Re: [RC] AERC National Championship ride qualfications

[Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com>]

Passing retroactive rules is never a good idea unless in the case of an
emergency where there is some overriding reason to do this. I don't see
any
overriding issue in the case of the NC criteria to change the criteria 
retroactively (after the August 2000 starting date for the criteria) 
nor do I see anyway one could could consider it an emergency.

In general I feel the BOD should be looking at the next season for most
issues.
In fact I do support Steph Teeter's motion addressing such. The
qualification is
not the issue IMO but the fact they were made retroactive.

There is also the separate issue of the criteria being so restrictive
that in
fact no one will run the ride for fear of losing money. If I recall
correctly
the first two NC's did lose money. I am not sure about the last one, but
whatever it was it was at best break even. If the membership wants the
criteria
so strict that any ride manager is at the risk of losing money, then the
membership should also be willing to allocate funding so this doesn't
happen.
You can not have it both ways.

Truman Prevatt
AERC #8217

Terry Woolley wrote:

>
>
> So then the
> haggling among the board started on whether the new criteria should be in
> effect this year or wait until next year so that the riders had ample time
> to qualify.  While I believe that the criteria should be tougher, I can see
> that the argument for waiting until next year so that the members have the
> full year to qualify is valid.
>
> John Parke, who is an attorney, and did not like the board going back and
> forth on
> something that had already passed, indicated that he was going to put forth
> a motion to do away with all qualifying criteria.   I don't feel that this
> will  pass (although I could be wrong), and I hope that  the board will
> vote to keep the same qualifying criteria as last year in place, and have
> the new tougher criteria be in place for the qualification period starting
> in August so that the riders will have the entire year to qualify under the
> tougher criteria.
>
> I hope this addresses your concern.
>
> Terry Woolley Howe
> Pacific South Regional Director
> Competititons Chairman