CRSF - Board of Directors Meeting
November 30, 2008

2008/ 2009 Board of Directors
Dwight Lucas           past president
Bob Gillis                   ON
Brian Hutchings       ON
Brenda Reid             BC
Deirdre Degagne     BC
Micheline Nantel     PQ
Janine Carroll           AB
Doyle Safire              NS
Bonnie Popov          CRSF general manager

Typo noted on the spelling of Bob Gillies

Move to accept the 2nd set of ratifications to the rule book.  2nd , carried.
Triples – is still an event.  The rules committee will consider deleting this event when there is an event to take its place.  FISAC will perhaps be changing their triple event.
Bonnie will send an update out to club contacts immediately.
It was brought up that head of the rules committee suggests that the rule committee and the judges committee work as one since so many issues must be approved by the one before the other can consider it.
It was decided that the board reps for the 2 committees convene a meeting together in order to deal with issues which overlap.  Brenda and Doyle will make the arrangements.

A mission statement for the CRSF is to be developed.

Who is included in the honorariums for the CRSF reps to attend the AGM?  To be tabled to the next meeting.  It was originally set up to allow assistance to board members traveling to attend the AGM.  We now have the registrar position to consider. 

Brian and Bonnie will sign the bylaws so Bonnie can submit them with the charitable status paperwork.

Brian will send a document to each provincial rep to get the provincial reps to know who the reps are on each committee.

Alberta Report!
Lots of activities happening in the province:

BCYRSA Report to the CRSF
November 2008
The BCYRSA got its season off to a great start with its annual Fall Camp.  This year’s camp was held in Nelson, BC and was hosted by the Rhythm ropers.  Once again, it was the venue for aspiring BC All-Stars to showcase their coaching ability, skill level and leadership skills.  As instructors, the All-Stars were joined by six skilled coaches from the USA.  Some of these coaches are members of the US all-Star team and provided valuable insight into the All-Star selection process.  One full day was devoted to All-Star development and two days were spent on athlete development.  Jumpers from around the province converged in one spot to learn together. Sessions on offer included skill development in single rope and double dutch, group routines, dance through the ages, rhythmic gymnastics, and gait analysis.  Judges participated in a session on judging creativity while coaches experienced a full weekend of workshops and hands-on experience in the gym. On the Saturday night, all coaches and jumpers participated in a fun social evening.  An enjoyable and productive weekend was had by all. 

The BCYRSA now turns it’s mind to the  business at hand.  A new Board has been elected, with Deirdre DeGagne as president.  The BCYRSA Board wishes to thank Sarah Reid for her years of invaluable leadership as president.  This year’s board will focus on developing a strong base of capable individuals to carry on the work of the Board over the next few years.

This year’s Provincial championships will be held in Victoria making it the first in a long time that we have been able to host three major events in one season in the three separate venues of Nelson, Victoria and Abbotsford.
BC is looking forward to hosting this year’s Nationals and have already started the planning process.  We have ideas in place to make this year’s championship a memorable one.

Meanwhile, all teams are back in their respective gyms honing their skills for Provincials and Nationals.   We wish everyone a great season.

ORSO Report
Ontario's Rep for the Scholarship Committee to replace Amy Sheply will be Jan Smith
The subject of the 2011 Nationals and PARSO in Calgary in July was raised. The was a warm support, and a let's try it attitude. 
Craig Crawford proposed the 2010 Nationals to be Located in Ottawa at Carlton University. This was tentatively approved until the financial details were figured out.
ORSO Speed Competition and Workshop- Four athletes from the USA doing session on Saturday and Sunday Nov 8 and 9
CRSF Certificates for records were handed out. It was well received by the crowd and the membership.
Elections:
Brian Hutchings elected as ORSO's CRSF Rep for 2009-2011. (The second position is elected from 2010-2012)
Sandy Kish elected as secretary
Shawna McGill Northern Representative
Shannon Fox is President on a interim basis until someone else will step forward. 
Some teams from Jumpsations will not be at Nationals. Jumpsations have been working with Disney and will be going there for a week to do shows during the Nationals week.
A lot of discussion on the development of rec teams across the province.

Quebec Report 
Well no special things for now just routine as usual.  Just done a brunch for the team to collect some funds and we are preparing for our regional competition on the 8th of December. 

Rope Skip Association of Nova Scotia
Provincial Report for CRSF
The Rope Skip Association of Nova Scotia has planned an ambitious year that focuses on four main objectives:

RSANS is actively looking at ways to increase the numbers of young skippers entering the sport at the competitive level. RSANS has commenced dialogue to link the recreational skipping programs that are offered through the City Recreational Programs with RSANS. RSANS is looking to sponsor mini invitational competitions between these recreational centres. These competitions will also include demonstrations by competitive skippers who have competed at the national level. The objective is to promote the next level of skipping to these emerging local programs and use them as feeder groups to the competitive programs. In addition to these programs RSANS is currently in dialogue with two other developing independent teams that are looking to move into the competitive arena.

Recognizing the need to ensure an on going pool of qualified judges RSANS is sponsoring a Judging clinic and a “train the trainer workshop” for the weekend of January 9-11, 2009. It is anticipated that 30 parents will be in attendance in addition to 4 existing judges that will be trained as trainers to provide future clinics.

RSANS continues to develop it relationship with Sports Nova Scotia and the guidance that it is able to provide in developing the organization as well as accessing funding and grants through other partners. RSANS is looking to develop partnerships with the Provincial Department of Education, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Doctor’s Nova Scotia, and the Park and Recreation Division  of the Halifax Regional Municipality.

RSANS has submitted a proposal and is being considered for funding for an “Elite Skipping Program” This program is designed to be cost shared between RSANS and those Athletes that have demonstrated the capability to compete at the National Level and potentially at the international level. The program would be a holistic approach to the sport looking at Health and Wellness consultants, choreographers, gymnastic coaches, and other sport professional to support and maximize the potential to of these athletes

Since Nova Scotia and Quebec representatives have not taken the issue to their membership, the issue is TABLED until the January meeting.

Doyle Safire, representative for Nova Scotia was nominated, 2nd accepted.  Calls for nomination were repeated as per regulation.  Doyle was accepted as vice president by acclimation, congratulations.
Next Meeting – January 11, 2009

CRSF - Board of Directors Meeting
October 19, 2008

2008/ 2009 Board of Directors
Dwight Lucas past president
Bob Gillis                   ON
Brian Hutchings         ON
Brenda Reid              BC
Deirdre Degagne      BC
Micheline Nantel        PQ
Janine Carroll            AB
Doyle Safire               NS
Bonnie Popov            CRSF general manager
All members were in attendance with the exception of Doyle.

