will be posted on the website.

Golden Goggles: USA Swimming is encouraging all LSC’s to send representatives to the Golden Goggles Awards (the new annual USA Swimming black tie recognition celebration). It was felt that given the cost, it should be looked at for next year and budgeted for if it is decided that we should participate.

Athlete Travel: They were 44 requests for travel reimbursement. The total anticipated is expected be slightly over budget. The board approved an increase of a maximum of $1000 for this purpose.

Coach’s Education Grant: There were five requests for grants. Four $500 grants were awarded to: Jeff Allen, Ellen Johnston, Susan Lecza and Jim Liguori.

Coach Education Grant Policy: Ellen Johnston submitted possible changes to the policy. These were discussed and further discussion will be held at the January meeting.

House of Delegates: The next meeting is October 19^th. Committee reports are due by October 12^th.

CSI LC Regional Championships: The misunderstanding in the formula for the distribution of funds from LC Regionals was explained and corrected. The three host clubs will be contacted the correct entry fees will be collected or disbursed.

Request for Meet Announcement to Be Posted: A request was received to post a meet announcement from a CSI team that is hosting a meet sanctioned by another NE Swimming. It was felt that this would be contrary to our meet bid procedures and it was denied.

Club Code Change: It was felt that a club code change did not require board approval. MYST will now be MRDN.

68 applications for student athlete recognition have been approved.

YTD financials are available.

Portfolio is doing well.

Four new members have been added.

New Ridgefield coach has been met and invited to become active on committee. SC Seniors is working well as is. They are looking at LC Seniors.

Present. No report.

First half of year meet announcements are on website. Meet evaluation process is to be reworked.

Not present. No report.

They are looking at holding a coaches clinic in April.

Attending the USAS convention and talking with swimmers and coaches from other areas was a great experience.

No report.

Not present. No report.

Annual officials meeting will be held October 16th. Pat Lunsford will be guest speaker. Officials from other local LSC’s and high school officials have been invited.

Current membership numbers were presented. Registration work shops are going well.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:35PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Ed Dunn

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