Highlights of July, 2004 RUSA Board Meeting

Administration
-- Rules
-- RBAs
-- Records

ATTENDEES: Bill Bryant, John Lee Ellis, Don Hamilton, Lois Springsteen, Tim Sullivan, Mark Thomas, Jennifer Wise, Jennifer Barber.

1. Ultra Randonneur Award: Voted and approved a new RUSA award available for those members who complete a full SR series for 10 years.
2. R-12 Award: Voted and approved a new RUSA award available for those members who complete a 200k (or longer) event in each of twelve consecutive months.
3. Limits on Candidates for American Randonneur Award: Voted and approved that sitting Board of Director Members are not eligible to be voted upon while being a Board member, in order to avoid any potential problems when dealing with other Board members. Board members who are nominated for the American Randonneur Award will be automatically held over until their term is over.
4. Additional RUSA Events: Voted and approved additional fall RUSA events in New Orleans, Princeton NJ, and Phoenix AZ.
5. RUSA Lapel Pins: Voted and approved that RUSA will send out RUSA lapel pins to all current members in conjunction with the mailing of the RUSA handbooks in early Fall 2004. Additional pins will be available for purchase from the RUSA souvenir department.
6. Jean-Luc Friang RBA Application (Austin, TX): Voted and approved Jean-Luc as the RBA for the Austin TX region replacing the retiring RBA Russell Hahn.
7. David Bundrick RBA Application (Georgia): Voted and approved David as the RBA for the Georgia region replacing the retiring RBA Mike Delong.
8. Bylaws Revision for Elections: Requested that a previously approved change to the Bylaws for elections be placed on the RUSA website. The change allows for possible future usage of electronic methods for the voting process and increases by 15 days from time of mailing, the time for completed ballots to be returned.
9. BRM Medal Report: Tom Stevenson electronically gave a summary of the BRM medal processing. Highlights include that over 1000 medals have been shipped to the RBAs with nearly 950 of those already sold to members, leaving over 500 medals still in stock. Tom also reported that he has received about 20 SR and 2 R5000 medal applications so far. The August issue of the American Randonneur will contain an application for both of these medals. The application deadline for both of these awards is September 15th.

Submitted by Don Hamilton, Secretary