General Membership Meeting
Courtyard Marriott at UCF Orlando, Florida
August 11, 2002
The meeting was called to order at 10:16 am.

It was established that we did not have a quorum to address any BOD issues.

Lee Daley was concerned that the election committee was not in place, however his main issues was the fact that the committee itself was not in line with the new rules established by the BOD earlier.

Dan George requested that the committee chairs send him scheduled dates and follow up with minutes for publishing in the magazine.

Jenni Lamb addressed the general membership advising them of the status of the items now set before them for their consideration and vote.

1) Proposal to remove the recognized club rule was read and discussed. Motion made by Tommy Neal and seconded by Lee Daley. The motion passed 27 to 7.
2) Proposal regarding the appointed club representatives being assigned to attend designated committees was read and discussed. Motion made by Cheryl Horn and seconded by Jenni Lamb. The motion passed 36 to 0.
3) Proposal to established quorums was read and discussed. Motion made by Dan George an seconded by Randy Faul. The motion passed 35 to 0.
4) The proposal to change elected terms from two years to one year was presented and discussed. Motion made by Lee Daley and seconded by Frank Bush. Motion did not pass by two-third majority. The vote was 22-15.

Terry Enyart opened up the floor for new business.

1) Lee Daley asked for information on titling for OHV's. Jack Terrell responded and advised that the law establishes that any new or used vehicles that are new or used after July one must have a title. Vehicles will have to be titled when used on public land. Funds will be used to establish any project that is on public land for designating and maintaining identified trails for OHV's. The issue will now move into the local governments from the state level and Jack Terrell urged the membership to get involved.
2) Jim Wilder asked if the BOD would establish a five-year plan to deal with upcoming issues. The group discussed the fact that people aren't motivated to get involved. Jim Wilder offered to put an outline together to present and possibly implement. Tommy Neal added that growth of FTR is a growing area of concern, and that we needed to look ahead at how that was going to affect our sport.
3) Communications were discussed and the accessibility is greatly improved thanks to the Internet. Tony Guadagno requested that new area directors be assigned a list of people in their realm of representation. This could be established by identifying each member's "county" at registration.
4) Jack Terrell announced that there was to be a grant application workshop just for registration of OHV's and we need to have people go so that it is apparent that there is public concern as to where the funds would be allocated. The date hasn't been set but is tentatively scheduled for October.
5) Tommy made a motion to adjourn and five or six people seconded but there were additional issues to be discussed, including electronic scoring.
6) Terry Enyart stated that there was a need to standardize the event signup procedures. Teresa Faul advisd that the yellow bar codes were going to be replaced with white ones. She gave a brief overview of the new computer system. Karen Jernberg reiterated the necessity for consistency and the responsibility of the clubs to follow the established procedure. During the signup process, riders will see all of their personal data on the screen when they go to sign up and they will be responsible for verifying the information. Riders will now be assigned a wristband at sign up and it will be required at tech inspection and on the start line. Randy Faul suggested that flyers be passed out at the gate. There was discussion about pre-entry process and suggestions were made to improve the process. There were concerns related to tech inspection on the start line to assure that the people were not lining up on the wrong line. Karen Jernberg said that it was not necessary to change out all of the bar codes at the first race, that it could be done over a period of time. There is written procedure for the procedure and process of signup and scoring that Karen Jernberg will forward to the clubs. Mike Presler suggested that we form a scoring committee. Max Cole suggested that wristbands be assigned to course marshals at each event. Tony Gaudagno suggested that spectator wristband for minors to assure that they have all of the proper releases have been signed.
7) Discussion about establishing a set Saturday schedule for consistency so that people know what they doing. The format submitted by Teresa Faul was tweaked by reducing the practice by one hour. The issue of the first race already having already been posted was brought up and resolved between Tony Gaudagno and Randy Faul.
8) There was discussion about laps and times. It was identified that the rulebook was not specific regarding the issue and that clarification needed to be made in the future. Debbie Broderick stated that the conflict is between the rulebook and the way the time events run. It is associated to a contradiction between the rulebook and time related to scoring DNF's.
9) Tiffany St. John asked if there was going to be an established time for peewee practice. Discussion ensued and it was decided that the times needed to be posted in the flyer.
10) Max Cole requested that the clubs designate and police mandatory gas stops and have a fire extinguisher available.
11) Jenni Lamb made a motion to adjourn and was seconded by Randy Faul. The meeting adjourned at 2:46pm.