Kirkwood Judo Club Blog

NGB’s Await USOC Budget

The National Governing Bodies (NGBs) continue to wait for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to receive an approved budget from their new eleven-member Board. During the Board’s December 3^rd and 4^th meeting, they requested additional information on the USOC’s financial plan and deferred action on the budget until they received and evaluated the new data. This delay leaves both the NGB’s and the USOC in a program vacuum and is unprecedented in that the organization enters its new fiscal year without an approved budget, nor the ability to fund the grants it typically provides to the NGB’s months in advance of a new quad.

NGB’s including USA Judo presented their 2005 – 2008 Strategic Plans and quadrennial funding request to the USOC’s Sports Performance Committee following the Athens’s Olympic Games. It is USOC’s Sports Performance Committee that will make the allocations to NGB’s in response to their plans and request, once an approved budget is received. In additional to the NGB’s quad request, athlete assistance programs, including the Elite Athlete Health Insurance (EAHI) program, remain unfulfilled and in limbo awaiting the missing budget.

USOC’s Sports Partnerships are currently preparing the NGB’s Performance Partnership Agreements, (PPA) in response to the Strategic Plans and the Sports Performance Committee’s recommendation on each individual NGB’s funding request.