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PRESENT
 Board Members,Cheryl Blay,Darlene Brown,Geoff Camp,Sharon Cockerton,Lesley Mason-Ward,Pat Niblett,
Grant Sinclair,Chris Smith
Absent with Regrets
Don Hambley
Guest
Beth Whittall
 
CALL TO ORDER
Chris Smith, acting as chair, called the meeting to order at 11:17 AM.

ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA
MOTION: SHARON COCKERTON / DARLENE BROWN
To accept the agenda.
CARRIED

ACCEPTANCE OF MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 20 MEETING
MOTION: GEOFF CAMP / CHERYL BLAY
To adopt the minutes as amended.
CARRIED

COMMITTEE HEADS
Constitution:  Vice President:  Geoff Camp
Strategic Plan:  President: Chris Smith
Nomination:  Past President:  Pat Niblett
Finance:  Treasurer: Darlene Brown
MSC: Chairperson Geoff Camp
Communications: Secretary Don Hambley
Membership Chairperson Sharon Cockerton
Marketing Chairperson Vacant
Web Site Chairperson Barrie Malloch
Fitness Chairperson Grant Sinclair
Competition Chairperson Cheryl Blay
Rules Chairperson Michael Stroud
Officials Chairperson Pat Niblett

COMMITTEE REPORTS
FINANCE: TREASURER: DARLENE BROWN - NO RTEPOR
NOMINATIONS: PAST PRESIDENT: PAT NIBLETT
Pat contacted all area reps and asked for people to come forward to work on the board or a committee.

MSC CHAIRPERSON: GEOFF CAMP
MSCS AGM
MSC's AGM was held  in Ottawa on September 26/27. A draft of the minutes is on MSC's web site. It was a productive meeting. Alberta and Newfoundland were absent.
Alberta's AGM
Alberta's AGM was held in Calgary. Alberta was proposing a motion to secede from MSC. The SNC representative told them that if they withdraw from MSC they will not be allowed to swim outside of Alberta. The motion was never tabled. Art Looye resigned from Alberta board. Areas where Alberta disagrees with MSC, half are where Ontario also disagrees.
Age Determination Date
MSC asked Geoff to take it back to MSO. USMS is now using both age determination dates. Short Course Yards is last day of meet and Short Course Metres are determined at end of year.
Nationals
Entry forms are included in the MSC News. All day grazing - $16.00 a day. There may be changes. Entry deadline is somewhat confusing. The intent was to guarantee a certain number of entries for out-of-province swimmers but this may be changed. The Nationals web site is www.nmsc.org. Clubs are advised to get their entries in early due to the limit on the number of entries accepted.
National Registration
A motion for National registration was discussed but Ontario voted against it.
Committee Report - changing rules writing MSC
Personnel Changes
Beth Whittall resigned as editor of the MSC News and Jackie Spry resigned as MSC's secretary and web master.
Beth Whittall was selected as the new MSC secretary. The News editor is now Christiane Fournier Kramer from Quebec and the Web Master is David Ellis from Alberta.

COMMUNICATIONS: SECRETARY: DON HAMBLEY
1999 Handbook
The board reviewed the draft of the 1999 handbook.
1996 handbook
Extra copies of the 1996 handbook and MSC News will be sent directly to the club contacts for distribution.
Recorder
Lesley Mason-Ward will be taking over the recorder position January 1, 1999.
Web Master
Barrie Malloch is taking over the position of web master. Meet updates will be emailed to her for updating the web site.

FITNESS CHAIRPERSON: GRANT SINCLAIR
Wellness Day
Grant is setting up a wellness day planned for the early spring and will be proposed at the AGM.
The people involved will be Susan Robertson, Cliff Berry and a dietitian. It will be a 1 day session on a weekend. It will include stroke improvement, stretching, swim injury avoidance (working around injuries), training for competition and diet.

COMPETITION CHAIRPERSON: CHERYL BLAY
Nutrition Seminar
Duane Jones planned a nutrition seminar for November 10.
Nov 10 - Nutrition Seminar
Brantford meet report
Cheryl received a meet report from Brantford. There were 422 swims, 40 women and 49 men from 22 teams. Cheryl requested that other meet managers please send her a meet report.
New Meets
Nepean's Winterlude meet has an entry deadline of  Jan. 29, 1999.
London Silver Dolphins will hold their Nesbitt Burns long course meet on Feb. 14.
Technosport and Rideau Speedeaus will host meets on Feb. 20 in Ottawa.
Milton Masters and 1000 Island Y Masters will host meets on March 7, 1999.
Georgian Bay Masters will host their open water swim on Aug. 8.
Open Water Swim - National Championship
MSC decided that a national championship open water swim could be held.
Please request approval for a national championship OWS. through Cheryl Blay.
Ontario Provincials
A couple of clubs have been working on hosting the Provincials but dates conflict with the Nationals being held in Ottawa.
It is the responsibility of member clubs to host the Provincials and not the MSO board.
There is a problem finding clubs to host the provincials. MSO should look into forming a sub-committee to coordinate the provincial championship.

RULES CHAIRPERSON: MICHAEL STROUD
Toys during Warm up
Toys meaning kick boards, pull buoys, flippers and hand paddles.
MOTION: PAT NIBLETT / SHARON COCKERTON
No toys allowed during warm up.
CARRIED

NEW BUSINESS
Legal Action
Beth Whittall received an e-mail regarding an injury sustained during a workout. The e-mail was forwarded to Darlene Brown.

Medals
Cliff Barry has a contact for good pricing on award medals. The awards person will get in touch with Cliff. ??(416) 423-3675??

MSO Logo
Kanata Masters are designing their club logo which is similar to MSO's logo. The MSO logo is not presently copyrighted.

NEXT MEETING
The AGM is on Sunday, December 13, 1998 approx. 2 p.m. with a board meeting following the AGM.

ADJOURNMENT
MOTION: SHARON COCKERTON / DARLENE BROWN
To adjourn the meeting.
CARRIED
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 PM

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source : mso minutes; updated : 1999.04.24; file : minutes19