1. Meeting brought to order at 9:04 pm ET

2. Approval of:
1. Moved that the agenda be adopted as presented with additions.
2. Moved to approve minutes of September 7, 2008 meeting, 2nd CD.

1. Arising from minutes:

Issues will be dealt with under specific headings

Bonnie reported that sport groups are not eligible for charitable status.  Bonnie will proceed a different direction, getting further information and applying for status as a Canadian Amateur Athletic Association Under the Income Tax Act.  It is our understanding that we would then be able to issue tax receipts.  We will need to agree upon a policy & procedure with regards to how donations to clubs and provinces will be returned to those organizations.  Information was forwarded by Deirdre with regard to what is allowed, we will revisit when we have all had a chance to become familiar with the rules we need to adhere to.

Kristine Melloh will be representing Canada and PARSO at the FISAC rules meeting.  She is meeting the US rules representative in Michigan and proceeding to Budapest.   She has also met with the Canadian judges who went to the last worlds.

It was discussed that CRSF liaison should not be a voting member of the committee in question.  Several points were raised to support this view, however it is felt that since it would mean more meetings for Board members it will not be enforced at this time.

Bob sent out a new certificate which will be used for record presentation.  Board members were happy with the design. In order to keep control of issuing of these certificates, he will be the only person authorized to distribute.  When satisfied that a record has been broken, he will forward the file to a Board member in that province in order to have the certificates copied and printed.  The provincial Board member can sign it.

Moved that the board ratify the changes/updates in the 2008/09 rules as presented with the exception of the debris rule, requesting to the Rules Committee that we keep the previous rule. 2nd Carried.
The Rules committee should be directed to proceed with discussions regarding issues raised at the 2008 AGM.  Issues: 1. allowing athletes to specialize; 2. Allowing athletes to form inter-provincial teams 3.  Change in events to reflect FISAC rules
Any further rule changes be submitted to the CRSF board by November 21, 2008 for these rules to be in effect for the 2008/09 competitive season.   It is again requested that the rule regarding headbands be revisited.  Several on the board do not understand why girls are unable to use this method of hair control.

Question was raised if anything is happening with the National committee.  There is discussion regarding giving credit for the difficulty density of routines, for example if someone has a 75 second difficult routine there is no way to credit that with more weight than a competitor with a 50 second equally difficult routine.

Package will be coming out in November.  Medals – Dwight will count and report to Deirdre and Bonnie.  Ribbons – CRSF will order standard ribbons as decided at a previous meeting.  The host team will put stickers on the back identifying the competition location, date and with a place for the event name.  The Host team will “purchase” those ribbons from the National reserve.   Bonnie will begin process to receive designs and estimates.

Quebec report:
 Equipe Eclipse have now 20 athletes in is competition team and we have no more than a hundred in school teams.   On Radio-Canada television was showed a documentary made with them and the Eclipse team this summer showing the team practicing, a spot lite from Halifax competition and a super interview with John in the "C'est la vie" program.  For now practice as usual,  we enjoy to have skippers from other Canadian's team, integration is going well. 
Micheline Nantel V.P. Équipe Éclipse

Alberta Report – October 19, 2008
Members of most provincial teams are attending a weekend judges course in Camrose October.  30 athletes, coaches and parents are expected to attend.
Two athlete workshops are planned for November, one in Camrose and another in northern Alberta.
A provincial plan is in place which will see team development.  We are setting it into motion in November for spring club commencement in 2 cities just outside of Edmonton and another in a small town south of Camrose.   ASA will be conducting a 2nd 2 day entry level coach development program in February. 
The ASA has redesigned our recreational booklet for entry level athletes, adding long rope, double dutch and partner skipping to the existing single rope program.  The booklet is designed to allow progression through 4 levels of mostly basic skills, similar to a swim program, where skills are learned and performed precisely.  It is designed to allow positive progress for all athletes.  There will be 2 other booklets designed for the series which will take an athlete into what we would recognize as intermediate and advanced skills.  We are filming an instructional CD with it for use in developing clubs, schools and for children who do not have a club available to them but want to skip.  The CD for the 1st booklet will be available in 2 weeks. 
The ASA has initiated a partnership with a provincial educational initiative called Ever Active Schools.  1900 Alberta schools are involved in their program which promotes a daily gym plan.  We will be involved with designing a curriculum based program which will work towards an interschool competition.  The main gym of the University of Alberta has been booked for the northern Alberta competition for April 29, 2009.  We are now in the process of grant proposals, producing an in-school promotional package (posters ect.), developing a media plan and completing the  gym program.  
Janine Carroll
ASA representative to the CRSF

BC
BCY members are getting together in Nelson next weekend for their annual provincial workshop event.

NS
Are promoting recreational teams and events.

ON
Competition and elite team workshop in Hamilton area planned.  Ottawa Acro Ropers are considering competition again, have been in contact with ON teams. 

Board members should be taking this issues back to their provinces for discussion.  Janine will resend the e-mail from Billy Smale outlining the plan with rationale. 
Discussion regarding how CRSF runs the tournament, not the provinces.  2009 & 2010 would be good times to get some mentorship people learning about the positions, since members of those provinces will be utilized in the positions which the CRSF normally needs to fly people in for.

Website is operational and have been updated.  Bonnie will work with the host to revamp other areas.

No further involvement since it was determined that the newly formed Public Relations Committee should be dealing with CRSF partnerships.

Reminder that CRSF committee liaisons tell all committee members to use the 10-10-620 number to avoid long distance charges.

Clarify that it is a CRSF sanctioned event and that national records can be broken at that time.  Alberta will also be hosting one.

Adjourned – 12:08 AM Ontario time.

VP – will be asking for nominations, and voting someone into the position.

Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 7:00 AM

CRSF - Board of Directors Meeting
September 7, 2008

2008/ 2009 Board of Directors

Dwight Lucas past president
Bob Gillis ON
Brian Hutchings ON
Brenda Reid BC
Deirdre Degagne BC
Micheline Nantel PQ
Janine Carroll AB
Doyle Safire NS
Bonnie Popov CRSF general manager

All members were in attendance with the exception of Micheline and Doyle.
Brian will follow up with Micheline regarding her status on the board and to investigate possible communication problems.

. Meeting brought to order at 9:12 pm ET

Approval of:
Moved that the agenda be adopted as presented with the additions:
Provincial reports, ASA letter of intent and participACTION, as well, leaving the agenda open. 2nd, CD
Moved to approve minutes of June 22, 2008 meeting, 2nd CD.

