WLL BOARD MEETING, SEPTEMBER 6,2005

Attendees: Rob Schwend, Reesie Vintertun, Liz Root, Rob Root, Dave Kummerlowe, Doug Moore, Paul Johnson, Todd Bult, Roger Kacmarcik, Jack Winter, Kerri Fredrickson, Bill Segesser, Scott Brueske, Linda Wyrick, Barbara Ching, Mich Earl, Sue Scheid, Julie Byram, Nadine Callahan, Jim Greer, Brad Powell, Richard Janshen, John Hamilton, Laulani Donlin

Rob opened the meeting at 6:35 pm.

The board ordered in the new Board for 2005-2006 year. The new board members are as follows:

President – Rob Schwend

Vice President – John Hamilton

Treasurer – Sue Scheid

Secretary – Reesie Vintertun

Registrar and Asst– Julie Byram and Stephanie Bailey

CTO – Todd Bult

Safety Officer – Roger Kacmarcik

UIC – Eric Mische

Equipment – Scott Brueske

Picture Day Coordinator – Dave Kummerlowe

Scheduler – Brad Powell

Events Coordinator – Liz Root

Fundraising Coordinator – Richard Janshen

Uniforms – Kerri Richardson

Field Manager (2) – Jim Greer, Jack Winter

Tournament Director – Doug Moore

All Star Coordinator – Darlene Jones

Player Agents:

Majors – Kathi Huck

Minors – Nadine Callahan

AAA & AA – Catherine Carroll

Rookie & Tee Ball – Linda Wyrick

Coaching Coordinator – Mich Earl & Barbara Ching

Publicity Coordinator – Deb Schwend

VP Softball – Steve Davis

Treasurer’s Report – We currently have $5,460.20 in our checking account and

$10, 149.00 in our savings account. We received $516.50 in income in August and spent $6,697.79. Most of the expense was for NSSD usage fees. Went over budget on All Star uniforms due to hats that were the wrong size and new sizes that needed to be reordered. We also ordered all-star jerseys that will be kept for this upcoming year.

Rob will bring new budget proposal for 2006 to the next meeting. Rumor has it that NSD is going to significantly increase field fees in 2006. All budget requests must be in by September 24. We also discussed new software for the treasurer to keep track of finances for WLL.

Coordination with WW - The board agreed to run the softball and Jr/Sr programs again under the same terms as last year. We will also run picture day together and “in person” registration day I early December.

Age Change – There was a lot of discussion regarding the new age regulations that Little League has put in place. The league age determination date has been changed from July 31 to April 30. There will be 122 kids affected in baseball and 53 affected in softball.

WLL board has the ability to determine how to proceed with regard to setting age limits at division levels. Where we set the bar will have a significant affect on the number of teams that we have.

We will have a committee to evaluate age change options and will report results at the October board meeting to help make decisions that will best suit the WLL program.

Manager Evaluations – We had 170 responses to our online evaluations. Many good evaluations and some areas that we could improve on.

Off Season Workouts – We will be running a pilot program for mostly 12 year olds and some 11 year olds to practice in the off season and have some extra coaching for batting and pitching. We will see how it works out and will decide later about adding younger age groups next year. Many other Little League Programs are doing this to strengthen the league as a whole.

Online Registration – Registration will open November 1 through November 30. We discussed charging a fee for late registrations.

WCC Fields Meeting will be held Thursday, September 8 at 7:00 pm. They will be discussing big changes to the entire WCC, particularly the field and parking layouts. Laulani volunteered to attend to represent WLL.

D8 Meeting will be held on September 20 – Rob is planning to get age change info from other leagues.

Interleague meeting will be September 24.

It was decided to hold WLL Board Meetings on the first Tuesday of the month. Our next Board Meeting will be held on October 4. Rob will reserve the room for the meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:00 pm.