DISTRICT UPDATE by Shirley Seals

Board meetings held at the Orlando Nationals were very productive. The budget presented by the Finance Committee was approved.

Roger Smith, from Sacramento, California, was elected President of ACBL for 2005. Roger has been invited to come to Florida when his schedule will permit.

The following is of particular interest to Units within our District:

The ACBL President will appoint a committee of board, management, and ACBL members to hire an insurance consultant or attorney to assist with the following tasks:

(1) Review all liability insurance policies available to cover ACBL and its districts and units and report to the BoD specifically on what is covered and not covered by these policies at each level.

(2) Investigate avenues for insuring ACBL and all its districts and units and make recommendations for purchasing liability policies that will cover ACBL and all its districts and units.

(3) Make recommendations about how ACBL and districts and units should pay for these policies with a goal of making the insurance affordable for all levels of our organization.

(4) Make a preliminary report to the Board of Directors at the Spring 2005 meeting in Pittsburgh with a final report no later than the Summer 2005 meeting in Atlanta

The David Bruce Life Master Pairs (LM-5000 MPs) and the Sally Young Life Master Pairs (LM-1500 MPs) are permanently added to the Summer NABC schedule. Except for the masterpoint restrictions, the conditions of contest will be identical to the six-session Life Masters’ Pairs that has no upper masterpoint limit.

Units will receive 11% of full dues payments and Life Master Service fees paid by their members.

My motion to have the maximum age limit of 20 years for Junior Camp attendees failed.

Hope to see all of you at the many Regionals coming up in District 9 in 2005. Please keep your copies of the Sunshine Bridge News which contain the dates and locations of Sectionals and Regionals throughout the year.