3. Business
a. Financial Report was submitted.
Bonnie noted that we are currently over budget in flights by approx $55.00
b. Charitable status: Bonnie and Brian spoke about some of items that need to be submitted. Provincial reps need to get the following information to Bonnie: occupation, telephone #, address.
Moved to accept the treasures report as presented. 2nd, CD.

FISCAC/PAN-AM Rules Rep
Moved that Kristine Melloh be the CRSF representative on the FISAC rules committee and that she attend the meetings scheduled for late October 2008, providing FISAC underwrites the expenses. 2nd, CD.

Brian reported that in conversations with Marion Fletcher it was indicated that USAJR would underwrite the expenses for the US representative and that Canada would have access to the FISAC funding for our representative.

Committee Reports

i. Sportsmanship – no report
ii. Scholarship – no report
iii. Records – Certificates - until now the CRSF has never issued certificates to athletes who broke national records at any event other than our National Championships.
Moved that an e-mailed certificate be forwarded to provincial reps to be signed and presented to an athlete in the event that a national record be broken at any sanctioned event. 2nd, CD.

As well, when an athlete breaks a record at the Nation Competition, the certificate will be e-mailed to the provincial representative. They will print it, sign it and arrange to have it delivered (presented).

iv. Rules - minor changes voted on last May will be brought to the board for approval. As for the event changes which are ready to be approved – the board suggests that the rules committee wait until the FISAC rule / event decisions be released in November.

There was discussion that the last AGM the general membership did indicate that a reduction of events should be considered.

It was suggested that we send this subject to the rules committee in order to have grass root discussions as to how to incorporate methods to handle, for example 2 – 3 person teams who only want to enter certain events.

It was mentioned that in conversations with USAJR members that they will be moving towards FISAC events and rules in order to become more competitive at the international level.

v. Judges – there needs to be clarification regarding the possibility of a face to face meeting this year for difficulty discussions. It is not budgeted for.

vi. Nationals – moving ahead, registration packages will be out ASAP

vii. Technical – no report

Arising from minutes:
Board representation on Committees
i. Coach Development – Brenda will question her contact at the NCCP regarding grant possibilities for NCCP development.



Current CRSF / committee liaisons:
Rules Brenda
Judges Doyle
Scholarship Micheline (tentative)
Sportsmanship Dwight
Nationals Deirdre / Brenda
Records Bob
Publicity Brian
Technical Bonnie
Coach Dev Brenda / Dwight

Work Plan – allows us to set and keep dates and milestones

PARSO representation – Report was submitted.
The position of FISAC president will be coming open. Canada can submit a nomination. Janine will check with Molly to see if any other positions on the FISAC board might be coming open at the same time.

Janine explained how the PARSO camp would be organized – that international teams would be put together for the camp. After the 3 day camp these teams would compete in about 4 events. There would also be a masters competition. It has not been ruled out that the camp begin with a day of club team competition.

The international team composition attempts to give the camp and championships something that is not available anywhere else. It will serve to allow increased international interaction, skill sharing and leaning. It is hoped that it will help attract athletes from other continental organizations.

d. Policy/Procedures manual update – Bonnie will work on updating and retyping so we have it on the computer.

Website – the company which hosted our website is no longer valid. The password has been changed so Bonnie cannot access site to update. Bob will approach someone in the ON skipping community to request his involvement. If a new provider is needed Bonnie will contact Alberta about information on their provider.

Workshop/Camp insurance – clarify board position and put into the P & P manual

Telephone changes working committees – CRSF committee liaisons must ensure that every committee member has the call-in # (10-10 - 620) so we do not have high telephone long distance charges.

participACTION – In July Janine saw a commercial which prompted her to e-mail participACTION and give them information about organized skipping programs. She has a telephone interview with them on Sept. 18/08, will keep the board informed.

provincial reports – Alberta report was the only one submitted.

ASA letter of intent
Moved that the CRSF support the ASA bid to host the PARSO 2011 Camp and Championships in Calgary. 2nd CD.
Further discussion is needed to support the other ASA requests
· to adjust the dates of the 2011 National Championships to allow them to run in conjunction with the PARSO Camp and Championships;
· to deviate from the nationals schedule.
Tabled for further discussion.

Next Meeting – October 26, 2008. Brian will contact us if this changes due to a conflict for the BC reps.

Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Janine Carroll

  CRSF - Board of Directors Meeting

June 22, 2008

Present: Dwight Lucas, Brian Hutchings, Deidre DeGagne, Bonnie Popov, Janine Carroll, Doyle Saffire, Bob Gillies
Absent: Micheline Nantel and Brenda Reid.

1). Meeting brought to order at 9:07 ET
2). The agenda was accepted with room to make additions.
Moved to accept the minutes for the meeting of May 15th as presented. 2nd, carried
Moved to accept the minutes for the May 25th teleconference meeting as presented. 2nd, carried.

3). Arising from minutes:
A. Nationals Rotation
Two additional scenarios were submitted:

1                            A                   B
BC 2009              BC                 BC
ON 2010            ONT                ON
SK 2011           Open/SK         OPEN (SK)
PQ 2012               BC                 PQ
AB 2013               PQ                 NS
BC 2014               AB                 BC
OPEN 2015          NS                 ON
NS 2016               ON                 AB

Moved that we accept option B for our national competition schedule. 2nd , Carried with one vote registered against.

**Note that Alberta will be bidding to host the Pan Am games in 2011. They will be in Calgary, possibly within the middle 2 weeks of July. A suggestion was made that the CRSF consider hosting the national competition in conjunction. Teams will be able to travel to Calgary, compete in the nationals, the Pan Ams and attend the camp within a single time frame.

National Competition Review
Doyle touched on some main points:

· there must be a better way of collating the paperwork. There were 2 different styles to compiling the paperwork. The way it was done this year is pre-competition labour intensive with the advantage that the scorer then does not have to hand out the paperwork between each competitor. It was decided that whoever is in charge of the results room should make the call as to how the paperwork is compiled.

· Judges – waste of many almost full water bottles should be addressed in future events.

· Marshalling – suggestion that each team bring their own designated marshalling person separate than their coach.

· Set-up – needs better documentation as to what is expected

· Closing ceremonies – technical improvements can be made - plan who is presenting, planning photo opportunities...

· Allergies – Print in the pre competition materials that parents must notify host committee about allergies so they can be planned for.

· Registration date – Teams need to respond to the date and this doesn’t refer to BCY don’t host their provincials until late April, they sent their registrations and t-shirt orders, just waited to indicate who their master competitors are

Full report as submitted:

Nationals Review by the Host Committee

May 2008

Event Administration

· There should be a Nationals package. This can be given to each Nationals Host Committee. It would include: a master list of supplies, Floor Marshal requirements, volunteer requirements as they pertain to the running of the event; must haves etc. Most of the people on our National Host Committee were new to Skipping and at times it was a bit confusing.

