Minutes June, 1996

Attendance C. Cunningham, G. Cunningham CRUZ; G Bondurant, M Collins DAM; G Spire FCMC; B. Stack, A. Levinson, MAM; Chambers, Paque MVM; P. Upshaw, SCAM; A Guimarin, SCSC; R. Moore SFRP; Fasbender, STAN; C. Winn, Ridout, Schwab TAM; M. Moore, USF.

Motion to approve minutes MSP

Richard Smith was absent, Nancy Ridout presented the Treasurers report. Motion to approve Treasurers Report. MSP

Nancy Ridout announced that anyone who has expenses to be reimbursed, should see her.

Nancy reported that Richard Smith plans to mail out checks for convention in July. All delegate should make should make air line reservations. All delegates should have received confirmation of their hotel reservations

Report of the Chairman Christine Winn,

Christine Winn said she received four letters. One letter from Tim Birney to Sandi Rouseau concerned National Championships. He has a couple of comments about how the meet was run. One was that national championships should not start at 7:00 am, they should start later.

The Chairman received Bid Packets for Fitness Events. If anyone knows of a club that is interested please see Brian Stack or Christine Winn about it.

She received a letter from Mel Goldstein asking that if there are any Olympians in your LMSC please ask them to attend the convention. Unfortunately, it was received after the voting for delegates for convention was voted on. Mel also wants to know if there are any volunteers who would be eligible for a presidential service award.

A letter was received from Colorado regarding proposed changes for National Qualifying Times.

She also received a request from Joan Smith about sending the top ten list to Walt Reid.

Richard Smith sent a letter confirming that he had sent a reservations and fees for all our delegates to USMS for the convention.

And she received a letter from a swimmer who wants to be taken off of mailing list a couple of months ago. The chairman had worked with the Registrar to make sure that this happened.

This is the time to call for changes to the Bylaws. Anyone who want to propose changes in the bylaws. please give them to someone on the Executive Committee by the September meeting This notice should go in newsletter, and be put on the web.

Vice President-Alan Levinson

He noted that Marcia Benjamin will be working on the 1997 schedule.

He addressed a couple of things about long distance swimming. He received information from Sally Dillon, USMS Long Distance Swimming Chairman. Any PMS team who would like to bid on a 1998 long distance event, especially the Open Water 1-3 Mile swim or Open Water More than 6 mile swim, should contact Allen Levinson.

SCSC talked about scheduling an open water swim.

Alan passed out questionnaire about postal swims. He will take that information and respond to Sally Dillon.

He received an email request from a disabled swimmer who is interested in making a long distance swim.

Report of the Committee Chairman

7:53 Zone-Chairman Julie Paque

She received information in the mail about the about the Masters Pan Pacific Championships in Maui, Hawaii next year. She gave a copy of it to the Secretary so the information can be posted on the web.

Noted that we are moving right along with registration there are 102 clubs and 6556 swimmers registered with Pacific LMSC. She was happy to see that the club in Grass Valley joined PMS.

She announced that there will be a mailing going out in mid July. If you have any thing to go out in the mailing, let Nancy know that it is coming.

The Short Course Top 10 is finished, except for the times from SC National Championships but will be finished soon. It will include times from nationals and then be published.

The One Hour Postal Swim information sheet was sent to Richard and Joan Smith at the FINA World Championships. Foreign swimmers are encouraged to participate in the one hour postal swim.

Congratulations for four nominees who were nominated for the 1996 Coach of the Year. The ad hoc committee having reviewed the nomination and accomplishments of the nominees has selected Doug Huestis as Coach of the Year.

Motion to ratify the selection of Doug Huestis as Coach of Year MSP

Q: Who were the other nominees?
A. Diane Campbell, Michael Collins and Tim Sheeper were also nominated.

Christine Winn will write a letter to all nominees.

We have tentatively scheduled a clinic on Sept 28 TBA for swimmers Q: Are you feeling good about the clinics that you have done?
A. Yes, set a goal and have met it. The Clinics have had from 18 to 30 people attend. The trick is to get the host team do the promoting.

Nancy Ridout noted that other areas that are active are Ukiah and Arcadia, they have done a lot of traveling to have their people swim at meets.

