All are welcome to join us at the Spring Coaches Meeting. Membership is not required.

Lewiston High School, 156 East Avenue, Lewiston
May 17, 2019

8:30 Breakfast and General Talking

8:55 Welcome and introductions

• Vote on Parliamentarian for the meeting

9:00 Officers’ Reports

• Secretary Lyndsy Denk (Falmouth)
  • Approval of Fall Meeting minutes
• Treasurer ­­Ellen Parent (at-large)
  • Lunch ordering
  • Approval of Treasurer’s Report
• Vice President D’Arcy Robinson (Poland)
• President Brian Dodge (Deering)
  • Year report

9:30 Moderator’s reports

• Speech: Kailey Smith (Lawrence) and Pat Spilecki (Lewiston)
• Congressional Debate: Jason Curry (Greely)
• Lincoln Douglas: Matt Leland (Lincoln Academy)
• Public Forum: Joe Pelletier (Bangor)

10:00 Technology committee report (Lyndsy Denk, Ellen Parent)

10:15 Elections

• President-elect
• Vice President
• Treasurer
• All moderators

Lunch

2019-2020 Calendar

Old Business (none known)

New Business

• Trigger warnings (K. Smith) Best practices for delivering trigger warning, allowing competitors to excuse themselves from the room, how judges should manage/evaluate.
• Original Works definition around programs (K. Smith)
• Alignment of middle school competition season (L. Denk)
• NSDA rules proposals and how they affect the MFA (J. Pelletier)
  • Debate and extemp internet rules
  • Debate tiebreakers and eliminations
• NFHS Speech and Debate Framework (D. Robinson, B. Dodge)

2:30 Adjournment

Post Meeting

• Portland CFL report (Director D’Arcy Robinson)
• Maine NSDA report (District Chair Joe Pelletier)