12/15/04 MEETING NOTES
Meeting was called to order by Jim Burgess at 7:00 p.m.
Present Present were Steering Committee- Diane Bailey, Tom Baker and Wendy Rother, Christopher O’Loughlin, Ed Duba, Ian Thomas, Mikel Mortensen, David Weeks, Mark Bellm, Gloria Bellm, Diana Conant, John Conant, Dianne Siegel, Laura Nagy, Louis Bolivar, JoAnn Bolivar, Jack Pierce, Sandra Fontaine and Adam Hunt.
Minutes of Previous Meeting Minutes of Previous Meeting not approved. Corrections are listed below.
1. The motion not to accept a secretary as of now.
2. Life Memberships were given back. Motion was made and majority approved. Also Jim is to provide the Steering Committee with the names that this affected.
3. Trip to ChampionChip Conference to be cancelled.
4. Finances need to be itemized.
A motion was made to open nominations for an appointment of a full board.
Majority on steering committee approved. Jim left meeting 7:25 PM, and steering committee took over meeting.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN REPORTS
Registration Sandra Fontaine: Sandra reports that Active.com is working well. Racers that use Active.com are liking the "no fee." Thanksgiving day races went well. More tables needed in the future.
Clothing Ian Thomas: Ian reports we are moving the old clothing stock out.
Equipment Mark Bellm: Mark reports that he worked on the clock stand and we now have two working stands. He would like to get an inflatable start/finish line. He is working on the radios to find out if they need to be fixed or just need batteries. We have radios in the trucks that work.
Special Events Louis Bolivar: Louis would like to wait till the chaos of finding board members is over to start any new special events or to create new things.
Newsletter Adam Hunt: Adam reports that the new format is going well and next issue is off to print this coming weekend. He stills needs facts about elections so he can print it. Board will e-mail the info.

JoAnn Bolivar asked to have the final copy for e-mail and website.
RACES
Thanksgiving Day Classic Ed Duba: Ed reported that the race made money. Next year looking for different place.
Desert Classic 30K Christopher O’Laughlin: Christopher reported set to go everything is taken care of. Permits are ok police lined up. Three water stations manned by Fire Department Cadets. Need volunteers at 2 of the 3 stations Sandra and Jack will be at the 3rd. 9:30 cutoff for some parts of the course. Rides are needed.

Desert Classic would like to thank Laura Nagy for the raffle prizes.
Castle Hot Springs Burke Painter: Burke was absent.
Crown King Robert Andrulis: Robert said that the meeting went well the other day. March 19th is the day of the race. Keeping the fact finding out to see if it will be 50k and 50 miles.
Committee Reports
Bylaws Committee Marty Michelson: Marty reports that the bylaws are finished they just need to be presented to the steering committee and approved.
Finance Committee No report.
Election Committee Phil Davis: Phil was absent. No report.
NEW BUSINESS
Motion was also made to change the Heart to Heart date to the 12th instead of the 13th. Motion was approved.
Financial not received by Jim Burgess as requested..