DeWitt Soccer Club
February 19, 2003
Members Present: Pat Shafer, Dave Barnhill, Lany Taite, Terri Murdoch, Chuck Murdoch, Angie Schneider, Karen Eible, Mark Kellogg, Ruth Garland, Bruce Thomas.
Treasurer's Report: Bill received from Superior Electric for $14,400. Includes Labor and one year warranty. Internet server was paid approximately $19.00 by a credit card, Bruce will check into who paid this.
Secretary's Report: Accepted with spelling errors corrected.
Training & Education: Dave talked with Dan Jury in regards to SoccerZone Camp. It will run June 16-20th. Flyers to be available in March. 75% proceeds to Soccer Zone, 25% to Soccer Club. This will be on the mailing lists ",ith all SZ camps.
Dave will be checking into whether High School camp will be run this year.
AYSO: No Representative present.
CASL: All coaches were represented and submitted paperwork for this season on February 10. CASL's coaches meeting is not set as of yet. There will be no U-19 boys team.
High School: The portable dugout funding from the Boosters has been approved. It will be navy with DeWitt Panther logo.
Fields: Chuck will be getting A YSO schedule rrom Marc Thomas. Chuck will be getting locations set up for practice. Need to have try-out dates for USSF. Chuck will go ahead and reserve high school fields for June 16 through 30th to be safe. Reservations for the SZ camp have been made. They will be redoing the High school fields to make two U-8 and two V-I 0 fields.
Promotions: Karen has arranged for Dandee Printing to print all the applications, programs and letterhead for the Golf outing. Also sheets to hand out to each student. All for minimal cost of approximately $55.00 Karen has contacted Galyans and they are now undecided. She will pursue further. She is looking for ideas from coaches, boardmembers and teams for sponsorships and to find golfers to participate!
Terri Murdoch has started on the registration forms for the 4X4 tournament similar to last year design. Copy was given to all to check for need for possible changes, rules, etc. She also developed a preliminary draft of Tournament Committees. There is a need for more help on many committees. Coaches and Parent Reps will be asked to help in this area. There will be a meeting for the 4X4 tournament on Wednesday, April 9th at 7:30pm.
New Business: March's meeting will be moved to Thursday March 20 due to the facility not being available on Wednesday.
Mark Kellogg is going to check into the process of the Soccer Club becoming a charitable organization.
The Township and the City recreational leagues are very close to becoming joint committees.
There would be no more resident/nonresident fees. The signing date is March 24th with a start date of June 1 st. They are looking for people to serve on the board. They need three people from the township and three from the city.
Old Business: Guest, Jeff Crooks, Assistant coach for MSU men's soccer team came to talk about the possibility of clinics for each team individually. This would be 1-2 times a week per team to provide instruction, help train, organize, give new ideas, skills, and teach uniformity on all levels. The cost approximated at $50.00 per player. One of the coaches, Greg Lyman suggested possibly a camp for interested individuals or workshop for coaches. Other suggestions were Team camps for a couple of hours for four days, and the need for Director of Coaching/player development. Bruce Thomas motioned for a presentation to the coaches on March 20th, seconded by Karen Eible. Motion approved.
Adjournment: Motion to adjourn was made by Ruth Garland, seconded by Dave Barnhill.
Motion approved. Meeting adjourned at 9:22pm
Submitted by Angie Schneider, Secretary