Tim Schauer

We Could.....

Once a State residency process is "decided" .....

take the approach that the Top Oregon Resident finisher, is the Oregon
STATE Champion and the winner is the OBRA Champion. And maybe most of
the time the winner is both the State Champ and the OBRA Champ. We could
also just rely on residency to be based on what people put on their OBRA
license application, without verification. The great old honor system!

Does this seem too simple?

-Tim Schauer
Vancouver, WA Resident
OBRA Member since 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Murray
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:40 PM
To: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] State Championships

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

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