Mike Murray

Some people have no problem with out of state people at the State
Championships and some people would prefer to either not have them there or
to not allow them to win the medal.

The thing that keeps getting lost in this discussion is how do we define
Oregon resident? Driver's license was suggested but some adults do not have
one, some people who have lived here for some time still have an out of
state license and none of the kids under 16 have one. Residence in Oregon?
If I have a home in OR but I live most of the time elsewhere does that
count? How long do you have to live there? 1 week? 6 weeks? 6 months?
How would we check that? Mailing address? Anyone can get a PO Box in
Oregon regardless of residence. Someone suggested that the person must
compete in a specific number of events in OR but checking for that before
handing out awards would be seriously onerous even with the spiffy
applications that Scott Willson has written for the OBRA site.

The easiest definition is do you have an OBRA membership. Excluding day of
race purchase, as some have suggested, would potentially exclude actual
residents who have not yet purchased membership while not excluding
non-residents who have the ability to think ahead.

If anyone thinks that excluding non-residents is a good idea AND they have a
workable way to do this then what they need to do is propose a rule change
at the annual meeting then we will vote on it.

Mike Murray