JLC Board Meeting Agenda
Tuesday July 23, 2013 5:30PM
1. Call to order – in attendance John Haney, Kristina Nielsen, Bill Nielsen, Anne Haney, Chad Combs, Craig Fischer
2. New Board Introductions – New to board, Anne Haney and Bill Nielsen
3. Officer Elections – Craig nominates John Haney as President, Kristina Nielsen seconds, all in favor. All other positions will remain. Craig Fischer VP, Kristina Nielsen secretary, Chad Combs Treasurer
4. Approve last meetings minutes - approved
5. Treasurer Update $ 8,159.53 - approved
6. WLF Update – J. Haney
7. MALA Update – C. Fischer
8. Committee Nominations and approval - 2012 Chairpersons listed - John will contact 2012 chairpersons to see interest for 2013 season. Anne raised a motion to keep committee people the same as previous year if they would like, Kristina seconded, all in favor.
a. Apparel/Uniforms – J. Boudreau - Kristin Lapointe to assist June for the upcoming year
b. Communications/Special Events (non-revenue) – D. Green – no updates
c. Equipment – J. Haney
i. Missing jerseys - Marge Wakefield still needs to turn in her jerseys
d. Field Maintenance – M. Kelley
i. Summer field maintenance – discussion to get seed down on the creases, block off the area to keep others from playing on it.
e. Fundraising/Sales (revenue) – K. Nielsen – no updates
f. Game Day Administrator – J. Dabrowski – no updates
g. Human Resources – K. Pehl – no updates
9. Ad Hoc Committee Updates
Field Space Acquisition – C. Combs/R. Williams – options discussed,
a. Little league park – Option 1 costs to us approx.. $200,000 to buy 2 extra fields and building.
b. Option 2 – 3 fields, no building, we provide an access road, approx.. $80,000
c. Option 3 – Palmer park at old tennis courts, $1 per year lease with city, approx.. $5,000 to get fields to usable space
Ron Williams to pursue Palmer Park option, will give an update at next meeting.
10. JLC 2013
a. WWR/WWW – survey recap- discussed survey monkey, suggestions from club members to have an earlier cut off to prevent teams being too big.
11. JLC 2014 – Board would like to have more communication with coaches
a. High School Coaching – Bill Nielsen and Craig Fischer both show interest in coaching the Varsity team. Bill and Craig will get together and discuss and will report back at next meeting. Also to discuss what direction the club should go.
b. Youth Philosophy – again, need to discuss what direction the club will go, size of teams
c. Girls and U9 considerations – John Haney to talk with Dave Wollin to see what other clubs are doing as far as U9 or grade teams.
12. Coaching Information – need to find out who is interested in coaching to get proper training and cert. taken care of this fall.
13. Miscellaneous and on-going
14. New Issues
a. By-law revisions
i. Attendance Requirements – discussed revising by-laws to reflect board members attendance to be at 75%, more discussion later.
ii. Proxy voting – goes with attendance requirements
iii. Structure – John Haney to set up an org chart
b. Approval to purchase Quicken software update – J. Haney - Anne made a motion to approve, Kristina seconded, all in favor
c. Consider Long term planning committee
15. Schedule Next Meeting/Adjourn – 8:30 p.m. – Next meeting Aug. 12th @ 5:30 p.m.