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Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes
Monday June 21, 2022
Attendees: Doug Pilcher, Alex Dreiling, Jim McCall, Rick Crow, Jacques Telles, Adi Kochav,
Brian Webb, Primo Rivera, Toby Silhavy, Michael Hobson. Oliver Soto, Amanda Darling, Dave Dupre
Absent: Manrico Mincuzzi, Michael Hobson
Due to very little on agenda it was determined that meeting could be held via email thread to accomplish this month’s meeting.
1. 2023 IJS – We will do another year of Virtual IJS for 2023. This will allow all who wish to attend to have ability to attend.
2. 2022 Nats - Amanda Darling Looks like it will be a great year!!!! NATS is approaching this coming weekend with 16 pilots. We have 12 sponsors this year and AJ Aircraft has helped make this great with a 92” Raven. We will be having an hour firework show and dinner will be provided by Fishers Meat Market. Wow so thankful for all the sponsors who have donated to make this amazing. My team is ready, and we have everything ready to go!!! I will be leaving Saturday and will be posting live videos daily.
3. Website – Dave Dupre has the source code and is working on the solution which would allow us to use a different content manager. This is a work in progress and will complete by November.
4. General Discussion – None Offered.
5. Treasurer’s report
Cash on hand
June Checking Balance – $31,345.01
May PayPal Balance - $26,130.79
Total assets - $57,480.60
7. Regional Reports
NE – NE is doing OK. Our numbers are way down at the last 3 contests. Most likely due to high travel costs. Instead of our usual 12+, we’re getting 7-9. Our State College contest ended up being cancelled when the pilot list dwindled to 2. Canada held a contest this past weekend, and it was well attended. They have 2 more in the coming weeks, and they have healthy signup lists. Less travel in that area, so that could be part of it. Still, it’s awesome to see Canada back at it. They haven’t been able to do much for a while. Looks like 1 or 2 will be making their way down to ME in July. I’m looking forward to seeing them.
SE – 5 contests done so far this year 12-18 pilots at each so far with 2 more contests possibly being added.
NC –North Central report-The NCFR is getting ready to go into full drive with the Nats in our backyard. Following NATS we have Saranac, NOIC, then Mid-Michigan. I know gas is high but if you can make it to a contest, it is much appreciated!!!!
NW – We have had a busy month in the Northwest. We had contests at Calgary Canada, Eagle Point Oregon, Creston Canada, and Othello Washington. Thanks to everyone that has come out to compete.
EU – None Submitted by Manrico:
SC – South Central is doing good the gas prices are keeping our numbers down but still getting out there and flying. We have welcomed several new pilots from the Southwest and glad to have them as part of our family.
SW- Southwest Region -it's too hot to have contests in the Southern end of the region. Gas prices continue to rise, and I suspect this will impact the early fall contests. Potentially looking at another Bakersfield contest in Sept but the CD hasn’t moved on submitting the contest so it can be approved.
AP – None Submitted by Michael:
LA – LA is not very active other than the Mexican league and a contest Chile had almost two months ago. We had a brief approach from people in Guatemala, but no other movements so far. I have concerns about things over here in the IMAC arena.
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Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes
Monday May 16th, 2022
Attendees: Doug Pilcher, Alex Dreiling, Jim McCall, Rick Crow, Jacques Telles, Adi Kochav,
Brian Webb, Primo Rivera, Toby Silhavy, Michael Hobson. Oliver Soto, Amanda Darling,Dave Dupre
Absent: Manrico Mincuzzi,
1. 2023 IJS – Primo inquired about if we should do a in person or virtual IJS. 2021 was successful as a virtual but we would like to do a in person for 2023. Adi proposed that we do it in South Carolina (Hilton Head or Savannah). A Motion was approved to allow Primo to investigate where to have an in person IJS in 2023.
2. 2024 Worlds – We will be unable to hold the worlds in 2024. No proposal has been put forward as of this time for 2024. A motion was approved to reexamine the worlds for 2026, with Israel as a possibility.
