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Joe Spiezio of Braidwood Reed-Custer was re-elected as president.
Also re-elected were Dr. Sue Silvey of Bloomington Junior High as
vice president and Ron Graham of Virden as vice president. The board
also accepted resignations from the board by Steve Lee of Huntley,
Division A, and Stan Fitzanko of Pekin Edison, Division J.
Successors will be appointed at a later date. A total of 14 board
members are elected from geographic regions throughout the state.
Board committee assignments were approved as follows:
- By-Laws -- Dan Vaughan of Forest Prairie Central, Division D;
Mrs. Dana Isackson of Macomb, Division F; and two spots to be
determined following the appointment of new board members.
- Finance -- Ron Graham of Virden, Division D; Jim Hochstatter
of Galva, Division B; Ron Ervin of Diveron, Division L; and Dr.
Sue Silvey of Bloomington Junior High, Division G.
- Staff relations -- Jerry Birkey of Mount Zion, Division I;
Craig Carr of Newton Jasper County, Division M; Taunya Jenkins of
Peoria Roosevelt Magnet; and Tom Cox of Stewardson-Strasburg,
Division K.
Board members also are appointed on an annual basis as a liaison
to each of the advisory committees. Advisory committee assignments
for 2005-06 will be as follows: baseball, Gary Lewis; basketball,
Ron Ervin; cheerleading, Dana Isackson; cross country, Jerry Birkey;
music, Taunya Jenkins; Scholastic Bowl, Jim Hochstatter; softball,
to be announced; speech, to be announced; sportsmanship, Gary Lewis;
track and field, Craig Carr; volleyball, Tom Cox; and wrestling, Dan
Vaughan.
The board canvassed the ballots in the election of board members,
and accepted the nominating committee's report.
Committee action
The board acted on advisory committee recommendations in
cheerleading, music, Scholastic Bowl, sportsmanship, and track and
field, and on recommendations from the by-laws and finance
committees. Advisory committees are composed of one IESA board of
directors member and coaches, administrators and officials with
expertise in the respective sport or activity. Each sport or
activity has an advisory committee that meets once a school year.
The advisory committee reviews the terms and conditions,
administrative procedures, and all other aspects of the sport or
activity and makes recommendation to the board of directors. The
board committees are composed of IESA board members and meet once a
year.
The board took the following action regarding recommendations of
these advisory committees:
Cheerleading
- Two motions for recommendations to modify the participation
configuration in the two cheerleading divisions, cheer and
routine, did not receive a second. One recommendation proposed to
allow a member school to enter one cheerleading squad in the small
squad competition in the division and another cheerleading squad
in the large squad competition, provided the squads performed
different routines. The other recommendation was to allow a school
to enter a small team and a large team in the same division as
long as the squads performed different routines.
Music
- The board approved a recommendation to allow host schools to
use either Friday or Saturday to conduct the music organization
meet. If the host chooses Friday, the event cannot start on school
time.
- The board approved a recommendation to allow instrumental
ensembles to include from two to five members playing as many
parts as there are members in the ensemble.
- The board approved a recommendation reducing the minimum
number of members in an instrumental choir from nine to six.
- The board approved a recommendation eliminating the minimum
number of participants needed for the following organizational
events: concert band; orchestra; boys', girls' or mixed
accompanied choir; and boys', girls' or mixed a cappella choir.
- The board did not approve a recommendation to require that
judges tape-record comments, in addition to verbal and written
comments, at the organization contest. A judge still may tape
comments but is not required to do so.
- The board approved a recommendation that IESA audition
individuals and groups to sing the national anthem at the state
final events. Auditions would be in the fall of the year, and the
performers would begin with the 2005 girls' finals in basketball.
- The board approved a recommendation to allow each judge for
solo and ensemble events to select a Best of the Day performance
and for IESA to provide each student selected a certificate
recognizing that accomplishment. The site managers would convey
the list of winning students to the IESA office following the
contest hosted by the school, and the certificates would be sent
to the students at their school.
- The board approved a recommendation to allow each panel of
judges for organization events to select a Best of the Day
performance. The site managers would convey the list of the
schools with the respective winning groups to the IESA office and
those schools would receive a Best of the Day bar in place of the
Division I rating on the organization award plaque.
Scholastic Bowl
- The board approved a recommendation clarifying that if a
player on either team answers before being recognized by the
moderator, that team shall forfeit the right to answer the toss-up
and any rebounding bonus questions.
- The board approved a recommendation to clarify that pi will
always equal 3.14.
- The board approved a recommendation that once a match begins,
it cannot be protested.
- The board approved a recommendation to remove the qualifying
"with no improper fractions" words from the rule so that it
stipulates, "All fractions shall be expressed in lowest terms,"
and that if more than one answer is correct, the moderator will
have all correct answers.
- A recommendation to modify the layout for a given contest to
have the fans, extra team members and the teams all facing the
moderator table did not receive a second. Currently, the fans,
extra team members and moderator table face the teams.
