MRA Spring Meeting "New Blood" Scholarships

The MRA budget allocated $1000 to each region to be used to send people to the spring meeting in Estes Park, CO. Recipients of this scholarship must A. have never attended a national MRA meeting before, and B. been a member of your team for at least 2 years. 

PLEASE LET SHAUN KNOW how many qualified team members you would like support with these funds, and then we'll discuss how to divide up the funds.

MRA Intermountain Region Minutes

Region team reps met Saturday morning before the MRA Winter Business Meeting in SLC on February 7, and here's a quick review of that meeting:

1. We held region elections, with the following results:

Chair: Shaun Roundy (Utah)

Vice Chair: Mark Butler (Ravalli)

Secretary: Patrick Bentley (Cache)

Thanks, new leaders, for stepping up! And past ones, Alan and Jared, for your contributions.

2. To facilitate organizing recerts, the region needs your help to collect names and contact information for available evaluators for your teams. This is probably the biggest job your region board does and having this list will make our job a lot easier. Please gather and send me the following for each evaluator, and thanks for your support in these efforts:

Name, Phone, Email, Appropriate to act as lead or junior evaluator?

(Lead evaluators must have been evaluators in the past and have strong technical skills; junior evaluators must have at least participated in a recert in some way and have reasonable technical skills.)

3. Shaun will send out some questions to learn how each team functions and share that with the region so all our members can become more familiar with other teams. These will be posted at our blog, at http://intermountainrescue.blogspot.com/

4. What more can we do as a region? Joint trainings, activities, information sharing, recruitment.

5. Need to update the region bylaws.These must then be approved by the MRA board of directors (which is everyone voting at national meetings)

6. Shaun is doing a webinar on the winter business meeting and MRA membership in general.

7. Make an auto proxy where teams send the region chair when the meeting is announced. Then, if the team shows up they can just vote, otherwise the chair will have the proxy on hand.

Present: Wayne Bassham (SL), Jason Tanner (SL), David Wrobel (Cache), Jared Randall (Weber), John Sohl (Weber), Mark Butler (Ravalli), Patrick Bentley (Cache), Eric Gunnerson (Cache), Alan Bergstrom (SL), Sheri Trbovich (Weber), Shaun Roundy (Utah)

Thanks, John and Jared, for taking minutes.