NSRCA Meeting Minutes March 16, 2016 The NSRCA Board of

 NSRCA Meeting Minutes March 16, 2016 The NSRCA Board of Directors meeting was conducted on March 16, 2016. The following are the meeting notes: Meeting called to order by Jon Carter at 8:02PM CDT In attendance: Pres -­‐ Jon Carter; Vice President – Scott McHarg; Secretary – Charlie Barrera; Treasurer – Peter Vogel; D1 – Anthony Romano; D3 – Joe Walker; D4 – Scott McNickle; D5 – Mark Barnett; D6 – Jeff Warsham (AVP); D7 – John Bentley; D8 – Pat Harris; Canada – Paul Brine; 2016 F3P Rex Lesher; Website – Derek Koopowitz Prior BOD Meeting Minutes approved President -­ Jon Carter -­‐
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Welcome extended to Scott McNickle as new District 4 VP; thank you for volunteering Requesting from each DVP a list of NATS finals judges, one for Masters, one for FAI Stressed the importance of articles for the KFactor Nothing new to report concerning the FAA/AMA regulations; as a side note, Jon’s club resides within 5 miles of an airport; the CD coordinated with the airport concerning an upcoming contest; at first, the FAA said that they couldn’t fly unless they were below 400 feet above the surface; after several calls to the local FAA, they approved the contest because they were following AMA guidelines The AMA is looking into having “aerobatic boxes” designated on FAA sectional charts concerning model fields Secretary – Charlie Barrera -­‐
Membership cards will be mailed out within the next couple of days; after that, any new/renewal membership cards will be printed on an as needed basis; Charlie will coordinate with Peter Vogel about acquiring a membership card printer and present to the board the cost; the Secretary will be charged with mailing any new/renewal cards to members -­‐
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Officer shirts will be done this week D7 Champion shirt name has been misspelled; Scott will reorder another one Treasurer Peter Vogel -­‐ We are about 30 members shy of membership numbers compared to this time last year -­‐ Peter suggests running another district member database and distributing to respective DVP’s ; Derek will generate list D3 Joe Walker -­‐ Waiting to receiving scoring system; Peter reassured that it should be shipped within the next 2 weeks D4 Scott McNickle -­‐ 7 contests plus NATS scheduled for 2016 -­‐ Matt Finley will man NSRCA booth at the Toledo RC Model Show -­‐ There will be a NATS warm-­‐up in Muncie in May D5 Mark Barnett -­‐ Dan Curtis, from Springfield, MO, passed away recently; he was a great flyer, wonderful builder; he will be missed -­‐ scoring system practice will be on the first weekend of May in Kansas City; the first contest will be on Memorial weekend D6 AVP Jeff Warsham -­‐ New Berlin contest held last weekend; 18 contestants -­‐ 17 contests scheduled plus 2 Pattern Primers scheduled for 2016; new contest in Grand Junction, CO -­‐ Scoring system did not get sufficient support from members for purchase; some felt that the system wasn’t worth the $75 donation from members to purchase; the district would rather do manual scoring D7 John Bentley -­‐ Contests scheduled for every other weekend -­‐ 2 contests were cancelled due to military base conflicts -­‐ Oakdale will only do 1 contest this year -­‐ Las Vegas may have a contest, CDed by Kevin Duncan D8 Patrick Harris -­‐
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Waiting for favorable weather before contest season starts Waiting to receive the scoring system Pat urges all DVP’s to update their calendars with current contest schedule; Pat has offered to help with questions concerning uploading information onto web site; drop Pat an email to coordinate Online registration is available for D7 and D8 Scott McHarg (VP) suggested that everyone should familiarize themselves with the NSRCA web site; they should be able to edit files onto the site; coordinate with Scott via email and he can guide you through the web pages Peter Vogel offered to host a web discussion group for everyone to learn the NSRCA web site Canada Paul Brine -­‐ Still too cold to do any outdoor flying activities -­‐ F3P Team Trials were held 2 weeks ago -­‐ 4 contest scheduled for his part of Canada F3P Team Trials Rex Lesher -­‐ Team trials were neglected for a while; everyone wanted a new venue; the venue is too hard to change; generally, a 6 month lead time is required to secure the venue; Akron had been designated previously, and remained the Team Trial location -­‐ Derek Koopowitz will be the head judge; the judges have been approved, as required by the rule book -­‐ Rex will write an appendix for F3P -­‐ Difference between F3A and F3P is access to a suitable site; F3A is always at Muncie; F3P must acquire the site 6 months in advance; there was little response from the committee, after several inquiries; Akron remained the venue -­‐ F3P will be held this weekend in Akron; it is an open contest, costing $20; if a contestant wants to be considered for the Team, he must pay an additional $50 entry fee; Sportsman, and Intermediate classes have a large group of contestants; there are 7 Advanced contestants Old Business -­‐ Jon will coordinate with Rex about NSRCA apparel -­‐ Jon will coordinate with Peter Vogel about the sequence videos Recurring Web Site Issues -­ Joe Walker -­‐
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Why do people join/renew the NSRCA?; how can you rebrand the NSRCA; what are our goals? Scott suggested that a mission statement be written (Joe will do this) Access to KFactor is an issue; Paul joined for the KFactor; this is the single and greatest asset Old issues are available on the web site Suggested that “teaser” articles made available to nonmembers Make the web site more transparent Create a link for all articles with indexing; there can be a drop down FAQ tab on the web page Jon Carter will call a special meeting to discuss the web site in the next few weeks Anthony Romano suggested that when building, or technical articles are written, Derek be alerted; he can post on the FAQ page; it is up to the author of the article to inform Derek Joe will work on a new mission statement Derek stated that there are modules that can search .pdf files for specific information; it will be for member access only New Business District Championship -­‐ Mark Barnett (D5) pointed out that last year, the Sportsman Champion won by only 2-­‐3 points; also, he only won one contest; many of the competitors were not NSRCA members; what can be done to encourage membership?; maybe a discount fee for the contest can be offered to join the NSRCA -­‐ John Bentley (D7) suggested that at the AMA EXPO, held in January, the contest schedule for all the districts be posted; there should be a standardized method of acquiring district championship points; Scott countered that some districts are too large to have a district championship contest; D6 is a good example of this Next meeting will be scheduled in early April; there will be a meeting concerning the web site before then Meeting adjourned at 2120 CDT