Minutes from the FFA state Rodeo committee meeting 7-26-16

Meeting was called to order at 4:07pm by President, Traylor Lenz.

Area 1-10 concerns:

Area 1: no Concerns

Area 2: (no representative)

Area 3: concerns that the stalls were too far away from the arena which meant you couldn’t run horse back and forth to them. And they also sold out and were too expensive.

Area 4: no concerns

Areas 5 & 6: would like to see a better and faster way to be notified of who made the short go.

Area 7: concerned about the schedule: the barrels were ran too close together, too hard on those horses. Try to spread it out to sun evening or tues am. and also had the same stall concern: too far, too expensive.

Area 8: no concerns

Area 9: same concern about the schedule on that Monday with the barrels too close. Also the goats were not ran in reverse order for the short go like all of the other events. Traylor explained that this was just a typo and was an oversight.

Area 10: concern was the dips in the ground from the tractor drag man during the 1st go. Traylor explained he was aware of it and then went and talked to him, it was fixed for the 2nd go.

Traylor addressed some of the concerns:

  • The stalls were out of our control. They were contracted to Mr. Grady and then he sub contracted people who had stalls in the area.
  • As far as notifiying people for the short go, if we could find a way to publish/post online or on a facebook event that might reach more people.
  • Traylor explained to teachers to please spread the word to be patient on getting the contestants payout checks, they have to come from Austin Texas FFA.
  • We weren’t allowed on the grounds Sunday evening so that is why the schedule got so packed Monday and barrels were too close together. Also if we were to do them Tuesday am it would have been another $1500 for the A/C use. In Sinton (if the rodeo is there for the Corpus Convention next year) we’ll start at 6pm approximately on Sunday before to run the first round of barrels.

Craig Lenard made a motion to remove the verbage “Finals” from our rodeo to not confuse parents/contestants. Kelly Doster seconded. All in favore, motion passed.

Discussed that it was confusing to have them “check in” as they weren’t checking in for the rodeo, they were just getting their convention wristbands. It’s not a rodeo check in. Maybe remove the wording from the website.

Also reminder that even if you missed your first go, you can still run your 2nd go with no penalties or issues for the 2nd go. You just didn’t’ receive a time for the first go.

Kelly Dostser had the concern that these contestants shouldn’t be penalized with a 5 second time addition for the hat falling off. Kelly made the motion to remove the 5 second penalty, seconded. There was discussion on where the plane of the arena started. Which was defined as the mouth of the arena, once the alley opens up. The motion passed with the majority for it and with 2 objections. Traylor will email out suggestions on the verbage of how this will read.

There was concern expressed for the event directors to help out more. Traylor had to line out duties more specifically when this was done in the past and it just caused for more confusion because some don’t always show up to the rodeo and then there’s people scrambling.

Discussed locations, hopefully will be Sinton in 2017. Then it’s Fort Worth in 2018 – maybe do Northside? Or there’s a small building- a new equestrian facility near there?

Other business: need to elect rough stock director. Cody Bonds and John Denson were nominated. Both were elected as co-chairs.

5:21pm Craig Lenard made the motion to adjourn and Kelly Doster seconded.