Post by schlager7 on Jul 18, 2004 13:18:23 GMT -6
First, this from Matt Delevoryas, the Division Secretary:
[glow=red,2,300]If I am writing this to you, it means that for 2003-2004 you decided it was worthwhile for your club to belong to the USFA. Perhaps it was the insurance, or perhaps it was the right to field a team. In any case, you need to make that decision again about whether you wish your club to belong to the USFA for 2004-2005. (And, if insurance was a reason, remember your existing USFA insurance runs only through July 31st.)
This year, note that there are three consequences of your USFA membership decision inside the Gulf Coast Division.
1) If your club does not belong to the USFA, your club may not be represented on The Committee until such time as it rejoins the USFA. (Never mind that The Committee has not met face-to-face since January, has not acted since February, and for all practical purposes has been superseded by the Division Board. Nothing was yet done to recognize any formal dissolution of The Committee.)
2) If your club membership in the USFA lapses on August 1st, and you fully intend to rejoin but are merely delinquent in renewing that membership, your club has a one-month grace period during which it continues to be entitled to have a representative on the Division Board. As of September 1st, without regard to your intent, your club is not entitled to representation on the Division Board unless it belongs to the USFA.
3) If your club ceases to belong to the USFA, your club will be removed from the rotation used for allocation of the "big three" tournaments. There is no specific occasion when this would occur. (There is a general understanding that there will exist some reasonable grace period, rather than occurring one minute after midnight when August begins.) If it were my club, I wouldn't want to be the test case to find out how patient the Division would be! If your club later rejoins the USFA, your club will be returned to the rotation for allocation of the "big three" tournaments, but returned at the current bottom of the list without regard to position held when USFA membership lapsed. And, if your club is one of the three clubs (Alliance, my own CLFC, and TAMUFC) which accepted opportunities to host "big three" tournaments for 2004-2005, I hate to think of the complications which will result if your club ceases to belong to the USFA!!
Matt Delevoryas
Secretary
Gulf Coast TX Division
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As stated by Matt, getting timely USFA membership for your clubs can be important. It is also, as we have seen in the past, very easy for folks to forget. Consider my post an additional nudge at all of us to see to these small, but critical, chores as quickly as possible, to prevent your organization from having to scramble at the last minute just ahead of that huge rolling boulder... the one with SNAFU carved on its face.
[glow=red,2,300]If I am writing this to you, it means that for 2003-2004 you decided it was worthwhile for your club to belong to the USFA. Perhaps it was the insurance, or perhaps it was the right to field a team. In any case, you need to make that decision again about whether you wish your club to belong to the USFA for 2004-2005. (And, if insurance was a reason, remember your existing USFA insurance runs only through July 31st.)
This year, note that there are three consequences of your USFA membership decision inside the Gulf Coast Division.
1) If your club does not belong to the USFA, your club may not be represented on The Committee until such time as it rejoins the USFA. (Never mind that The Committee has not met face-to-face since January, has not acted since February, and for all practical purposes has been superseded by the Division Board. Nothing was yet done to recognize any formal dissolution of The Committee.)
2) If your club membership in the USFA lapses on August 1st, and you fully intend to rejoin but are merely delinquent in renewing that membership, your club has a one-month grace period during which it continues to be entitled to have a representative on the Division Board. As of September 1st, without regard to your intent, your club is not entitled to representation on the Division Board unless it belongs to the USFA.
3) If your club ceases to belong to the USFA, your club will be removed from the rotation used for allocation of the "big three" tournaments. There is no specific occasion when this would occur. (There is a general understanding that there will exist some reasonable grace period, rather than occurring one minute after midnight when August begins.) If it were my club, I wouldn't want to be the test case to find out how patient the Division would be! If your club later rejoins the USFA, your club will be returned to the rotation for allocation of the "big three" tournaments, but returned at the current bottom of the list without regard to position held when USFA membership lapsed. And, if your club is one of the three clubs (Alliance, my own CLFC, and TAMUFC) which accepted opportunities to host "big three" tournaments for 2004-2005, I hate to think of the complications which will result if your club ceases to belong to the USFA!!
Matt Delevoryas
Secretary
Gulf Coast TX Division
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As stated by Matt, getting timely USFA membership for your clubs can be important. It is also, as we have seen in the past, very easy for folks to forget. Consider my post an additional nudge at all of us to see to these small, but critical, chores as quickly as possible, to prevent your organization from having to scramble at the last minute just ahead of that huge rolling boulder... the one with SNAFU carved on its face.