This is the archive of the meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA). The minutes were traditionally posted in Disc Golf World News, but to open the space in that journal for more "interesting" content, we've moved their publication to the World Wide Web. We still publish brief summaries of Board meetings in each issue of DGWN, but the official minutes are here, and can be opened and read by anyone with access to the ubiquitous Acrobat Reader. (Click here to download it for free).
The PDGA Board of Directors meets approximately every month, usually by teleconference. We try to make it together for a face to face meeting once or twice a year. In general, the membership is invited to observe during the face to face meetings, which in 2004 will take place in Scottsdale, Arizona prior to The Memorial National Tour event at the end of February and very likely in Augusta, Georgia at the National Disc Golf Center in September or October. You can contact Board members and other significant PDGA volunteers and staff using the functionality on this web page.
We are often asked why minutes cannot be shared "within a week or two" of a meeting. The truth is, that it usually takes a week or two to draft the minutes (Good minutes are hard to write, it is an art.) - which are then proofread by several staff and Board members, and which then must be approved by a vote of the Board during a subsequent meeting (and sometimes we forget, so it goes to the next meeting). Only then can the approved minutes be published on this website.
A note: For members who are relatively inexperienced about Board meetings and the responsibilities of PDGA Directors, it is easy to look at a motion and a vote in the minutes of a meeting and assume, because the motion carried unanimously, that there was no debate or no significant discussion. That is not the case. Every member of the Board takes his or her responsibilities very seriously and what ends up as a unanimous vote very often culminates months or weeks of email discussions and a vigorous telephone discussion with wildly varying perspectives. We find it very often to be true that "multiple heads are better than one" - meaning that each of us brings a different perspective and a different set of life experiences to the Board, and each of us is quite willing to listen to others and change our minds or arrive at a compromise in the best interest of the PDGA and our wonderful sport of disc golf.
Here is the current list of approved minutes from Board meetings:
2003-01-29 Minutes2003-02-25 Minutes
2003-03-04 Minutes
2003-04-03 Minutes
2003-05-08 Minutes
2003-07-31 Minutes
2003-08-25 Minutes
2003-09-25 Minutes
2003-10-13 Minutes
2003-11-19 Minutes
2004-01-06 Minutes
2004-02-10 Minutes
2004-02-24 Minutes
2004-04-08 Minutes
2004-05-06 Minutes
2004-06-08 Minutes
2004-07-20 Minutes
2004-09-21 Minutes
2004-09-27 Minutes
2004-11-03 Minutes
2004-12-14 Minutes
2005-01-25 Minutes
2005-03-01 Minutes
2005-03-31 Minutes
2005-05-18 Minutes
2005-07-13 Minutes
2005-08-31 Minutes
2005-09-22 Minutes
2005-10-20 Minutes
2005-12-15 Minutes
2006-02-16 Minutes
2006-03-01 Minutes
2006-05-09 Minutes
2006-07-12 Minutes
2006-08-30 Minutes
2006-09-21 Minutes
2006-11-14 Minutes
2006-12-06 Minutes
2007-01-03 Minutes
2007-02-07 Minutes
2007-03-07 Minutes
2007-04-04 Minutes
2007-04-18 Minutes
2007-05-02 Minutes
2007-06-06 Minutes
2007-07-11 Minutes
2007-08-15 Minutes
2007-09-05 Minutes
2007-09-21 Minutes
2007-10-10 Minutes
2007-11-07 Minutes
2007-12-05 Minutes
2007-12-13 Minutes
2008-01-09 Minutes
2008-02-06 Minutes
2008-03-05 Minutes
2008-04-02 Minutes
2008-05-02 Minutes
2008-06-04 Minutes
Here are the results of online (electronic) Board motions:
2003-11-03 Minutes2003-12-08 Minutes
2004-08-31 Minutes
2004-09-01 Minutes
2004-09-14 Minutes
2005-01-18 Minutes
2005-02-26 Minutes
2007-01-07 Minutes
2007-02-19 Minutes
2007-03-23 Minutes
2007-04-12 Minutes
2007-06-22 Minutes
2007-08-30 Minutes
2007-10-16 Minutes
2007-11-17 Minutes
2007-12-12 Minutes
2008-01-29 Minutes
2008-02-15 Minutes
2008-05-12 Minutes