- The board approved a recommendation to seed at the sectional
level and to have the seeding meeting on Wednesday of Week 40 in
the standardized calendar. That will be April 5 for the 2006 state
series. The sectional seed meeting will be at a participating
school, and all schools assigned to the sectional will be required
to attend. The top eight teams will be seeded, and four regional
hosts will be set at the meeting. Seeding will be done according
to the standard IESA seeding policy. The top four seeds will be
given the opportunity to host one of the four regionals correlated
with the sectional. If a top-seeded team declines to host, a
school seeded 4-8 will be given the second opportunity to host a
regional. If a regional site is still needed, one of the schools
not among the top eight seeds will be given the opportunity to
host the regional.
- The board accepted the blind-draw pairings made by the
advisory committee for the 2006 state finals in Class A and Class
AA.
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 Sportsmanship
- A recommendation to establish an Ejection Free Team Award --
to be provided to school teams that participated through a season
and the IESA state series, where applicable, without a player from
the team being ejected from a contest -- did not receive a second.
Track and field
- The board approved a recommendation to change the qualifying
standard in 24 of the 112 events in the overall state series.
(Charts showing the 2006 qualifying standards for 7A, 7AA, 8A and
8AA track and field in girls' and boys' divisions will be posted
on the "Track and Field" page of the IESA website in the near
future.)
- The board approved a recommendation to establish sectional
starting heights in pole vault as follows: 7A girls at 4-9, 7AA
girls at 5-6, 8A girls at 5-0 and 8AA girls at 6-0.
- The board authorized the IESA staff to survey member schools
regarding the order of events used at the sectional and state
final levels of competition.
- The board approved a recommendation to establish midnight
Tuesday preceding the Wednesday seeding meeting as the deadline
for member schools to submit online sectional entries. The
recommendation also mandates that no member school will be allowed
to participate in the state series if it does not submit its
sectional entries online beginning with the 2006-07 school term.
- The board did not approve a recommendation that each school
entering the track and field series submit a certification list
online prior to the seeding meeting and that by 2006-07 it be
required to be submitted online.
- The board approved a recommendation to create an additional
sectional meet in Class A and Class AA beginning with the next
school term, 2005-06. There will be 18 sectionals in Class A and
18 sectionals in Class AA.
By-laws
The board approved several changes in the by-laws and policies of
the association effective with the next school term. These changes
will be reflected in the 2005-06 Handbook, to be printed and mailed
to member schools in the annual pre-school supply mailing, and in
the online version.
- Clarified in a question and answer for 3.131 that member
schools cannot conduct organized practice on the site of state
series competition prior to that respective state series
competition.
- Changed the wording of a question and answer regarding the
penalty for player ejection to clarify that the player must serve
the penalty at the level of competition where the ejection
occurred and may not compete at any other level until the penalty
has been served.
- Added a question to clarify 2.042 that a student must be
passing each subject each week to be eligible.
- Clarified the answer to a question and answer about
requirements that a member school must adhere to is using students
from feeder schools.
- Added the words "public" to 2.037 and 2.038 to clearly
identify that home-school students and alternative school students
are eligible only at the public school they regularly attend. In
addition, a question and answer has been created to address the
question about the status of home-school students who attend
school part of the day.
- Clarified a question and answer for 3.030 by replacing
"Prairie State Games" with the generic term "summer tournaments."
- Changed 2.012 to reflect that only one team from a member
school may enter the state series.
- Modified the text of the classification system in the handbook
to reflect enrollment figures being used for consolidations and
annexations, new membership procedures, and losses or gains in
enrollment out of the ordinary. The board also approved a
procedure to petition for variance in enrollment.
Finance
The board approved the following recommendations by the
committee:
- Retained Craig Johnson, technology coordinator, and Jim Flynn,
special projects manager, on the staff for the 2005-06.
- Authorized the IESA staff to conduct a survey of supervision
and assessment charges by state series host schools.
- Authorized the staff to explore purchasing software to be used
by the track and field sectional managers in conducting their
meets. The board also asked the staff to develop options to
finance the project.
- Accepted a bid from DANKA for a five-year lease and
maintenance agreement of a Canon copying machine capable of
booklet making and network printing.
- Authorized the executive director to finalize negotiations
with Royal Publishing to print the IESA state final event
programs.
- Modified the percentage split of official state final apparel
revenues between the state final hosts and the board.
- Established a cost of $5 for all state final programs sold at
the 2005-06 state final events.
- Established a rate of 20 cents per mile as a travel
reimbursement for people serving on the strategic planning action
teams operating in the 2005-06 school term.
Division reports
At each meeting of the board of directors, time is devoted for
each board member to report on communication with and requests from
the member schools in the member's division. In addition, board
members also may make observations regarding the operation of the
association. Following is a report of those from the June 10
meeting:
Division C -- Mr. Spiezio reported to the board concern expressed
regarding problems with the starting at the state track and field
meet. He indicated that discussions had clarified the situation.
Other business
State final wrestling -- The board heard a report from the
executive director regarding ongoing discussions with the DeKalb
business community and Northern Illinois University Convocation
Center staff regarding the costs to IESA for conducting the state
final meet.
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