Meeting started at 7:45 pm
Attendees: Alex Cuozzo, Rob Lemke, Sheryl Hall, Gary Westerfield, CarlGrossbard, Ron Nardo, Bridget McCann, Harry Penny, Rich Degnan, Mary Ann Harvey, Sue Polansky, Vicki Fox, Fred Benlein, and guest Bob Hersh
Minutes:Motion to accept(as corrected) by Sue Polansky, seconded byCarl Grossbard
Corrections: Jodie Robertson made the Olympic standard in Mohawk/Niagara Marathon
Budget & Bank balance 11/30/14 = $13,891.51; with a deposit of $425 and checks paid $5279.54
Finance:12/08 Ledger balance = $9,036.97. The accountant has not been paid - $1600; Northport booster check
has not been cashed.
Membership:2128individuals – 418 for 2015, 75 clubs & organizations
President’s President welcomed Bob Hersh to our meeting. Bob is a resident of Mineola and the USATF
Remarksrepresentative to the IAAF; At the last two annual meetings, the USATF’s leadership has been challenged which indicates that this leadership has lost touch with its membership.
Old Business:1. Representatives to AAC meeting – Curt Clausen was selected to the USATF Board as the Athlete Rep
2. 2013 Association Award – Alex spoke with Herb Nichols who sent him to Desiree who has nothing to do with it. Alex went back to Herb and explained that the championships were counted incorrectly. Herb will check into it and get back to Alex
3. 2015 Associations Grant - Long Island will not be getting the grant because National Office claimed they never received the reports from 2012 & 2013 which were sent to Sherry Quack who no longer works with the national office
New business:1. Long Island Board members expressed their disillusionment with the National Board overturning the organization membership’s choice of nominee for the IAAF Council. Alex asked Bob for his opinion of what he thinks the Association should do. Response: Do not react immediately as it might be premature and also might draw unnecessary fire to the Association. Don’t front anything, but support whatever groundswell might occur. There is no guarantee that Stephanie will be elected to the IAAF Council – right now she is only nominated.
Committee Reports:
Track & Field (Harry) – Meets are set; weight throw clinic – Sachem N. volunteered to have Suffolk coaches at their facility, also want to rent the equipmentfrom us for the season; St. Anthony’s might be more reasonable about fees to run a clinic; will chart college/high school/USATF meets about distance the weight can be thrown; someone sold a piece of land to Town of Oyster Bay for $1 – they are building a track at Burns by October 2015 only 6 lanes and steeple; Alex requested a pentathlon at one of the meets – request denied.
LDR (Alex) –Finished program for Fall. Results will be up and posted. LDR meeting next Monday 15th; paperwork set up for Grand Prix; records updated with times for Jodie and Leonora; still no check from Nassau, Alex will help Sue in getting it.
Developmental (Fred) – Program going well
Race Walk (Mary Ann) –Maria Michta – Race Walk athlete of the year, Katherine Newhoff– Jr. RW athlete of the year; RW clinic on 12/1 at St. Anthony’s and there was a good turn out; 10K RW Eastern Regional in July
MUT (Carl) – Andy Carr at the convention –53/54 pending records – 50 ratified for MUT; need to have contingency for drug testing; OK for 2016 for Caumsett; athletes are responsible for knowing banned substances – masters are going to be tested at Nationals and Worlds
Masters (Rob) – Eastern Open Championships being hosted by NYC – LI only new about it @the meeting at the
Convention. Will look at a high school instead of Mitchell for the Masters meet; At convention Bill Benson
received the Paul Spangler Award: Kathy Martin received the Track & Field and LDR Athlete of the Year also
the Female XC Athlete of the Year
Youth Athletics (Sheryl) – All coaches, board members, officials need to take the Safe Sport Training online if they did not take it at the convention, need to do this by end of 2015 – membership renewal will depend on this, also club renewal; Winners at National meets will get rings, all participants will get backpacks; changes to the turbo jav – 11/12 div will use the 450 gm aero jav, 13/14 will also use the 450gm aero jav instead of the 600gm javelin; there were adjustments and renegotiations re the Hershey contract as some of the items were not feasible, it also allows for the Youth Division to get money, the contract was originally negotiated without input from the Youth Division; CoachO contract will end in 2015 and bids will be put out for online registration
Athletics for the Disabled (Fred) – Para athletics – high school girl did a project for Westinghouse for para athletics in Nassau.
Officials – there were 12 people at the Officials clinic on October 9th. May have Suffolk officials join USATF. There was a request for officials from MarineAcademy for 2 meets in April
Coaching Education (Fred) – Coaches who took the Level 1 course before 2012 need to recertify by 2016; will formally request for a Level 2 school in Long Island
Meeting adjourned @ 10:45
Next Board meeting January 5th