President Christian Burger called the meeting to order at 9:04am...
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| Posted by Christian Burger (cburger) on 14.12.2011 at 10:04 |
President Christian Burger called the meeting to order at 9:04am.
He thanked the Board members for their attendance at the meeting & recognized that it took some a lot of time & effort to attend.
Roll call was taken.
Those present were Asia- Sam Matsumotoo (voting), Australia-Susi Bauer (voting) & Simon Fernley-Jones, Nordic-Don Leiblie (voting) & Thorsten Selleny, Snowboard -Stephan Halbe (voting), North America-Eileen Brennan (voting) & Rob Mastic, North America-Kent Johnson (voting) & Steve Amoia, Europe-Mathias Dolderer (voting). With President Burger there are 12 total Board members in attendance.
Directors Reports:
Asia: Sam reported that JAL doesn't offer discounted tickets to its employees to travel domestically, so he is hopeful that something can be worked out with the company. Otherwise many JAL employees may not be in attendance.
Australia: Susi reported that Air New Zealand is bringing a big group & that a lot of Aussi's will be in attendance.
North America: Eileen reported that United & Continental are now merging so the US will have even fewer teams. KJ reported that Air Tran & Southwest were also merging. He thinks about 250 North Americans will be in attendance.
Europe: Mathias reported that LTU & Air Berlin are merged but wasn't sure if they would be competing together at this event. He also said many Europeans were still concerned about radiation issues in Japan.
Nordic: Don & Thorsten said they have gotten good feedback from the Organizers about the event. The proposal to have nordic sprints will not work at this event so we will wait until next year to implement that competition.
Snowboard: Stephan reported that our snowboard TD is now working for the Austrian Olympic team so we have to find one for this event. It is hoped that the mountain has a suitable person.
As Kerry, our Secretary/Treasurer, could not attend the financial report will be sent out later. Eileen reported that Kerry said we were in good shape financially.
Chris reported that it was a slow summer & we had no issues to deal with except email issues with 3 Board members. He reported that South African Airlines may have a team coming to Niseko. He also said that Jet Star had contacted him. Chris informed us that the rule books have been updated. He then moved on to unfinished business & wanted to make sure where our IASF flags were. Chris has one as does Bob, Kerry & Kahori.
We then discussed the feedback regarding the dual slalom event. Some few commented that it was not challenging enough for them. But the rule book is very specific on how the course is to be set & we only hold a dual slalom occasionally.
Also discussed was the problem encountered with a few teams having to sit outside of the main room for the banquet at Crested Butte. If we continue to have attendance numbers beyond the capacity of the venue this will continue to happen. It was requested that all of the Board Members support the decision regarding seating of the teams & to back up the areas decision regarding their & other teams seating. There were no new proposals to discuss.
Christian then assigned the Board Members into groups to meet with the area. Chris will be overseeing all the groups.
Racing - Don, Thorsten, KJ, Steve & Stephan.
Registration- Simon, Susi & Mathias
Social-Sam ,Eileen & Rob.
All the Board members added input as to what was to be discussed while in groups. It was decided that the Opening Ceremony will still be on Sunday night. Chris asked all Board Members to give him the information on how they traveled to Niseko, ticket prices, hotels used etc so it can be posted on the website to help answer questions. Stephan brought up the need to find a Snowboard TD & mentioned the possibility that perhaps we need to allow the Snowboard TD to race so that someone would be willing to serve. Chris said that he was sending bids out after returning home from the meeting for 2014 & asked if anyone had any suggestions and/or contacts for areas that would be willing to host our event. It was decided to give priority to resorts from North America.
President Burger adjourned the meeting at 10:50 am.
Day 2 Sept 18. The meeting was called to order by President Christian Burger at 9:03 am. All of the groups, Racing, Registration, & Social gave their reports & the schedule for the week was discussed & decided. The meeting was adjourned at 9:55am.
Respectfully submitted,
Eileen Brennan
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