AGENDA
NCRC Winter Meeting
February 3, 2007
Walker County Georgia 911
Center
Call
to Order 9:05 am
Roll Call & Collection of Proxy Letters
National
Coordinator
Punches
present
Training Officer
Ashburn
present
Medical Officer
Mosberg
present
Diving Officer
Wilson
present
Caribbean Region
Mercado
present
Central Region
Mirza
present
Eastern Region
Good
present
Northeastern Region
Evans
present
Pacific Northwest Region
Punches present
Rocky Mountain Region
Ohms
absent
South Central Region
Comer
absent
Southeastern Region
White
present
Southwestern Region
Rodgers
Proxy – Pat Seiser (att. A)
Western Region
Mortimer present
Minutes
of Summer 2006 Meeting (Att. B)
Mosberg moves, Seiser seconds to approve the minutes as presented
Passes unanimously
Finance
Report
(Att. C)
$59,164.61 in all accounts as of 5/1/06
Income of $34,564.10
Expenses of $39,001.23
Ending balance of $54,7727.48 to date
John has resolved all issues of accounting between NSS and National
NCRC account, presented a detail spreadsheet with balances and transactions.
$38,464.36 ending balance in National account in all categories
Mosberg moves, Mirza
seconds to approve the financial reports as presented.
Evans abstains, rest approved. Motion passes.
Database
Report (Att. D)
Officer Reports
(Att. E)
National Coordinator
E-1
Training Officer
Oral
Approval of instructor candidates, review and approval of curriculum
Fielded
requests for information, special consideration
Seminar
requests mostly weekend, a few week-long
Will
soon be an official on line request for approval
Medical Officer
E-2
Diving Officer
Oral
Water
rescue section of manual is now complete
Regional Coordinator Reports (Att. F)
Caribbean Region
F-1
Central Region
F-2
Eastern Region
F-3
Northeastern Region
F-4
Pacific Northwest Region (see
E-1)
Rocky Mountain Region F-5
South Central Region Oral
(F-6 if submitted)
Weekend
modular upcoming
Southeastern Region
F-7
Southwestern Region
Ora/F-8
Trying
to coordinate doing modular week-long
Western Region
F-9
No
rescues, one OCR, upcoming OCRs, instructor skills day
Western
Region NSS auction generated funds to purchase a gear trailer
Confirmation
of BORC actions via e-mail (for official record)
Punches’ request for waiver of checking account policy for National
Seminar account (allowing
reuse of 2006 seminar account for 2007 national seminar)
9 votes in favor, none negative, 4 abstentions, motion passed.
Break
at 10:35
Reconvened
at 10:50
Efrain
presented a brief slide show in memory of Wilfredo Lopez Luquis
2006
Seminar Update
Seminar and follow up reporting is now complete
2007
Seminar Update
Course documentation (per template) was shared with Board members,
including photos
of site and facilities, list of caves, descriptions of classrooms,
etc. Harold and Nancy Chrimes
were present and addressed all questions posed by Board members or other
persons present.
2008
Seminar
Ashburn and Hudson are working on a fixed site for SE Region to be
finalized by 2007
Summer meeting.
Other
National Seminars
Punches asked, and Board agreed, that proposals for future fixed
sites and any
upcoming rotational sites be presented at the Winter 2008 meeting.
Mirza is working on a proposed fixed site in Indiana, possibly for
2009
Other possible sites – coordinate with International, Schoharie,
etc.
Nominations for BORC/Ed Committee Positions
Education Committee
Member-at-Large
Greg
Moore is incumbent and only candidate
Ashburn moves, Mirza seconds to reappoint Greg Moore to the
Education Committee
Motion passes unanimously
Announcements
NCKRI has new Director, George Veni. May have possible grant money
for education
Discussion
Items
Recommendations from Education
Committee
Curriculum Updates – none at this time
New Level
proposal – not at this time
Book
Complete and available in a single PDF file. Water and diving aspects may be
updated in time for this summer.
Still needs review and field testing.
Final version for NSS printing may still be loose leaf binder.
Evans
moves, Mercado seconds that only BORC, Education Committee and NCRC Staff
can have electronic copies, all others can have hard copies for the cost of
printing only.
Motion passes unanimously
BORC/ED Committee
positions with terms ending this summer
Marc
Tiritilli for Ed Committee
Ashburn,
Mosberg and White for BORC
Break
for lunch at 12:20
Reconvene
at 1:20
National Seminar
preparation & management
Covered
during discussion of 2007/2008 seminars
Policies associated with regional and national seminars
·
Review of
proposed changes to existing Policy for Regional Seminars (2005)
Mosberg
moves, Mirza seconds to approve the changes as recommended.
Passed
unanimously (new version posted to website)
·
Review of
proposed changes to existing Policy for National Seminars (2005)
Evans moves, Mosberg seconds to approve the changes as
recommended
Passed unanimously (new version posted to website)
Instructor
Test & Procedures
The test has been implemented and used for two national seminars. Tracking
instructor recertification dates is more complicated than in the past, but
is feasible. The existing test will be posted to the website (without
answers) once a larger pool of questions has been developed. To date, no
additional questions have been submitted.
Anticipated Seminars
A list of anticipated seminars
was developed and will be reported to the NSS via
the National Coordinators’ report to the AVP
Updates to the NCRC list for the Members Manual
Coordinators updated there information for the Members Manual.
Punches to forward to NSS.
International Congress of Speleology
Efrain Mercado and Roger Mortimer have divided responsibilities with
respect to development of an international rescue techniques exchange.
NCRC Scholarship fund
Punches
will seek clarification of NCRC donations re general fund or scholarship
Equipment
fund insurance
Mirza moves, Seiser seconds that $1,000 per year be set aside from the
General Fund, up to a maximum of $20,000 to self insure the equipment cache.
Motion withdrawn
Mirza moves, Seiser seconds that $10,000 be transferred from the
General Fund to the restricted fund for emergency replacement of equipment.
Mosberg opposed, rest in favor.
Motion passes
White moves, Seiser seconds, that the $10,000 emergency equipment
replacement fund be invested in an income generating account that does not
jeopardize the principal.
Motion passes unanimously
A
Secretary will be appointed by John Punches
Other Items at Discretion of Board
Ashburn moves, Seiser seconds to
transfer $14,670.51 from the General Fund to the Equipment Fund to eliminate
the deficit in the Equipment Fund.
Mosberg opposed, rest in favor.
Motion passes.
White sought clarification that expanded questions are being
solicited for the Instructor Test, and offered commendation to the Education
Committee for improvements in the Instructor Evaluation process. He
recommended the Education Committee post questions from the Level 1, 2 and 3
tests (without answers) to the website for instructors to use when studying
for their recertification test.
Accepted by consensus.
Good moves, Mosberg seconds that the Database Manager be
requested to update the Instructor List and get it posted to the Web
Motion passes unanimously.
The 2008 Winter BORC meeting will be held on February 2,
2008.
Meeting adjourned at 3:25 p.m.