MINUTES OF THE
NCAA DIVISION III ADMINISTRATIVE
COMMITTEE CONFERENCE NO. 4
Those participating were Michael Miranda, Division III
Management Council chair; Douglas Hastad, Division III Management Council;
Phillip Stone, Division III Presidents Council chair; Sandra Slabik, Division
III Management Council vice-chair; Ivory Nelson, Division III
Presidents Council vice-chair; Dan Dutcher, NCAA; and Bridget Belgiovine, NCAA,
recording secretary.
[NOTE: The
following action occurred
Acting for the Division III Management
Council and Presidents Council, the Administrative Committee approved the
following recommendations regarding two actions items presented to them by the
NCAA Division III Championships Committee for approval prior to the start of
the 2005-06 academic year:
1. Ground
Transportation – 2005-06 Budget Reallocations.
a.
Recommendation.
Reallocate funds from the current travel budget and change the process
of how institutions are reimbursed for ground transportation to championships. Participating institutions will receive
a $2,500 flat fee bus rate and $1.25 per mile for ground transportation.
b.
Rationale. The concept of providing a flat fee
rather than the actual cost will allow institutions to better plan for
transportation needs as they will have an allocated
c.
Budget Impact. $339,300 in reallocation.
2.
Required Published Rankings – Team
Sports.
The committee confirmed that the number of published rankings be
decreased from four to three, starting three weeks prior to the weekend of
selections. Sports committees shall
do a regional ranking the weekend of selections to use as part of the selection
criteria (e.g., record versus ranked teams criterion), but that ranking shall
not be published. The committee
noted that this action was based on feedback from sports committees and staff
regarding the timing of the published rankings (i.e., four weeks prior to the
weekend of selections has probed to be too early in the season for the majority
of sports.
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