Time/Place: 11/12/01,
7:00 P.M., Jett Hall Rm. 283, NMSSU
Present: Michael Bejarano, Eli Best,
Minutes:
·
Discussed equipment use
and storage issues. The city equipment that we are supposed to have access to
is stored in an inconvenient area for which we don’t have a key. Trying to find
someone at Meerscheidt who can open it up for us on Saturday mornings has
caused late starts on several occasions. Derrik has e-mailed Sonja and asked
what we can do to try to improve on this situation. Our volunteer equipment
manager (Danny Miranda) should be handling these types of issues but has not
been active. It was suggested that perhaps he just didn’t know what he was
supposed to be doing; someone will talk to him about the responsibilities of
the position and see if he still wants to do it. If not, we will need to get
someone else. On a related note, there was some discussion regarding the
equipment set-up and teardown crews. Dave suggested that we cycle different
kids in and out of these jobs so that the ones who have been doing it all the
time don’t get burned out. The suggestion was also made to have the teams
playing the last game of the day do the teardown.
·
The dates and fees for
registration for the Spring season were voted on and passed as follows:
Registration can take place anytime between now and February 2nd,
2002 for the “early” registration fee of $10.00, $15.00 or $20.00 (depending on
age bracket). Registration between February 3rd and February 9th
will be considered “late” registration and will cost an additional $10.00.
February 9th will be the last day to register for the Spring season.
Dave will post the final draft of the registration form on the Website ASAP. We
will get the word out to the public through the newspaper and radio, and get
information out to the schools (focus on elementary) as well. The first game
will be February 16th and the last on May 5th. This gives
us 12 weekends in which to schedule 8 game days (we typically lose weekends
during spring break & the Gus Macker tournament in spring). Game schedules
may be a bit different next season depending on the number of teams signed up
and if we are successful getting lights.
·
Joe Short told the board
that the fact that the gross receipts tax for city improvements did not pass
was likely to have a negative financial impact on several programs, including
hockey. We need to prepare financially for the future by putting together a
long-range plan and coming up with financial strategies that will help us
attain these goals. Peter Kane offered to put together a budget for the Board
to look at. Some of the items that will be included in this budget are:
o Border Patrol repair
o Possible facilities charges from the city in the future
o End of the season awards and T-shirts
o Lights & electricity
o Paid referees
o Small equipment purchase and/or repair
o Pads for the fences
o New scoreboard
·
Discussion ensued on the
need to continue working on and improving our referee situation (game coverage
and call consistency). It was suggested that there be three “Head Refs”, one of
whom will be on site during all of the games to back up and help train and
develop the refs working the games. The three nominees are Joe Short, Richard
Best and John Benante.
·
End of the season
tournaments and awards were discussed. Joe Short is working on the tournament
schedules and will get them to Dave to post on the Website when they are
finalized. Epuck.com is sponsoring our
Sportsmanship Awards, and Nex2Nothin.com is going to provide awards for point
leaders. Medallions were discussed as awards for the first place teams, and everyone
will get T-shirts. Chris is going to price some T-shirts with the LCIHA logo
and Website address on them (more “free” advertising). Each team needs to come
up with nominations for sportsmanship and All-Star awards for the Board to vote
on at their next meeting on Monday, December 3rd. At this time the
Board will also decide where and when awards will be given out.
Respectfully submitted by Patty
Walters, Secretary, LCIHA