3B Baseball Minutes

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

7 PM Bedford Library

Attending:

Carey Rakich, Matt Wagenhauser, Jimmy Schieb, Martin Sekulski, Scotty Young, Kyle Young, Jeff Rose, Billy Z., Steve Rechsteiner, Todd Spears, Tony Legeza

Not attending:

Derick Hutchinson, Jay Villarreal, Dave Martin,Jean Rakich, Donnie Stevens, Michelle Delaney, Dave Hottman, Nick Brillhart

Minutes:

Carey called the meeting to order at 7:02 PM.

We reviewed the minutes from December 7th. Matt made a motion to approve the minutes, and Steve 2nd. Motion passed 10 – 0.

Public Comment

  • No public comment

New Business

  • Planning for 2017 3B Season
  • Sign-Ups – Saturday, Feb 11th Bedford Library Community Room 11:00am – 2:00pm – Community Room
  • Volunteers: Scotty, Marty, Matt, Tony, Jim, Kyle, Billy, Carey
  • Colt Draft - Wednesday, February 22 from 6:00 - 7:00pm – Kyle – Community Room
  • Minor Draft - Wednesday, February 22 from 7:00 - 8:30pm – Nick – Community Room
  • Pee Wee Draft - Thursday, February 23rd from 6:00 - 7:30pm – Billy- Community Room
  • Farm Draft - Thursday, February 23rd from 7:30 - 9:00pm – Tony – Community Room
  • Uniform Try-Ons – Saturday, Feb 25th – Bedford Junior High Cafeteria, 2:00 – 6:00pm – Reserved. Trying to re-schedule this to Sunday, Feb 26th
  • Need volunteers to help with this – Will identify during sign-ups or next board meeting

Board Member Time

  • MattW – Discussed the By-Laws committee. Matt will distribute the by-laws before our next meeting. We need to discuss how to handle the General Membership meeting.
  • Tony–We do not have a good way to identify the sponsored Farm players from last year. Tony will ask the coaches to identify their returning sponsored players. Tony will make sure that we capture the information this year, for use next year. Tony had a couple of questions about the Sibling Rule. We discussed this, and were able to answer Tony’s questions.
  • Jimmy – Jimmy will be reaching out soon to the 19 & Over coaches from last year.
  • Dave (not present)–Rules Committee meeting will be January 14th at 2:30pm at Tim Horton’s.
  • Scotty – Further discussed MIS opportunity. Scotty will be going to MIS to meet with race organizers. Scotty discussed umpire pay for the Farm division. Since there will be doubleheaders, Scotty suggested $30 for both games. We did not vote on this.
  • Umpire Supervisor meeting will be January 17th
  • General Umpire meeting will be March 25th
  • On Field Clinic will be April 8th
  • Jeff – We discussed the raffle ticket requirements with addition of Whiteford. We will have a good idea on the final number of players after the drafts. Jeff will contact Michele German to verify that she wants to continue taking our pictures.
  • Steve – Need to contact Bedford Fence or other fence company to make repairs. Steve will be contacting Monroe Turf for estimates on clay for pitchers mounds and batters boxes. Spring Clean Up Day will be April 1st or 8th.
  • Kyle – Has been contacting Colt coaches. 5 Coaches already identified. Kyle would like to move the Colt games from Sunday to Saturday. The Board had no problem with this.
  • Marty – Still needs a copy of the Liability Insurance policy. Carey will ask Jay about this. We discussed how to reach out to local sponsors with our non-profit status pending.
  • Billy – no update
  • Todd – Todd proposed allowing each division to choose their own style of Jersey. Todd brought samples, and information sheets. There was much discussion about this, but we generally agreed with the idea. Division Directors will let Todd know of their selection. We discussed the possibility that jersey prices may increase around $2 with the new vendor, Badger. Steve made the motion to approve the increase in jersey price. Tony 2nd. The motion passed 6 - 3.

Meeting adjourned at 8:29pm. Next meeting is Wednesday, February 1, 2017 in the Bedford Public Library Quilt room.

3B Baseball Minutes 1/4/2017