OFFICIALS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Conference Call – October 24th, 2012

Minutes

Present: Ted Houghton Dave Thomson Rocky Lamontagne Roger Cole Jacques Gregoire Dawn Currie (SSC Liaison)

1. Ted called meeting to order at 7:03PM EST.

2. Approval of Agenda. Motion to approve the agenda with the addition of 7.H Video Referee, Yellow Card, Application of ST Rule; 7.I Jocelyn Fraser, and 7.J International Officials “W” Moved by Dave Seconded by Roger. Carried

3. Approval of Minutes – Motion to approve Minutes of September 26th, 2012 as presented. Moved by Dave Seconded by Rocky. Carried

4. Business Arising –

Item Who Task Status # 7.a Dawn Advise the officials of the request from ODC to have Done evaluations done. (new assessments) 7.c Dave/Rocky Confirm dates and events to host Level III ST Starter and LT Referee clinics. 7.f Dawn Advise Yves that he will not be doing Can Am Regional Done World Juniors and advise Hans that he will be doing both. 7.g Committee Send in revision suggestions to Dawn regarding the assessment forms submitted from Maryse. 7.h Dawn Send a request to those officials assigned to Selections Done #2 to see if they are available for the new date 7.i Dawn Send committee a list of those who were assigned that Done do not have jackets, and the sizes we have left

Action: Advise Maryse of requested revisions to the new Assessment Forms – be sure the comment box is expandable. 5. Correspondence

a. Yves Belanger report - Excellent report submitted by Yves Belanger from the SOC Conference. Rocky commented on the point to encourage all officials to purchase SOC membership.

Action: Review all assigned officials to ensure they are registered members of clubs/branches/SSC. Send reminder to those who are not in the SSC database.

6. Budget – See attached – Ted advised ODC that there will be an added expense for Ghislaine Roy for WC in Montreal. Initially Ted had received permission from the Technical Committee to include Sharon/Ghislaine as the assistants. However, the ISU staff came back and said Ghislaine could not be included, therefore it is ODC’s responsibility to cover her costs.

Dawn reviewed budget with ODC. ODC was advised that the SSC Board of Directors has requested that the ODC budget be further reduced by $8,000.

Dawn advised ODC that an invoice for $7,000 Swiss Francs was submitted to the ISU for reimbursement of travel to the ISU clinics.

ODC purchased an additional 14 jackets. This will result in having to find an additional $4,000 in the budget.

We should be okay as travel for assignments to date is lower than what was budgeted for.

7. New Business

a. 2012-2013 Assignments – ODC identified replacements needed in both ST/LT assignments.

Action: Dawn to contact officials with additional assignment requests.

b. 2015 CWG – Major Officials/2014 Olympic Selections - 2015 CWG major officials do not need to be named until at least January. Olympic Selection officials – get availability for selections. This is the start of the selection process.

Action: Dawn/Ted to draft letter to be sent to all senior officials requesting they identify their availability for the Olympic Selections next summer.

c. Level III Clinics – ODC will try to host Level III LT/ST Referee and Starter Clinics in both the east and west. Action: Dawn will see if the west clinics can be hosted in conjunction with Winterfest in Calgary…Dave Thomson and Ted Houghton will be facilitators. Dawn to confirm events/dates for clinics in the east. Rocky can facilitate the starter clinic, Dawn to see if Rick Hunt can do the referee clinic.

d. Bulletin –

e. Officials Clinic Resource material a. BCSSA PPT presentation b. Rick Hunt ISU Submission

f. Assessment Forms – Already discussed.

g. Jackets – Already discussed.

h. Jacques provided Video Referee Report – Length of day on first day of WC was very long. Should SSC be telling video referee’s that they are the same as an on ice referee. Jacques said yes, they should be the same as all officials. Does SSC need to develop video only referee. Jacques suggested that it would be difficult to find someone to do a video referee only. The function and expectations of the video referee needs to be included in clinics.

Yellow card – 2 -3 yellow cards called. We don’t see yellow cards issued often, Ted asked if Jacques could explain them. One was for severe impeding (dangerous pass); second was given to Netherland skater that had two impeding infractions in the same race…same thing happened in relay against France. A red card given to the Korean coach. The question: is the yellow card in a relay to the team or the skater. If it’s given to the team, then the team is out and they cannot skate for a few world cups…could affect their qualifying for Sochi.

i. Jocelyn Fraser – ODC reviewed the information that was submitted last spring, but not provided to ODC in their review. ODC agreed to upgrade Jocelyn Fraser to a Level 3B Starter.

j. International Officials . ODC needs to be more pro-active in identifying: a) those Level 3's who could be upgraded to the INT list. b) those existing INT officials who should be considered for the "W" designation. c) ensure we meet the maximum - 10 - number of INT officials in each category.

Action: Target those potential officials for INT upgrading and "W" designation in advance of the 2013 ISU submission date.

8. Next Meeting – November 21, 2012 at 7:00PM EST.

9. Adjournment – Meeting was adjourned at 9:34PM EST.

Action Item Summary

Item Who Task Status # 4 Dawn Advise Maryse of small revisions for the Assessment Done forms. 5 Dawn Review all assigned officials to ensure they are registered members of clubs/branches/SSC. Send reminder to those who are not in the SSC database. 7.a Dawn Contact officials with additional assignment requests. Done 7.b Dawn/Ted Draft letter to be sent to all senior officials requesting Done they identify their availability for the Olympic Selections next summer. 7.c Dawn Dawn will see if the west clinics can be hosted in Done conjunction with Winterfest in Calgary…Dave Thomson and Ted Houghton will be facilitators. Dawn to confirm events/dates for clinics in the east. Rocky can facilitate the starter clinic, Dawn to see if Rick Hunt can do the referee clinic. 7.j Committee Target those potential officials for INT upgrading and "W" designation in advance of the 2013 ISU submission date.