3. 2022 Nats - Amanda Darling we have 15 pilots on the IMAC site for the NATS- everything is progressing well. We have a new sponsor for the NATS RMJ Machine worx as well as AJ models. Happy State Bank has donated $750 for our banquet dinner. Looks like it will be a great year!!!!
4. Website – There was discussion around the website and how we can get improvements, Dave Dupre has offered to reverse engineer the scoring code to allow us to move to a more flexible platform. The code will be made available to Dave to work through this issue, and he hopes to have it completed by November in time for next season. We will ensure that all present methods of automatic scoring will be compatible with the solution Dave comes up with.
5. General Discussion –
a. We discussed the issue of scoring if a judge misses a maneuver with example given of 3 or more judges. This would begin with entry into Score! program. Do we average scores, or do we use another judge’s score? When we have 3 judges should we average or take another judge’s score? Motion was made to in the case we have 3 or more judges to take the unobserved score and average the scores of the other 2 judges e.g., a 5 and a 5.5 would be rounded up to a 5.5 for the 3rd score.
b. Several folks in Australia are expressing an interest in joining the sequence committee. Michael will reach out to Alex and Ty Lyman to offer assistance.
6. Treasurer’s report
Cash on hand
May Checking Balance – $31418.98
May PayPal Balance - $24782.94
Total assets - $56201.92
7. Regional Reports
NE – State College event was cancelled due to lack of pilots. The rest of the schedule is filling up fast.
SE – 5 contests done so far this year 12-18 pilots at each so far with 2 more possibly being added.
NC –First contest of the year will be the Mike Karnes event in Muncie. A lot of excitement for the season.
NW – Had our first 2 contests of the year. Will need to find a new RD for next year as Brian is moving to the SW. Had to reschedule the first contest in Canada due to inclement weather.
EU – N/A
SC – 2 contests have been cancelled due to weather so far, 13 contests have been scheduled.
SW- For the first half of the year we have seen a drop in the number of pilots due to the economy.
AP – Going well with many contests scheduled. Registration of pilots went well for membership in IMAC. Season progressing normally.
LA – Not much news to report but everyone is excited to get going for the year. Economy is keeping things down at this time. Covid and the economy are restricting participation.
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Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes
Monday April 18th, 2022
Attendees: Doug Pilcher, Alex Dreiling, Jim McCall, Rick Crow, Jacques Telles, Adi Kochav, Brian Webb, Primo Rivera, Toby Silhavy, Michael Hobson. Oliver Soto, Manrico Mincuzzi, Dave Dupre
Absent : Amanda Darling
1. Membership and Marketing Committee Reboot – Jacques has a member in the SW Region who is offering to help with Marketing for IMAC. The idea is to have a unified message on all social media outlets. This will be a volunteer effort and will proceed with input from the board. All posts for contests will link back to the IMAC Website.
2. Via Amanda Darling and an email update. NATS- everything is progressing well. I have sent out emails personally to those from last year for an invite and several have acknowledged they will come just waiting to register. Sponsors are the same no new ones at this time. Happy State Bank has donated $750 for our banquet dinner. I have ordered shirts for the event team. Looks like it will be a great year!!!!
3. IMAC as a leading discipline for Freestyle – Adi proposed several ideas to increase participation that would require rules changes which the board was not in favor of at this time. He will look at submitting RFA’s or rule change proposals for the 2025 Rules cycle.
4. Adi also suggested IMAC contests only be open to members – The BOD rejected this proposal but will continue to encourage all IMAC participants to join. This is already encouraged with the $20 discount as well with $20 mass registration options for International. US and Canada RD’s report most individuals are offered a free membership if attending a contest for the first time.
5. Adi continued Discussion on the worlds 2024 in Israel and will put together a site and event team proposal to be submitted and report back next month. The BOD currently believes that the timeline may already be too short for 2024. If a proposal is submitted with letters of intent from site local, then BOD will access it in May’s meeting for a decision.
