CRANBROOK MINOR HOCKEY BOARD MEETING MINUTES JANUARY 22, 2018
ATTENDEES: Bobby-Jo Hekob, Todd Kostiuk, Darren Krotz, Ivan Colten, Chris Geddes, Paul Whittingham, Wade Lamond, Darren Reeves, Richard Nelson, Dave Kaczowka, Dawn Virostek, Justin Campbell, Cary Brough, Brant Watson, Miles Chisholm, Jeff Scott, Stephanie Dodds, Tim Nelson
Call to Order 7:03pm
Additions to New Business:
None
Dawn Virostek/Darren Reeves Approve minutes from December 13, 2017
NEW BUSINESS
- Evaluation Process for 2018-19 season
- Memo put forward to discuss at later date
Evaluation Process Outline - MEMO
No other associations in the East Kootenays allow coaches to be announced prior to tryouts and or be involved in any way in the evaluation process. Historically, this has caused issues and or perceived implications. We as CMHA board should have guidelines that provide all of our coaches with an opportunity to start a season with zero issues. Additionally, the members of CMHA should feel that the selection process is an extremely fair process with no actual or perceived political agendas by a coach.
Coaching Position Selection and Interview Process:
- Coach Co-ordinator and a minimum 3 other board members conduct coach interviews.
- All coaches are asked if there is any child or parent that is in the age group they see will be an issue for them to coach for the year. If yes this may exclude this coach from being capable of coaching or may warrant discussion for why a child cannot play on that team and further discussion with parents should be completed prior to tryouts. If it is a parent that is of concern this should be brought forward to the board. Concerns such as this should be vetted prior to tryouts each season.
- Coaches are not announced prior to a team being formed by the evaluation process.
- Coaches are not a part of the evaluation process.
- Coaching Selection committee does decide prior to tryouts the first choice, the second choice, and third choice for that team and also receives board approval on the results of the decision prior to Team tryouts. So coach interviews should happen at the end of Aug early Sept each year. If the coaches child does not make that team, then the coach is requested to be considered for the next level their child will play at.
Evaluations:
-3 to 4 evaluators for three ice time sessions (1 practice session for all kids, 2 games minimum)
-Evaluators are given the responsibility to select the teams
-Evaluators should not be given names of children only numbers
-Guidelines from CMHA should be provided to all evaluators
-A CMHA contact representative should also be given to answer questions and give guidance.
Disscussion Points:
- Evaluators for B level teams at Atom and Peewee should know there is flexibility in these programs to select children that fit the team. For example there should not be pressure to select an exact 15 skaters if there are only 13 that fit the level of the team. Similarly, if you have one goalie that is a 8 out of 10 for that level of hockey and one goalie that is a 4 or lower out of ten consideration should be given to selecting only one goalie and using a call up system for other goalie development during practices on an as needed basis for games.
-A child does not need to skate at A level REP Tryouts to tryout for B level team. This should not be a practice as this just adds confusion for the evaluators
- Bruce Clark continuing to harass board members and Office Staff (Bobby-Jo)
- Chris Geddes to talk to Russ Sheppard for some direction on how we can protect ourselves and any other advice regarding PIPA request from the Clarks
- Block his emails
- 2018-19 Zone Program Review
- Discussion on Bantam and Midget changes
- Minor and Major divisions within
- Seems like this may be harmful to the smaller associations like ours
- New Board Members appointed
- Consent to being a director
- Re-voted in at next AGM
- Development Program discussion
- Peewee is going really well this year
- Atom needs some revision to the scheduling as there is some overlap in games and practices
- Suggest a survey at season end as feedback from the parents
- BC Hockey Alternate Season Pilot Program
- BC Hockey is looking for associations to try it
- Possibly 2 months on/2 months off etc.
- For house only at all levels
- Encourage kids to play multi sports
- BC Hockey Bulletin – Player Retention
- Need feedback from players as to why they have left the sport
- What programs have worked well and what has not?
- First shift was a success with 20 out of 30 kids continuing with hockey after the program
- Female first shift program went well too with a big turnout
- Old Business
- Rotary Donation
- They are donating $10,000 to CMHA
- TV Situation
- Isosceles will be selling us cords at cost for connection from devices to TV
- Deposit taken by CMHA from coaches to use cords then return at season end for refund
- Nathan Lieuwen Contract
- Approved and signed
- Bobby-Jo to send Nathan Spreadsheet with coach’s contacts so he can get practices lined up
REPORTS
- Clinics –
- Ice Coordinator
- Coach Coordinator
- Justin Campbell has volunteered to head this for the remainder of the season
- Equipment –
- Dawn to get first aid kits for start of next year
- SCAHL
- Peewee team doing well competing
- Invested to play next year
- SCAHL looking at keeping Cranbrook
- Do we open it up to Kimberley to join at Peewee level to be more competitive?
- OMAHA
- EK
- Goalie Development
- discussed in notes
- Registrar
- Female Development
- BC Hockey looking for Female Can Skate jamboree Sunday February 4th
- RIC
- Ref Assignor
- Showing that the past few years have been great at developing great refs in Cranbtook
- Treasurer – see attached balance sheet and income statement
- PR –
- 50/50
- Photos
- Safety
- Sponsorship
- Website
- Division Heads
- Pups
- Mites
- 36 kids – 18 per team
- Novice
- Atom
- Scheduling issues discussed in meeting
- Peewee
- Bantam
- Midget
- IP Lead
NEXT MEETING: WFP February 26that 7:00pm
MEETING ADJOURNED 9:04 pm
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