CONNECTICUT SWIMMING, INC.
House of Delegates
May 23, 2000
Call to Order: The House of Delegates was called to order by General
Chairman Mary Anne Condon at 7:45 PM at the High Plains Community Center
(Orange, CT).
Present: Board members- Mary Anne Condon, Bill Ball, Ken Block, Steve Carroll,
Ed Easley, Bill Krumm, Pam Libertiny, Mary Lynch, Tim Quill, Lauren Taft, Judy
Snow, Kathy Walsh and Wendy Whitcomb.
Absent Board members: John Abrami, April Haskell, John McCann, and George
Miles
At-Large Delegates: Jim Cooper, Barbara Ehmer, Carol Navarro, Mary Beth
McCarthy
Also present: Ann McCann (AJSC), Mike Divernierno (ARAC), Sean
Farrell (CDEV), Ann Hughes (GLAS), Sheryl Skroski (HNHS); Kurt Bittel, Kit
Reville, (ICSC); Peter Boucher (LEHY), Carol Feeney (NCY); Tim Wise and Henk
Jansen (OMNI), Skip Nitardy (PSDY); Brian Waits (RAC), Eric Benvenuti (SECY),
Jason Paige (SOCO), Ed Dingus (WAC); Clark Cooper (WCA), Pat Love (WEST), Ellen
Johnston (WRAT), Jeff Allen (WYW) and Nan Cooper.
Approval of Agenda: The agenda was approved as published.
Adoption of Minutes of October 1999
House of Delegates Meeting: The
minutes were approved as published.
Welcome/ Announcements/ Chairman’s
Report: Mary Anne Condon welcomed all
in attendance to the May House of Delegates meeting. Mary Anne extended thanks to all the volunteers that contributed
their time to Connecticut Swimming, Inc. during her five year tenure as General
Chair, and a special thanks to Jim Cooper, Mary Lynch, Judy Snow and Barbara
Ehmer for their many, many years of service and assistance to her. Moving to the future, Mary Anne noted that
the sport of competitive swimming is changing from the national level down to
the local level. It will be our
challenge to make these changes in the best ways possible for our athletes
while as an organization we remain fiscally responsible and fiscally sound,
continue to develop the grassroots programs, and develop ways to recruit and
retain volunteers.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
A Short Course Update for 1999-2000 was
available. This publication contained
reports of the officers.
Administrative vice-chairman: No report
Treasurer: Sue Lecza distributed a treasurer's report for
September 1, 1999 to April 30, 2000. Sue
reported that check request and reimbursements forms were required and
available on the web or from the office.
Finance Vice-Chairman: Not present.
Age Group Committee: Ken Block reported running a successful SC Age Group
Championship meet and thanked all that offered support and helped run this
meet. Ken this past season, formed an age group committee of coaches and parent
volunteers. Ken appealed for input as
he puts together next year's plan for age group swimming in Connecticut.
Senior Committee: No report.
Program Development: Mary Lynch reviewed the sectional meet format. The Eastern Zone decided to offer two
sectional short course meets for spring 2001.
CSI is in Region I with AD, ME, MR, NE, NJ, and NI. The sectional short course meet will be held
March 8-11, 2001. This date allows time
for entries into Phillips 66 National meet.
It is anticipated that the qualifying times will be such that 800
swimmers will compete. Swimmers may
compete in a maximum of seven events; bonus events will not be offered. Further details will be available in June at
the national General Chair's meeting in Florida. The Eastern Zone age group meet entry limitations will be amended
to reflect the demise of Junior Championships.
Only senior national swimmers will be excluded from the zone meet. How sectionals will impact the CSI short
course season has been referred to George Miles of Technical Planning. Comments and ideas are most welcome as the
short course schedule is formulated.
Program Operations: Steve Carroll reported a successful short course
championship meet schedule. Steve met
with Wesleyan University to review our contract and facilitate communication
between Wesleyan and CSI. Steve has
secured the UCONN natatorium for this LC season and hopes that this venue will
be available for future senior meets. Due to the scheduling problems involved
with the short course season, bid packages will be mailed later than usual,
most likely mid to late June.
Coaches Representatives: Bill Ball announced that Glenn Neufeld, newly-elected
Junior Coach Representative, will be leaving CSI for a job opening in PA. An election for Coaches Representative will
be held this summer at senior and age group championships.
Technical Planning: No report.
Athletes Representatives: Wendy Whitcomb and Lauren Taft introduced Brian Carey,
the new Junior Athlete Representative. They reported that more swimmers this
year ran for office. They would like to
see CSI add a page to the web site for athletes with contents of the page
dictated by the athletes. Efforts to
get an active athlete committee together continue.
Safety Committee: No report.
Official Chairman: No report.
Registration: Judy Snow stated that athlete registration is consistent
with last year at this time. CSI now
offers a “seasonal athlete” membership, which will be available to seasonal
swimmers who wish to compete between April and August. Fees will be one half (˝) the usual, annual
membership. Swimmers may not compete at
the Zone or National level with this type of membership. Judy urged all clubs
to evaluate this carefully before registering swimmers as seasonal. Upgrading to a full membership requires full
payment with no refund of seasonal membership.
Judy reported her registration software now produces a report of coaches
with expired credentials. Letters are
then sent to these coaches and a non-athlete card is issued rather than a coach
card. Currently there are 26 coaches
with expired credentials.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES AND COORDINATORS
Zone team: Mary Anne Condon reported for Ben Wallace. The summer zone team will again travel as a
team. This is the second summer season
in which the zone team has following the same travel requirements as the spring
short course zone team.
Awards: The awards position remains vacant. Interest was solicited for an awards and
banquet chairman.
Time Standards: George Miles was not present, but the time standards
for 2000 put forth by George have been approved by Program Development and were
distributed at the October House of Delegates.
Technology: Jim Cooper reviewed the technology gains of CSI over
the past five years, noting that our LSC led the way in swimming website
design. The current web site boasts a database query with over 65,000 hits
since inception. Email addresses at
ctswim.org are available to board members.
Reviewing past projects, Jim mentioned the failure of discussion
groups. The future includes the ability
to run queries against meet results. Jim continues to offer LSA Software at no
cost to each CSI team as well as code for the database query if teams would
like to set up a team database query.
PRESENTATION AND APPROVAL OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET
Sue Lecza, for John McCann presented
the Budget for the 2000-2001 fiscal year. It was moved, seconded and approved
to accept the budget for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2000 as
proposed by the Budget Committee and the CSI Board of Directors.
PRESENTATION AND APPROVAL OF THE ANNUAL AUDIT
An independent accounting
firm has conducted the third annual audit.
An audit by John Tobin concluded that the “books are in order and all
taxes have been filed”. Copies of the
audit are available through the CSI office.
ELECTIONS
Leanne
Spletzer, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, gave each nominee an
opportunity to make a brief presentation, then asking for nominations from the
floor. There were no nominations from
the floor. Motion made, seconded and
approved to accept a unanimous ballot for unopposed nominations of Program
Development (Bill Krumm), Membership/Registration (Judy Snow), Senior Chair
(Tim Quill) and Finance Chair (John McCann).
Contested positions were General Chair (Steve Carroll and Pam
Libertiny), Administrative Vice-Chair (Jeff Allen and Clark Cooper) and
Secretary (Barbara Ehmer and Mary Beth McCarthy). Ballots were collected and counted by David Moyer, Leanne
Spletzer and Mary Lynch. Elected to the
position of General Chair was Steve Carroll, Administrative Vice-Chair was
Clark Cooper and Secretary was Barbara Ehmer.
Motion made, seconded and approved that Leanne Spletzer destroy the
ballots in the next 24 hours.
NEW BUSINESS
DISCUSSION
Mary Anne Condon presented the idea of a CSI
"mini-convention". This one
day convention would offer a coaches clinic, officials clinic, training
courses, etc. in the morning, break for lunch and then reconvene in the early
afternoon for the House of Delegates meeting.
This may be a possibility for future meetings. Input regarding this idea is appreciated.
The annual awards banquet will now recognize
volunteers with service award pins. The
banquet agenda will be changed. Special
honorees will be recognized first.
Tim Quill encouraged careful reading of the senior
open meet announcement, as there are significant changes.
Travel funds are available to swimmers attending the
USA Disability Championships as well as the US Open, Junior Championships and
Olympic Trials. Program Development has
approved increased travel reimbursement for CSI Olympic Trialists, who meet
certain criteria. Details will be
available after the Board of Directors meeting June 21, 2000.
The
meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM.
Respectfully
submitted,
Nan
Cooper, Administrator
Permanent
Office