MINUTES OF THE TRI COUNTY MEETING October 9, 2007

President Gene Howard called the meeting to order at 8:09 PM at Riverton Country Club.

New rep from Erlton was introduced:

Mark Begley

New rep from Haddon Glen was introduced:

Barbara Wister

Treasurer’s Report

Ø Steve Ries reports there was a beginning balance of $21,154.33 in the treasury.

Ø Total deposits were $27,050.00.

Ø Total bills paid (all pertaining to the Tri Co Championship Meet) were $33,434.53.

Ø Ending balance of $14,769.80.

Ø It cost Tri County approximately $5700.00 to run the meet (negative meet). This included doubling the number of portable toilets from 2006.

Ø Total meet cost for 2007 was still about equal to the 2006 cost.

o Paul Patterson mentioned that the executive board put together a document that lays out expenses and responsibilities for the host club and Tri County. This document will be used for all future meets.

o Gene Howard made it clear that Tri County assumes certain expenses so that a consistently high level meet will be guaranteed.

Ø It is not the goal of Tri County to keep an extremely high balance in the checking account through the winter.

Computer

Ø Joe Crick stated there was an envelope for each team with the 2008 schedule and a CD with various data from the 2007 season.

Ø Joe Crick introduced the Dolphin Wireless Stopwatch Timing System to be used for the Championship Meet.

o It synchronizes times on all watches and would reduce timing errors and improve accuracy of the Tri County Championship Meet. It would be especially helpful for the 25 meter races.

o The system includes 19 watches and costs about $3000.00.

o The Tri County Executive Board recommends the purchase. Joe will negotiate the price with the Colorado Timing System after January 2008.

o Any individual clubs interested in purchasing this and/or any other Colorado equipment should let Joe know by January 2008.

o Joe will send out the information to all clubs.

Ø Motion was made by Lou D’Angelo to purchase the above system. Chris McCoy seconded the motion. The motion passed.

David Katz / Swimming Coordinator

Ø David stated that there would be no changes in the meet format for the 2008 Tri County Championship Meet.

Ø All sessions ran well with extra time on Sunday if needed for bad weather.

Ø Official Clinics in June 2008. Most officials will need to be recertified this year.

Ø Minor wording changes in technical rules USA Swimming. These will be discussed at the June clinics. These changes can be accessed by visiting the USA Swimming website.

B Meets

Ø Schedule is now set.

Ø Teams scheduled to swim on Wednesday, July 4^th may agree to swim that meet on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.

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Tri County Championship Meet

Ø No new information to report.

Old Business

Ø Voting on Rule Changes

Proposal #1 Relay Cards

Proposal: Eliminate the use of club submitted relay cards for Tri-County Championships completely

VOTE PASSED IN FAVOR.

Proposal #2 Registering as a Sunday Restricted Swimmer

Proposal #3 Championship Relays with Non-Sunday Swimmers

Proposal #4 Non-Sunday Swimmers who qualifies for Championship Sunday Finals

PROPOSAL #3 WITHDRAWN but does not prohibit a club from appealing for an exception on a case by case basis. Agreed to by reps.

PROPOSAL #4 DEFEATED

PROPOSAL #2 N/A due to the above.

Proposal #5 “In the championship meet, when electronic timing is used, the lead-off relay split can be used for league records in accordance with USA swimming rules.”

DEFEATED

New Business

Ø David Katz and Joe Crick are looking for ways to reduce the length of the sessions for the Championship Meet.

Ø Will be discussed at the May meeting.

Next meeting is Tuesday, May 9, 2007 at 8:00 PM at Riverton Country Club.

Meeting adjourned at 8:52 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Kathy Fitzpatrick

Secretary

Addendum

Ø Tri County was very sad to learn of the sudden and tragic death of Angela Hallerud, a Pheasant Run swimmer.

Ø A donation was made to the memorial fund on behalf of Tri County.