General Membership: RJ Grunseth, HUT; Bob Peterson, HOP; Ron Murphy, UNA; Billy Howard, MCA; John Sfire, ROC; Steve Varney, ROC;

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1 Minutes 21 June 2005 Executive Board: David Braun, General Chair David Goble, Admin. Vice Chair Present: Neil Mahoney, Senior Athlete Rep. Paul Lundsten, Age Group Vice Chair Absent: Dennis Dale, Senior Vice Chair Al Ness, Finance Vice Chair Heidi Oquist, Senior Coach Representative Directors: Gail Andersen, Secretary Rick Biggs, Officials Chair Present: Kathy Czuprynski, Safety Coordinator Sarah Sofelt, Jr Athlete Rep. Eric Severson, Jr Coach Representative Absent: Rocky O Neill, Technical Planning Chair Bob Pearson, Ex-Officio Standing Cmte Chairs: Cassy Shapley, Registration/Membership Susan McNeely, State Records Chair Present: Michael Bougie, NTV Chair Liz Cutter, Legislative Chair Marlene Goblish, Adaptive Swimming Chair Sheryl McGuire, Sanction Coord Absent: Rocky.O Neill, Time Standards Cmte Chair John Witzel, Board of Review Chair Sue Lundsten, Nominating Cmte Co-Chair Pat Anderson, Central Zone Cmte Bob Pearson, Nominating Cmte Co-Chair Outreach Committee Chair- Open Equipment Chair Open General Membership: RJ Grunseth, HUT; Bob Peterson, HOP; Ron Murphy, UNA; Billy Howard, MCA; John Sfire, ROC; Steve Varney, ROC; Call to Order: 7:40 pm 1. Additions to Agenda: none 2. Review of Minutes Andersen: Correction suggested that item 7m.ii: Travel Funds Task Force should be indicated as separate from Central Zone Committee Report; relocate to line item 7n. Action: Motion to Approve as Corrected: Goble; Second: Biggs 3. New Business none 4. Unfinished Business a. State Meet Proposals (Sfire/Varney, ORCAS) Tabled in April. Chair Braun inquired as to whether NTV Chair Bougie had completed his review. He has not. Additionally, Chair Braun noted that to be considered as Proposed Legislation the items should be submitted individually as sponsored proposals. These may be submitted for the September BoD Meeting. Action: Motion to Continue Table: Goble; Second, Biggs. 5. Executive Officer Reports a. General Chair (Braun) i.) Acting Senior Coach Rep: Lloyd Larsen has determined not to accept the interim appointment made at House Delegates. Chair Braun proposes to appoint Olga Espinoza to the interim position. Action: Motion to Affirm Appointment of Olga Espinoza to Acting Senior Coach Representative: p. 1

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3 ii.) USAS National Convention MSI Representatives: (Sept Charlotte NC) David Braun, General Chair David Goble, Admin. Vice Chair Neil Mahoney, Senior Athlete Rep. Paul Lundsten, Age Group Vice Chair Dennis Dale, Senior Vice Chair Eric Severson, Jr Coach Representative Senior Coach Representative Sarah Sofelt, Jr Athlete Rep. Bob Pearson, ExOfficio (Dennis Dale, Senior Vice Chair will be attending in another capacity.) (Eric Severson, Jr Coach Representative will not be available those dates.) Alternates: Rocky O Neill, Technical Planning Chair Kathy Czuprynski, Safety Coordinator Rick Biggs, Officials Chair iii.) Time Standards Committee Appointments: Chair Braun has not been able to contact individuals he would like to appoint for the non-bod Coach and non-bod Athlete members. b. Administrative Vice Chair (Goble) i.) AVC has been contacted by Mn Lynx / Timberwolves about an MSI Night at the game. JR and Sr Coach Reps Sarah and Neil will make the contacts to set up an opportunity for this and will publicize at the STAR July meet. c. Age Group Vice Chair (Lundsten) i.) Zone Coaching Staff: posted on MSI website and MnASCA. ii.) Meet Bids are due 1 July. So far not many have been submitted. iii.) Zone Qualifying Time Standards information on MSI published tables and on the MSI Website are out of date. These should be indicated as AAA quadrennial times. Action: Motion to delete Zone Standards from MSI tables and to provide a link to the Zone Standards on the MSI webpage.: Lundsten; Second, Goble. iv.) Zone Meet Budget: Handout provided indicating line items to meet MSI budget. iv.) Zone Meet Bus for 13&over swimmers: Pat Anderson is looking in to this. Will need chaperones to sign up for the bus. Cost of transport will be covered for chaperones but each must cover own other costs. d. Junior Athlete Representative (Solfelt) i.) USAS Officials Committee Athlete Representative Report: - New Training Video is underway at a cost of $80K. - Tri-fold handouts to recruit officials are being developed. - Certifications levels and qualifications still in debate. - Sarah is working on document Legal Swimming in parent/swimmer friendly language. Also developing templates for Mini meets to help coaches and officials to teach swimmers. - Sarah will be writing an article for USA swimming on kids and Officials. e. Finance Vice Chair no report f. Senior Vice Chair no report g. Senior Coach Representative no report h. Junior Coach Representative no report i. Senior Athlete Representative no report p. 3

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5 6. Director Reports a. Officials Chair (Biggs) i.) Census of Active Officials: 38 Referees, 20 Starters, 109 Stroke/Turn for a total of 167 certified. Forty individuals are in training status for Stroke/turn or upgrade. ii.) Officials Training Meet held June 4-5: Training focus on Chief Judges was coordinated by Bob Crunsted and Gail Andersen. Starters workshop by Helen Brown attended by 24 people. Six received personal ondeck training with her. iii: Training Clinics: In past nine months clinics have been held for each certification level. All have been well-attended. iv. USAS certification classifications: USAS is working toward changing certification classifications. Helen Brown is on that national committee and will give us an update later this summer. b. NTV Coordinator (Bougie) i.) All meets to date have been entered into SWIMS. Only a few swimmers are outstanding in the database. c. Safety Coordinator no report d. Technical Planning Chair no report 7. Standing Committee Reports a. Adaptive Swimming Committee (Goblish) i.) Justin Zook will be the only Minnesota swimmer attending the IPC meet in Oregon later this summer. ii.) Swimmers interested in acquiring IPC Classification can contact Julie O Neill on the IPC webpage. b. Registration/Membership Committee (Shapley) i.) Year to date Membership data: Athletes: 6981 (ytd 2004 at 6035) Non-Athletes: 619 (ytd 2004 at 609) Clubs: 70 (ytd 2004 at 69) ii.) Reminder to Clubs and Coaches to change database info on highlighted swimmers. iii.) Electronic Registration is going well. Hope to do a clinic for Club Registrars. c. State Records Committee (McNeely) Chair Braun introduced Susan McNeely as new State Records Coordinator. She will be looking into listing new record announcements on the MSI webpage and developing award certificates for swimmer recognition. d. Legislative Committee no report i. Sanction Coordinator no report e. Public Relations Committee no report j. Equipment Committee no report f. Time Standards Committee no report k. Outreach Committee no report g. Board of Review no report l. Nominating Committee no report h. Central Zone Committee no report 8. Adjournment Moved: Biggs; Second: Goble 8:17 pm Respectfully submitted, p. 5

6 Gail S. Andersen, Secretary p. 6