February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Approximately 80 clubs from around the country are expected to be represented at the meetings scheduled for the Nov. 16 weekend at Gaelic Park in suburban Oak Forest. Various committee meetings are on the agenda for Friday night, while the election of officers and the processing of motions will take place on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
Given that a record number of motions, 50 in total, have been submitted to the board, a long and exciting convention seems to be on the cards, and to add to the excitement four of the existing board officers have been nominated for the top job of chairman. Except for the position of secretary, for which the incumbent is the only nominee several candidates have been nominated for all of the other offices on the board. For the first time the convention will elect a delegate to Central Council. Until this year Central Council’s management committee appointed a delegate to the council to represent both the New York and North American County boards with each county alternating representation every two years. Since each county was granted separate representation on the council following this years Congress they are now free to elect their own county delegate.
Following a year of turmoil and frustration surrounding the registration of players because of new emigration laws and the temporary suspension on sanctions at a critical time in the season the vast majority of the motions on the agenda pertain to this issue. In the ongoing saga, involving the increasing number of problems that have emerged with the processing of summer player sanctions players from Ireland and the confusion associated with the registration of home-based (green card) and sanction (white card) players, it seems just a matter of time before proposals are adopted for major changes to player registration within the NACB. In an attempt to streamline the process and put into place a system that would be feasible to operate and acceptable to Croke Park officials the following motion is being proposed by the NACB committee: