President Auxier shared highlights from the various board initiatives that are happening right now.
- Strategic Projects on Image & Branding
- Basic Skills Rebrand
- Event Management System
Back to the isolations.
#307 - John Coughlin wanted to rescind and refer to committee the rule change that penalizes competitors who don't register by the September 1 by not allowing them to compete. The rule will be put into effect for the 2016 qualifying season, but will be re-evaluated by the committee with a recommendation to return in 2016.
#308 - Terri Levine Skating Club of New York along with Hal Marron (Pacific Coast VP) presented an amended plan for the qualifying rounds that uses the same type of points system.
This just isn't fair to the skaters and really not fair to the officials. You would have to have the same officials for all the events. Lots of discussions and a line at the mic.
Jason Wong wanted to strike the word "not" so the skaters would be seeded. That one word changed took about 15 minutes and removing "not" was voted down.
Back to the original discussion and the natives are getting restless. Unfortunately, instead of voting on it, the idea was sent back to the competitions committee to talk about it again. Ugh!
#310 - Duties of the referee to determine whether an injured skater is allowed to continue. While it is a lot of pressure on the referee, it's important because sometimes the athletes and/or the coaches want them to continue. There have been situations where a skater gets injured during an event and they want to continue. But it is the role of the event referee to think of the health and welfare of the skaters. The discussion went on for quite sometime and far beyond my attention span.
The discussion kept getting extended.
and extended.
and extended.
and extended.
And the majority was against the change and voted it down after a very painful conversation.
Time for a cookie break.
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