The meeting was called to order at 2:58 PM by Chairman Louise Lepie at the 11111 Katy Freeway, Houston. Other Officers present were Vice Chairman Jerry Dunaway, Secretary Matt Delevoryas, and Treasurer Rachel El-Saleh. Jerry Dunaway was present by telephone, in accord with the power of the Chairman to call a meeting not held in person.

It was noted that the meeting had been called by the Chairman earlier in the day, without any member of the Executive Committee receiving 48 hours notice of the meeting. All Executive Committee members were noted to have waived notice by virtue of their willing participation in the meeting.

Matt Delevoryas moved to dispense with the reading of the minutes of the previous two meetings. The motion passed by general consent.

Before the meeting began, the Executive Committee members had discussed motions which would be agreeable during the meeting, and the Secretary had the texts of the motions at hand.

Louise Lepie moved: "The Executive Committee notes that the Houston Cup #1 tournament on September 10-11, 2005 only partially complied with the September 9, 2005 resolution of the Executive Committee prohibiting division tournaments from requiring fencer membership in any organization other than the USFA, and did not comply with the September 9, 2005 resolution of the Executive Committee requiring all askFRED pre-registrants to be notified of the removal of the requirement to join any organization besides the USFA, and notes that the tournament was run on both days in manners which the representatives of the Tournament Committee stated made them reluctant to certify the tournament as having conformed to USFA rules, and notes that Katy Blades Fencing Academy must have been a member of the USFA to have secured the weekend for the tournament and then run the tournament but Katy Blades Fencing Academy did not belong to the USFA. The Executive Committee finds sufficient reason to declare that the tournament was not a USFA-sanctioned divisional tournament. However, in consideration of the trust of the participating fencers, in consideration of some actions taken which were consistent with dropping the requirement of fencers to join an organization other than the USFA, and in consideration of the ambiguity in USFA rules and lack of clarity in the expectations of the Division concerning minimum quality standards in areas where the USFA rules do not themselves specify actual minimum standards of quality, the Executive Committee affirms that the Houston Cup #1 tournament on September 10-11, 2005 is a USFA-sanctioned tournament of the Gulf Coast Texas Division, but that if these circumstances recur, the result would probably not be declared a USFA-sanctioned tournament of the Gulf Coast Texas Division." By general consent, a counted vote was ordered. The motion passed 4-0.

The assembly noted that Salle Mauro was scheduled to hold a tournament the immediately following weekend, September 17-18, and that the resolutions enacted on September 9 had required certain actions by the local organizing committee of that tournament. The assembly noted that it had expected askFRED to be used to notify all pre-registrants, by Sunday afternoon the 11th, of the dropping of any requirement to belong to any organization besides the USFA, and that askFRED was not so used. However, the assembly noted that the requirement had been dropped on a timely basis and the pre-registrants notified by alternate means than a message from askFRED. Louise Lepie moved that it is the sense of the Executive Committee that the Salle Mauro tournament scheduled for the weekend of September 17-18, 2005 was not in violation of any September 9, 2005 resolution of the Executive Committee. The motion passed without objection.

The assembly discussed needs to clarify what quality standards are mandatory for tournaments of the Division, but concluded that additional motions neither were needed before adjournment nor as pressing as the schedule constraints inspiring a prompt adjournment.

Jerry Dunaway moved to adjourn. The motion passed without objection. The meeting adjourned at 3:09 PM.