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Hi everyone!
I hope you are enjoying Memorial Day weekend and taking time to remember our veterans and active duty military and their families. This is my last President's Update; my third and final term expires today. I have been honored to serve as your president, and I hope that I have met your expectations. Crescent Ski Council is a great organization, and it takes all of us to keep it growing (both in membership and quality). Margaret Crum is CSC's incoming president. She and the great officers and committee chairs that serve with her will continue to do their best to keep the membership satisfied and happy. As always, everyone is working on next year's activities. Here's a brief update.
CONVENTIONS
The Fall Conference will be October 29 - 31, 2010, at Gatlinburg, TN. Registration forms have been issued, and the information should be on CSC's web site shortly. Mary Anne Koltowich, Knoxville, is the Fall Conference Coordinator and is busy putting together another excellent weekend. Mark your calendars now and plan to attend.
Sign-ups are underway for Taos, New Mexico (January) and Ogden, Utah (March) - CSC's 2011 Ski Week trips. Your trip directors have the information, and it should be posted on CSC's web site shortly. Taos and Ogden have alternating monthly payment schedules, and payments start July 1st. Ask your club trip directors to share the PowerPoint presentations to help your members get a better idea of what both areas have to offer for Ski Weeks and then plan to sell! Registration for Race & Ski Camp begins June 1st. Registration data has been provided to clubs' trip directors and should be presented at your June meetings. Even though this trip isn't run with a "club trip leader", all clubs should ensure that the information is made available to its membership. With today's internet capabilities, every club has the ability to distribute information electronically to its membership. It takes just a few minutes to send an e-mail to your members with the trip data attached. John Casey will be sending the registration packet to past participants on June 20th. Trips Committee is still working on the short list for the January 2012 ski week. Results should be known shortly.
RACING
The 2010 - 2011 race schedule has been finalized and will be issued soon.
MEMBER SERVICES
Many clubs hold their elections in spring or early summer. Please be sure to send changes to Bruce McMurray, CSC's database coordinator. As I've said many times, CSC communicates extensively through email, and our ability to communicate is hindered if the database is not current. Bruce's email address is snowdawgasoc@bellsouth.net.
ADMINISTRATIVE
I sent an e-mail message on May 9th regarding tax exempt status of ski clubs. At least one CSC club has determined that it no longer has tax-exempt status; in fact, it is listed as "dissolved" in the records of its home state. Getting registered and filing for tax-exempt status will take a lot of work! Please be sure you know your club's status and don't let this happen to you. ExComm finalized the alcohol policy after the Spring Convention. After much discussion and a review of the policy by lawyers, ExComm decided to forego a detailed policy and instead developed an alcohol statement that will be included in all registration forms and in other documents such as the Spring Convention Guide. That statement is:
“Crescent Ski Council (“CSC) encourages legal and responsible behavior in the consumption of alcoholic beverages in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Each CSC member shall be solely responsible for his/her consumption of alcoholic beverages and his/her behavior and actions as a consequence of said consumption.”
Alice Taylor, President
Crescent Ski Council
402 Woodbridge Drive
Charleston, WV 25311
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