Los Alamos Youth Soccer League
Minutes of the LAYSL Monthly Board Meeting
September 26, 2005
Present:
Board Members: Dean Obermeyer, Jim TenCate, Chad Olinger, Joanne Wendelberger, Karl Hjelvik, Wolfgang Runde, Paul Langan, and John Erickson(late)
Visitor Present: (Registrars) Lynn Murrell
Absent:
Board Members: Amy Lemke and Rich Graham
Dean called the meeting to order at 6:40 p.m.
Approval of Agenda
Chad seconded the motion. The Motion was
passed
unanimously.
Review of previous meetingÕs minutes
No minutes were presented for approval
Karl presented the Treasurer Report and we have net income of $8,356.45 as of September23.
After some discussion Paul moved to accept the Treasurer Report and Joanne seconded the Motion. The Motion was passed unanimously.
Lynn had received the insurance form from NMYSA and she was wondering who needed a copy of the form. It was decided that the county needed a copy and Karl needed a copy.
There were some discussion on the risk level required for recreational coaches and it was determined that everyone was required to be ÒAÓ compared to ÒBÓ last year.
Before we got the uniforms from CB Fox one of the U-10 recreational coaches had noticed that one of the teams was very strong and the players had been together for many years, while we have another team that has only 5 players. The board discussed being able to move kids around to different teams to even out the teams. The consensus among the board members was that it should not be an issue as long as coaches and parents agree.
The board was also wondering why we did not get all the uniforms for the recreational teams in time for first game of the season.
Advanced Team Coordinator
The Blast Off was a success even though we had a few incidents.
She also mentioned that we should give half of the profit to four teams that were helping with the tournament. We will still make about $1,000 in profit.
Referees
Chad was wondering if the board had any issues with his daughter joining a Northern Soccer Club team and the board had no issues with it.
Since all the games on Saturdays are at 9:30 AM he is having a hard time getting referees for all games and it was suggested to move more games to Friday nights because we can utilize the younger referees that are playing in Albuquerque on Saturdays.
Equipment
Paul talked getting on how we can get sandbags to the fields. So far we have 8 bags at North Mesa to ÒanchorÓ down the goals. We need to make sure that we bring the bags back after the season is over. We also had 2 sandbags at Spirio 1 and we do not know what happened to these sandbags.
Website
Website is officially updated and it has less ÒbuttonsÓ than the previous site. He is still working on the LAYSL minutes.
The board liked the new look of the website.
Fields
Pinon still has gopher holes.
The board discussed purchasing a new liner and Paul would look into the purchasing a new liner.
Paul stated that we might get a new liner for free if we purchase a certain quantity of paint.
There was no old business.
Blast Off Tournament
Joanne distributed Blast-Off financials to the board members. She suggested that we would give half of the profit to teams that helped. Joanne would give the board a proposal by the next meeting.
The board also discussed increasing the registration fee and what we could do to improve the tournament for next year.
Jim still needed articles from a few board members before we can mail out the newsletter. Jim wanted to get the newsletter out by next weekend
We also discussed other ideas for interesting newsletter articles i.e. old LAYSL players playing college.
Action Item: Get Jim your article if you have not sent it to him, yet.
Jim had an issue with one of his players punching four kids in the stomach during the after game hand shake. He said that the kid is being withdrawn by his parents, but we still need to establish a procedure going forward.
Kim Thomas suggested a disciplinarian committee consisting of referee coordinator and two parents.
After some discussion the board decided to suspend the player for the remainder part of the season and invite him back for the spring season under the condition that we receive a letter from the player and his parents what they will do to ensure that it does not happen again.
Our bylaws state that it is the boardÕs decision to decide on disciplinarian actions. Karl would talk to Ron Espinoza, president for Duke City, to see what DCSL does in similar instances.
John Miller and Jiri Kubicek have said that they will coach the U15/U16 and U17/U18 teams. We might have 3 girls teams and Cindy Lawton has said that she would coach the third team consisting of juniors and seniors. Mike Kluk will coach the oldest girls while we are working on getting a coach for the younger girls. We decided to move forward to establish a third team on the girls side.
Miscellaneous
We discussed the DVD training videos and they are good for U-10 and below and we will make the DVDs available to all recreational coaches.
The board discussed how we can improve recreational coaching.
We also did a calendar review and discussed Spring Cup for the recreational league.
Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by John, and seconded by Paul. Motion carried.
Meeting adjourned at 8:35 p.m.
Submitted by,
Karl Hjelvik