FEBRUARY 10, 2013 SRC MEETING MINUTES
Conference at Marriott Courtyard Hotel
SRC Committee Members Present
ChairKen George
SRA, SYRA, SACPaul James
SDAErnie Fisher
SDIJim Carpenter
NCASA PresidentBob Kepner
NCYSA President Keith Price
NCASA At-LargeRene de la Cruz (part time)
NCYSA At-Large Demp Bradford (part time)
NCSRA Operations ManagerDavid Hall(non-voting)
Excused Absence
Herk DeGraw, NCASA/NCYSA At-Large
Kathy Robinson (non-voting), NCSRA, Inc Treasurer
Call to Order
Ken George called the meeting to order at 1:00 PM.
Determine Quorum
A Quorum was determined to be present.
Approval of Minutes-September 26, 2012
Motion to approve minutes, Bob Kepner. Seconded by Jim Carpenter
Financials
Motion to approve financials (for July to June 30) by SRC Committee
Reports
SDA-Ernie Fisher
1)It was announced that Jim Fahy would be Emeritus as his current grade status.
2)Ernie mentioned that there are 33 assessors currently in North Carolina and that there will be an assessor’s clinic this upcoming year.
3)He also asked that the ARA’s identify more female youth referees in the program as there were no nominations for female youth referee of the year this past year.
SDA-Jim Carpenter
1)Jim said that learning has been less than acceptable for the “7 and 7” standards, descriptions and acronyms and will continue to improve those results.
2)He also asked that the area referee administrators and the SRC also approve a modification to the criteria to register for the online grade 8 re-cert course. That criteria has been changed as follows: either a referee must have three years continuous registration, 2010, 2011, 2012, or a total of five or more years registration. In addition, if an area referee administrator requests a hardship exemption that will be submitted to the ARAs and if the majority approve, that exemption will be allowed.
3)Explanation of modules actions and answers for interactive learning would be developed to increase retention and understanding.
4)Improve game administration including state specific procedures regarding match reports. Team check in procedures, etc.
5)How to deal with sends offs and dismissals, including non-participant dismissals.
6)Courses must be created so average referee completes them in the course allotted time, such as 4 hours, etc.
7)Concussion management is still a responsibility of the referee and crew.
8)2014 Instructional Program will need advanced on field course as a re-cert.
SAC-Cliff Clement
1)Cliff ask that his job description and responsibilities be made public and included on the Arbiter Sportsweb site.
2)Ralph Jordan and Eric Johnson have been helping Cliff in his new position and will continue to communicate issues, and complaints.
3)Cliff ask that assignors identify and promote referees with potential and provide opportunities for upgrade and high profile events.
4)He will continue to work with clubs to maintain standards for assignor and assignments.
SRA SYRA-Paul James
1)New NCSRA Logo presented to SRC. SRC approved online store for NCSRA branded items such as warm-ups, shirts, bags, etc to be made available to the referee community in North Carolina.
2)SRC to approve large coin order. David Hall will obtain quotes on the cost of ordering coins and will present options and samples.
3)Recommend to SRC that we fund up to 3 NR/NRCs to Youth Regionals, with those participating in State Cup. This was approved by the SRC.
4)For all ID events we will fund NR/NRCs if they also do at least 4 approved mentor events and then at year’s end we will equally reimburse all NR/NRCs who have met criteria and submitted expenses up to the amount total we have budgeted. A mentor event will be a state established event or the NR/NRCs creative event which must be approved first. This was approved by the SRC with the modification that there must be at least two different types of mentor events contained in the four done by the candidates.
5)Recommend to SRC that we approve a web design outside contractor using our original domain name to begin the front process of our access. This was approved by the SRC and ARA Abbas Piran will begin locating a web designer to work with.
6)Ernie Fisher & Ed Guzowski will create task force to develop an NCAA grant proposal for development of female minority referees. Try to have a rough working draft for use at US Soccer Admin meeting in Chicago in March. This was approved by the SRC and in addition we will potentially try to piggyback a possible scholarship program for other minority or deserving young referee candidates if this program is approved by the NCAA.
7)The SRC approved the ordering of business cards as proposed for all state directors and David Hall at this time. Additional business cards for the area referee administrators will be ordered in the next round.
8)The SRC also approved the budget process in that we will have a rough draft budget for review in our April online meeting. That meeting will be April 17, 2013 at 8 PM. Prior to that meeting any ARA who has additional anticipated expenditures that should be included in the 2013-2014 budget should submit those to David Hall. The tentative budget will be approved at the April meeting with additions and deletions for a draft. The final budget will be approved at the June meeting of the SRC.
9)The SRC approved the attendance of four administrators at the national USSF referee administrators workshop in Chicago. David Hall will look into travel arrangements for those four administrators. The administrators attending will be Paul James, Ernie Fisher, Cliff Clement, and Jim Carpenter.
10)For the referee of the year awards, we will post an open application on our website so that anyone may nominate a referee in that category beginning January 1 of the year prior to the award. The application form will automatically generated e-mail that will be sent to all area referee administrators and David Hall at the office area and this will serve as our coalition source for all applications and those that have been timely submitted will be evaluated at various state cup and ODP tournament prior to the final selection being made.
11)Recommend unanimously that fees revert back to July 1 with 90 day window and as of October 1 $20 late fee be added. This was approved by the SRC.
Next Meeting will be in April 17, 7pm – 10pm and will be an “online” meeting approximately 2-3 hours. The SRC will meet (in person) in June
Motion to adjorn, Paul James.Seconded by Keith Price.