Unofficial Notes from Spring Officers Meeting: these are only my highlights from the notes I took. For a more detail account, read the minutes on the Division webpage. Marcia M

Guests: Executive director- Tim White, past DD  and Nat Board member Jerry Sherman, current board members Bela Musits and Jim Decker

Treasurer: budget posted on the web; investment returns are down;

Alumni :Region needs to request the $5 part of alumni dues.  Remaining funds go to student and Memorial fund programs

Nordic: the Nordic “Masters” pilot program has been approved for another years. 3 are currently enrolled

Special Olympics: will be in Boise ID, Feb 6-13

Medical: the OEC book chapters are assigned, they are starting from “ground zero”

Bela Musits (assistant Nat Ch):last year the budget finished in the black. However, even cut to bare bones we are $200,000 over in the new budget.  They are looking at cuts, dues, and fund-raising.  Dues have not been raised since 1999, looking at perhaps $5-10 increase.  Change in the Pro division dues structure to be more in line with the volunteer structure. They will pay 75% of volunteer dues to be phased in over 2 years. NSP is planning to own the rights to the 5th ed of the OEC book.

Tim White: his platform: promoting good communication with the ski industry, QA for our programs, and safety education. Some examples: re-aligned with FIPS and Canadian SP, update magazine, re-organize national staff ; check minutes for further accomplishments; well-received talk

Telecommunications: suggestion to avoid having the public call 911- use a designated mtn phone that will not be put on answering machine and publish the number- on white boards, tickets, passes, trail maps

Student: good attendance at seminar- 75; next year they will look at giving credit for senior S&T and perhaps Sr OEC if they can set up the criteria

Newsletter: we’ll be using advertising in Trailsweep to help defray cost

Certified: 3 new certifieds (Tom Wallin from Swain is one of them), 10-12 in the program

Aval: new proposed changes may affect the program in our division; recommendation not to promote this

MTR: 93 people attended CRREL, 6 new instructors

OEC: record keeping is an issue; an IT manual will be coming out

S&T: discussion on whether some evaluators are scoring harder due to some examiners being certifieds, score cards from student program were all within tenths of a point of each other; 78% success rate on senior; would like to train T.E.s with a PSIA seminar on movement assessment

Historian: any NSP memorabilia should be sent to the archives at Dartmouth

Div Dir: program attendance is up from 27% to 36% this year (not counting refreshers or senior);
info points: do NOT need 6 students to hold a class except for EMM; the 30-60-90 rule for instructors is being enforced
2 recommendations will be sent to the board: eliminate the Sr S&T re-cert; eliminate the classification “auxiliary” and make it “patroller, alpine patroller, etc”

Budget Vote: Finance committee made proposal to raise dues $7 and mileage to 30 cents: projected deficit of $34000 this year (last year projected was $36000, actual 18,000); dues have not been raised since 1988; will raising dues cause some members to drop out, will there be an increase in members submitting reimbursements? Increasing mileage 10 cents increases cost about $5000; proposals passed