WCA Board Meeting MinutesLake Mills, WI - Jan. 11, 2003Annual Meeting |
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Board Attending: P. Godkin (WCA Pres/Nova), J. Littman (VP/Team WI), A. Miller (Treas), R. Loney (Sec'y/Peloton Sports & CVC) WCA Members Attending and Club Affiliation:
Phil Godkin opened the meeting at 1pm. He asked members to introduce themselves and the club they were representing. After introductions, the first item of business was:
P. Godkin noted that since there was not a full slate of candidates for the board the election for new officers would be delayed until a full slate could be presented to members. Positions to be filled include President and Vice President. In accordance with the WCA by-laws; current board officers will continue in their roles until such time as a new election is held. R. Loney will continue to dialogue with clubs on candidates and qualifications needed to fill the roles.
Specific goals include:
Group discussion followed on the #3 goal of recruiting officials. Heidi Miengez noted that officials needed to be treated professionally and recognized for their work. Further discussion centered on how to properly recognize the work of race officials. Some questions raised were:
A motion was made and seconded to raise the WCA per rider fee, the vote was delayed for further discussion on the repercussions of the decisions. Particularly, Heidi noted that most officials are not doing the job for the money. Follow up discussion to be pursued by WCA board and member clubs. M. Hanley introduced a proposal from USA Cycling, that would in effect, rebate a portion of every USCF license fee to the state organization (in this case, WCA) from which the license originated in return for the state organization (WCA) granting rider upgrades, scheduling officials, and providing other tasks currently managed by M. Hanley. When asked how USA Cycling was proceeding and when on this proposal, Hanley suggested that he be the primary point of contact. Follow up: R. Loney will contact Hanley and USA Cycling for more information and provide the response to the members who expressed interest in hearing the outcome. This work group includes: H. Meingez, R. Loney, J. Pearce, A. Miller, Todd Schmitt, B. Ochowitz, J. Littman, M. Hanley, G. Achterberg, R.Weiss. R. Loney continued into the "wish list" part of the WCA plan. These were programs that member clubs would like to see become part of WCA. R. Loney cautioned that the WCA, being volunteer run (no pay for work), needed to be focused on its member-driven priorities in '03 (see above), and to consider carefully any extra projects, taking on projects only if the task is supported by a majority of riders and, that the task can be competed without disturbing the priority projects. Some of the ideas suggested by WCA members for future development include:
Some discussion followed on the #6 idea, a code of conduct. It was decided by the group that WCA would create a broad code of conduct for riders participating in WCA races and leave it to individual clubs to create a code of conduct for their individual club members that reflects each club's mission and goals. Specifically, it was thought that the intent of a code would be merely to provide some guidelines to encourage and/or discourage certain behavior by riders, no matter where they come from. (i.e., no public urination, nudity, swearing, etc). Follow up is that WCA board will provide a general code of conduct to be posted on the WCA website. Member clubs will be encouraged to personalize the code to suit their club. The code will be included in promoters packets in the form of a stand up table tent for the registration area. Violators of code will be shot. Next item of business was: Scoring R. Loney reported that WCA members consistently mentioned scoring as an area the WCA needed to improve in 2003. In general, the feeling was the scoring was adequate however some changes would be needed to improve the scoring. Specifically, WCA in 2003 will:
Other discussion followed on WCA masters categories and whether there should be a discussion on changing the 30+ and 40+ WCA categories to 35 and 45+--at the earliest in the 2004 season. The reason for the change is that many other clubs in the US have already moved to the 35/45+ categories to reflect their riders desires. Members present decided that there would need to be discussion at the WCA club level to find out how members would be impacted by such a change. P. Godkin will lead a discussion group on the topic and report feedback on the website. P. Godkin and J. Flechenstein are working on a system for collecting points and reporting them to the website promptly. Their work will be brought to the board in February for review and revision. Next item was the draft of the WCA 2003 Schedule: Note: this is a DRAFT. The final schedule will be posted on the WCA website in late February. Road
Cyclo Cross
Illinois Race Dates
NOTE: This is a DRAFT schedule; some races are not yet on the calendar, pending venue negotiations by individual promoters. Please check the website for the final calendar, which will be posted by Feb. 28. Other business brought to the group:
The meeting ended at 3:45pm. Submitted by R.Loney
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