SEISA Annual Meeting 2014 Minutes

Preliminary Agenda, SEISA Annual Meeting

The University of Texas at Austin

Sunday, January 26 2014 9:00 am

1. CALL TO ORDER / ROLL CALL & TEAM REPORTS

1. Baylor (Regular) - 
2. Colorado (Regular) -
3. Kansas (Regular) - 
4. Kansas State (Inactive) - 
5. Loyola (Regular) - 
6. LSU (Inactive) - 
7. Mary Hardin Baylor (non-aligned) - 
8. Oklahoma City University (Regular) - 
9. Oklahoma State (Regular) - Present
10. Rice (Regular) –  
11. SMU (Regular) - Present
12. A&M Corpus (Inactive) - 
13. A&M (Regular) - Present
14. A&M Galveston (Regular) - Present 
15. Tulane (Regular) - Present by Proxy (Marisa Morrison, Texas)
16. UCO (Regular) - 
17. UNO (Regular) - 
18. UNT (Regular) - Present
19. OU (Regular)  - 
20. USA (Regular) – 
21. UT (Regular) - Present
22. UWF (Regular) - 

Regular: 18, Provisional: 0, Associate: 0, Inactive: 3, Non-Aligned: 1

2. ADDITIONS TO THE AGENDA / ADOPT AGENDA

a. Women’s champs schedule change, away from Easter (requested by Tulane) - Approved, will likely be rescheduled. 

3. OFFICER REPORTS 

a. President: Michael Sager - Very concerned about district participation & quality of racing, which has been in decline for several years. Team budgets and a lack of talent seem to be driving this. 

c. Graduate Director: Discussed some SEISA history and made suggestions for team to improve operations & risk management. Reviewed SEISA officer responsibilities & the difficulties we have had accomplishing some goals.

d. Treasurer: Dues collection remains difficult - TAMUG, Rice, OSU, UNT, OCU, Tulane, Texas & A&M have paid for fall 2013. 

e. Scheduling: Everyone seems to like the new schedule format.  

6. OLD BUSINESS

f. Rules & General Education; teams are encouraged to buy a racing rules DVD (about $40) to properly educate their members. Dues credit for each rules/tuning/trim/tactics?

g. New sailor introduction packets/quick-sheet; teams are encouraged to make these to bring new recruits up to speed.

7. NEW BUSINESS

a. Dues - See treasurer report

b. Review Spring 2014 Schedule and vote on championships

i. Women’s: OU/UCO/OCU/OCBC

ii. TR: Texas

iii. Dinghies: TAMUG, dual FJ/420 fleet @ new Sea Scout base 

iv. Singles: TCYC

v. Sloops/Match Racing: TCYC (VERY generous of them to offer to host both!)

8. ELECTION & TASKING OF NEW OFFICERS

a. President: Michael Sager - TAMUG

b. Vice President: Marisa Morrison - Texas 

c. Graduate Director: Blake Billman - Texas (Alumni)

d. Treasurer: Kyle Wilson - SMU (Alumni)

e. Scheduling: Cait Taylor - Texas (Alumni)

f. Women’s: Unfilled

g. Internet: Unfilled - Graduate director working to fill, A&M offers to help 

h. Membership: - Unfilled, probably unnecessary now

j. Competition: - Unfilled - Graduate Director will fill 

9. ADJOURN