6. Treasurer’s report
Cash on hand
April Checking Balance – $31701.15
April PayPal Balance - $23500.12
Total assets - $55201.27
7. Regional Reports
NE – 11 contests scheduled so far with the first contest in 2 weeks, several in Canada as well
SE – 2 contests done so far this year 5 more scheduled with more possible.
NC –Introduction to Basic school with GoToMeeting prior to Easter and a full online Judging School to be held prior to our first contest with the judging school to be held virtually.
NW – Held our virtual judging school as well as our first contest of the year.
EU – Europe has a refreshed energy with contests being scheduled, the war in Ukraine is causing issues. The war will cause an impact economically as well as contest participation.
SC – South Central is doing great with contests. 3 so far at time of this meeting. We had our judging school and had a great turn out. It has been busy with storms and rain and still cold here in SC, but I have heard several have had time to get out and fly.
SW- 5 contests complete so far, 4 new basic pilots at Hemet contest.
AP – Going well with many contests scheduled. Registration of pilots went well for membership in IMAC.
LA – Membership is an issue with the economy in Mexico and Argentina, Chile will be scheduling contests as well.
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oard of Director’s Meeting Minutes
Monday March 21st, 2022
Attendees: Doug Pilcher, Alex Dreiling, Rick Crow, Adi Kochav, Brian Webb, Amanda Darling,
Absent : Dave Dupre, Primo Rivera, Jim McCall, Jacques Telles, Toby Silhavy, Michael Hobson. Oliver Soto, Manrico Mincuzzi
There were 6 of us on at 8:00 PM CDT.
Alex
Amanda
Rick
Brian
Adi
and myself
We waited until about 8:25 and it was decided others had missed meeting due to Daylight Savings Time changing. The meeting was then canceled.
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Board of Director’s Meeting Minutes
Monday February 21st, 2022
Attendees: Doug Pilcher, Alex Dreiling, Jim McCall, Rick Crow, Jacques Telles, Adi Kochav, Brian Webb, Amanda Darling, Toby Silhavy, Michael Hobson. Oliver Soto, Manrico Mincuzzi
Absent : Dave Dupre, Primo Rivera
1. New IMAC Flyers for distribution to hobby stores and for general advertisement were voted on and approved.
2. Discussion on selling all former SWAG store items this year to close out the expense.
3. Amanda is working on the Nats, sponsorships etc. We will utilize regional Facebook pages to advertise the event. Many good sponsors have been lined up so far.
4. Australian will be joining IMAC en masse starting in the spring.
5. Discussion on the worlds 2024 and another option was brought forth to have them in Israel, Adi Kochav will investigate and report back.
6. Discussion on unsafe pilots at events and how to handle those issues.
7. Canada now requires US pilots to register with the CAA in order to fly in Canada. AMA now requires Canadian pilots to register with AMA. Discussion on how to proceed with regard to district alignments since this is now in effect. We will continue to discuss.
8. Treasurer’s report
Cash on hand
February Checking Balance – $32,964.70
February PayPal Balance- $19,014.27
Total assets - $51,978.97
9. Regional Reports
NE – N/A
SE – N/A
NC –Schedule is coming together. Will be working in sessions for beginners judging. Basic is exploding.
NW – Schedule for next year is done. Trying to outreach to new venues
EU – Germany will be joining IMAC this year and registering contests.
SC –Calendar set for this year. Judging school online is coming in March. Membership is increasing.
SW- Calendar for next year is worked out. Judging school just finished, and we have a new venue in St. George, UT
AP – My regional report is basically status quo. Renewal of membership is the main thing and that all on track to happen in the next couple of weeks.
LA – First contests of the year are just around the corner for IMAC Mexico and IMAC Argentina. This weekend we had our 2nd boot contest with a turnout of 8 pilots of which 4 are new to the sport.
There are several others scheduled so we hope to grow the turn out each time. I have 2 sponsors now. One will provide the nitro for small planes during the contests and the other one will hand gifts and souvenirs. We created a mini website to spread the spirit of the boot contests.