Southwest Badminton Association

An Association Representing Region 5 of USAB. This includes Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. SWBA has been inactive for many years but as of 2014 is being resurrected to serve the badminton community.

This is the SWBA Internal Page, intended for use by the Board of Directors and other interested parties to document the workings of the organization. The External web page designed for the general public is www.swbadminton.org .

• Executive Committee
• Board of Directors
• Meetings
• Action Items
• Documents
• Reference

Executive Committee

• President:Tom Wilmshurst
  Elected 26JUL2016, 2 year term.
• Vice President: Marc Tsukakoshi
  Elected 26JUL2016, 2 year term.
• Secretary: Shannon Huang
  Elected 26JUL2016, 2 year term.
• Treasurer: Kyle Emerick
  Elected 26JUL2016, 2 year term.

Board of Directors

• Arizona
  • Richard Alexander (elected March 2014)
• California
  • Stan Bischof (NorCal - elected March 2014)
  • Eugene Carbajal (SoCal - elected March 2014)
  • Kyle Emerick (SoCal - elected March 2014)
  • Shannon Huang (SoCal - elected March 2014)
  • Marc Tsukakoshi (NorCal - elected March 2014)
  • Pavan Vedere (NorCal - elected March 2014)
  • Tom Wilmshurst (SoCal - elected March 2014)
• Hawaii
  • no current director
• Nevada
  • Henry Fan (elected March 2014)
• New Mexico
  • no current director
• Utah
  • no current director (no USAB members in Utah)

Action Items

These pieces of business are handled mostly remotely via email or telephone

• October 2014: Select Domain Name
• October 2014: develop artwork

Meetings

Physical and Web-Based meetings

• 20161226: General Meeting
  • Location: OCBC/network
  • Time: 18:00
  • Agenda / Meeting Notes
• 20161025: Annual Meeting
  • Location: network
  • Time: 20:00
  • Meeting Notes
• 20140701: First Annual meeting
  • Location: LA Badminton Club, 10410 Valley Blvd., El Monte, CA
  • Time: 13:30
  • Meeting Notes
• 20141020: Ratification Meeting
  • Location: online
  • Time: 12PM PDT
  • Meeting Notes

Organizing Documents

• Bylaws
  • Working Copy - most current copy with markups for future amendments
  • As adopted 20OCT2014 (as signed by all officers)
  • Drafts
    • 02OCT2014  - includes markups by Stan and Tom
    • 19SEP2014 - includes markups by Stan
  • Initial Copy - inherited from old SWBA May 2014
• Constitution
  • Working Copy- most current copy with markups for future amendments
  • As adopted 20OCT2014 (as signed by all officers)
  • Drafts
    • 02OCT2014 - includes markups by Stan and Tom
    • 19SEP2014 - includes markups by Stan
  • Initial Copy - inherited from old SWBA May 2014
• IRS
  • 501c(3) Filing (original work from 1994)
    • 2013 renewal (renewed online at irs.gov)

Reference

• Old Web Site - www.swbabadminton.org existed roughly 2000-2008. Was never fleshed out but did have a few items such as a logo on an otherwise blank entry page, leading to a rudimentary index page. The individual state pages had colored backgrounds and some had a few places to play but nothing much else. Starting in 2009 this domain was owned by a group in Japan whose registration expires in October 2014. This site does not appear to be actually used and may be just parking.
• Joe Silverman from the old SWBA contributed an archive of documents that we can use as a starting point. These are of mid-nineties vintage as it has been a while since SWBA was active. Joe also found a BW version of the old logo.
  • 1994 Bylaws
  • 1994 Constitution
  • 1994 Status
  • 1994 IRS Filings
• IRS documents
  • IRC 501C(3) - the final word direct from IRS
  • Incorporation sample from IRS