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2019 started with Lake Macquarie state series where there were a couple of parents very upset with decisions made by officials . A repeat happened at Bathurst and resulted in the NSW board re-adopting the policy of only team and club representative's being able to approach officials at a race meeting as well as a zero tolerance to abuse from riders or parents. The response from that decision was immediate and very positive there has been a noticeable calm at the rest of the events after that and no officials were confronted by abuse. BMXNSW has also started monitoring how many officials from individual clubs we get and are in the process of informing clubs that they are required to encourage the recruitment of officials to represent their club. This has been a great success - we had a good number of state level course attendances,17 in total. We are currently in a good position for officials for States Titles and 2020 racing. The new format of the state level course was easy to present and all that attended left with a good understanding of how racing needs officials.