Third notification of the 2021 Cycling Ireland Off-road Commission AGM

This is the third notification of Cycling Ireland Off-road Commission Annual General Meeting (AGM) which takes place on Monday 6 September 2021 at 8 pm via Zoom. 
Details of the nominations and motions are shown below.
Registration for the AGM closes on Sunday 5 September 2021 at close of play.
All members of Cycling Ireland clubs can attend however only nominated delegates from the clubs are entitled to vote. Registration will be done online (link here).

Nominations
I, Al Redmond, Licence number 2LC0356, would like to nominate Kevin Moran for the position of Trail Development Rep.

I, David O’Neill, Licence number 21A40709, would like to nominate Caroline Martinez for the position of XC Coordinator.

Proposals
I, Terence O’Neill, Licence number 21LC0040 would like to put forward the following motion.
That the Off Road Commission have the following included in the document
Cycling Ireland General Administrative Regulations, Technical Regulations, and Procedures, Apendix At. 7 – National Championships,Mountain Bike.
1. Masters M60 be added to Cross Country XC National Championships.
2. Masters M50 and M60 be added to Marathon Cross County XCM National Championship.

I, Gareth Gibbons, Licence number (21LC1996) would like to put forward the following motions

#1 – Add a Women’s rep / coordinator to the offroad commission. If we want to see an increase in female rider participation in our offroad events we should bring in and listen to more varied perspectives than currently exist.

#2 – Set the time allowed for enduro events to eliminate clustering of riders and the need to rush new riders through the stages. The new practice at some events has been to only allow 4 hours to complete all stages.
– At other events the full day (from course open to 30 minutes prior to prize giving) has been allowed to complete all stages as many times as the rider deems necessary.
– given that there is no practice currently, the first attempt is a practice run, unlikely to be taken at 100%.
– There has been noticeable negative feedback from riders who are being given too little of a gap to the next rider, resulting in riders catching slower/ new riders too quickly and resulting in both parties losing out.
– zero / little time for a break if riders are trying to get 2 runs in (practice & race run).

#3 – do more to make offroad events more inclusive.. like what the Grassroots are doing this year by allowing women to pre register for events.
– hold places for women and facilitate their involvement in the events that sell out early like enduro.