MINUTES FROM THE HOUSTON AREA ROAD RUNNERS ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING

JANUARY 21, 2008

The following people were in attendance: Audrey Christiansen, Bill Dwyer, Patricia Chesnick, Joe Carey, Stephen Mayor, Randy Carlson, John Phillips, Tom McBrayer, Anna Helm, Cindy Sosa, Eddie Rodriguez, Ted Traynor, Annie Hadow, Roger Boak, Bob Hoekman, and JoAnn Luco.

Anna called the meeting to order at 6:05 PM.

Buffalo Wallow: Cindy demonstrated that the Buffalo Wallow is prepared to meet the HARRA race requirements.

Anna mentioned that the race requirements for relays will be finalized and posted on the HARRA website shortly.

Marathon Recap: the wave start was very popular. There was a brief discussion regarding the walkers on course.

Footprints: Anna presented for Jon. He is working on upcoming issues and continues to get good input from the clubs.

Membership: No report. Anna announced that we collected several applications at the Marathon Expo. Erin is continuing to work through a few glitches with Memberize.

Treasurer’s Report: Audrey reported that HARRA received a $20,000 check from the Bayou City Classic. We now have $77,500 earmarked for the Trails Fund. Large expenses in December were our RRCA dues and insurance ($5,250) and Inside Texas Running ($1,600).

Webmaster: Anna advised that Sarah is looking for someone to help with the HARRA announcements. Roger and Anna will check with Sarah to see if some of the other website related workload can be divided up.

Tour de Bayou/ Trails: Roger announced that the Tour de Bayou is scheduled to be held at 6PM every Tuesday in April, so there will be 5 this year. Venues will change weekly and will include various inner loop locations. Roger advised that he is continuing to work on ROTS and Team scoring for the Marathon with the intent to finalize prior to the Buffalo Wallow. Roger is also checking into our Ironfoot socks inventory and will research options for singlets as future awards. Roger informed the group about a Trails Committee meeting he attended the prior week. Discussed at that meeting were various projects to connect eroded sections of Ho Chi Minh by moving a stream crossing and potentially constructing a concrete bridge type structure. Also discussed was a project to improve access to the equestrian tunnels.

PIM: No report. Bob announced that PIM will be featured in the Texas Medical Center Orthopedic magazine.

VVIP: Anna reported that Bruce is waiting on the volunteer list from the 30K.

CPR/AED: Bob announced that he is currently in the process of organizing recertification dates. His plan is to retrain the current team members first and then train any new volunteers.

Club Updates: Bill reported that the Woodlands Track Club is up to 280 members, 20 of whom are HARRA members. They will be adding a HARRA Rep who will help put together competitive teams in the future.

Open Discussion:

Bridge the Park: Anna reminded everyone of the January 26^th event, which HARRA is co-hosting. She will get an announcement circulated.

Pavers: Randy advised the group that a request has been made to change out the existing quarter mile pavers on the Seymour Lieberman trail to ones that are the same size as the mile pavers in order to make them more visible to runners. Along with that request was one to install pavers for a marked mile on the Infantrymen’s Woods trail. We are waiting on approval.

RRCA Convention: This year will be the weekend of May 1-4. Let Anna now if you’re interested in attending as a representative of HARRA.

Just for Kids’ Run: The Board held a brief discussion regarding direction and leadership for the 2008 event.

Club Socials: Anna raised that she would like HARRA to sponsor club social events in the coming months.

Tom mentioned that he had been approached about certifying a Half Marathon course in The Woodlands and wanted to get the Board’s input. There was a short discussion and the feedback was positive, assuming there are no scheduling conflicts with the HARRA race calendar.

There was no further business to discuss. Anna adjourned the meeting at 7:15.