ERIE COUNTY INTERSCHOLASTIC CONFERENCE

ATHLETIC COUNCIL MEETING-

MAY 10th @ ERIE 1 BOCES ROOM B-2A – 10:30 – EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – 12:00 – ATHLETIC COUNCIL

MEETING MINUTES

THIS MEETING WAS RECORDED: CGK

Absent: M. Cook (Tonawanda)

Presidents Report:B. Hickson

  • The Fall Sports Standards must be looked at during the June 5th meeting.
  • Kevin Lester has one more year before he retires.
  • There is a Girls Representative for Section VI needed.

Office Report:C. Karcher and L. Moore

  • Fall drafts were due back to the office May 8th – Please send them over if you have not.
  • Cross Country has officially been completed and can be found directly on your Arbiter accounts.
  • Reschedules are getting done by order of importance – please do not panic if you sent in a reschedule and it has not yet been completed.

Executive Secretary/Treasurer:C. Amo

  • Combining of Sports – Will North and Will East for Wrestling; West Seneca East and West for boys swimming, girls varsity bowling, and boys varsity tennis; East Aurora and Holland for modified wrestling. – Voted on under “New Business.”
  • Treasurer Report – Approved.
  • Motion to approve – P. Cauley and K. Lester.
  • Carried
  • Schedule Star – Schedule Star must be paid for by each school due to the schedules for each season being created through League Central, which is directly connected through Schedule Star. We must keep the program to create schedules.
  • Modified Schedules – Will be created after the budget votes.
  • Fall Coaches Meeting – It is the responsibility of the chairman to find a date for the meeting. The sports chair packet will come from Chuck Amo. When the meeting is complete, the office will receive the sign in sheets and recommendations of any changes. It was discussed that there will be selected dates where these meetings must occur between. Those dates are August 14th – August 28th. The sports chairman MUST have their meeting by August 28th and must inform the ECIC office of when that meeting is to occur. ECIC is not paying for food for the Fall coaches meeting.

Activity Board:V. Dell’Oso & M. Fallacaro

  • Depew and Cleveland Hill combining schools for wrestling – need approval
  • Confirm current list of Fall Sports Chairs (V. Dell’Oso has the current list.)
  • Activity Board Renewals – Vote.
  • Boys A.B.
  • Dell’Oso
  • Illg
  • Hickson
  • Girls A.B.
  • Cauley
  • Besant
  • Hack
  • Motion to Approve of the Renewals – V. Dell’Oso and D. Kaplan.
  • Carried
  • V. Dell O’so will have a copy of all current Fall sports chairs.
  • Pitch count forms not being filled out correctly and coaches refusing to sign the forms after the game
  • ECIC Wrestling tournament is moving to December 15th & 16th
  • Wrestling and Volleyball Alignments– Vote.
  • See Vote in “New Business”
  • Baseball Umpires – Update.
  • There has been some confusion as to whether the League Assignors are reaching out to the other groups in order to fill slots for games. It had been discussed that the other groups will only be contacted if there is a Varsity slot open. JV and Modified games will run with one man during an exhausted roster – other groups will not be utilized to fill any slots for the JV and Modified games. Varsity games will be given two umpires. This was a direction given to the assignors in April.
  • Section VI has been very active in recruiting more umpires who will be able to be a part of the Group 05 Organization to hopefully help cut down on exhausted rosters for next year.
  • Round Table

Old Business:

  • ECIC wrestling tournament will be held at Starpoint this year.
  • Pioneer will host ECIC Cheerleading for Fall 2017.
  • Charter school rep was needed– Matt Cook from Tonawanda will be the rep.
  • Holland was approved to add a boys varsity swim program for the next school year winter season.This must be added to the winter alignments and then voted on.

New Business:

  • Review Fall sports Standards – Will be looked at in June.
  • Combining of Schools Update: Williamsville North and Williamsville East would like to combine for wrestling. Vote.
  • Motion to approve of the Combining of Schools mentioned above - V. Dell O’so, J. Pzybysz.
  • Carried.
  • Combining of Schools Update:West Seneca West and West Seneca East combining for boys varsity swimming, girls varsity bowling, and boys varsity tennis. Vote.
  • Motion to approve of the Combining of Schools mentioned above –M. Adams and M. Librock.
  • Carried.
  • Combining of Schools Update: East Aurora and Holland to combine for Modified Wrestling. Vote.
  • Motion to approve of the Combining of Schools mentioned above – M. Fallacaro and P. Cauley.
  • Carried.
  • Alignments for Boys Volleyball and Wrestling Vote.
  • Motion to Approve of the Boys Volleyball and Wrestling alignments. M. Fallacaro and K. Illg.
  • Carried
  • Pioneer will not have a Boys JV Soccer team anymore for theFall of 2017 season.

Section VI News: J. Graczyk (Pioneer), J. Przybysz (Cleveland Hill), M. Fallacaro (Eden), G. Kaszubski (Clarence), C. Demarco (Sweet Home)

  • The Section VI Meeting will be held next week.

Good of the Order

  • Next Athletic Directors Meeting will be June 5that Ilio’s.