SCAHA MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS November 14, 2007 LAKEWOOD MALL MEETING ROOM
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESENT Robert Doherty (Commissioner), Sandy Blumberg (Deputy Commissioner), Bob Driffill (Treasurer), Rosemary Voulelikas (Secretary), John Silberstein (Parliamentarian), Laurie Boaz (Director), Tim Fahringer (Associate Director), Wendy Goldstein (Member Services), Larry Cahn (A.C.E. Coordinator), Chris Carcerano (Ice Convener).
MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS PRESENT/ABSENT
Commissioner Bob Doherty called the meeting to order at 7:15 pm with a quorum present.
Minutes Paula Frankel moved to approve the minutes of the November meeting as written. (motion SECONDED and PASSED)
Guest Bob Doherty introduced Maria Dennis, co-owner of Super Clean who gave a presentation on MRSA and a program called “H.I. Five Hockey. A question and answer period followed.
Bob Doherty introduced Tony Rudy, founder of Southern California Hockey Magazine. Southern California Hockey magazine is a free publication available to the hockey community and is receptive to hockey stories. In addition, Tony Rudy requested if possible, if the presidents could forward their mailing lists so that he may be able to mail the magazines in lieu of leaving them at rinks.
Sandy Blumberg informed the board that the SCAHA Executive ruling on the Eric Hollis request for the waiver of SCAHA rule 22.01 (Block recruitment) is being appealed under SCAHA Bylaw 16.02. At the October SCAHA meeting, the request for a waiver was denied by the Executive Committee and the rule 22.01 was upheld. Steve Freeman, an advocate for the Hollis family presented and distributed documentation for Eric Hollis to be able to play on the Bantam A Wildcats team. Dave Bigelow motioned to overturn SCAHA Executive Committee’s ruling of upholding rule 22.01 with regards to Eric Hollis being able to join the Bantam A Wildcats team. (motion SECONDED and PASSED) Bob Doherty introduced James Parker, President of LAHOA. James Parker extended his apologies to the SCAHA board for the current state of affairs between the two organizations. He personally apologized for his lack of administrative experience and takes responsibility for any miscommunication that may have occurred. He distributed a joint announcement document issued by LAHOA and SCAHA to the board for their review and approval. The document presented included SCAHA’s 11/4/07 proposal and LAHOA’s 10/29/07 proposals Part A (2007-2008 season) and Part B (2008-2009 season). Ron White motioned to table Part B of the proposed document. (motion SECONDED and PASSED)
Commissioner’s Report Bob Doherty reported on the SCAHA Pre-Select camp. Please make sure to forward the information to your membership.
Bob Doherty thanked Kevin Culbertson for his efforts in coordinating the SCAHA Fire Relief Fund.
Bob Doherty asked the board if they wanted to have the December SCAHA board meeting as scheduled. Paula Frankel motioned to not have a December SCAHA Board of Director’s meeting. (motion SECONDED and PASSED)
Deputy Commissioner’s Report No report at this time.
STAFF REPORTSMember Services – Wendy distributed via email earlier in the day the Player fee chart indicating the outstanding fees still owed.
Ice Convener – Chris stated that there appears to be about four to five outstanding games that have yet to be played. The new rule this year states that a rescheduled Tier game must be played within 30 days of the original scheduled date. He stated that he will be tracking this very carefully. These games must be played and there are consequences if you do not. Chris informed the board that the SCAHA Playoff Bid packet needs some minor adjustments and will be sent out shortly via email for bid. The Executive Committee is recommending the following playoff berths: for the Mite A and Mite B divisions, the top 4 teams to advance to playoffs and for all other divisions, the top 8 teams to advance to playoffs. Rosemary Voulelikas motioned to accept the Executive board’s recommendations as stated above. (motion SECONDED and PASSED)
Chris informed the board that the final SCAHA calendar has not been published. The issues are that CAHA placed their B playoffs one week before the A division playoffs. This results in SCAHA losing one week of scheduled games for the B division. Logistically for SCAHA we need to have the A and B Championship playoffs occur during the same weekend. Chris is recommending that we do one of the following: the A division is scheduled to play 17 games each and in order to do this we need to remove the last weekend March 2 and double up some games during a weekend or cut down the number of game down to 16 scheduled. Louis Soltero motioned to delete the last weekend of “A” division games from the regular SCAHA season schedule. (motion SECONDED and PASSED)
Chris informed the board during the SCAHA Pre-Select Camp, the weekend of Dec. 15-16, there are three-(3) Midget A18 games scheduled. If clubs have players that are attending the camp please notify Chris and he will move the games in question to accommodate the players attending the camp. Chris informed the board that the Mariners who are hosting two of the CAHA mandated weekends gave him incorrect information regarding the dates. Basically, he scheduled games during weekends that should be blackout weekends and did not schedule games during weekends that they have ice. He stated he still has to work this out.
Statistician - Annie Fisher informed the board she will be emailing the penalty minute totals for each team in each club in the next couple of weeks. She reported that the number of match penalties so far this season is low by comparison to previous seasons.
Treasurer - Bob Driffill distributed copies of the financial statements dated October 31. All checks and correspondence should be addressed to the following mailing address: P.O. Box 3287, Burbank, CA 91508, located at the bottom of the financial statements. Bob Driffill reminded the board that at the last SCAHA meeting it was voted that each club would submit a check to SCAHA in the amount of $50 to cover expenses incurred as a result of the travel fee of officials. To date he has only received a check from the West Valley Wolves club.
Referee-in-Chief – Art Kitano reported all games have been scheduled. Art stated they held a USA Hockey Official’s Seminar last weekend. He thanked Ron White who donated the ballet room and the ice. They had 45 participants. Art clarified that there is no provision in the rules to run the clock in a high scoring one sided game.
Ace Coaching Coordinator – Larry Cahn informed the board they will need evaluators for the Pre-Select camp. The goal is to have 8-10 evaluators. He currently has 6 solid evaluators. The evaluators must commit to at least one of the two days. He is urging the presidents to contact their top level coaches to volunteer as evaluators. In addition he stated the camp will need coaches on the bench at least two coaches for each bench for each game.
New Business Pre-Select Camp – LeAnn reported on the status of the Pre-Select camp sign-ups. The current number of registrants signed up compared to last year is about half. LeAnn expressed concern on the low numbers and did state that she received about 50 applicants today that she has yet to review. The low numbers will impact the cost of the camp with regards to paying for the ice, referees, etc. The 92/91 birth year players will be skating on Saturday and the 91/93 is scheduled for Sunday.
Coaching Clinic – James Cefaly, Director of Fan Development of the NHL Kings informed the board that the Kings will be hosting a USA Hockey Coaching Certification Level 3 clinic on December 8, 2007 and January 5, 2008.
Old Business Scholarship – Laurie Boaz reported that a total of 109 applications were received with 17 of them coming after the deadline. The letters went out November 3 to the awardees. There were 39 scholarships awarded for this year for a total of $15,050.00.
Adjourn Meeting was adjourned at 9:25 pm |