We needed to have some of the office supplies for the day before the event, when Mary came into town. We did not know this and it made Mary’s job more difficult. There needed to be some more communication in regards to what they needed for the initial paperwork set up.

It took 6 hours to complete the paperwork for 2 events. This seems very long. Mary had to take some of the work back to her hotel, which was not what we would have liked.

The event seemed to run efficiently and the flow of athletes was smooth throughout. Hats off to Mary, Alicia and Sarah for their hard work and organization abilities. Many parents said that they thought it ran extremely well.

Once a standardized package is achieved, it will simplify the nationals process providing timely tournament requirements that are used throughout the country. The same basic process should be done at the provincial level as well.

CRSF should have a nationals box, which includes all of basic stuff like staplers, staple removers, file folders, white boards etc. This can be shipped to the province holding nationals and save money for them.
Having the registration date for nationals being 1 month before the event is too close. There were some teams who did not have their information into more or us until a week later. We ended up having to hold off on ordering extra shirts etc. The registration date should be at least a month and a half from the date of the event. This would give the host committee a better picture.

We realize that this would affect the provincial event dates, but it would be easier for the provincial host committee to plan.

The event was too long. It should be over 3 days or something has to be taken out.

Judges lunches and other items related to judges

We budgeted for 50 lunches however we needed to buy 30 more for Friday. This seems excessive. At some points it was hard to see who was actually judging. There should be a predetermined amount of judges. Do you need to buy lunches for judges who are only judging in the afternoon? There were lunches left at the end of the lunch periods. It would be good to have the schedule before the event so it can be properly planned for.

There were some remarks made that the lunches were not healthy as they were not whole wheat bread. This is something to examine for next year.

Water was wasted excessively as it was being thrown out ½ / ¾ full. We had to buy extra water on the second day, 5 flats. I directed parent volunteers, on the second day, to give water to people who were low on water only. This worked well.

Volunteer Comments and Requirements

· There were a few comments made by parent volunteers:

The Floor Marshals spent a lot of time searching the stands for athletes to get them to their events. This doesn’t seem like a good practice. Coaches should be responsible for getting their athletes to their respective events. The floor marshals did not know most of the athletes and finding them was tough at times. We had a good number of Floor Marshall’s at 6 per morning period and per afternoon.

We were told to have a person on hand for the Tabulation room to keep them in water/coffee etc. On the first day, Mary expressed to one of the parents assigned to her that the volunteer could just come back every ½ hour or so. We got a carafe of coffee and some creamers and then left them alone for about an hour at a time and this worked well.

We found that having a floor supervisor (Doug) and a Volunteer Co-ordinator position (Doyle) worked well and Mary said that they worked well for her.

Set up for events

There was a comment made that on Friday night Alicia and Sarah had to stay late after the AGM to set up the floor. Since we had gone so late on Friday and the AGM started at 8pm. We had some people set out he chairs for the events. We were not apprised of any other requirements. If there was more to be done we didn’t know about it. It could have been done in the am. If we had of known we could have done more to assist so they did not have to stay late.

There also seemed to be some confusion about announcements being made. Perhaps a list of who does what for the actual events could be included in the plan. If we failed to do something we were required it was unintentional.

Having approximately 10 volunteers helped keep the set up going quickly.

Closing

There should be a set program for closing. This would entail a CRSF spokesperson that will conduct the awards ceremonies, organize a rep to give out medals. Introduce the sportsmanship, scholarship people and the tech committee, plus give out the thank you gifts for the Mary, Sarah, and Alicia. We didn’t know we had to get them a gift, which meant some scrambling on the Saturday.

There should be a list of people who need gifts/or acknowledgments at the closing.

Miscellaneous Suggestions
Allergies:

On Friday night we were informed that a judge was to be coming on Saturday that had an allergy to Citrus fruit. It was a serious life-threatening allergy. We had to scramble to try to change lunches as they had been almost finished being made by Aramark and they couldn’t be changed. We made announcements for people not to consume citrus products at the event. On the night of the social we had a child attending that had a life-threatening allergy to peanuts. There was tray of peanuts at the social. We had it taken away without issue, however it could have been very unfortunate. In the future there should be a notation on the forms from each team if there is a life-threatening allergy issue for judges or athletes.

Final Comments

As a Province we were pleased that the event was such a success from start to finish. Our volunteers made this possible with their positive attitude and willingness to participate. Our host committee worked hard over the year and a half. We were a new group, but dedicated to the event and if anything was overlooked during Nationals it would have been due to inexperience. We would like to thank Mary, Alicia and Sarah for their commitment over the 3 days of nationals, between the three of them there is so much knowledge. Thanks to CRSF organization for voting to have the Nationals in Halifax for 2008. We look forward to visiting British Columbia next year and if there is anything we can do to assist as they prepare for 2009 we would be glad to help out in any capacity.
Pam Bateman-Safire
On behalf of the 2008 National Committee

Charitable status

Bonnie hasn’t heard back from directors with regard to the charitable status papers.
Brian did contact Ron Kappert with regard to our incorporation documents, who stated he is not in possession of them.
Brian will work on the charitable donation package over the month of July. Bonnie will contact Industry Canada and pay to have the documentation replaced. If the cost is over $100 Bonnie will e-mail directors.

b. Schedule of meetings – Brian
All Meetings Sunday Night 9:00 P.M. Eastern Time via Teleconference (except where noted)

c. Board representation on Committees
It would be very valuable in the way of communication to have a board member representative on each committee.

Rules Committee
· Brenda Reid
Judges Committee
· Brian Hutchens
Scholarship Committee
· Micheline Nantel (tentative)
Sportsmanship Committee
·
Nationals Committee
· For 2009 - Deidre

Records
· Bob Gillis
Publicity Promotion Committee
·
Technical Committee
· Bonnie Popov
Coach development
· Brenda Reid

d. Records – Bob
There was discussion that the 2 minute timed triple unders is a separate event from the untimed however previously the records took less than 2 minutes therefore those records stand.
It was voiced that all Canadian records should be recognized, even those which are for events that are no longer current.

i. Technical Committee

Very few issues, headband is the largest contention. This rule should be sent back to the rules committee for justification – why cannot females wear headbands?
Full report as submitted:

                  Technical Committee Report - 2008 National Rope Skipping Championships
                                       Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 16th and 17th

Pre-championship
Brenda Reid asked if group routine teams were allowed to wear t-shirts with graphics or words
reflecting the music.

As long as the t-shirts conform to the regular uniform rules, it is allowed. (2.5.3.3 Uniforms may include, but are not limited to graphics such as club name, team name, sponsor and/or logo displayed during the competition.)

