Afternoon Part 2

After sugar-loading on Doubletree cookies, we got back to business.

Before we went back to the isolated items, the Administrative/Legal group gave their reports and since they didn't have their one RFA isolated, it was a short time.

Back to the Technical Group items.
#317 (which adds bonuses for risk taking in the second half of a program)was isolated to rescind with the rational that it was harmful to the skaters and it gave the coaches too much control. It seemed like only one person was wanting to rescind the item. Voted down and the items stays as approved by the board.

#330 - Robin Greenleaf isolated the item to amend the language to make it friendly to multi-college synchro teams as long as the name reflects the collegiate nature of the team. Amendment approved.

#501 - Was about changes to the Juvenile Pairs Free Skate that was voted down by the  board. Troy Goldstein came back with a changes to the proposal and asked to have it reinstated. It was one of those conversations that I just wanted to leave up to the Pairs Committee since they understand the nuances far better than the rest of us.
The amendment was adopted, so the Juvenile Pairs FS program was altered to eliminate the the death spiral and allow only single throw jumps.

Then they talked about the fact that by changing the Juvenile Pairs FS, the committee would have to change the Pre-Juvenile Pairs FS so the elements are not more difficult that the Juvenile Pairs FS.  Surprising since the Pairs Committee actually tried to eliminate Pre-Juv Pairs.

The delegates were either restless or fading.

I sense that we may have to come back tomorrow to finish this meeting as we haven't even gotten to new business. The problem is a lot of people are flying home in the morning.

And when we finally got to voting on the Pre-Juvenile Pairs it was just to remove the death spiral. Adopted.

But then we went back to isolated item #501 because Mr. James, our legal counsel, felt that the governing body didn't fully understand what they were voting on.

At the same time as this discussion was happening, the headquarters staff started handing out the items for New Business. The second item was regarding eliminating IJS for Juvenile and Intermediate skaters at regionals, sectionals and Nationals. That got the room buzzing.

Posting this now since my battery is fading. Will do a separate blog post on New Business.