Minutes of Region Meeting
Western Michigan Region, NSP
October 18, 2006 Brann’s Grand Rapids
Region Officers Present: Region Director, Tony Wolfer; Assistant Region Director, Gregg Hoppe; Assistant Region Director, Erica Krol; Secretary, Colleen Wolfer; Treasurer/Webmaster, Larry Klose.
Region Advisors Present: Awards, Kathy Young; Alpine NSP-C School, Kevin Fultz; Alpine Proficiency, Chip Knappen; Alpine Snowboard, Robert Mayberry; Alpine Telemark, Brit Gustafson; Alpine Toboggan, Shawn Rhoda; OEC, Karen Hadden.
Section Officers Present: WM1 Section Chief, Ken Young; WM2 Section Chief, Patrick Mulvihill.
Patrol Representatives Present: Timber Ridge, Sue Brann; Cannonsburg, Mike Fick; Caberfae Peaks, Deann Jenkins; Crystal Mountain, Brian Klebba.
Patrol Representatives Elect Present: Bittersweet, Dan Navis.
Former Office and Staff: Crystal Mountain PR, Ron Edwards; Region Director, John Jenkins.
2007 Fall Division Planning Committee: Chairman, David Menke.
Members Present: Becky Steiner, Martha Nowak, John Ritsema, Dan Goldberg.
Meeting Called to Order: Meeting called to order at 7:03pm by Region Director, Tony Wolfer. Introductions were made of staff and guests.
Staff Reports
Secretary’s Report: Minutes accepted as written for May 6, 2006.
Treasurer and Web Editor Report: Larry Klose reports new organization on the web site. We ended in good shape and the report is on the web, password protected. Larry also recommends some policy and procedure changes (see report on file). Report accepted as written. Chip Knappen made a motion to accept the changes to the P&P as written, Erica Krol seconded – motion passed.
Division Meeting: David Menke reported. Meetings are taking place about once a month. Looking for someone to handle marketing with a focus on donations to help keep the cost to patrollers down. Also trying to focus on being a patrol meeting for the patroller. We want to make this the best meeting that was ever held.
Program Reports
Outdoor Emergency Care: Karen Hadden reported that all refreshers went well. OEC Class finals are Sec I ll-4, Sec II 11-30, Caberfae TBA.
Alpine: Gregg Hoppe reported Instructor classes and MTR. 6-9 slots open by invitation only for January 10 Division Ski and Snowboard Trainers Clinics. Patrick Mulvihill requests that more Sec II trainers be included. Discussion of maybe doing more area clinics vs. region clinics. Instructor Calibration Clinic – January 7.
Ski Trainers Workshop: Kevin Fultz said only trainers showed up. These are not the people who need to attend. Discussion followed about how to get more people involved and what the individual patrols need.
Awards: Kathy Young recommends that Section Chiefs and Patrol Reps being thinking now about getting nominations together. We applauded Caberfae Peaks National Small Patrol award.
Election Nominations: Section WM2 nominations open December 1 and close December 31. Send nominations to Erica Krol. If there is only one candidate there will be no election held. Requirements are on the web site – the biggest one being to support the NSP program.
Section Reports
WM1 Section: Ken Young recommends that Section I give a complete reporting of costs from hosting the Region Banquet to Section II as a guide to organize the next Award Banquet.
WM2 Section: Patrick Mulvihill reported that Section II just did their refresher weekend – 85 on Sat CPR, more than 200 for the refresher. TV8 visited. Karen Hadden attended. Becky Steiner reported on the Ski Swap coming up Nov 10-11-12. It is the main fundraiser for Section II and includes Cannonsburg, Pando, West MI Nordic and also to Section.
WM3 Section: Brian Klebba said Refresher was completed at Crystal Mountain this past weekend and Caberfae Peaks at the end of September. Discussion of joining Crystal Mountain and Caberfae Peaks in the future. Brian feels that Crystal Mountain wishes to continue independently. Tony Wolfer asked Brian to please contact their management about allowing other patrollers to attend. Karen Hadden said that she attended both refreshers with Hank Herlilck. Quality was good at both and changes would have been required if it wasn’t.
Patrol Reports
Caberfae Peals Ski Patrol: Deann Jenkins – area management purchased two new toboggans. New benefits program. 10 inches of snow last weekend!
Crystal Mountain Ski Patrol: Brian Klebba congratulated Ron Edwards on his contributions to the patrol through his years with Crystal and Lansing Ski Club. 65 patrollers attended their refresher. They look to moving forward. Out of area patrollers will be accepted by the Patrol Reps permission only.
Timber Ridge Ski Patrol: Sue Brann thanked those areas that refreshed some of their patrollers as they were light on numbers and needed everyone to be available.
Cannonsburg Ski Patrol: Mike Fick –the refresher was held and they are ready to go- chairs are on the lift now.
Pando Ski Patrol: Tony Wolfer – new lights at Pando.
Bittersweet Ski Patrol: Dan Navis – a good refresher was held and they are ready to go.
New Business
Karen Hadden – new manual available for “How to Become a Senior Patroller”. Karen will keep a database for Senior activities. Please copy Karen when turning information in to National.
Chip Knappen – new senior ski manual available next week.
Patrick Mulvihill - question – are other areas still requesting out of area examiners to do a hill test? About half of Region still seems to function in this system.
Next Region Meeting: January 10, 2006
Meeting adjourned: Meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm.