Meeting called to order at: 3:17PM August 7, 2004

Attending:

• Maureen Griffin
• Mike Pederson
• Paul Soter
• Glenn Willette
• Jay Bhatt
• Gyorgy Ordody
• Janel Obenchain
• Elizabeth Earls
• Peter Burchard
• Jane Meinhardt
• Dylan Bethel
• Chuck Lucasey
• Kip Cox
• Norah Molina
• Eric Dew
• Valerie Rosenblatt
• Alex Kuznetsov
• Anna Estrada
• Barrett Edmonds

Agenda items:

1. Nomination of Officers
• Division Chair:
  Tomek Amborski (seconded by Glenn Willette)
  Eric Dew (seconded by Jane Meinhardt)
  * Tomek Amborski elected


• Division Vice-Chair:
  Elizabeth Earls (seconded by Paul Soter)
  Darwin Martos (seconded by Peter Burchard)
  * Elizabeth Earls elected


• Divison Secretary:
  Eric Dew (seconded by Jane Meinhardt)
  Darwin Martos (seconded by Maureen Griffin)
  * Darwin Martos elected


• Division Treasurer:
  Eric Dew (seconded by Jay Bhatt)
  Glenn Willette (seconded by Paul Soter)
  * Glenn Willette elected
  
  
2. Chair's report:
   Hoped to make 2003-2004 better for division required events.
   Made sure that these qualifiers were run consistently, run
   with assurance following rules, and run with professionalism.
   
   
3. Treasurer's report
   Financial statement
   
   • $1299 from USFA
   
   
   • $153 from interest
   
   
   • $80 medals reimbursement
   
   
4. Standing Items
   1. NorCal division wishes to continue to participate in the Bay Cup.
   2. Essentially, all penalties will annull any touch that occurred during the penalty.
   3. Referees Developmemnt. Have one person assigned to coordinate referee seminars, clinics, meet and answer to clubs. Will work the new officers to make this happen.
   4. Assignment of Bout Committees. Would like to have a BC at each qualifier event. The BC will have an operations manual and rule book present.
   5. Penalties for incompetence or dereliction of duties (by clubs). Subsumed by item 4 above.
   6. Updating of the bylaws. Information is now available. Any bylaw changes will be done at some future time.
   7. Adding exec comm email discussions into "meeting minutes" category available for member viewing. Will do.
   8. Qualifier format. Will be decided later.
   9. No items from the floor.