She has the laminator. If anyone has a need for it, contact her.

8:05 Rules and Legislation Committee-Carolyn Boak (absent) Report by Nancy Ridout

We have rule change proposals to read and discuss. Then vote on whether to sent them to national. If there are any changes Nancy Ridout will contact Carolyn Boak with the changes, who will make the changes then forward them to Christine Winn. who will submit them to National with a cover letter.

Motion to submit proposed change in backstroke rule. MSP

Motion to submit rule regarding recall of false start at international meets. MSP

Motion to submit rule regarding out of rotation national championship meets as amended. MSP

Motion to submit rule regarding alternating the which gender would swim first at certain National championships move as rewritten. MSP

Motion to submit rule regarding the seeding of age groups at National championships. MSP

Motion to submit rule regarding World Records. MSP

Motion to submit rule proposal regarding swim records of the lead-off swimmer of a relay when the second swimmer starts in water. MSP

Motion to submit rule regarding World Records, it is the swimmer responsibility. MSP

The section involving proposed Long Distance rule changes was led by Michael Collins.

Motion to submit rule proposal regarding Club scoring and Team events for Long Distance. Motion to accept as amended. MSP.

8:36 Meet Operations-Barry Fasbender

There was a discussion of a record set at Stanford.

Regarding Short Course Meters Championship. Both days start at 9.am and it will be cardless meet. The relays will be at end of day.

Motion to approve deck entries at SCM championship. MSP

Motion to move relays to end of each day of swimming. MSP.

Since there is no PMS meeting in July, please mail or email any newsletter submissions to her.

Q: Is there a possibility of getting dorm rooms for the swimmers at Long Course Championships.
A: (Geo Cunningham) The college has arraigned for many different activities at the college. I do not think we will be able to arrange it.

Comment: Appreciated the way Lake Sonoma was seeded.

Ad hoc World Wide Web-Michael Moore

The Web Page continues to get hit a lot. There were about 800 hits during the past month. Average transfer is about 1.5 megabytes a day.

Pacific Swimming USS has anew web site its address is http://www.pacswim.org.

The results of the Berryessa Swim are on the Web.

One swimmer emailed a request to put up a running total of the Open Water Swimmer of the year. It would require getting all of the information in a standard format and then computing it. The calculation are now done by hand. Keeping running tally at this point is not realistic.

Doug Huestis looked into dinner cruise for convention delegates. He contacted two Companies. Both would require about 150 people, so I do not think that that is feasible.

Alan Levinson is still looking at an Open Water swim at convention. Looking at two possibilities one being a swim in the Bay, maybe something around Alcatraz or the Golden Gate or something around Coyote Point. Alan would like to get a copy of the tide table to work on the open water swims.

We can advertise a swim, and put out a flyer at convention with a questionnaire asking where the delegates would like to swim. There was a discussion about what time to have the swim. Factors to consider being the early morning is the best time for swimming on the bay, the time of the USMS board of directors meeting and that many delegates may t want to fly out early in the morning since flying to the east coast is an all day affair.

GTO Revisions

The page number are incorrect change page numbers on the handbook. We need to change page numbers before it goes out.

The "Clubs in Good Standing" policy has to be put into the GTO. The should also be an inclusion of information about the Top Ten in it..

Budget requests will be due in August.

Tim Birney letter: There was discussion about starting National Championships at 7am.

Nancy has three bid packets for the 1998 Long Course championships. There is a potential problem as the Nike World Masters Games will be in the Portland area about that time in 1998.

Q: Are there any long course meets between now and Long Course championships.
A: No

Nancy Ridout : She incorporated policy about records in her letter to Meet Directors. So far it is working well

Alan will not be at August meeting because he will be in vacation. He said he will be in touch by phone. The 2x1 manatee Open Water Swim looks good and he looks forward to having a good time. Alan also brought meet sheets for the 2x1 mile swim.

There is a swimmer who would love to swim the Trans Tahoe and needs to find a team.

George Cunningham: Has brought meet sheets for the Long Course Championships.

Q: When will the meet sheet for LC be put on the Web
A: Very soon

Respectfully submitted

Michael W. Moore
Secretary

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