Minutes Of 82805
Minutes August 28, 2005 OCBCF regular meeting
Location: Susan Polgar Chess Center.
Present (officers): George Tintera, President; Ken Muir, Secretary; Dan De Leon?, 1st VP Augie Rivera, 2d VP. Absent: Chris Villarreal, treasurer. Also present: Eddie and Mrs. Rios, Bob and Lucy James, Bert Quintanilla, Cris De Leon?, Randy Ramirez, Teresa Gauntt, Rebecca Flannigan, Roy Robinson, Mr. Yiu.
George Tintera brought the meeting to order at 2:00.
The fall beginner’s tournament: George will be the Chief TD, and Lucy will do the pairings. Augie will be section chief over the HS section, Teresa and Rebecca will be chief TD’s in the primary section, Randy Ramirez will support as floor TD and Eddie will have 3 students to help out on the floor as club T Ds.
For the Callalen tournament, Chief TD will be Charlene, Bob/Lucy will do pairings. Passed without objection that $25 will be fronted for the PA system and $30 for the food. Assisting as section chiefs will be Teresa, Ken, Eddie. Randy and Chris will assista, Judy and Roy will assist with scorekeeping. George suggested T Ds show up at 7 a.m., and boards set up at 8 as this is a bigger tournament. Eddie will call Rey Contreras to double check. Chief TD (Charlene) will be responsible for ordering trophies.
The budget on trophies will normally be $700-1000. Jerry Weisser has been the sole source lately as he has proved to be the cheapest and most reliable.
There was discussion of two floor rules. The first was whether to encourage notation by deducting 5 minutes off the clock from players who don’t notate. This would only apply to players using their clocks, and the opponent would have to make a claim. The second was to, in the event 5 minute clocks were added to the game by a TD, add 2 minutes to the opponent of a player who had not used his clocks, leaving 5-7 time controls. These two rules were tabled for further discussion.
There was a considerable discussion regarding on-site registration. Valid points were made by proponents and opponents of allowing on-site registration. Proponents argued that it was unfair to kids who didn’t know their schedule until the last minute, and opponents noted that few T Ds were comfortable with the stress of attempting onsite registration when doing data entry. A motion was made to the following effect by Lucy James: “That OCBCF should adopt a policy that schools asking for OCBCF help with tournament services will be allowed to negotiate terms of those services prior to creation of the flyer and final agreement on the tournament, including but not limited to whether on site registration will be provided.” The motion was passed by a vote of 13 for and 5 against.
George noted that the idea of K-1 sections was being implemented in at least a couple of upcoming tournaments.
George asked for a motion that the proposed 2005-06 budget from the August 12, 2005 executive committee meeting be adopted as the OCBCF budget, and this motion was passed without objection.
Next OCBCF meeting is September 25th at Polgar Center, 2:00 pm.
I hereby declare that the foregoing is a true and correct rendition of the minutes of the OCBCF meeting which occurred on this the 28th of August, 2005.
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Kenneth M. Muir
Secretary