November
1, 2005
Attendees: Mich Earl, Barb Ching, Jim Greer, Richard
Janshen, Steve Davis, Darlene Jones, Kerri Fredrickson, David Vintertun, Reesie
Vintertun, Dave Kummerlowe, Deb Schwend, Rob Schwend, Rob Root, Liz Root, Julie
Byram, Kathi Huck, Todd Bult, John Hamilton, Brad Powell, Jack Winter, Linda
Wyrick, Chris Fedor, Kevin Callahan, Nadine Callahan, Doug Moore
President
Rob Schwend called the meeting to order at 6:35 pm. The first order of business was the Year End
(October 31) Treasurer’s Report and to approve the 2006 budget. We had a cash balance of $16,641.98. The 2006 proposed budget was approved.
Rob
talked about the Microsoft Giving Program where Microsoft employees can keep
track of volunteer hours and the organization can be paid $17 an hour for all
of those volunteer hours. We need to
spread the word as this works for all volunteer positions.
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Update – We
went over the League Survey Results which compared fees, field costs, if face
masks were required, Sunday games, continuous batting and re-drafting at the
majors level or return to the same team.
Winter
Workout Update
– Brad Powell and John Hamilton gave an update of their Winter Workouts, which
started on October 30. It was very
successful and the parents and boys were very excited and feel they will be
getting a lot out of it. If other age
groups are interested and have enough parent helpers Brad and John can give
them info on getting started. We will
begin a waitlist for another group of 12.
Registration – We will begin online
registration November 4 with the 2005 fees, we will
have late registration from Dec 1 to Dec 15 and will add an additional
$10. Very late registration may be
accepted up to Jan 31 at the registrar’s discretion.
Dave
Kummerlowe and his son will get 50% of the road signs up this week and after
the elections will get the other 50% up.
There will be some changes to online registration path and there will be
a place to request jersey size.
Discussion followed wondering if this was “opening a can of worms” but
we decided to try it for this year and see what happens.
An
email will also go out to all of last season’s players and fliers have been
distributed to the schools. We will also
have a face-to-face registration day that we will share with WW.
2006
Team Structure
– The Minors will add one new team for a total of 8. The majors will add 2 teams for sure for a
total of 8 and may possibly add another if needed.
Redraft – There was a lot of
discussion regarding whether to redraft the majors teams (due to the age new LL
age change rule) or keep the kids on the same team. Different scenarios and opinions were
discussed with a decision finally made to not
redraft the Majors teams. Instead, we will make a change
to our draft process that allows the new teams to select players ahead of
the returning teams. The exact formula will be worked out by the
Managers, including the new Managers, prior to player review.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:10
pm.
Respectfully,
Reesie Vintertun
Secretary