LexRides

[brokebike]

As some of you may already know, the move to organize some sort of structure to official bike polo tournaments here in North America has been underway for a while now. It has only recently begun to really come together in the past couple of months. The purpose of this is not to define how bike polo is played in any given city, but rather to make the process of major tournaments and events easier, and to give each city and region a fair say in what goes on. Here is a link that may describe it better and give more detailed info: http://www.leagueofbikepolo.com/club/na-hardcourt/the-next-step

Lexington is grouped into the Midwest Region along with cities from WI, OH, IL, MO, MN, IN, and ND. There are three "regional reps" from each region, and each city or "club" will have a designated rep.

In correspondence between Ben Schultz from Chicago, Chris Simpson and myself, I was selected by default as our interim city rep and was also asked to serve as one of the three regional reps for the Midwest. This was just to have someone in place to facilitate anything that may happen next.

To keep all this as open and transparent as possible, I want to leave it open for anyone here in Lexington to nominate themselves as a candidate for Lexington's city rep. Chris Simpson has expressed interest in doing it, and personally, I think he would be an ideal choice because of the number of tournaments and events he has been to, and will be going to throughout the year. Chris has always done a good job of keeping us informed of what is going on in polo outside of Lexington and Chris has been instrumental in organizing and fund raising for polo here. So, as it stands now there's me as the interim rep, and Chris who is in the running for rep. If you feel like you want to take on the responsibility of being the rep for Lexington, I encourage you to throw your name in. Between the two options, I am casting my vote for Chris. If anyone else is interested, we'll need to have some sort of "election" process before the 10th of January.

Duties

* Club reps will:
- Elect regional representatives.
- Participate in conversations pertaining to their region. For example, club representatives would facilitate local discussion around and then participate in a vote to select the host cities for events.
* Regional reps will:
- vote in the North American Hardcourt Championship bid process.
- participate in various subcommittes of NA Hardcourt (rules, sponsorship, tournaments,
- facilitate regional discussions and gather input on issues related to the above committees.
- will remain the club rep.

* Club and regional reps will:
- be invested and present in all relevant business brought before you. This means:
- communicating necessary information, participating in and/or leading discussions, overseeing and/or participating in a vote, etc.
- participate in every vote, even if it’s to simply to “abstain.”
- be held publically accountable for their votes and the reasons behind them.
- respect their constituents right to know how their representative voted and whether they were present.
- provide minutes from every meeting, be it region-specific or continental.

Terms

* term periods will be one year starting January 15th 2010, ending January 15th 2011.
* there are no limits on re-election.
* a club whose representative also functions as a regional rep may feel it needs a separate club rep to properly attend to local business. In that case, that club would be free to elect a new representative. The original rep would then become exclusively a regional representative.
* should a club representative post become vacant for any reason, the club will fill that position promptly in a manner of their choosing.
* should a regional post become vacant for any reason, the local club will proceed as stated above. Then, after the election of the new club representative, the two remaining regional reps will then oversee an election among the remaining club reps to elect a third regional representative.
* Representatives elected to fill a vacated post will serve the remainder of the term until the next election cycle.

Please chime in with your thoughts on this. We have the rest of this week to nominate and elect our city rep, and will need to have our results in by the 10th.

Thanks guys!

-b
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[flowersbrad]

Chhrrriiiisssss!!!!!!!

[iridetoobs]

I nominate myself because I hate representitive organizations, no hard feelings chris.

[brokebike]

Alright! Two votes so far for Chris.

One vote goes to Patrick for biggest jackass.
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[iridetoobs]

One of the three pillars of polo.

[elzie5000]

I'd like to see some vote buying and underhanded tricks.

Ooooh! One-on-one, no-holds-barred polo deathmatch for the job!!!

[politicalhero]

[dixietiff]

my vote is for chris
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[DoFlo]

I vote for Chris also.

[brokebike]

Thanks to everyone who has cast their vote so far! Keep 'em coming.
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[roller]

i like rocknroll and i vote for chris.

[iridetoobs]

Cuz I can't swim against the flow all the time. That and it's just bike polo. So fuck it. I assume at some junction in time it's gunna suck going to tournaments and then hopefully some new wave of polo will rise that I'll enjoy far better.

[elzie5000]

I vote Pat for his total lack of logic and reason.
Viva Anarchy!

[rocknroll]

Pat you have no clue what your talking about. How will it suck going to tournaments? you have been to 2 right? your saying you dont like polo anymore? unicycle polo is blowing up on the west coast maybe you can start playing that.

oh yea we are trying to take pick up away, so NO FUN ALLOWED!!!

[iridetoobs]

Thanks guys for putting words in my mouth, I was getting hungry.