May 16th 8:38am
BCY (12-14 - female)
The judges’ scores all had a difference of more than 5 skips. Mary Kish asked if the team had the
option of keeping the two closest scores or re-skipping. According to the Judges guidelines, the team was given the right to either keep the two closest scores or to re-skip.
May 16th 8:44am
Sarah Reid asked about the headband policy since female athletes wearing headbands were on the floor.
Headbands are considered a prop under rule 2.5.2.2 and not permitted. There is an exception if the headband is part of the team uniform. However, this was not the case, as the other female athletes on the floor at the time were not wearing headbands. An announcement was made to remind athletes and judges about the headband policy.

We were also asked by several individuals from different teams about the headband policy in regards to male athletes. We explained that if headbands were part of the male uniform it would be allowed, since male-female differences in uniform are permitted. However, all males on the team would have to be wearing the same headband. There was only one such case during the championships and the coach confirmed that the headband was part of the male uniform.

May 16th 9:00am
It was brought to our attention that athletes were filming from behind the judges.
We clarified that filming should only be from the stands and that the area behind the judges should be clear.

May 17th 12:40
The BAR coach notified the Technical Committee that one of their athletes had been injured accidentally by a member of another team. We were asked if she could postpone her freestyle event, since she was scheduled to be second.
We confirmed that the athlete was indeed injured and then allowed her the decision to keep her turn or to skip last in her age category. She decided to keep her turn.

Respectfully submitted by the Technical Committee 2008,
Megan Osak
Esmé Lanktree
Bonnie Popov
ii. Sportsmanship

The board will send the sportsmanship report along with a recommendation that the rules committee change this and suggest that it be a team award or a provincial award. Discussion tabled as to how a change can be made, will forward it to the rules committee.
Full report as submitted:
Sportsmanship Committee Report
The committee met at the beginning of the competition and discussed our task. We walked around the gym and tried to locate each nominee. Trying to locate and watch each one is the major problem but we found something different about each one.
The skipper from BC was not at the competition on Friday and the girl from NS was not there on Sat. We believe that they should be at the competition on both days. We watched the other skippers for 2 days and BC & NS just 1 day.
We watched each skipper and met throughout the 2 days to discuss what we had seen. We created a short list and met for a final time before the awards and made our choice.
It would be nice to start with a clean slate. We see lots of sportsmanship displayed but not from the one’s selected from the province. Another member of the committee thought that the award should be given to the team that showed the best sportsmanship.

Craig Crawford - Crawford

iii. Scholarship – no report submitted as yet.
There were some major issues regarding some of the criteria, as well as some discrepancies were noted. Micheline Nantel will be asked to be the CRSF representative on this committee

iv. Rules – report attached
· Members were asked to keep in mind the discussion at AGM that we reduce the number of events, both to accommodate the busy schedules of the older skippers and to demand higher perfection in the freestyle events.
Suggestion – that provinces be allowed to send the top 8 athletes for each event, rather than the average top 8 events.
Suggestion – top overall 6 from each province go to nationals with 7th and 8th position going to an athlete who came in the top 8th in any individual event. That way a freestyle specialist will have the chance to attend nationals even if their speed knocks them out of the top 8 positions.

When discussing television coverage 2 issues are raised – what are 7 & 8 year olds doing at a national competition and the need for Canada to have shining stars. In the opinion of some, we have now are all-round mediocre athletes. We should perhaps look at Track & Field – there are those who just do one event and those who do the decathlon.
Provincial reps should bring this back to their provinces for major discussion and suggestions.
· How to make people from Canada stars on the world stage

v. Judges – no report as yet
vi. Scoring – discussion not needed at this time.

f. AGM discussion and survey
1. Name two objectives the CRSF Board should focus on over the next 3 years
a) Coaching Certification – Implement a National Coaching Certification Program
b) Judging – Judging certification can encourage more people to become involved

c) Recreation Teams – Increase the number of recreational members across the whole country, especially in those provinces where we currently do not have members
d) Skills – Increase athlete skills in jump rope and leadership
e) Competitive – Increase number of competitive clubs
f) Camps – Summer camps run by provincial organizations may also be another way to grow our sport.
AGM notes

Schools – rec programs **
· Skills DVD – Essex Energizers website
Certification
Too many events *
Creation of grand champions
Why does Canada follow FISAC
8 qualifying/province – too many
Publicity promotion committee

g. Third level membership

There are several suggestions as to increasing our membership in the recreational area. Since many school and community teams do not need the insurance the CRSF offers we miss out on these prospective memberships. Janine commented that in Alberta the ASA is offering a flat rate $25.00 team recreational membership which entitles the team to attend workshops, have ASA teams come to them for workshops, communication (newsletter), information and advice. Members of the board thought this type of membership should be further investigated for the CRSF level. As well, Janine asked if we could use the $1.00 / day insurance workshop applications as memberships. That would need further Consideration.

Nationals news – Kamloops may be the site of the 2009 nationals! Further investigation into transportation must be completed prior to the final decision.

**Note - Eastern Shore Mariners name change to Jump Energy Rope Skipping Club

Prov. Reports as submitted
Alberta Report – June 22, 2008

Our sport has had some good media coverage recently, Global news, Edmonton Journal, Alberta Amateur Sport News. There has been considerable effort to update our websites www.camrosespirals.com and www.albertaropeskipping.com . We aren’t quite finished and of course it will be a continuous project.
The ASA retreat to take place in July. A provincial camp will be held in Wetaskiwin in late August with guest coaching staff coming from the USA All Stars. A coach development segment has been added to accommodate requests. In addition, the ASA will be conducting a series of one day coach development training sessions in several cities around the province: Edmonton, Calgary, Medicine Hat and Red Deer.

Ontario Report
Ontario has cooled down their action for the summer.
Several teams are training to compete at Junior Olympics in Detroit.
Lincoln and Brampton are sending a few teams to South Africa for Worlds.
The Peterborough area has over 100 athletes competing on a regular basis.

We will try to get them set up so they can be a competitive team in the near future. Until then, we are helping them run their own competitions within the schools.

h. Adjournment
Move to adjourn at 11:36 pm ET
Respectfully submitted,
Janine Carroll

                                                            CRSF - Board of Directors Meeting
                                                                              May 25, 2008

2008/ 2009 Board of Directors

Dwight Lucas - past president
Bob Gillis - Ontario
Brian Hutchings - Ontario
Brenda Reid - British Columbia
Deirdre Degagne - British Columbia
Micheline Nantel - Quebec
Janine Carroll - Alberta
Doyle Safire - Nova Scotia
Bonnie Popov - CRSF general manager
All members were in attendance with the exception of Micheline.
Meeting brought to order at 9:13 ET
Minutes from the last meeting were not as yet available

Provincial Reports
Please refer to the annual reports

Treasurers report
Move to accept the treasurer's report as presented. 2nd, CD.

