Present: Jeff Allen, Bill Ball, Ken Block, Peter Boucher, Ed Doernberger, Ed Dunn, Mike Huffman, Ellen Johnson, Bill Krumm, Susan Lecza and Barry Silver

Not Present: Kayleigh Boucher, Eryn Crane, Sean Farrell, Jeff Gray, Cathy Koelle, Jason Paige, Christine Pelham, Todd Stevens, Haley Smith and Judy Snow.

Also Present: Nan Cooper

Chairman Bill Krumm called the meeting to order at 7:35 PM.

Approval of the Agenda: Added under New Business; donation in memory of Larry Frost and Leanne Spletzer’s grandchild. Directors and Officers insurance was removed from New Business. Motion to accept the amended agenda was made, seconded and approved.

Approval of the Minutes: A motion to accept the minutes of September 28, 2005 was made, seconded and approved.

FAST donation task force: The donation from the disbanded FAST swim team will be used to support future age group camps. Bill Krumm will draft a letter to Jane Fulton.

Nominations for USA Swimming Service Awards: Bill Krumm asked that we give thought to nominations for the service award.

Revision to CSI bylaws regarding athlete unpaid fees: We are not consistent with the USA Swimming rulebook. Bill Krumm will recommend to Jeff Gray that a committee be formed to address revisions to the bylaws.

Web-based payments to CSI: Web-based payments to CSI were approved at a cost of approximately $10,000 annually.

Board of Review Workshop travel approval: A motion was made, seconded, and approved to pay for travel for Nan Cooper to the Board of Review workshop.

Sanction Fee Policy Proposal: The Program Operations committee’s Sanction Fee Policy proposal was defeated.

Athlete Social: No representative

Personnel proposal re Nan Cooper: The recommendation of the personnel committee to allow Nan Cooper to temporarily perform her duties remotely was approved.

Donations: Motions made and approved to donate $1,000.00 in memory of Larry Frost to the Middlesex Cancer Center and $250 to the Maxwell Raymond Braun Memorial Fund in memory of Leanne Spletzer’s grandson.

No present

CSI finances are in good order.

There will be a budget meeting February 9^th. We are at our high water mark with our reserves, a healthy situation.

Zones paperwork and payment is due from 14 and under’s at the end of age group championships and 15-18’s by the end of senior championships. For regionals 12 and under’s will be split by teams.

Meet referees have been found for senior championships.

Not present.

Long course schedule has been established. Bids are coming in. Not a large response. The meet selection committee is being re-established. It will include representation from a senior coach, safety, operations and officials. There will no more than one representative per team. Program Development has been asked to review the scoring procedure for Age Group Championship in regard to equipment availability at Cheshire pool.

There will be a meeting during spring vacation.

Coaches Representative – Todd Stevens/Christine Pelham

Not present.

No report.

Not present.

Not present.

We will have three officials at the World Cup meet in NY. There will be a starters’ clinic February 2nd.

Nan Cooper reported for Judy that we had the same number of swimmers as this time last year.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:47PM. Next meeting is April 25, 2006.

Respectfully submitted,
Ed Dunn