Safety Chair for 2027 – the Club needs your help!

Voting for new board members will begin in November and we still need to find one or more candidates for the Safety chair role.   If you’re at all interested or just have questions please contact one of the nominating committee members at nominations@carolinacanoeclub.org .

Nominating Committee

• Alton Chewning
• Randy DiCello
• Holly Whitley

Safety Chair     outgoing chair: Chris Mattox

From Bylaws:

Section 13. Safety Chair. The Safety Chair shall: (a) plan and develop activities of an educational nature and investigate current development affecting water safety, safety in the use of canoes, kayaks, and other watercraft; (b) select instructors and/or safety boaters in accordance with ACA guidelines; and (c) serve, ex officio, as a member of the Board of Directors.

Description:

• Plan, organize, and schedule at least 2 ACA “Advanced Swift Water Rescue” (SWR) clinics and 1 ACA “Essentials of River Safety and Rescue” clinic each year (more or less covered by what William Holman schedules)
• Ensure that all safety clinics are registered with and insured by the ACA (the instructor for the course does this)
• Ensure that safety clinic student registration fees and stipend requests are submitted to the Club Secretary/Treasurer (outgoing chair will assist with this)
• Maintain an inventory of Club safety equipment (rescue PFDs, throw ropes, strainer bar, haul lines, audio-visual equipment, etc.)
• Recruit volunteers for the Safety Committee that are (or interested in being) certified ACA SWR instructors
• Current projects or works-in-progress:

• • Long-term we need to recruit and train more instructors for the club, but for the time being William Holman is meeting that need
  • There is interest in more courses, or a more scenarios based course. No pressure to put a bunch of energy into this as the spring SWR course did not fill at all.
  • There is some old equipment that needs to be evaluated/replaced.

• Prepare Budget (There is a running spreadsheet which has been copying budgets from previous years and just adjusting; outgoing chair can pre-populate a template to facilitate the process
• Time commitments: attend 4 board meetings per year(2 are virtual); generally spend about an hour per month