Old Business
1)National review
The national committee of 2008 will be submitting a report in the next week
or so. Dwight relayed that the committee was happy with the outcome.
2) Discussion Paper
No report at this time. Janine and Brian will compile their notes and Brian
will make a presentation for the next meeting. There has been good feedback
with regard to the discussion at the AGM. Major changes to the competition
format will not be made in haste.

New Business

1). Election of officers
President - Call for nominations
Brian Hutchens was nominated to the position of president of the CRSF,
nomination was accepted. Call was made another 2 times without further
nomination. Welcome Brian to the position.
Secretary - Janine will continue.
Vice President - Brian will check on bylaws pertaining to the position.

2). National Rotation - the following is the history of where nationals has
been held and a proposal which resulted from the pre AGM board meeting.
1999 - Halifax
2000 - Edmonton
2001 - Windsor
2002 - Abbotsford
2003 - Hamilton
2004 - Wolfville
2005 - Edmonton
2006 - Montreal
2007 - Abbotsford
2008 - Halifax
2009 - British Columbai
2010 - Ontario
2011 - open
2012 - Quebec
2013 - Alberta
2014 - Nova Scotia
2015 - open
2016 - British Columbai

Suggestion is to switch Nova Scotia and BC so BC will get the nationals in a
world's year. On the next rotation, those who hosted the nationals on even
years will host them on odd years.
Since no representation was on the meeting from Quebec, final decision will
be deferred until the next meeting.
The advantages of having nations in a world's year is a consideration in
travel expenses and attracting more athletes.

3) CRSF Responsibilities for Nationals
There is a guideline for hosting nationals. Alecia, in her position of
Tournament Director sent an e-mail a few weeks in advance to the host team
in regards to a comprehensive list of materials needed for tables ect. The
committee needed to scramble to locate items for purchase. Each province
usually has a provincial box, however, some provincials are much smaller
than nationals and therefore the boxes would not have all items needed.
The 2008 host committee would like to see this list as part of the
"hosting a nationals guidelines", so this information is available during all
stages of planning.
Moved that the host team present a gift to the 3 people who are committee
heads of the nationals. 2nd. Defeated
It would be sufficient to have a reminder in the guidelines for hosting
nationals that the host team remember to acknowledge these people as they
feel is appropriate.
A further suggestion to get into the guidelines for hosting nationals is the
procedure which the hosts and the CRSF committee members communicate prior
to the national event.

4). Records
Bob doesn't have the updated records however when he does he will be
sending a copy of the records to provincial reps to compare them to past provincials
to see if any of their athletes deservingly should hold the record in those
areas.

5). Charitable status - we were reminded that everyone is to take a
portion and e-mail responses.

Adjournment at 10:28 pm
Brian suggested that we will have one more meeting in June before taking a
summer break. He will forward the date to all members.

Respectfully submitted
Janine Carroll

                                       CRSF - Board of Directors Meeting, April 6, 2008

Attending: Dwight Lucas, Janine Carroll, Bonnie Popov, Micheline Nantel, Brian Hutchings, Deirdre DeGagne, Brenda Reid, Lindsay Williams

Dwight Lucas called the meeting to order at 9:10 pm ET

Moved to adopt the minutes of the February 10, 2008 meeting. 2nd Carried.

Provincial Reports
Provincial report from Quebec.

Practice as usual, just finish the regional competition with around 70 participants. Next April, 27 we will have the provincial competition where we hope to receive 3 new teams, from Montreal and south of Montreal.
I am not sure if I wrote that we did a demo with 2 workshops in an elementary school of 535 kids, in February that went very well. (We learn to bring our technical stuff next time cause it took an hour to find the right canon for the DVD projection and music from our lap top !!!)

BC
- BC all-stars busy, half in Brazil doing workshops with circus type organization, others in Whistler.

AB
- team is invited to perform on the main stage during the Calgary Stampede as well as at another function in Calgary. 18 Spirals attending Nationals, as well as athletes from the Alleycatz.

ON

1)
Starting to organize our fall workshop. We will be following the same format as last year as it was so successful and we will be looking to have some athletes come up from the States again to add some variety.
2)
Teams are busy preparing for the Provincials. Teams are also going to be involved in some performances to promote the movie (documentary) JUMP! during the Toronto International Film Festival
3)
We have discussed the upcoming Provincial Competition put together a plan to cover our technical committee, fun parent competition, and security
4)
Wildcards from Provincials – we put together a more structured Wildcard Policy which will be presented at our AGM in the Fall. It includes a form and a $75 fee per athlete per competition (Team or Masters)
5)
Project Development – We talked extensively about standardizing the format for our recreation programs (skill levels, awards, progression). The plan is that we can than that teach and sell our program in new areas that are starting out to give them the structure and supplies that they need
6)
Awards – We discussed the awards and winners for the ORSO Scholarships, Bonnie Popover Spirit Award, Kelly Davidson Memorial Award and Becky L’Homme Coaching Award

7)
Competitions 2009 - Essex has put in a bid for the 2009 Provincials
NS
Had provincials including a team from NB who are also planning to attend nationals. Jump documentary demonstration at Bair’s Lake at a film festival. Getting ready for nationals.

Treasures report
Bonnie will send an e-mail to the Alleycatz coach advising that their fine must be paid before nations, otherwise they will be denied registration.

1) Coaches Certification
We have been accepted to the next level for the NCCP stage with approval of all information provided so far.
Alberta rep needs to be named in the next week.

2) Rules Committee
Had a meeting with recommendations coming from the judges committee. There are several rules which need updating and are in the hands of members. Meeting again in Tuesday. There are some potential changes that need to be referred to the province and some that are clarifications.

Question - How many group routines can be sent by the province - never been a rule and since many provinces do not send any, thoughts are if you have a team go for it. This year we have 7 open and 2 junior entries. At this time that is no restriction on the number of teams which each province can send.
Discussion regarding the coaches box - either registered coaches or athletes of the team are allowed.

MOVED
that the CRSF require current police check for any coach 18 years and over and each team register those documents with their provincial registrar. The provincial registrar will be required to provide the national registrar with a list of all approved provincial coaches with date of the criminal / child abuse registry check 2nd . Carried.

Janine will work this into the P & P manual.
Section regarding security must be updated.
Send to teams a clarification regarding who can be on the competition floor and who can be in the coaches box prior to nationals.

3) Scholarship
E-mail was sent to all team reps regarding the scholarship in early March. To date there a several applications received.

