FIAC BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
Les
Earnest, NCNCA
Mike
Murray, OBRA
Beth Wrenn-Estes, ACA
Carl
Wilkins, ABR
Chris Lotts, CBR
Yvonne van
Gent, ACA
Lee
Waldman, ACA (Saturday only)
Andy Rosen,
Attorney for FIAC
Meeting was
called to order by the VP – Mike Murray
Les Earnest
proposed adoption of the following Bylaw amendment to admit CBR as a member
organization.
Effective
immediately, amend Bylaw C, Section 1 to read as follows.
Section 1.
The following organizations are members of FIAC:
American
Bicycle Racing (ABR),
American
Cycling Association (ACA),
Northern
California-Nevada Cycling Association (NCNCA),
Amendment
adopted unanimously.
Filling of
Vacancies
Nestor Evancivich’s death meant that a new President needed to be
elected -the board did the following:
Nominate
Mike Murray – President Two
Year/March 2004
Nominate
Carl Wilkins – Vice President Two
Year/March 2004
Les Earnest and Beth Wrenn-Estes (Treasurer
and Secretary respectively have two-year terms/March 2004.
Motion to
approve minutes as corrected from the March meeting was made.
Passed as corrected
Treasurers
Report
Les Earnest
reported that the FIAC account has $13,835.
Who does
what for FIAC?
One person from each organization
represents their organization
Each member has a vote
At meetings voting is done by
majority 3/5
Outside meetings votes must be
unanimous
President
speaks officially for the board of FIAC
Need
project heads for the different programs that will be instituted over the next
two years The board will select these.
NPS Series
A
discussion on what the criteria should be for the series was undertaken.
Common
goals to do something to legitimize FIAC and provide categories of racing that
represent the various membership groups. It will encourage event promoters to
get involved in the series to enhance visibility.
Who is
going to be in charge of the NPS for FIAC?
Who is going to keep the results?
What are
the categories? Elite Men, Elite Women,
SM 3, Open Masters (35+), Open Juniors (18 and under)
What are
the rules?
Must run all the categories as outlined by FIAC
You can add additional events to your program beyond what is
required
You can do your open events for NPS purposes and then pull
out
the age groups
No combining of NPS categories
No dual permits
Points distribution – keep it clean
and simple. 20 places deep in the 5 categories – 21, 19,
18, 17……….Individual points not team, tie breaker is the most number of firsts,
seconds, third, fourth, etc.
Must permit through a FIAC affiliated association
Must show a good demographic representation of the races
that are selected, try to include different events, including time trial, but
will focus on stage races.
Timeline for us/promoters to turn in
results?
Les is draft criteria and application,
send out to the association members, then association members will send out to
race organizers in their areas and promoters will respond back to their
association. Association will forward to the NPS Coordinator.
Criteria is being done by Les by October 15th to
board
Board responds by the October 22nd
Les makes corrections, additions by October 25th
October 25th to promoters
Promoters respond by November 30th
Selection process by December 15th
Promoters notified by January 2nd
Press Release by January 2nd
Note: Final selection, with the
input of the
board, will be done by the Coordinator.
Sponsorship? – Proposal to NPS, title of the series, winners
jerseys for the five winners, access to our mailing list, banner on the
website, $5000 ($1000 for each category)
What does
FIAC give?
Medals 10 places
in each category
Leader’s
Jackets/Vests 1 place in each
category
Series logo
for entry forms, ads, etc.
NPS
COORDINATOR
Andy Rosen
will volunteer to be the NPS Coordinator.
NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIPS
There will
be no active solicitation of events for 2003. But, if a promoter wants to
approach us to put on a FIAC Nationals we would consider it.
CBR and ABR
will send in proposals for discussion for their 2003 events.
Nationals
will be done in 2004. Criteria
needs to be developed on how the application and selection will be
done. Put on March agenda.
Beth
suggested to skip to items that were shorter in nature
to stay on schedule –
SUBSIDIZE
MEMBERS TRAVEL ($500 EACH) TO THE OCTOBER MEETING AND THE MARCH MEETING
Motion made
and passed
MARCH
MEETING DATE AND LOCATION
March 29-30 in So.
Meeting
would be at Chris Lotts house
Chris will
send housing suggestions
INSURANCE
CARRIER/USING FIAC FOR CONDUIT
Yes, but
want to see the contract. Andy Rosen
will write a letter to Haywood saying yes that we’ll do it but want to see the
policy.
Meeting was
adjourned at
Meeting was
called to order at
Members
attending were:
Les
Earnest, NCNCA
Mike
Murray, OBRA
Beth Wrenn-Estes, ACA
Carl
Wilkins, ABR
Chris Lotts, CBR
Yvonne van
Gent, ACA
Andy Rosen,
Attorney for FIAC
STANDARDIZED
LICENSE
Cards
format was discussed. Beth showed the
ACA card stock to the group.
NCNCA still
has to decide what they are doing.
Beth will
send out information about the card company.
MEETING
WITH FEDERATION
If Gerard
from USAC responds to us in any way about attending our March meeting the
answer will be no.
Policy
Statement that reads: Meeting with USAC
for FIAC or any of its associations is not in the best interest of FIAC’s goals, vision or mission.
OLD
BUSINESS
Put off the
discussion of the rulebook to last item
REVENUE
STREAMS
Discussion
of where revenue can come from.
Les thinks
that there are three models:
Tax fee on
riders/memberships
Racer day
tax
Flat dues
fee
Flat fee
was decided to be the way to go. Dues
would be structured as
Association
membership under 1000 is $500 year
Association
memberships of over 1000 members is $1000
Due January
1st of each year paid to the Treasurer
Passed
Ideas for
potential other revenue streams
2004
Charge
events some fee to be on NPS schedule
Banner
advertising
Corporate
Sponsor of NPS Series
Corporate
Sponsor of FIAC
National
Championship fee of some kind
WEBSITE
Les thinks
the site will be up in two weeks
EMAIL
LISTSERV
Les can run
to media through Stanford email list
NEW
BUSINESS
RECRUITMENT
Potential
organizations
What is the
vision of the other states/organizations/associations
This should
be an item to be discussed in 2004 after NPS is a success
Recruitment
should come after the NPS series is over and we have a product to sell
PRESS
RELEASES
Les wants a
press release done for FIAC immediately after this meeting.
November lst deadline to send it out.
Les will draft the press release and send out to board for comments.
Two items
CBR coming
on board
NPS Series
STANDARDIZATION
OF THE RULEBOOK
The rules
committee will be formed again. Les
Earnest will be the Technical Director. Each association will submit names (2)
to serve on the rules committee. The deadline to submit names is October 31st.
The goal is
to have a basic set of rules to run NPS and/or Nationals for 2003 but the
overall goal is to have a common set of rules that cover all associations.
The board
worked through the draft rulebook that Andy Rosen submitted with editorial
comments and corrections from Les Earnest.
The board worked on the document Saturday night and submitted a revised
document for the first part of the rulebook draft that was submitted.
Time was
spent to continue editing the draft rulebook so that the revised document would
go to the Rules Committee.
Beth will
ask Dean to develop some common, simple MBR rules for FIAC.
ADJOURNEMENT
Meeting was
adjourned at
Submitted
by Beth Wrenn-Estes, FIAC Secretary