Woodinville Little League

Board Minutes – January 10, 2006

Attendees: Jack Winter, Brad Powell, Kevin Woody, Jim Greer, Barb Ching, Mich Earl, Nadine Callahan, Kathi Huck, Linda Wyrick, Julie Byram, Richard Janshen, Roger Kacmarcik, Eric Mischke, Liz Root, Rob Root, Kerri Fredrickson, John Hamilton, Rob Schwend, Dave Kummerlowe, Doug Moore, David Vintertun, Reesie Vintertun, Steve Davis

Rob Schwend called the meeting to order at 6:35 pm. Rob gave the Treasurer’s Report and WLL currently has $32,533.66 total cash.

Jose, from Rijo was at the meeting to talk about 3 scheduled coaches clinics that Rijo is offering.

Interleague Update: Kathy Lambert will be doing a walkthrough at the complex on Friday, January 13. We are asking for $50K+ and our focus and priorities will be Safety, playability/maintenance, upgrades and fan care.

Registration Update: Registration went smoothly, we have 597 registered compared with 604 last year. 446 (BB), 114 (SB) and 37 (JrSrBB)

Manager Selection: Managers for 2006 have been selected. There will be 7 majors teams, 7 Minors, 6 AAA, 5AA, 7 Rookie, 5 Tee-Ball. One expansion team will be added to Majors.

There was some discussion on whether or not to re-draft the majors each year or whether to allow the kids to remain on the same majors team as long as they play majors unless the child requests to be re-drafted (this is how we have been doing it). It was decided unanimously not re-draft each year..

Manager’s Meetings coming up are Majors, January 19, Minors/AAA, January 21 (this date will possibly change due to conflicts) AA/Rookie/Tee-Ball – TBD

Player Review will be at the Northshore Sports Complex on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4.

Pitch Count Pilot Program: It was voted to participate in this program. This will be in effect during the regular season it will be determined at a later date whether this will be adopted for the TOC as well. There will be specific scorekeeper training and each team will be required to send one person to this training.

A committee was set up to finalize and organize how our league will implement this. The committee members will be Kathi Huck, Dave Kummerlowe, Jack Winter, Kevin Woody and Eric Mischke.

It was also discussed and approved to purchase a laptop computer for the Treasurer to use so it can be handed off to the next treasurer and all of the WLL information will be on it. The President and other board members will also keep information on it so Board Position information can be handed down to new board members. Possible donation from current board member or we could also do some fundraising.

There will be a general fundraising meeting on January 18.

The regular season will begin on March 26

Picture day will be March 25.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:25 pm