The IAC Board of Directors met in San Carlos, CA on April 6 and 7, 2013. While complete meeting minutes will be published at a later date, here's a summary of actions taken at that meeting. Most actions described are covered in the agenda packet, which is available on the IAC website.
Pictured are: Front Row L to R: Jim Ward, Secretary/Doug Sowder, President/ Vicky Benzing, SW Region Dir/ Debby Rihn-Harvey, Int'l Dir/ Tom Adams, SE Region Dir/ Trish Deimer-Steineke, Manager
Back Row L to R: Lionel Figueroa, Visitor/ Jonathan Gaffney, NAA Rep/ Bruce Ballew, Mid-America Region Dir/ Norm DeWitt, Director/ Bob Hart, Treasurer/ Doug Lovell, NE Region Dir/ Lynn Bowes, South Central Region Dir/ Mike Heuer, CIVA Delegate/ Tom Myers, Tech Committee Chair
The Board acted to:
- Accept Fall 2012 Board meeting minutes
- Accept December 2012 Teleconference meeting minutes
- Accept the FY'13 year-end financial statements
- Fix the signatories on the U.S. Nationals checking account signature card to be J. Smutny, M. Tanner, D. Sowder and E. Robinson
- Approve (new) P&P 227, the charter for the new IAC Marketing Committee
- Appoint J. Smutny as Contest Director for 2013 U.S. National Aerobatic Championships
- Accept the Secretary's Report and reappoint committee chairs and members identified therein
- List in the IAC Yellow Pages the names of the members of the Known Sequence Selection Committee
- Approve the FY'14 budget as proposed by the Treasurer
- Fix the 2014 U.S. Nationals dates as September 21-26 with a rain date of September 27
- Approve P&P 503 updates as proposed by J. Ward, dated March 20 and found in the agenda packet starting on p. 79; this P&P concerns the operation of U.S. Nationals
- Approve further P&P 503 updates as submitted by J. Ward to the Board, dated April 3 (N.B. an updated P&P 503 will be published separately)
- Publish proposed revisions to P&P 504 to begin a two month member comment period prior to voting on whether to enact those changes; this P&P concerns the selection of U.S. aerobatic teams
- Establish two "IAC Open" contests, one associated with an existing contest east of the Mississippi River, the other associated with an existing contest west of it, and allow each to confer "IAC Open (East/West) Champion titles"; details as described in the proposal found in the agenda packet p. 109 as subsequently modified by the Board
- Accept the Wildwood, NJ contest as the "IAC East Open" contest for 2013 and to consult later with western regional directors to determine a suitable contest for the "IAC West Open"
- Add details to P&P 506 concerning the appointment of a safety representative to the U.S. Nationals jury
- Direct the Finance committee to, by April 17, review IAC's FY'14 budget and establish a means to commit $5,000 in support of the legal efforts ongoing within IAC Chapter 1
- Form a committee to establish IAC as a FAST signatory
- Allow glider pilots in a team selection category to opt out of video recording at U.S. Nationals
- Declare it to be the Board's interpretation of the rules that Forms "B" and "C" produced by Ringo Massa's "OpenAero" sequence drawing software are permissible for Free Program sequence submission at contests, but that Form "A" is not acceptable
Comments and questions are welcome.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Ward,
IAC Secretary
