Candi Murray/Oregon Bicycle Racing Assn
OBRA ANNUAL MEETING
January 17 will be the OBRA banquet and annual meeting. This meeting is
your chance to have input into how OBRA is run and help shape the future of
bike racing in Oregon. Agenda items may be suggested by OBRA members.
Voting at the annual meeting is by club representative so make sure that
your club sends a representative and that your representative knows how to
represent your interests. At a minimum we will discuss and vote to decide:
-Election of Board members
-Changes to OBRA racing rules
-Changes to the BAR competition rules
also on the agenda are specific changes to the mtn bike fee structure and a
proposed change in our insurance carrier
Board members
OBRA currently has 6 board members who serve rotating 2 year terms. Mike
Murray, David Auker, Splinter Wrenn and Jeff Mitchem will serve again in
2004. Ron Magnus and Ed Garfield?s terms
expire this year. Each board member will be responsible for supervising
and developing OBRA programs with regards to their responsibility. The
responsibilities will be:
- Membership services - Programs which provide benefit to individual
members, clubs and race organizers.
Examples: Membership list maintenance, insurance, race numbers,
publications, first aid program.
- Athlete development - Programs to improve the quality of the racers both
collectively and individually.
Examples: Oregon Cycling conference, Oregon Cycling Training camp, Oregon
Cup.
- Venue development and protection - Collecting information on current and
potential race venues to facilitate
race promotion.
- Marketing and promotion - Programs to maintain current and solicit new
members and sponsors. Programs to
increase the general public awareness of bike racing.
- Equipment - Overseeing maintenance and purchase of race promotion
equipment
- Mountain bike racing - Representing the special concerns of mountain bike
racers and race organizers.
Board members will distribute these responsibilities among themselves after
election.
All this means that we need to elect 2 board members at this upcoming
meeting. Please communicate
nominations to Candi Murray at cmur-@obra.org or 503-667-6220. You may
nominate yourself or any other
members. Currently Brad Ross and Jim Fischer have been nominated to fill
the vacant places.
OBRA Racing Rules
The current OBRA rules can be downloaded from the OBRA web page at
http://www.obra.org or by contacting
Candi Murray. Racing rules changes may be proposed and voted on during at
the annual meeting. Proposed rule
changes must be presented in writing. Send these to Candi Murray at the
above e-mail address, by fax at the
above number or by mail to P.O. Box 16355, Portland, OR 97292.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have felt in the past that certain changes to the rules,
fees and/or BAR implementation program needs to be addressed, now is the
time for you to put forth these ideas!