I have gone over the revised PVA Officials Committee Operating Procedures that we discussed at the Jan 16 meeting and made them consistent with the PVA By-Laws.

See my edited copy.

You will note that in Article 2.2, I lifted the Duties and responsibilities out of the PVA BY-Laws Article 13.B, since the PVA-OC can not have duties different from the PVA By-Laws. Also, the PVA Officials Chair is elected as part of the PVA election, and the election for our remaining officers are not a part of the PVA election By-Laws. So, I'm proposing the election for the remaining PVA-OC officers be held at the first regular meeting (designated PVA-OC annual meeting) following the PVA annual meeting. In our relationship to the USATF OC, our PVA-OC Chair is also the certification chair who is the one recognized by the USATF OC. Extra representatives are also granted based on our size. On appeals and grievences, we can not usurp the PVA By-Laws, so I changed that section to making reference to the PVA By-Laws. On the budget, PVA by its By-Laws has a Budget Committee, with all committee chairs as members. That is the body where budgets are supposed to go to be developed for PVA. Also, nothing in our duties in the PVA By-Laws allows us to contract for money to furnish officials for meets.

So, it would take a change in the PVA By-Laws to change PVA-OC duties to allow for that.

All and all, I think the edits bring the document into compliance with the PVA By-Laws. We will discuss these edits at the next meeting prior to voting on what to accept as revised By-Laws.

-- Dr. Bill Price

• Minutes of Officials' Meeting, Thursday, October 19, 2006
• USATF Rules Changes Adopted at the 2004 Convention
• USATF Rule Changes for 2004
• Potomac Valley Officials' Committee Standard Operating Procedures (proposed)
• How to Become a USATF Certified Official
• Officials' Upgrade