The Spring USCA Indiana Meeting, was held at John and Debbie Prewett's place on the Tippecanoe River 
(1/2 mile S. of race start) Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 3:30 PM
 
1. The meeting was called to order by President Terry Pontius
 
2. The Fall meeting minutes were reviewed and accepted
 
3. Wendy Brinson Treasurer submitted this report in writing prior to the meeting:
$1732.30 balance as of November meeting
    -16.75 checks
   196.00 USCA rebate
   175.00 Sugar creek money to be divided between points, American 
Cancer Society and Clements at a later date
$2086.55 current balance
 
4. Report of Delegates (new business at Nat, meeting)
Guy Gilman reported all information from the National USCA meeting, this included:
Kayak specification moratorium was upheld
Bristol was selected as 2008 Nationals site sponsored by Mandy Streib of Fluid Fun.
Aluminum Nationals will continue to run as a separate event to the winning bidding City.  If no bids are 
received the Aluminum class will be offered at the Fall Nationals.
 
5. Old Business
It was voted on last year at the Fall meeting to take the unused Mixed State Championship trophy and use 
this for a Total State Championship points trophy.  After review, it was made aware that the person who won 
this award would always have won as least one if not two State Championship trophy's during that same year.  
This would be a huge redundancy and serve no purpose.  It was unanimously voted to not award this trophy 
for this purpose.

6. Webmaster Kurt Begue reported that our website is still highly functional and top rated amongst all 
paddling websites.  One possible upgrade was discussed to add a Hall of Fame to the website that would 
include people who were instrumental in the forming of the USCA Indiana Division and other significant 
accomplishments that pertained to paddling in the state of Indiana.  A form will be created that members 
will have to fill out in order to submit a person for this award.  Once the form is filled out with 
all information, the webmaster will bring all possible candidates for presentation in the Fall meeting.  
A majority vote should decide whether the person is accepted into the Hall or not.  There can be further 
discussion at the Fall meeting as to whether this is a value to our Division or not.
 
7. Membership was found to be at 34 members.  In order to maintain our autonomous state status, we need 40 
members.  At the meeting we found out that 3 additional memberships have been sent in and we are expecting 
several more before the Nationals deadline.  There should be no problem in meeting the 40 members.  If 
however we are short of our 40 before the deadline, the President has emergency authorization to purchase 
as many memberships as necessary to bring us up to 40 members.  The cost to purchase memberships ($20.00/ea) 
is minimal compared to the lose of Rebate monies ($175.00+) that come back to the division from National USCA.
In addition, it was made aware that if we get over 50 members, we get a 3rd delegate vote in the National USCA.
 
8. 2007 race schedule has been accepted
It was brought forth and respecified that race sponsors do not have to offer all USCA state championship 
points classes.  The criteria is that to be an official Indiana Division race, only one USCA class needs 
to be present.  However, it was also the feeling of the majority of paddlers that each race sponsor should 
be encouraged to offer all classes, even if awards were not given out of smaller participation classes.
 
9. Floor was opened to all new business:
Guy Gilman stated the 2008 Nationals to be held in Bristol, Indiana. 
 
Sonja Gilman stated that there will be an opportunity Sunday, September 9, 2007 to run the preview course 
for the 2008 Nationals.  This will be the day after the Bristol Bridge to Bridge race.
 
Jim Suhre, race director of the Brookville Canoefest, made notification that they plan on petitioning to 
become a State Points race in 2008.

Last year we spent too much of our Treasury money on trophy's and updating trophy's.  In the future, 
competition chairperson's will have to abide by a much stricter policy for purchasing and updating trophy's.  
Kurt Begue was assigned the responsibility for drafting a policy that provides guidelines for determining 
how much money can be spent per year and alternatives to using the Indiana Division treasury, such as 
private sponsorship of new trophies and upgrades.
 
 
It was motioned and seconded to render Adjournment.

These meeting minutes are submitted by Kurt Begue on behalf of Secretary Betsy Arnold.