MINUTES FROM THE HOUSTON AREA ROAD RUNNERS ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING

MARCH 24, 2008

The following people were in attendance: Audrey Christiansen, Jennifer Brown, Bruce Mansur, Joe Carey, Gloria Mansur, Bob Hoekman, JoAnn Luco,

Tom McBrayer, Ann Hibbert, Jack McClintic, Rich Siemens, Anna Helm, Annie Hadow, Scott Dorfman, Steve Schroeder, Eddie Rodriguez, Roger Boak, Susan Middleton, Bill Dwyer, Mark Fraser, and Gary Mulvihill.

Anna called the meeting to order at 6:05.

Spring Series Races:

Law Week Run: Rusty demonstrated to Anna that the Law Week Run is prepared to meet the HARRA race requirements.

LP Run: Roger demonstrated that the LP Run is prepared to meet also.

Bellaire Trolley Run: Susan demonstrated that the Bellaire Trolley Run is prepared to meet the race requirements as well.

Park to Park Run: Scott was interested in hearing feedback. All noted that the mile markers were off and there were some data entry errors. Scott has addressed with his committee. All agreed that the race was well done otherwise.

Bayou City Classic 10K: all agreed that the race went well again this year.

New Business:

Family Fun Day in the Park: Mark confirmed that the date is April 26. Organization is moving along smoothly. Angie will be handling games and activities. Mark is looking for volunteers.

2008-2009 Board: Anna announced that we are looking for candidates for next year’s board. Nominations close at the end of the April Board meeting.

Summer Celebration: Anna, for Jon, recommended getting Dick Beardsley as a speaker. Anna is looking into it.

Board Reports:

Communications/ Footprints: Anna reported for Jon that the April issue of Footprints has been approved and has gone to press. With the May/ June issue, we will have gone through a complete cycle of mentioning ever Member Discount Program member at least once. Jon noted that he has been getting excellent response to requests for club reports. Since he has limited space to work with, he is going to publish reports from only those clubs who are current with their HARRA club dues. Jon also reported that he is working to get the ability to post HARRA members’ non Houston running achievements, such as results from out of town races, multisport events, volunteerism, being published etc. on the HARRA news blog that Sarah Graybeal set up.

Treasurer’s Report: Audrey advised that February was not too busy. Our income was about $4K, mostly from PIM registrations. We paid the $25K pledge we made to the Memorial Park Conservancy Capital Campaign.

Tour de Bayou/ Trails: Roger announced that the Tour de Bayou is scheduled to be held every Tuesday in April. The first one will be at Spotts Park. Roger also announced that he had recently completed the club standings from the Fall Series.

Member Discount Program: Gloria reported that the new On the Run store in Pearland has been added.

CPR/AED: Bob reported that he finished all retraining of his team in February. He is completing training for the PIM coaches now. He mentioned that all of the Spring Series races thus far have gone well.

Club Reports:

BARC: Joe announced that the Seabrook Lucky Trail Marathon was a success. On another note, there will be a 5k every month until August. BARC has issued a 5k challenge to members who complete all of the races.

The Woodlands Running Club: Bill Dwyer advised that the Woodlands Running Club has 125 members who are committed to joining HARRA, which will give them a competitive team beginning with the 2008 Fall Series. Bill also announced that the Ten for Texas will be held one week later in 2008, so won’t go head to head with the USA 10 Miler.

Houston Striders: Steve advised that there had been a recent change in the Striders’ board. Going forward the Striders will be interested in holding social and running related events such as blind runs, predictor runs etc.

There was no additional business to discuss. Anna adjourned the meeting at 7:35 PM.