Governing Council 2014
Today is our first day of meetings of GC2014. If you have never been in a room full of close to 400 figure skating enthusiasts I will just tell you that we all can't seem to agree on what needs to be done. We have about 200 pages of bylaw and rule changes to go through. Each proposal was put forward by its respective committee that oversees that part of the sport and approved by the board of directors.
Delegates then go up to a microphone and "isolate" an item for debate. The rule item is then discussed with time limits (there is a streetlight type indicator that warns you when your time is almost up). An amendment may be added or it may come up for an easy up or down vote. That would be the easy out.....
Today the delegates have isolated quite a few items, so I think we are in for a bumpy ride. Items so far are including Adult skating age groupings, moves in the field changes for kids and adults, term length of the president of USFS and that it should run concurrent with Olympic years, and making each skater under the age of 18 have a parent also be a member.
More to come.....
Today is our first day of meetings of GC2014. If you have never been in a room full of close to 400 figure skating enthusiasts I will just tell you that we all can't seem to agree on what needs to be done. We have about 200 pages of bylaw and rule changes to go through. Each proposal was put forward by its respective committee that oversees that part of the sport and approved by the board of directors.
Delegates then go up to a microphone and "isolate" an item for debate. The rule item is then discussed with time limits (there is a streetlight type indicator that warns you when your time is almost up). An amendment may be added or it may come up for an easy up or down vote. That would be the easy out.....
Today the delegates have isolated quite a few items, so I think we are in for a bumpy ride. Items so far are including Adult skating age groupings, moves in the field changes for kids and adults, term length of the president of USFS and that it should run concurrent with Olympic years, and making each skater under the age of 18 have a parent also be a member.
More to come.....
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