Board Meeting

February 9, 2006

 

Meeting called to order by Sophia Meyer at 6:08pm.

Roll Call: Sophia Meyer, Steve Schaffer, Steve Langley, Dan Vielhauer, Chuck Hemmert, Leslie Nemeth, Jim Oebker, Sandi Bownas, Cathy Ivazes.

January Minutes: Steve S motioned to accept January minutes. Steve L 2^nd. All in favor.

 

Committee Reports:

 

District VI Meeting:

A district VI position is open, a chairperso! n is needed for Soccerfest. A message will be sent out to our coaches to see if there is any interest. CYSA’s Annual General Meeting will take place March 18 & 19^th in Sacramento. Saturday is the equipment show and Sunday is for changing bylaws, etc. All CYSA coaches have voting rights.

A detailed financial report about Cherry Island was handed out.

Competitive Leagues will remain active in CYSA and the big switch to US soccer only has not happened.

Referee instructors are ready to be assigned.

 

Metro/ Competitive: GCYSL requires its metro and comp coaches to have a referee license. Now District VI will require a team representative to have a ref license. The first GCU meeting will be Monday, Feb 13^th. Try-outs will be discussed and dates set then.

 

Referees: Dave and Jim would like the take the referee instructor class so they can teach our refs. Everyone present was supportive of this idea.

Re-registering referees will be reimbursed for their yearly licensing fees.

 

Treasurer: Chuck and Hosea will be meeting on Monday. There is also someone new who contacted the league.

 

Fields: In 2005, Ready Springs and Bear River upper fields were rested. This year we need to give relief to Sierra College and Deer Creek. The league needs to establish a U10 game field for rec and metro games. The U14 field at Lymon Gilmore can be dismantled and a U10 and some U8 fields can be created, giving some relief to Scotten. Silver Springs/ Bitney Springs Charter School might be available. U10 metro and some rec teams could be relocated to the upper field at BRHS. There are also schools in the south county ! we have not utilized and need to check into.

 

Coaches: Space is limited! Teams will be formed based on the number of coaches available as of July 1^st 2006. Coaches responses are coming in this month to a questionnaire Steve L sent out.  Each year more coaches are returning greatly improving our program.

 

Volunteers: We need to increase volunteer participation by the parents of our league members. We’d like every team to provide a volunteer this year. We’d also like to see volunt! eers take more direct control over fields, setting up and taking down nets and flags. Suggestions were numerous, but Leslie will need specific information for her to develop this program.

 

New Business: We need to do our budgets for the 2006-07 season. The dates of registration will be sent out in the newsletter. Office hours have not been set yet.

Soccer Camps: Contracts: The league currently has contracts with two camp organizations. We can run 2 camps with one focusing on general skills and another with more specific aims. We can also skip putting on a camp this year. Sophia restated GCYSL’s policy on contracts; that all contracts must come to the board for ! approval, all contracts shall remain in GCYSL’s office, and the president is responsible for signing all contracts.

Uniforms: Waiting to hear if Samba will be starting a swap shop, or if we need a volunteer to run one ourselves, or find a local consignment store to take on the task. GCYSL could also absorb the costs and pass out new jerseys each year instead of keeping teams with the same uniforms thus eliminating the need to have a swap shop or team consistency.

 

Good of the Game: Sandi gets to take her boys to see the US v Japan in San Francisco!

Meeting adjourne! d at 7:40pm.

 

Minutes submitted by Cathy Ivazes.