Not Present: Mary Anne Condon, Jason Paige, Nick Cavataro, and Ed Doernberger

Also Present: Nan Cooper, Ralph Rienzo

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Chairman Steve Carroll called the meeting to order at 7:40 PM

Approval of the Agenda: The agenda was approved as amended (Club name change was added to New Business).

Approval of Minutes: A motion to accept the minutes of June 18, 2003 was made, seconded and approved.

Announcements: Steve Carroll reminded the Board of the upcoming meetings (Swimposium, HOD, Banquet) and the importance to have representation of the board. Steve also informed the board that WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has finally agreed to allow USA Swimmers to hold their pool records. This will be going forward only and no retroactive records will be accepted. The process for reporting records has not yet been developed.

Volunteer of the Year: Candidate has been selected and will be announced at the upcoming banquet.

Swimposium: The registration has been excellent so far and we are looking forward to a very productive weekend. All volunteer help will be appreciated.

House of Delegate: Meeting to be held October 17, 2003 at the OMNI HOTEL as the start of the Swimposium weekend. It may not be ideal to hold on a weekend but the board felt it was important to include it as part of a "fall" kickoff weekend. There will be several guests from USA Swimming that will attend as part of the swimposium.

LSA Retainer: A motion was made and seconded to accept the written request from Jim Cooper of LSA Software to pay them $2,000 for work completed last year and a retainer of $500 to be used for potential work needed this year. Motion passed.

Flyover Starts: The approval is in place to allow the use of Flyover starts. Bill Repass to develop a set of guidelines to utilize and be published on the CSI web site. Bill will also handle the training of officials but urged support of the coaches in training the swimmers.

Reaffirmation of Appointed Positions: Clark Cooper announced that Dan Zeek (WEST) has agreed to take over the position of Publicity Chairman. Clark also reaffirmed the following people and positions:

Technology: Jim Cooper

Banquet: Peter Boucher and Wendy Jackwin

Counsel-at-Large (volunteer): Ed Doernberger

Records, Top 16 and NTV: Larry Frost

Approval of Meeting Schedule: It was stressed that the key to the meeting schedule and meetings is that they be open, publicized and accessible to all that wish to attend. The schedule was approved with the addition of the Senior Committee and Technical Planning schedules.

Club name change: Judy Snow submitted a request for MAKO to change to WCYM (Western CT YMCA Makos) and it was approved by the board.

Adapted Swimmer Workshop: Board agreed to support the attendance of a CSI representative at this valuable workshop to be held in January.

Committee to meet the end of October and with new Counsel at Large, the committee expects to make some amendments to the by-laws.

YTD financials submitted and no major issues with the budget were noted.

Reported that our current Investment portfolio is performing very well in this economy.

Several new members have stepped forward to participate. The Championship meets were all run well and for the most part, meet evaluations were positive. Some of the time line concerns were met and progress has been made in this area. Still in need of Zone Team Coordinators to travel with the team.

Travel funds were approved and will be disbursed shortly to appropriate swimmers. It was noted that there would be 2 Open Sectionals this spring, one in Long Island and then 2 weeks later in Maryland. Both will be held in LCM’s as that is the only course that can be used for Olympic Trials. Jeff suggested that they might have changed SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS to LCM if it had been thought about but should be noted for the next Olympic cycle.

Time standard changes will be available at the HOD meeting, October 17, 2003.

All of the 1^st half meet announcements have been approved and posted. Work has begun on the 2^nd half meets. Committee to look at a possible format change to make announcements more common and easier to read. The Meet Director’s Manual is also being rewritten and once completed, a training session will be organized.

Dave and Nick are looking for a clarification of the role of this committee versus some other committees. Several ideas were discussed and the consensus was that this group should be looking at the longer-term goals of CSI. Input on incorporating new events into Championships and its affect on time standards needs to be addressed.

Ellen thanked all that participated in the voting’s that took place in naming Tim Quill – Sr. Coach of the Year, Jon Levine – Age Group Coach of the Year and Jason Paige as JR. Coach’s Representative

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Ann reiterated that she is available to run classes for those coaches in need of re certification. So far, there have been no requests. It was also suggested that teams be reminded to show the Safety videotape as a refresher.

Bill recently updated and corrected the official’s database on line. He also feels that statistically, CSI has a reasonable amount of officials available. It was requested that officials be reminded that they should not be on pool deck if they are not working the meet.

The new USA Swimming (SWIMS) program is up and running. It will be more critical than ever that swimmers ID numbers are constructed correctly (IE: Real name versus preferred name). This new database impacts all databases, including National Times, which is utilized at all National meets.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Larry Frost