OUSA BoD is having a phone meeting on Monday, November 28. The agenda is available at the following link, though I've pasted the text below because I imagine the agenda will be taken down after the meeting.
http://www.us.orienteering.org/upcoming-board-meet...
Some notes from me:
1. Athlete insurance is not required by IOF; see
IOF Rules of Competition for Foot-O. Section 6.4 states "Competitors participate at their own risk. Insurance against accidents shall be the
responsibility of their Federation or themselves, according to national regulations." That said, I was able to find travel insurance for a hypothetical 2-week trip to Estonia for a 32-year old for $15, or about $1/day. Apparently the teams spent $8472 last year at the insistence of OUSA; this seems gratuitous. Most of the teams will have groups of ~10 traveling for about two weeks, which at $1/day would amount to expenditures of $150. Suppose the junior trip had 20 people traveling for 42 days (six weeks); this would amount to $840.
2. The sanctioning item seems fairly routine. To be honest, I'm not sure why the Board has a role in this; the sanctioning committee seems better suited to these decisions.
3. No idea what the JTESC rule change request is.
4. The safety guidelines seems more of a procedural task than one designed to have an impact. It's important to jump through the various hoops to ensure the validity of our insurance, but I don't get the sense that OUSA approved safety guidelines are going to impact orienteering in the US very much. National events nominally have a safety plan, but at the events I've helped organize, there didn't seem to be any external enforcement of our plan.