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 Minutes from November 17, 2003

I. Proposed changes to the constitution
A. Adding a character clause to nominations for senior awards
• All award candidates shall not have engaged in illegal behaviors including but not limited to smoking, drinking, drugs, or hazing.
B. Coaches shall be members in good standing by a specific date to nominate a gymnast.
• The date for this year would be the January 26th meeting
• The date for 2005 would be the first Monday of January 2005
C. Motion to change the executive board for the IHSGGCA to 5 members: President, Vice-president, Secretary, Treasurer and Past President.
D. Motion that mailings refer to email and use of the website. No more snail mailings except the first mailing of the year.
• Notify conference representatives to check with people & non-members
E. Motion to add that Hall of Fame coaches will assume half of the cost of ring

**These items will be voted on at the January 26th meeting! If unable to attend talk or e mail your conference representative or an executive board member.***

II. The speakers will be at 6:45 to 7:15 on the night of IHSGGCA meetings. CPDUs will be available for attending the speaker’s sessions.
• January 26 will be Prevention of Injuries in Gymnastics.
• February 23 will be a Sport Psychologist on how to deal with FEAR. **This is also the National team members voting.

III. Fund raising
A. We are looking for other ideas to raise $ for the National Team
• Set goal of $5,000 and keep an indicator of where we are on the website and each person/team decides how they would like to contribute.
• We will still need to increase the cost that the gymnast pays to go the National Meet

B.Possible fundraising through school's invitationals:
-Charge entrance fee donate to the Coaches association
-Run a 50/50 raffle donate 50% to coaches assocation
-Set out a jar for donations to the National High School meet and donate to the assocation. All donations can be sent to Jen Pistorious.

C. Mixed Pairs
• Increase involvement of members and spectators
• Increase participants with possible change in format
-Top 20 teams
- Illinois High School All American Meet?
- Use All American cut-offs to increase numbers of gymnasts. This would be more of an open meet ?
-Charge an entrance fee?
Need to promote meet better
D . Candlelight Bowl with Boys Association
• Social & fund-raising
• Christmas break waiting for date to be confirmed by the boys association
E. We will send a representative to Boys Association or Steering committee to discuss these ideas.
* Next meeting is January 26th at Maine East at 7:00pm. Speaker is at 6:45 pm. *
A Big Thanks to All Those Who Worked our first fundraiser "CASINO NITE":

Susan Fosco, Sandy Oldham, Terry Theobald, Teri Jakuc, Jennifer Pistorius, Victoria Otto, and Janine Shinn