Mark Gaskill and Lisa Tate have resigned as USHPA Regional
Directors. Ryan Voight and Don Lapinsky were appointed the new Regional
Directors to server out their terms. Bill Bellcourt and Andrew Vanis were also
nominated in Region four. It is a new era.

Internet voting (a stab at trying to get a little more participation). The USHPA
is planning on doing electronic elections for upcoming election for Regional
Directors. They currently have 7400 emails addresses for USHPA members in their
database. They will send out a  postcard to all members telling them to
sign up for internet voting or contact office for ballot.

New reimburse schedule for hotel and travel expenses for Regional Directors. It
goes from $400 to $600 per meeting (reimbursal).  A number of directors do
not ever use the reimbursement, like Steve Kroop of Flytec. Steve is basically
giving a donation back to the association.

$20,000 will be spent on nine markets to advertise in movie theatres for six
weeks during movie RIO. It is predicted that the advertising will reap two
million impressions. FOX is letting the USHPA use HD footage of the trailer and
short clips of hang gliding training on a specific website, probably
http://flylikeabird.org
(doesn't exist yet).

I would like to see $20,000 spent on supporting whatever hang gliding
instructors think that would be useful to them to attracting new students. I
doubt that this $20,000 spend on impressions will be particularly successful.