Proceedings Of and Follow-up to the April, 2008, ACFI Meeting

Thanks to everyone involved in organizing the 2008 Arizona Scholastic Championships.

A short ACFI physical meeting was held at the site of the 2008 Arizona Scholastic Championships at Mount Elden Middle School in Flagstaff on Saturday, April 26, 2008, at 5:30 PM. Board members who participated in the meeting were Robby Adamson, Kiki Huerta, Myron Lieberman, Spencer Lower, Kent Maneth, Marty Schneider, Lynn Schucker, and Will Wharton. Eight Board members were present for at least part of the meeting and a quorum of six or more was present throughout the meeting. Board members Michael Fitch, Ramie Jimenez, and Jennifer Shacter were not present. Among others who were also present for at least part of the meeting were Jon Coulter, Rachel Lieberman, Debbie Maneth, Karen Pennock and Gavin Wharton. Thanks to GPCA for providing meeting space in their team room. Recommended follow-ups are listed at the end of this document.

Treasurer Jennifer Shacter submitted the attached Financial report with ACFI's Annual Report for the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).

She noted that the ACC only accepts credit cards with online submissions of Annual Reports. She put the ten dollar ACC filing fee on her own credit card and wrote a reimbursement check.

The ACC will require online submission after this year, so this is the first time but not the last.

Myron Lieberman

The deadline for proposals to host the 2009 Arizona Scholastic Chess Championships has been extended until April 10, 2008. As proposals have already been received the deadline will not be extended longer.

Please e-mail azchess@cox.net for more information

The Region I Qualifier requested by Smart Chess for March 15, 2008, have been approved. It will be held at the New Hope Community Church in Gilbert on March 15, 2008. A flyer is attached.

The following message and attachement were provided by ACFI Treasurer Jennifer Shacter.

Her suggestions regarding the procedure for the Denker and Polgar representatives are subject to Board approval.
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I have attached the 2007 ACFI End-of Year Financial Statement. The statement remains unchanged from when it was submitted to the board at the end of the 3rd quarter.

Both Robby Adamson (her coach & chief TD for 2007 State) and I have contacted Jenelle Wallace, the 2007 AZ Polgar Representative, regarding reimbursement of up to $300 in expenses but haven’t received a request back. I don’t know how much time we should allow for a representative to seek reimbursement. Should this come up for discussion?

It is time for ACFI to nominate candidates for USCF Delegate from Arizona for the years 2009 and 2010.

The USCF Delegate term is for two years and involves attending the USCF Delegates' Meetings which are held in conjunction with the US Open in August. There is no compensation or expense reimbursement either from USCF or from ACFI for the Delegates.

Arizona is entitled to 3 State Delegates and 3 Alternate Delegates in addition to Rachel and I (We are both Delegates at Large and do not affect the state allocation). Any current USCF member who resides in AZ (ACFI Member)is eligible, not only ACFI Board members. Please let everyone that might be interested know.

The 2008 Arizona State Scholastic Chess Championship will be played on April 25-27, 2008, at the Mt. Elden Middle School in Flagstaff, AZ.

The bughouse tournament will be held on Friday afternoon at the tournament site, but some side events (including the Blitz tournament, simultaneous exhibition, and a buffet) will be held at Little America, the host hotel for the event.

A summary is attached. Please contact Marty Schneider at marty@red-canyon.net with any questions and for more details.

We hope to see everyone there.

The April 12 GPCA Region I qualifier will be held at the ASU Polytechnic campus. Details can be found in the attached flyer.

The March 08 GPCA Region I qualifier will be held at the ASU Polytechnic campus. Details can be found in the attached flyer.