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| Cheryl Blay | Darlene Brown | Geoff Camp | Sharon Cockerton | Don Hambley | Pat Niblett | Grant Sinclair | Chris Smith |
| Bruce Fairbrother |
| Michael Stroud |
| Doug Munn |
Motion: Geoff Camp / Pat Niblett
Be it resolved that MSO permit out-of-province resident swimmers who are registered with MSO and swim/train in the province to be eligible for Ontario Records and Top Ten. They must satisfy Canadian (MSC) residency and nationality requirements. These exceptions are to be annually requested in writing by the swimmer and approved by the MSO board.
Motion: Geoff Camp / Don Hambley
Be it resolved that at the discretion of meet management swimmers be permitted to swim one per lane in 800 and 1500 freestyle events where time constraints require doubling up. When a swimmer wishes to swim in a lane on their own, they must wait until all doubled up heats have been run. Swimmers must indicate their choice in advance of the meet (on the entry forms) and cannot change an election of two per lane to one per lane at the meet. Meet management has the discretion to surcharge the one per lane swimmers to cover the additional cost.
Motion: Darlene Brown / Sharon Cockerton
The following statement be included with the notice of special meeting ... "The above motions are revisions of the two defeated at the AGM and have been discussed by the board at their meeting on January 11, 1998. The board agrees with and supports these new motions."
CARRIED
Motion: Darlene Brown / Cheryl Blay
MSO to pay for a maximum of 3 air fares to the special meeting at the Winterlude meet in Ottawa.
CARRIED
The committee chairpersons have changed due to the changes of the board. The committee structures will be finalized at a later date.
| Constitution | Chairperson | Geoff Camp |
| Members | Don Hambley, Grant Sinclair | |
| Strategic Plan | Chairperson | President: Chris Smith |
| Members | Pat Niblett, Michael Stroud | |
| Nominations | Chairperson | President: Chris Smith |
| Members | Past President: Pat Niblett Vice President: Geoff Camp | |
| Finance | Chairperson | Treasurer: Darlene Brown |
| Members | Grant Sinclair | |
| MSC | Chairperson | Geoff Camp |
| Members | Michael Stroud | |
| Communications | Chairperson | Secretary: Don Hambley |
| Publications | Members | Heather Davies, Bruce Fairbrother, Michael Stroud |
| Membership | Chairperson | Sharon Cockerton |
| Members | Barrie Malloch, Wilma Pidhayny, Ethel St. Laurent | |
| Recognition Subcommittee: Wendy Cimarno, Brian Croker | ||
| Marketing | Chairperson | ?? |
| Members | Mark Leighton | |
| Web Site | Chairperson | Michael Stroud |
| Members | Bryan Finlay, Barrie Malloch | |
| Fitness | Chairperson | Michael Stroud |
| Members | Cheryl Blay, Sue Robertson | |
| Competition | Chairperson | Michael Stroud |
| Members | Cheryl Blay - Meet Coordinator Bryan Finlay - Open Water Swimming Michael Stroud - Statistician | |
| Rules | Chairperson | Michael Stroud |
| Members | Cheryl Blay, Shirley Dacey, Pat Niblett Chris Smith, Beth Whittall | |
| Officials | Chairperson | Pat Niblett |
| Members | Chris Smith | |
| Undesignated | Ann Gunther, Ian Christie |
Medals
Darlene will order 500 gold and 1000 silver and bronze medals.
Insurance
Darlene checked out rates from another insurance company to see if it would be practical to change insurance companies. MSO currently pays Swim Ontario $2.80 per swimmer. With approximately 2000 swimmers per year for an insurance cost of $5,600.00 per year. Swim Ontario pays $0.55 per swimmer for accident insurance and $5,380.00 for liability insurance for a total of $10,760.00 per year.
General liability insurance with many more features for $4,300.00. Accident insurance for $4,000 minimum or $0.45 per swimmers. Total would be $8,300.00
Darlene concluded that if Swim Ontario was to look into these policies it could increase their coverage and MSO's and decrease costs. If Masters Swimming Ontario took over the insurance the coverage for our swimmers would increase however so would the costs.
Geoff wishes to pay the surcharge by splitting the $0.55 insurance charge out of the $2.80 paid to Swim Ontario. Darlene and Chris will talk to Lea Bredschneider at Swim Ontario about the insurance policy.
MSC Fees
MSC's year used to run from July 1 to June 30 and has now changed to January 1 to December 31. The fees paid for the 1997/1998 season will cover an 18 month period.
Committee Budgets
Committees are requested to submit a budget for expenses for 1997/98 for the next meeting.
Web Site
MSC's web site is now online. It can be accessed through a link on MSO's web site or directly at http://home.istar.ca/~mswim. MSC's email address is mswim@istar.ca.
Age Determination Date
Michael requested Geoff present the following motion at MSC's next meeting.
Motion:
Be it resolved that MSC adopt an age determination date based on the age of the swimmer on the last day of the meet in order to accurately reflect the age of the swimmer and return to one of the founding principles of Masters Swimming and not relinquish
our ideals to some misconceptions that it makes the computer work easier.
Motion: Pat Niblett / Cheryl Blay
The MSO board supports Michael's motion on the age determination date.
CARRIED
Handbooks
One thousand copies of the 1996 handbook will be printed by the end of the month.The advertising rate is $250 per page. Wave Lengths is no longer published and the ad will be replaced with MSO's web site information.
Michael received a file containing swimmer and clubs since 1989 from Bruce which he forwarded to Barrie Malloch. This information will be used to analyse our retention rate and other registration statistics.
The Regional Representatives will be finalized at a later date.
SWIMS Award : The Recognition Subcommittee is working on an award for SWIMS (Swimmers Who Impacted Masters Swimming).
Motion: Geoff Camp / Chris Smith
A limit of $1000 to be used for SWIMS awards
CARRIED
The Ontario Top Twenty, based on MSC rules, will be forwarded to MSC by the end of the month. This document is not otherwise distributed. In response to Beth's request at the 1996 AGM, the annual publication of records to all clubs now includes names and dates.
Club Codes
Christian Berger, the national recorder, will verify club codes.
Editorial - MSC News
Chris Smith requests comments for the editorial by the end of January.
Burlington Meet - Personal Best
The Burlington Meet will be run as a Personal Best Masters Swim Meet.
The next meeting will be on Saturday February 21, 1998 prior to Nepean's Winterlude meet.
Motion: Cheryl Blay / Geoff Camp
To adjourn the meeting.
CARRIED
Meeting adjourned at 4:40 P.M.
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source : mso minutes; updated : 1998.04.11; file : minutes13