4) By-laws and Policy and Procedures
5) Discussion Paper
Bylaws and Policy & Procedures need to be kept separate. Suggestions - ask membership at the AGM what their vision and priorities be should be in the next 2 - 3 years and how to achieve these goals. Brian suggested that a discussion be facilitated at the AGM and volunteered to facilitate this. He will send out to membership a discussion paper and survey in order to acquaint membership with the idea so they have a chance to put thought into it. Brian further suggested that some discussion and decisions left to the AGM should be part of committee responsibility (whether that be the Board, rules, judges…). For example, coaches squares and competition events are not topic which should take up time at the AGM.

3) Scholarship
Will ask Bob Gillis take the job of updating the records. There will be new events for records, the timed DU and TU events.

7) Charitable Status
Will be left for the face to face meeting at Nationals. Everyone please look it over the e-mail Bonnie sent out and make some notes, come prepared.

8) Flights for Sarah, Alicia and Mary
The flight costs for Mary has been budgeted, not the other 2 positions. Concern as to where the money can be drawn from. Bonnie was able to locate some with the elimination of some budget items which have not been utilized this year as well as a credit coming from the insurance company (due to CRSF decreased registration).

Moved
that the host committee be responsible for the cost of medals for the National competition and that their cost be folded into the registration cost of each registration. 2nd, CD.

New Business
1) Nationals update
Recommendations - standardize ribbons so that excess can be utilized from year to year. The participation ribbon will be supplied by the host team, personalized with the competition place and year.

Moved
that the CRSF purchase Nationals ribbons and that host will be charged for the ribbons that are used, following the same policy that we have for medals. 2nd CD.

Molly Metz will be holding a FISAC judges training on the Sunday for those who are interested.

Concern regarding the pairs event for Junior Olympics. For other JO events Mary will try to have something in the program to sort things out. Recommendation that a method other than Nationals be used to determine qualification for such events.
Need another survey as to who is planning to go to the 2008 Junior Olympics, Bonnie will look after contacting teams and if they are qualifying in the US, along with at date which we need to know by (1 week). Suggestion that the teams who are going supply a representative to figure out qualification.

2) AGM
Request all committee and provincial reports to be pre-submitted. Also there should be letter filed from the provincial boards as to their representatives.
Need to request notice of motions - motions should not be coming from the floor.
Dwight will send an updated AGM agenda to board prior to Bonnie sending it to the membership.
Voting - in the past the existence of a provincial body has been a requirement of representation at the CRSF level. We need to be clear as to who is going to voting for each province and which provinces have a vote.

3) Medals
As discussed.

4) Other
Regarding the Nationals bids, if there is 2 or more bids, the board will vote at 8:30 am Saturday morning.

Adjournment - 12:05 am ET.

Next meeting - Thursday, May 15, 2008 at a dinner meeting 4:30 pm in Halifax. Dwight will send out details.

ACTION NEEDED:
1). Bonnie will send an e-mail to the Alleycatz coach advising that this fine must be paid before nations, otherwise they will be denied registration.
2). Janine need to have an Alberta rep named to the NCCP planning committee by next week.
3). Janine - update the P & P manual to include updated coaches police check requirements, the medal and ribbon policies. Rework the manual and send to board members prior to Nationals.
4). Someone needs to be assigned to update the competition security section of the National Competition handbook
5). Bonnie - Send to teams a clarification regarding who can be on the competition floor and who can be in the coaches box prior to nationals.
6). Brian will send out to membership a discussion paper and survey in order to acquaint them with proposed discussions for the AGM.
7.) Brian will ask Bob Gillis take on the duty of updating the records.
8). All members will come to Halifax prepared to discuss charitable status.
9). All members inform provincial members that a FISAC judges course will be available on the Sunday of the Halifax competition.
10). Bonnie will contact teams about their intention to attend Junior Olympics and if they are qualifying in the US.
11). Bonnie will request all committee reports to be pre-submitted.
All members will pre-submit their provincial reports
All members arrange a letter be filed from the provincial boards as to their representatives.
Brian will inform the need to request notice of motions.
Dwight will send an updated AGM agenda to board prior to Bonnie sending it to the membership.

Not assigned - clarification as to who is voting at the AGM
Dwight will arrange and send out details regarding the pre AGM board meeting in Halifax.
Respectfully submitted
Janine Carroll, secretary for the CRSF

Annual General Meeting

May 19, 2007 - Abbotsford, British Columbia

In attendance:

Board of Directors: Nova Scotia - Dwight Lucas (president), Quebec - Esme Lanktree, Ontario - Bonnie Popov (registrar), Alberta - Janine Carroll (secretary), British Columbia -Brenda Reid and Deirdre DeGagne

Unable to attend: John Ferguson (past president), Lindsay Williamson - Ontario

Members at large: Shannon Fox, Christina Pereira, Leanne Melloh, Craig Crawford from Jumpsations; Amy Shepley, Ashley Colasanti, Erin Lauzon, Cameron MacQuarrie from Jump Rope X-treme, Billy Smale from Camrose Spirals; Judy McPherson, Leona Dimmock, Chris Mulvihill, Nancy Ferguson, Teresa Segstro, Tim Segstro, Sara Reid, Alicia Wilk from Rhythm Ropers; Bob Gillies, Don Bruce from Brampton Acro Ropers; Marian Lee from Abbotsford Skipping Sensations; Dawn Lind, Pam Bateman-Sapphire, Carolyn Fox, Sara Mackey from Eastern Shore Mariners, John Lanktree, Sylvain Duval, Bernard Paradis, Micheline Nantel from Eclipse; Jamie Smith, Brian Hutchings, Kristine Melloh, Matt Delorey from Lincoln Leapers; Mary Kish, Heather Halliday, Sandi Kish, Kelly Swan from Hamilton Hoppers; Melissa Allsop from Essex Energizers; Sara Dobrowolski from Sackville Skipping Club; Mario Paquette a visitor

The meeting was brought to order at 8:09 pm, PT.

a) Inspection of accreditations

The following members will vote on behalf of their province:

Ontario: Amy Shepley, Bob Gillis

Nova Scotia: Carolyn Fox

British Columbia: Brenda Reid, Deirdre DeGagne

Quebec: John Lanktree

Alberta:. Janine Carroll

New Brunswick: Sara Dobrowolski

This method represents voting per population. Bylaws need to be changed to
reflect this.

b. Approval of the minutes from the last meeting

Moved by Craig Crawford to approve the minutes of the 2006 AGM. 2nd by John
Lanktree. Carried

Business arising from the minutes:

Brenda Reid has been researching a NCCP for the sport of Jump Rope. We are
at the stage which a national committee needs to be formed. At least 3
provinces must be represented and this committee will need to physically
come together to develop the program. It was suggested that we have a rep
from each of the 5 provinces which have provincial bodies, however Ontario
(ORSO) has members who are familiar with the program and have already
completed some of the work. Therefore it was suggested that they should
perhaps take the lead. $500 must accompany the application. The program must
come from the Canadian body not provincial bodies.

