Sehome Lacrosse Meeting
December 13, 2017
Present: Jim Holstine, Ann Wark,Joel Fujiwara, Mark Hoemann, Connor Hoemann, Jeff Krusniak, Will Hinkle & Joel Schwindt
Also present: Laura & Steve Hinkle, Dylan Preble, Will Hinkle
Approval of minutes: Minutes were approved with the exception that the bylaws are not on the website yet.
New business:
Finances: Joel Fujiwara presented the financial report. There are still two families with checks outstanding. The coffee fundraiser made just short of $2000. There were 8 people that bought coffee and 9 people did the buyout. There was $210 brought in from the sale of heads and a $1000 donation from Rocket Pocket. There are two paid registrations for the spring. The credit card service takes about $20 in fees, so checks are preferable from a financial standpoint, but the credit cards are more convenient.
Uniforms: We ordered 30 pennies which should last us. We currently have 24 uniforms, but did not order more because they cost about $300 each.
Schedule: The initial game schedule is 12 games which times and days are changing still but should be solidified by the beginning of January. Dylan is trying to get 4 more games on the schedule. Last year we had 14 games. We are going to play Juanita again. February 26th the season starts. All of the games that are scheduled now are all booked at WCC. Dylan is working on playing and game opportunities. There is also some planning going on to having Juanita play a double header against us and Bellingham. Juanita would also like to bring up their JV team.
Indoor: The Bellingham Raiders are not putting together any indoor team during the off season, so they are not interested in doing a joint indoor team. If we want to run an indoor program then we need a coach and the space. The Sportsplex has availability at 4:00 and Dylan is going to ask some WWU players if they’re interested in coaching. The board approved moving forward with putting together an indoor program with 4 practices.
Misc: We now have board insurance which cost $350ish. Morgan is enthusiastic about being our assistant coach and Cody will be available part time depending on his schedule. Jim is going to call Morgan and officially offer him the position.
There needs to be a conduit for communication, whether that’s Snapchat or texting.
Jim would like a team poster, just to get more exposure for Sehome Lacrosse.
We are now an officially high school sanctioned sport. The boys will need sport physicals and to follow all the rules that high school athletes have to follow. We get access to poster room, the weight room, locker rooms and we can have a banner in the gym. Practices will be on Bellingham High School on a rotating basis with the Bellingham Raiders. There will be no charge to using the field. Free fields will reduce our expenses by a half. Jim recommended keeping the registration cost at or near $500. There was some discussion of reviewing our budget and then revisiting the registration cost. Jeff brought up that if the registration is higher than the hard costs, then we can have more money available for scholarships. Dylan suggested that the cost remain $500, but any profits made in fundraising would go towards that $500.
Bylaws: Mark lead us through a draft of the Bylaws. Jim asked that each of us review them in greater detail and voting will either be online or at the next board meeting.
Next board meeting will be10th at 6:00.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:51