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The USPA Board of Directors met July 13-15 in San Francisco for the summer meeting.
Highlights include:

• Scott Stewart was elected to serve as Eastern Regional Director and Jay Stokes as Vice President for the remainder of the 2007-2008 term.
• An amendment was made to the group member pledge that requires GM DZs to establish and disseminate landing procedures that will include separation of high speed and normal landings.

• The title for the top tier of the instructional rating hierarchy has been named Instructor Examiner and will be effective when the 2009 IRM is published (September 2008).
• Any USPA member conducting a tandem jump must hold a USPA Tandem Instructor rating and a current equipment manufacturers type rating, effective with the publication of the 2009 SIM (October 2008).
• Mile Hi Skydiving Center in Longmont, Colorado, was selected to host the 2008 U.S. Canopy Piloting Nationals.
• Skydive Spaceland in Rosharon, Texas, won the bid to host the 2009 U.S. National Skydiving Championships to include canopy piloting; they also won the bid to host the 2009 National Collegiate Championships.
• USPA will bid to host the first World Cup for Vertical Relative Work in Skydive Arizona in Eloy in 2008.
• President Glenn Bangs announced the intention of Executive Director Chris Needels to retire on or about November 1. Needels has served in the position for more than 13 years.
• A full report will appear in an upcoming issue of Parachutist.