Chairman’s Message
September 2009
Dear Fellow Officials
On Saturday September 19, 2009 our Officials Committee will hold its annual meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Peoria, Arizona. This is your meeting and is the only opportunity we have all year to get together to discuss our Association, its progress, future plans and to socialize with each other.
Your Committee Officers have put together a comprehensive agenda for this meeting that will include reports from all committee chairs, plans for future clinics and a amendment for an annual dues to cover our rising expenses and purchase much needed equipment. We need the input on these issues from each of you so your attendance and participation in the meeting is essential to the health of our group and its future growth.
We are planning a Raffle in conjunction with this meeting as a fund raising event. We urge each of you who are attending to bring an item for the raffle. If you cannot attend, send an item with one of your fellow officials who will be attending. Raffle tickets will be sold prior to the meeting, during our break and immediately preceding the raffle itself. Solicit your personal sources to donate items for the event. We hope to make this raffle an annual event at our meeting.
Seven of our officials have been singled out to receive Outstanding Official Awards by our National Officials Organization that will be awarded at this meeting. Your attendance will be testimony to their hard work and superior officiating skills.
Our membership’s attendance at this annual meeting in past years has been very disappointing and your Committee Officers are trying very hard to turn that trend around. We have witnessed marked improvement in our Association this year both in the manner we have communicated to the membership through our WEB site, E-mailing’s and contact by your regional and Committee Commissioners. The regional certification clinics conducted by our Certification Chair Robert “Hoop” Hooper and Dan Reynolds were both professional and comprehensive.
Your Secretary, David Palmquist put together and single handily maintained our WEB site keeping it current with information on upcoming meets, training information and links to other sites to assist our officials in improving their officiating skills. All of these enhancements are evidence of your Committee Officer’s commitment to serving the membership and making our Arizona Association of Officials the best that it can be.
YOU CAN SHOW BOTH YOUR SUPPORT AND APPRECIATION OF THEIR EFFORTS BY ATTENDING THIS MEETING.
So please, put the date on your calendar and plan on attending. The Agenda, current Financial Statement, Proposed Budget, proposed dues amendment as well as information on the meeting site will be posted on your WEB site for you to access. In an effort to keep our printing costs down, we ask that you print out this information and bring it to the meeting with you.
Respectfully,
Michael J. Pekar, Officials Committee Chair
USATF-Arizona Association
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