Ty Lambert

This is exactly what David Russell said 100 e-mails ago. It totally makes
sense!

Ty Lambert
Portland Velo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Schauer"
To: ;
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] State Championships

> 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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