Final day at Governing Council... we continued with the isolated items from the requests for action. There were no new isolations. A change was made to allow officials who are related to each other to serve on the same panel at non-qualifying competitions, except as Tech Controller/Specialist as this would be a majority of those deciding calls in IJS. The Adult Committee had proposed changes to the allowed tests for Masters Junior/Senior, Intermediate/Novice, and Gold levels. An amendment to that was made so that anyone who has previously qualified to Nationals in Intermediate/Novice or Junior/Senior will not be able to now go back a level. New business - allowing Referees to access the rulebook on electronic media on stand passed; Rulebook available as online version only referred because they would not be able to implement all phases of it this year; referred to the Board to review areas of financial savings that do not include eliminating GC. There was a cute video played during the meeting - a video blog put together by local Stockton skater, Maddie Baker, and her grandmother about experience as Sweeper during Nationals. We finished all business by 1:30 PM, so we took time for lunch and then Jean, Lynn and I headed back to Charleston to spend the night before our early flights.
All approved rule changes will be posted online by U.S. Figure Skating as soon as they are ready.
~Lisa
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Saturday at GC.
Looks like we will finish up early. Exh D failed yesterday and new business is on the table now. The proposal to have online only rule books has failed. One of the issues seems to be headquarters ability to implement it. It will be brought back next year. There would be a significant cost savings and I think everyone is onboard with the idea, but it may take a little more time to implement I guess.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Sectional Meeting & Gov. Council Start
We had our Sectional meeting this morning where delegates from the each section gather separately to review the requests for action approved by the Board and to make presentations. Our meeting started with the announcement of National officials, among them our own Phillip Diguglielmo received his National Singles Tech Specialist appoinment (congratulations Phillip!). Others from Northern California receiving National appointments: Alison Hershberger-Filo (Judge), Ellen Izuka (Accountant), Joan Burns & Joyce Burden (Theater on Ice Judges). It was also announced that Rick Perez received his World Judging appointment for Synchro skating. The last part of the sectional meeting was dedicated to Nominating Committee elections. Representatives from the SW & NW Pacific were voted on and Dawn Eyerly (SWP) and Bill Cloran (NWP) were elected.
Governing Council began after lunch with a video replay of the Haydenettes Synchro team's free program from Worlds where they earned bronze for the 3rd year in a row (their program was amazing!). That was followed by the keynote address by 2 representatives of the Haydenettes team. Katie already posted the actions made on the exhibits (which are requests for bylaw changes). There were only 7 rule request items isolated - meaning a delegate has asked that a request for action be specifically reviewed and/or debated by the GC delegates. Any items that were approved by the Board and not brought forward for debate by the GC delegates will be automatically adopted. People may still isolate items during the meeting tomorrow, but if there aren't any more then when the discussion on these and any new business items is completed, we will be done with the 2012 Governing Council meeting. ~Lisa
Governing Council began after lunch with a video replay of the Haydenettes Synchro team's free program from Worlds where they earned bronze for the 3rd year in a row (their program was amazing!). That was followed by the keynote address by 2 representatives of the Haydenettes team. Katie already posted the actions made on the exhibits (which are requests for bylaw changes). There were only 7 rule request items isolated - meaning a delegate has asked that a request for action be specifically reviewed and/or debated by the GC delegates. Any items that were approved by the Board and not brought forward for debate by the GC delegates will be automatically adopted. People may still isolate items during the meeting tomorrow, but if there aren't any more then when the discussion on these and any new business items is completed, we will be done with the 2012 Governing Council meeting. ~Lisa
Full updates on all of the actions taken today can be found here
Short summary:
1. Withdrew Exhibit A, which would have amended the number of votes required to pass an amendment to the articles of incorporation.
2. Adopted Exhibit B, which gives honorary, ex-officio and additional members, committee chairs and representatives from other organizations the right to speak at select meetings of U.S. Figure Skating.
3. Adopted Exhibit C, which changes the process for a new club to become a full member club.
4. Did not adopt Exhibit D, which would have changed the format and frequency of Governing Council meetings and rule changes.
5. Adopted Exhibit E, which uses a rotation to determine the non-voting athlete member of the Board of Directors each season so that, going forward, no discipline (ice dancing, pairs, singles or synchronized skating) will be represented by the non-voting member in two consecutive years.
6. Adopted Exhibit F, which moves the full definition of "athlete" into the U.S. Figure Skating bylaws.
7. Adopted Exhibit G, which clarifies the effect of filling a vacancy on the term limits of said director.
Short summary:
1. Withdrew Exhibit A, which would have amended the number of votes required to pass an amendment to the articles of incorporation.
2. Adopted Exhibit B, which gives honorary, ex-officio and additional members, committee chairs and representatives from other organizations the right to speak at select meetings of U.S. Figure Skating.
3. Adopted Exhibit C, which changes the process for a new club to become a full member club.
4. Did not adopt Exhibit D, which would have changed the format and frequency of Governing Council meetings and rule changes.
5. Adopted Exhibit E, which uses a rotation to determine the non-voting athlete member of the Board of Directors each season so that, going forward, no discipline (ice dancing, pairs, singles or synchronized skating) will be represented by the non-voting member in two consecutive years.
6. Adopted Exhibit F, which moves the full definition of "athlete" into the U.S. Figure Skating bylaws.
7. Adopted Exhibit G, which clarifies the effect of filling a vacancy on the term limits of said director.
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