DeWitt Soccer Club

Meeting minutes – Monday, February 7, 2005

Board members present: Dave Barnhill, Tom VanderWoude, Chuck Murdoch, Angie Schneider, Tony Harris, Toni Harris, Mark Helinski, Larry Tait, Mark Kellogg

Guests: None – Dan Raben will reschedule

Meeting called to order: 7:10 p.m.

Review meeting minutes from previous meeting

• motion by Dave to adopt meeting minutes as presented
• seconded by Tom V.
• motion passes unanimously

- will reschedule to March meeting

*** Discussion re: Dan Jury’s presentation at January meeting

- will schedule a date with coaches in March with Sean Burke for a session

Board comments:

Tony – example

- take seven kids off the team to play on a Saturday

- includes another practice run either by USSF coach and possibly the community coaching director

Chuck –

- still uncertain since there is nothing concrete without 4 communities

- Sean has ideas about how to run it.

Tony

- are we required to have the comm. Coaching director to be involved? He’s available.

Dave

- can rotate kids playing on that team from week to week

--- have a coaches meeting to discuss the opportunity, where Sean presents his training options at a meeting (15-30 minutes) and coaches discuss interest and provide feedback afterward; have Sean bring a schedule to demonstrate how he’ll fit in everything

--- may not get teams fielded from every USSF team

--- not having referees would likely be an issue for player development and parent control

--- USSF coach having to coach another game, another practice

--- potential divisive effect on a team and the coach where the coach picks and chooses players to play

--- CAYT may be a better option and parents/kids make a choice and pay to be there and develop skills and scrimmage

CASL Director of Coaching handout on activities to provide to all of CASL – read by Dave B.

• Okemos bought the whole program
• 12 activities for ~ $3000 - $5000 + DOC available to each teams for extra price
• @ $5000 and 200 kids in the program - $25 / player
• possibly get schedule of activities, have coaches sign up for the dates they can attend and the team pays for only those events

Mark K. paid Jeff Crooks to attend practices – parents agreed to do it

**** CASL coaches meeting – March 14^th

Next board meeting – Monday, March 21 – 7:00 p.m. – coaches MUST be there and/or team representatives

• Sean will bring a revised schedule for DeWitt activities and a definite cost for that applied to DeWitt
• Sean to bring dates he’s unavailable or schedule of timelines he’s available

1. Mark Kellogg – Treasurer’s Report

• As of Jan 31:
• 7 teams owe us on uniforms; 3 teams have paid nothing; we are owed > $3000
• Mark gave Chuck list of who owes what
• BLT has not been paid and that would increase the amount
• We are paying for printing of logo – Mark will cut a check for $600+
• general account $35,667.89
• 4x4 account - $6356.26

1. Chuck Murdoch – CASL Rep

• no meeting yet
• waiting for team registrations to come in – registration, check, availability, players added or removed then need that information.
• March 14^th – 7:00 p.m. at Hannah Center – Tony will put it on the web site

1. Tony Harris – Communications Report

- no report -

2. Larry Tait – 4x4 Tourney Report

• Toni spoke with Lisa Toth and Robin Goodenough - they agreed to co-lead the concessions for 4x4
• No follow up letters, certificates and/or thank yous to sponsors, etc. - need to get it out to them; Angie will forward files to Dave who will print on DSC paper; laminate the certificates; Angie provided her list to Mark who will check it with his and forward to Dave.
• Is the remainder of the support system intact? Yes
• Application is set; will get them out before the end of school
• Chuck will reserve fields
• May need to identify his successor.
• Meeting to be set in April as part of regular club meeting – Monday, April 18 @ 7:00 p.m.
• Golf letters will be sent out separately and need 4x4 people to contact sponsors and suppliers – angie will call when she sends out letters for concessions to follow up

1. Mark Helinski – AYSO Representative

• Mark will reserve fields for AYSO (9-2 – Saturdays)
• Board positions open – searching for potential candidates – registration position

1. Tom VanderWoude – Training and Education Report

• trying to get info on who went to E license course
• referee training will be scheduled
• soccer camp thru Soccerzone – will be around same time as last year – June 13-17
• HS clinic originally scheduled in the fall may be reschedule just after spring break – will contact Wendy
• Does the board want to mandate that all coaches have E-license? If so, we need to explain why… gives us a standard to work from.
• We should require it; CASL pays $50 and board should cover the rest retroactively to 2004
• Time requirements: new coach coming in has one calendar year to get E-license?
• Tom will present guidelines to board for comment and present it to coaches at 3/21 meeting
• May decide to reimburse for D license

1. Angie Schneider - Golf Tournament Report

- New logo on letterhead and Golf outing application

- will be printed in next two weeks and ready for coaches meeting on March 14th

- will email previous sponsors and potential sponsors and rejections; soliciting ideas from anyone who will be interested in sponsoring

- NEED GOLFERS

• USSF – games at Sports Park on Saturdays from 2-4
• Toni will call city to schedule games and let Stacie know when we have games so she doesn’t schedule CASL games afterward

1. Mark Kellogg - will continue until we can find a replacement

• Chuck says Dee Krause will take the position and Mark will run books for 4x4 tourney
• Chuck moves to nominate Dee Krause to take the treasurer’s position and Mark will remain treasurer for 4x4 tourney; seconded by Angie – motion unanimously passes

1. Chuck Murdoch –

 

2. Tony Harris –

• email from SoccerGoals.com proposing a trade – new goals in exchange for reciprocal web site links.
• Will investigate and report back
• Please access the site and provide feedback

1. Larry Tait – when’s the Ox Roast for 2005 – August 19, 20, 21? On the City’s web site calendar -

 

2. Dave Kracko – will remain on the board as fields rep.

 

3. Tom VanderWoude -

 

4. Toni Harris –
5. Mark moves that the slate of current officers remains as is for the next year – Angie seconds; motion passes unanimously

Meeting adjourned – 9:35.