Ratification of Expense Reimbursement and Discount Policy

[Mike Andrews]

Graham wrote:

JoeP wrote:

Phokaioglaukos wrote:

...I wish I had known in Jan that some of these folks would meet among themselves to run the DE program and not let even the President attend their meetings, let alone publish minutes or agendas to the Board or members.

That raises a question for Graham. -- When you were trying to attend the Speed Council, which event(s) were you trying to add or delete from the schedule?

I'm not a big fan of certain tracks, but I'm not sure that I would want them changed - even Jefferson. Experience on a wider mix is better than going to the same circuits all of the time. Since Mike is already on the Speed Council, I assume that his input is already visible in the tracks we've seen over the past few years. I would like to hear what changes Graham recommends.

Joe, please understand that as President, I wanted to observe the meetings to understand what they did and how they did it.

Graham,



Good to see you here on this thread.

I made a statement in a response to Chris's post. I wasn't sure if you have ever asked (and I don't mean in passing or as a joke) to attend one of these meetings? I know you haven't asked me and Myles couldn't recall you asking.



But, if you want to understand what and how they did it, it's all pretty simple. We start with the past event and discuss any issues that came up during the execution of that event. We talk about problem students. We talk about problem instructors. We talk about you.

After we talk about the prior event, we discuss the next event. For example tonight we talked about the Thunderbolt event and the accompaning MAW activities. We discused the increased participation and the proposed instructor/student load. We discused the start and stop times. We discused the order of run groups. We discused when to distribute t-shirts and so on.

We also discused the instructor banquet and contacting the tracks to see what was available for 2010.