November 9, 2004

Bill Gryder called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm.

Directors Present: Bill Gryder, Lisa Curnow, Larry Burke, Leland Rich, Dave Hill, Ken Traxler, Michelle Piehl

Directors Absent: Robert Suydam, Pam Thomson (Ex-Afficio)

Minutes: October 6^th minutes were read and approved.

The agenda was presented and accepted.

TREASURER’S REPORT – Bill reported, after checking with Pam, that the checking account balance is $993.68 and the savings balance is $7,713.77. A disbursement of $750.00 was made to Leland Rich for travel to the USCA meeting.

The following Agenda items were discussed:

REPORTS

USCA Meetings – Leland has no new information at this time.
Barrow Club – Dave reported that Ron Birklid and Steve Shuttleworth will travel to Barrow to assist in the

Learn to Curl clinic on Nov. 19^th & 20^th.

Pin Sales – Larry Burke reported that he hasn’t heard anything from USCA about pin sales. The ASCA has decided to participate in the pin program to the extent that if anyone expresses a desire to buy a pin, they will be made available. However, pins sales as a whole will not be pushed as they have in the past with the continued recommendation that anyone wanting to fund curling, would be encouraged to do so at there club level fund raising foundations.
Arctic Winter Games – Bill reported that met with a councilwoman of Soldotna and inquired about curling facilities for AWG. Currently is it slated to be held in Homer, but Bill has several concerns over whether a facility will be ready. The proposal is to build a facility for the event but questions of ice quality still remain.
Pacific Rim Challenge –Number of slots for Alaska will be determined in early December. Pam will contact Pacific Rim and make sure those fees are paid in January.
NW Regional Women’s Qualifier – no new information reported

OLD BUSINESS

USCA Pins – Pins will be available for purchase
State Pin – Leland has several ideas for a State pin and is looking for an artist.
State Championships – Bill to email a list of deadlines and fees for all State Playdowns. It was noted that USCA travel assistance will be drastically cut and there was discussion about the State Association giving assistance to bridge the gap. Larry moved that the ASCA commit to ensuring that the Men, Women and Mixed teams continue to receive the $1,000 travel assistance by making up any shortage from USCA for these events. Thus committing the ASCA for up to $3,000 as needed. Dave seconded the motion, all were in favor, none opposed.
Award patches – Lisa will contact Santa’s Stitches to have patches made up, 12 State patches for this years teams, and year bars for 2004 & 2005.
An amendment was made in the 04-05 calendar, Junior State is changed to Dec. 11-12^th.

NEW BUSINESS

Leland proposes to nominate Denis Fox for entry to the USCS Hall of Fame. It’s believed he meets the requirements for the promotion of curling on local, national and international levels.

BUDGET – the addition of travel assistance for the 3 teams going to Nationals will need to be added.

ASCA Minutes of Nov. 9, 2004, Page 2

REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS –

Larry to have USCA pins available
Bill to make further contacts with AWG about the curling facility in Homer
Pam to follow up with Pac Rim and pay fees
Leland to continue work on State pin design
Lisa to order award patches
Leland to draft nomination of Denis Fox to USCA Hall of Fame
Bill to distribute championship deadlines and fees, and the current allocation table of slots for state playdowns.

With no further business, the meeting adjourned at 8:01 pm.

The next meeting will be scheduled for the last Tuesday in April, 2005.

Respectfully submitted by,

Lisa Curnow