Ken, do you have a complete safety code in hand to bring as a recommendation? Simply urging the board to simplify the current safety code will go no where ... as a member you ARE MAAC, and simply asking the association to make changes without offering solutions won't get you any results!

I also disagree that there is ambiguity in the use of 'qualified' and 'experienced' in this context.
Qualified is simply someone that the club has determined has the skills to fly in the event (MAAC Wings program sets a reference for acceptable standards) and Experienced is equally a judgment call by the club. This puts the power of decisions in the hands of the people operating the event/field - where you want it - rather than having a set of qualifications set by people who never have and never will see the flying site or - possibly - have never flown the discipline in question!