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Beaumont Chapter Football Officials Association Present: Pres. Gary Downey, 1st VP John Ballard, 2nd VP Greg Peveto, Sec/Tr. Geoff Kret, M/L Banks Winn, Div. 2 Rep Wayne Pratt, Div. 3 Rep. David Landrum, Div. 4 Rep Mike Defee, Div. 5 Rep Greg Sims, North Co. Assignor George Bryant, Sgt-at-Arms Eric Carcerano Note that previous Member-at-Large Frank LeBlanc has turned in a letter of resignation from his position on the Board of Directors and the minority members of the chapter subsequently elected Banks Winn in caucus to be the Member-at-Large for the remainder of the term. Absent: Div. 1 Rep Bob Wortham, South Co. Assignor Larry
Bennett The Board of Directors of the Beaumont Chapter met at the Jefferson County Courthouse before the chapter meeting on 22 September 2003. The board met to receive the investigation committee report and recommendations regarding an incident in the Spring of 2003 at an LCM baseball game with Terry Landry, and a letter of complaint from Bob Wortham's crew regarding an incident with Terry Landry at the WOS @ LCM game on October 25, 2002. The letter was turned in the chapter officers and forwarded to the investigation committee. The Greg Peveto, Randy Brevell, and James Roberson investigative committee reported that they were under instructions from TASO Executive Director Bud Alexander that the Beaumont Chapter has no jurisdiction in the LCM baseball incident. Mr. Landry's involvement in that incident did not involve the football chapter since at the time Mr. Landry was not a member in good standing of the football chapter due to non-payment of dues. The investigative committee did report to the board, on the subject of the WOS/LCM incident of 10/25/02, that Mr. Landry's version and the complaint from Mr. Wortham's crew essentially matched and only differed in the degree of crowd incitement that was caused by Mr. Landry's actions. Despite that, the committee found that the complaint was valid. The committee recommended to the board that Mr. Landry should be issued a written reprimand that stated that any future similar actions could result in further sanctions up to expulsion from the chapter. The committee also recommended that Mr. Landry be required to give a public verbal apology to the chapter since it was a public forum where the incident occurred. Greg Peveto moved that the board accept the committee report. Banks Winn seconded the motion. More discussion was held. John Ballard moved to close the discussion after making sure that the words "up to expulsion" were to be included in the letter of reprimand and also that the required apology be first submitted in written form to the President and approved prior to the verbal delivery to the chapter. The revised motion carried by a show of hands. The other order of business at this meeting was for President Downey to name an election committee of John Payton, Tony Stines, Dan Bowden, Chris Wohleb, and Mitch McGee. The next board of directors meeting date will be set by President Downey. Geoffrey Kret, Secretary |