Official Minutes of the WSFA Fall 2008 Coaches Meeting Prepared by Sean Harris-Campf, WSFA Secretary Puyallup HS September 13, 2008 9:14 AM Meeting called to order 9:23 AM Minutes from Spring 2008 Read by Sean Harris-Campf. Motion to accept. Seconded. Passed unanimously. 9:25 AM Treasurer s Report Submitted by Morgia Belcher. Motion to accept. Seconded. Passed unanimously. 9:29 AM Election of Officers Three positions up for election: President, Secretary, Treasurer. Charlie Potter suggested co-treasurer position. He also said that we are out of sync with Western Vice-President election. He proposed one year election for Western Vice- President to return to the Constitutionally mandated schedule. Motion to silent vote for election by written ballot. Seconded. Discussed. Yeas: 13; Nays: 16. Recount: 14 yays, 16 nays. Motion fails. President: Lois Gorne nominated. Seconded. Accepted in absentia. Steve Helman nominated. Seconded. Accepted. Sarah Sherry nominated. Name withdrawn. Charlie Potter nominated. Name withdrawn. Motion to close nominations. Seconded. Discussion of nominees. Question called. Seconded. Passes. Vote for President: Gorne: 31. Helman: 7. Gorne re-elected as President. Secretary: Nominees: Sean Harris-Campf. Seconded. Accepted. No other nominations. Discussion closed. Vote: 31 yeas. Harris-Campf elected as Secretary. Treasurer: Morgia Belcher suggested co-treasurer with Bill Nicolay. It is important for the IRS to show both names as co-treasurer for one two-year term. Nicolay would be authorized to be a signer on the WSFA bank account.
Nominees: Morgia Belcher and Bill Nicolay as co-treasurers for one two-year term. Nicolay would be authorized as a signer on the WSFA bank account. Nomination accepted. No other nominations. Move to accept by acclimation. Seconded. Discussed. Vote accepted by acclimation. Belcher and Nicolay elected as co-treasurers. Western Vice-President one year term 2008-2009: Nominees: Sarah Sherry. Seconded. Accepted. Mark Davis. Seconded. Accepted. Discussion. Question called and seconded. Vote for Western Vice President Sarah Sherry: 27 Mark Davis: 3 Sarah Sherry is Western Vice President 10:06 Novice Topic Area Selection Sean Harris-Campf described the results of the Novice CX topic meeting. The four Novice affirmatives are: Nuclear power: increase the incentives for nuclear power. Alternative fuel vehicles: increase the incentives for alternative fuel vehicles. Solar: increase the production tax credit for solar energy. Cap and Trade: require a reduction in CO2 production substantially below 1990 levels through a system of tradable permits. No CPs or kritiks allowed in the novice division. 10:08 Policy Topic Selection for 2009-2010 Charlie Potter explained the topic selection process and went over each topic area. Topic areas discussed. WSFA Committee members collected ballots from members. Potter counted votes. Vote was: Space 46 1 st Health Care 75 5 th Immigration 68 3 rd Federal Elections 53 2 nd Poverty 73 4 th 10:22 Tournament Calendar for 2008-2009
Sarah Sherry has distributed a list of tournaments. She requested each tournament host specify which events will be offered. The link to the WIAA forensecreg document will be in the cardfile. 11:05 Student Congress Committee Roberta Rice proposed a Student Congress committee to implement the Washington Rule for Student Congress. Roberta is named by the WSFA Executive Committee acting chair of the Student Congress Committee. Roberta s email will be in the directory. The URL for the Student Congress website will be placed into the Cardfile. 11:11 Laptops in policy debate Sean Harris-Campf proposed the following amendment to the FORENSICREG document. Add the following to the WSFA Forensics Guidelines, POLICIES REGULATING INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENTS, Section 2 (page 33 of the WIAA handbook): The use of laptops only for the purpose of flowing and reading analytic arguments is permitted in CX debate. Motion to pass. Seconded. Discussion. Friendly amendment to include the words only and reading analytic arguments accepted by Harris-Campf. Question called. Yes: 20 Opposed: 3 Motion passes 11:18 Proposal for Constitutional Amendments Dawna Lewis proposed a Constitution Amendment to eliminate the phrases or league from Article 1, Section 1 and fall or from Article V, Sections 1 and 2. Discussion. Steve Helman proposed friendly amendment to change active membership to present membership. Accepted by Lewis. Proposed to move to withdraw proposal for deleting or league and fall or in the proposal. Seconded. Discussion. Stuart McCurdy made Point of order. Bylaws require two weeks notice for vote. It became clear that this proposed change could not be voted on until
Move to table until the Spring. Second. Passes unanimously. 11:27 Bylaw Changes Shawna Lewis proposed three bylaw changes. The first proposal is: 1) The officers shall be nominated in writing before or at the State Debate Championship. Elections shall be held via secret ballot at the spring meeting. Discussion. Motion for Friendly amendment by Potter to only include the secret ballot phrase to say elections would be held via secret ballot. Rejected by nominator. Motion to refer this bylaw change to a committee appointed by an Executive Board to look at this bylaw change at the State IE tournament. Motion seconded. Discussion. Friendly amendment to include all three Call question. Seconded. Point of order. Section 8 doesn t refer to an election. Friendly amendment withdrawn. Call for previous question. Seconded. Vote unanimous. Vote to establish a committee to work on Article 1. Majority votes yes. Motion passes. David Smith proposes Dawna Lewis to chair the committee. Point of order: David Smith can t reconsider the question because he didn t Motion to recommend that the Executive Board select Dawna Lewis to chair the Elections committee. Majority. Passes The Second proposal is to add to Section 8: Executive minutes shall be made available to WSFA members. Motion seconded. Discussion. Question called. Vote on the question. Majority votes yes. Motion passes. The Third proposal is to add the following to Article VI, Section 1. Districts are encouraged to provide all members the opportunity to participate in the election and are further encouraged to elect the district manager at the end of the school year preceding the term. Motion passes. 11:51 Proposal for Lay Judges in PFD
Motion that at State when possible lay judges should be used in Public Forum. Call for vote. Vote passes by majority. 11:55 Speech and Debate at $4 a gallon Joel Underwood proposes to form a committee to look at cost issues and present findings at the 2009 fall coaches meeting. 11:56 Judging Guidelines for Debate and IEs Jessica Barker-Buchan explained judging guidelines document. 11:58 For the good of the order Harris-Campf talked about the WDC and getting each member s email to receive emails from the Secretary. Jen Johnson discussed fundraising support the Seattle Debate Foundation. If you are interested in a Debate Like a Girl t-shirt or a CX book, contact Jen Johnson at Jen.johnson@seattledebate.org. Stuart McCurdy discussed hosting state in Yakima. Yakima district will do whatever it takes in the Yakima valley. David Smith proposes a motion that the WSFA support having at least one State tournament in Yakima in the 2010 season and send that information to Mike Colbrese. Motion seconded. Discussion. Call for vote. Vote: 27 yes, 3 no. David Smith recognizes Sarah for running the meeting. Bill Nicolay reported consistent damage done to tournaments and if we have continued tournaments the tournaments will be forced to end. Morgia announced that WSFA orders ballots and you can get them at cost from her. 12:19 Motion to Adjourn. Passed. Meeting Adjourned.