USA Board Meeting Agenda – April 23, 2017
A. Call Meeting to Order
Attending: Kenny Cason, Mark Atkinson, Danielle Millett, Mike Schatz, Jill Cohan, Aaron Kinsella-Johnson
B. Old Business
- NAUCC 2017
- Status report and discussion. Help needed?
- Venues secured, working on people & resources. Added a hotel. Pursuing sponsors.
- Working with Wendy on insurance as most venues require it.
- Excited!
- Action Item: Aaron to send a list of event coordinators so they can be added to the web site.
- Marathon Riders town hall meeting Sunday 30th April – details here: http://uninationals.weebly.com/marathon.html
- Status report and discussion. Help needed?
- USA Rulebook Committee
- 2017 Rulebook is completed and published on the USA website
- USA Programs
- Coaching Program. Feedback from both coaches and clubs?
- Action Item: Would like to see feedback presented to the board/coaches so they can develop best practices?
- Membership Initiative
- Non-USA club outreach
- Request to add all/any clubs here
- Heard back from one Arizona club, they will poll their members about joining USA. More clubs to contact.
- UDC have run out – do we continue with this? Possibly focus on marketing benefits of USA insurance?
- UDC is almost out of cards (2500 printed)!
- Remove reference to On One Wheel from new cards.
- Proposal to print more cards, similar amount. Seconded and passed.
- Action Item: Order more cards
- Feedback re National Unicycle Week and ‘Ride a unicycle day’ http://uniusa.org/national-unicycle-week/
- Various clubs are doing various things, nothing coordinated currently but perhaps in the future.
- Every day is ‘Ride a unicycle day’!
- Request to add all/any clubs here
- USA club outreach
- Proposal for USA to host regular inter-club meetings – comments?
- What is the best forum for meetings (in person, Skype, at NAUCC, etc)?
- Can share best practices, problems, solutions.
- Kickoff meeting at NAUCC (Danielle), perhaps start with “how can USA help you?”
- Action Item: Need to reach out to clubs so they are aware to attend.
- Several USA-affiliated clubs with no current USA members (Georgia Tech, Sebring, Spanaway and Supercyclers) – need to solicit membership renewal
- Facebook
- As we enter riding season need regular, relevant posts – all/any welcome!
- Statistics show an uptick, but too small of a sample to be considered a trend.
- As we enter riding season need regular, relevant posts – all/any welcome!
- OOW/Constitution/Bylaws Update
- Process has started. Instructions for voting sent out 15th April.
- Reminder to check/correct email addresses in USA database in order to get a vote.
- Election Buddy ballot to be sent out 15th May.
- Scholarship Committee
- Status report. Any help needed?
- No applications received so far, but there seems to be a dearth of high school seniors this year.
- Are there any plans for increasing the scholarship fund?
- Nominations for Scholarship Committee members?
- Status report. Any help needed?
- Proposal for USA to host regular inter-club meetings – comments?
- Non-USA club outreach
C. New Business and 90-day look ahead (USA annual calendar of events)
- Level tesing
- Skype Level Tester meeting – when?
- USA level patches – clarify who can purchase. USA clubs/members only (levels 1-5) and certified Level testers (all levels)?
- Action Item: Need clarification from Tim
- Unicon 20 – IUF looking for applications to host. Proposals requested by end 2017.
D. Current Board Members’ and Chairpersons’ Reports
- Mark Atkinson, President
- Danielle Millett, Vice President
- Kenny Cason, Secretary
- Mike Schatz, Treasurer
- Jill Cohan, Director
- Wendy Grzych, Director
- David Panofsky, Director
- Patricia Wilton, Director & USA Level Tester
- Mark Atkinson & Mike Schatz, Webmasters
- Wendy Grzych, Affiliate Club & Insurance Coordinator
- Amanda Grzych, Scholarship Committee Chair
E. Announcements
- Upcoming Events
- RTUC Mini-Meet – May 19-21, Livonia, MI
- National Unicycle Week – May 21-28
- MadUni Summer Camps – June 12-16 and June 19-23 (link)
- CMQ Urban – July 6-9, Montreal, Canada
- NAUCC – July 16-22, Snoqualmie Valley (link)
- LAUCC (Latin American Unicycle Convention and Championship) – July 16-23, Mexico City (link)
- European Championship – July 27-Aug 6, Sittard-Geleen, NL (link)
- Unicon 19 – July 29- Aug 10 2019 Seoul, South Korea (link)
F. Anything else?
G. Meeting Adjourned
- Coaching Program. Feedback from both coaches and clubs?