Moved by Billy Smale that the CRSF assumes expenses for 1 rep from each
province to be on the NCCP committee. If a province supplies more than 1
representative (with the approval of the CRSF), that province would assume
expenses for the 2nd representative. 2nd by John Lanktree, carried.

Deadline for provinces to show interest May 30, 2007.

Moved by Billy Smale to amend the motion to include a maximum of 10 people
on the committee. 2nd by John Lanktree, carried.

c) Correspondence - none presented

d) Officers' and Committee Chairman's reports

President - Dwight Lucas, pleased to be here, things are going well for
Nationals 2007. He thanked Worlds 2006 committee for a wonderfully well run
competition. Team Canada performed admirably, congratulations to all who
participated. .

Rules committee - Billy Smale described some of the process over the past
year which included some extensive discussion with provinces and resulted in
some major changes. Power - up to 12/14 age groups doing double unders with
a time limit of 3 minutes and older age groups doing triple unders, with a
time limit of 2 minutes. The year also saw the insertion of a coaching
square - ON used any of 4 corners during their provincials, the positioning
can be revisited.

Judges committee - Sara Reid reported that the committee has not met for
some time. She relates that we have a major problem in the country as whole,
several teams have been fined as a result of not having adequate judges. She
suggests that each provincial association manage a provincial judges pool
which would be accessible to the National judges co-coordinator. Each
province for example could supply 8 creativity and 8 difficulty judges,
taking some of the pressure off smaller and emerging clubs. Sarah also
suggested that a provincial judge coordinator would get to know the judges
in their province and be able to place them more adequately at nationals.

Judging needs to be updated, have video training, an updated current exam, a
certification process. Members of provinces are planning to get together on
Sunday ensuring that all are on the same page.

Scholarship - Members of the committee found it very difficult to compare
those coming out of high school to those entering a higher level of post
graduate studies. They suggest therefore to narrow the scope of the award to
those coming out of high school to full time post secondary. Things got
going slowly, there was no applicant s this year.

Sportsmanship - Members are having a difficult time recognizing contestants.

e) Analysis and approval of the financial report

f) Acceptance of audited report

g) Appointment of auditor

Membership is down. We need to increase the recreational aspect of the sport
to feed the competitive. We also need to address the missing provinces.

Moved by Craig Crawford to accept the financial review as presented. 2nd by
Brian Hutchings. Carried.

Moved by Craig Crawford to accept the proposed budget as presented. 2nd by
Brian Hutchings. Carried.

Moved by Craig Crawford to accept the same individual to complete the
financial review for the upcoming year as last. 2nd by Brian Hutchings.
Carried.

The bylaws need to be changed to reflect financial review rather than audit.

No membership cards will be circulated in the future.

Membership will not get a pin with their membership fee, this is an added
cost and devalues the value of the pin if everyone gets one.

h) Change of fee structure

No change has been considered.

i) Provincial Association reports

BC - has initiated an All Star program taking demonstration to next level
with more travelling involved. The province hosted a 2nd workshop last fall
encompassing coaching, athletes and judges. Participated in the Jump Inn
promotion, Telus World Skiing in Whistler, hoping to get some 2010 Olympic
demonstrations.

AB - participated in the Jump Inn promotion in Edmonton and Calgary, have
several new teams on the horizon, conducted several coaches clinics around
the province, have a plan for a provincial camp in Rimbey this summer.

ON - the opportunity to host Worlds was fantastic, ORSO is investing profits
into the sport, have an incredible website plan, have a plan for a rec
program which would pulsate across the province.

QC - transitional year, lots of interest in the sport, performed a festivals
over the summer, have plans for a future coaches development.

NS - have worked at getting provincials away from Halifax, hopefully
growing, website launching for ESM.

NB - 3rd year, Sara is moving on but has someone lined up to continue the
rec and she is going to try to long distance coach There is lots of good
promotion.

j) New business

Website -
Needs action photos, getting more interactive, much interest coming from US.
Some of the new features such as the coaches corners will require more
active participation from membership.

General manager -

A discussion ensured as to offering the position of General Manager as a
paid position. At the moment it would not include a salary, rather an
honorarium which would pay for trips to bank, ink. This person would
complete all the book work, job description develop has been developed and
will be posted for anyone should they be interested. Deadline, over summer.

Designed as a 1 year position, the board would evaluate.

FISAC -
Dwight attended their AGM May 5 in Montreal. He succeeded in having them
promise that they will post a financial report on their website. There will
be an international Double Dutch competition in November in Paris. Each
country will have an international judging certification person rather than
one or two for the world. A quarterly newsletter is in development.

The delegate for Canada is Pan Am president, Rich Cendelli.

There are positions available on the youth board, Canada could have multiple
members. The contact person is Megan Leathold (USA), information is on the
FISAC website. It is not known if this board receives money from FISAC to
operate.

Capitation fee - $50 / person for those going to worlds, will be used to get
people together for meetings.

Rules - 6 events, down form 8.

CRSF rules committee will deal with the changes to be reflected at the
national level.

South Africa - a copy of the bid is on the FISAC website. Discussion ensued
regarding the pros and cons to sending a Team Canada.

Implication to insurance? Cost will be a factor as well as the high security
risk.

Organizers are asking teams to travel around the country side to do
demonstrations after the competition.

Committees have traditionally appointed their own chair.

Moved by Judy McPherson that the Board of Directors appoint a chair to all
committees,

2nd by Sarah Reid. Carried.

Moved by Amy Shepley that the CRSF rules committee get the same
representation by population as per the board of directors and voting rights
at an AGM. 2nd by

Shannon Fox. Carried.

Nationals 2008 - 2 presentations were heard, one from ORSO to have the event
at Humbard College in Toronto, the 2nd from the Eastern Shore Mariners to
host the event in Halifax. Votes were taken:

3 for Ontario and 4 for Nova Scotia

It is recommended that a rotation be developed which world allow a province
years knowledge as to when they are to host Nationals. A presentation would
still be expected..

k) Notices of motions (bylaws);

Members of the be updating the bylaws for presentation at the next AGM.

l) Election of officers.

Board remains the same as per wishes of the provincial bodies.

m) Adjournment

Meeting was adjourned at 11:07 pm PT.

Respectfully submitted,

Janine Carroll