SCAHA MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

September 12, 2007

LAKEWOOD MALL MEETING ROOM

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESENT

Sandy Blumberg (Deputy Commissioner), Bob Driffill (Treasurer), Rosemary Voulelikas (Secretary), Tim Fahringer (Associate Director), Wendy Goldstein (Member Services), Chris Carcerano (Ice Convener), Annie Fisher (Statistician).

MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS PRESENT/ABSENT

Present	Absent	CLUB	Present		Absent	CLUB
X		Anaheim Junior Ducks	X			Los Angeles Jr. Kings
	X	Anaheim Wildcats	X			LA Hockey Club
X		Artesia Avalanche		X		Ontario eagles
X		Bakersfield Dragons	X			Pasadena Maple Leafs
	X	Bay Harbor Red Wings	X			San Diego Gulls
X		Beach City Lightning		X		San Diego Ice Arena
X		California Golden Bears	X			San Diego Saints
	X	California Stars	X			Valencia Express
	X	Channel Islands Riptide		X		Ventura Mariners
	X	Inland Valley Wild		X		West Valley Wolves
	X	Junior Ice Dogs	X			Yorba Linda Blackhawks
	X	La Jolla Jaguars

Deputy Commissioner Sandy Blumberg called the meeting to order at 7:03 pm with no quorum present.

Minutes

Approval of minutes deferred until a quorum is present.

Guest

Sandy Blumberg introduced James Cefaly, Director of Community relations and Kings Fan Development for Los Angeles Kings. He gave a presentation regarding fundraising opportunities for non-profit clubs/teams including Hockey Fights Cancer Campaign. Information was handed out.

Commissioner’s Report

Sandy reminded the board to submit their CAHA renewal membership to Jill Miller, Director of CAHA Membership and services. Deadline is September 15^th.

Sandy read a list of club names fielding Tier teams that still had outstanding items (rosters and/or deposits) to submit to their respective CAHA Tier I/Tier II commissioners. The deadline is September 15, 2007.

Sandy informed the board that all preseason games were played this past weekend. There were 398 online evaluations submitted which included the Labor Day tournaments. Only 8 of the online reports were of concern and half of them were with Norcal teams. Sandy gave an update on the LAHOA situation. Discussion followed.

Deputy Commissioner’s Report

No Report

STAFF REPORTS

Member Services – Wendy distributed a Player fee chart. She explained that the SCAHA player fee for girls’ was calculated only once for girls who are rostered on both girls’ teams and youth teams. Wendy informed the board that the approved player-up forms will be distributed after this weekend. She reminded the board that reverted players will need a release before they are permitted to join a team and coaches must be screened and cleared before rostering.

Ice Convener – Chris stated the schedule is available on sportability. He reminded the board of the September 15^th deadline for Tier II teams dropping to A in order to be included in the A/B SCAHA schedule. Final declarations are due September 23^rd at midnight. Chris stated that once CAHA finalizes their calendar, SCAHA will follow. He does not expect any major changes to the preliminary calendar. The scheduled SCAHA Tier II games must be played whether they are being rescheduled by the teams or not. This is a rule. Also, the team requesting the rescheduling must pay for the ice. The playoff bid packets are being put together and will be released in the near future for bidding. They will need volunteers for the playoff committee. Please email your interest to Chris. A/B teams are not permitted to reschedule their games, however, clubs that want to reschedule SCAHA games at NHL rinks are permitted to do so provided they are on the same day as the originally scheduled SCAHA game and both teams are in agreement, any other day presents a problem. SCAHA will keep on eye on this.

Statistician – Annie stated that she still has some player award patches to distribute. When she locates the new club the player is on she will give to the presidents to distribute to the player. Annie reported that this past weekend was one of the quietest weekends in terms of suspensions. She also needs the name of the statisticians for each club. She still has not received all of the names.

Treasurer - Bob distributed copies of the new budget for approval.

Bob Driffill moved to approve the new budget as presented.

(motion SECONDED and PASSED)

Rosemary moved to ratify the expenditures that have occurred to date as per the check registry in the treasurer’s report.

(motion SECONDED and PASSED)

Minutes

Kevin Culbertson moved to approve the minutes of the August meeting as written.

(motion SECONDED and PASSED)

Ace Coaching Coordinator – Sandy reported in Larry’s absence. Each club must submit the name of their A.C.E. Coordinator by September 16^th. Presently, Larry only has 50% of the clubs information. Send Larry the name of the A.C.E. coordinator immediately.

New Business

None

Old Business

Select Camp – LeAnn Doherty reported that the goal is to have the information made available to the rinks by October 15.

Champs – LeAnn Doherty reported that she has the C.H.A.M.P. patches from the Kings and she is still in negotiating with the Ducks. The due date for the list of names of the qualifying players is October 15^th. LeAnn asked to include the emails of all the qualifying players as well.

Scholarship – LeAnn stated that the scholarship application deadline is October 1^st.

Adjourn

Meeting was adjourned at 8:10pm