MYHA Meeting Minutes

Wednesday February 23, 2011

  1. Call to order
  2. The meeting was called to order by Rick Mueller, President at 6:30 pm at the Ice Arena Meeting Room.
  3. Roll call
  4. The following board members were present: Rick Mueller, Heather Schmidt, Corey Meyer, Eric Gruen, Scott Berg, Lori Remeika, Jim Halvorsen, Bill Urban, Jack Bremer, and Mark Wellens.
  5. Approval of last month’s meeting minutes
  6. Meeting minutes from January were reviewed with no changes made. Minutes approved by Jack with a second by Corey.
  7. Treasurer’s Report
  8. Treasurer’s report reviewed by Jim.
  9. Unfinished Business
  10. Jer Lang updates
  11. Bill provided updates on improving the building for outdoor ice use. Estimate provided by Marawood. Bill will check and negotiate with City and fairboard on payment options. Plan is to implement the improvements this spring.
  12. Season review
  13. What worked & what needs improvements:
  14. ADM skills practices - worked great but we need more help during these practices to be most effective. Suggest having varsity players assist at stations & offer money back on registration with the volunteer hours. Proposal to bring components of ADM skills to higher levels for further skill development.
  15. Fundraising – improved over previous year. Propose to collect fees up front at registration and propose to use Footballmania idea instead of the raffle 300.
  16. Concessions – much improved. Suggest keeping volunteer sign up sheet posted at all times.
  17. Team rep – improved. Need improvements in volunteers for game duties. Suggest offering training sessions at beginning of season to learn game duties for those unfamiliar with them. Suggest team reps post sign ups for games earlier than the week before each game.
  18. New Skaters/Learn to Skate – very successful plan to continue with same arrangements as this season
  19. Tournaments – generated a good amount of revenue for the association. Difficult to schedule
  20. BOD emails – Suggestion to capture email decisions in meeting minutes.
  21. Registration for next season
  22. Cindy Nikolai present at BOD meeting to provide feedback to BOD on online registration vs paper registration. For next season, BOD proposing to have registration fees and fundraising fees paid up front upon registration with a signed contract. Proposal includes paying USA fee online and registering w/o online payment as payments for fundraising and registration will be made in person during equipment handout.
  23. New Business
  24. Pink the Rink: fundraising event for the American Cancer Society collected about $1400.00 in donations.
  25. Awards
  26. Playmaker Award – Brad Orella
  27. Blue line Award – Jim, Barb, & Sarah Klubell
  28. Rookie Award – Jim & Sarah Krueger
  29. Howie Metz Award – Joe Trierweiler
  30. Lifetime Award – Bruce Laughtenshlager
  31. Elections for next season
  32. BOD members who are staying on include: Jim Halvorsen, Heather Schmidt, Mark Wellens, Scott Berg, & Bill Urban
  33. BOD members who are moving off include: Eric Gruen, Jack Bremer, Rick Mueller, Lori Remeika, & Corey Meyer
  34. Rick will post the functional responsibilities & monthly meetings obligations of a BOD member on the MYHA website along with a post of the details for accepting nominations for the 5 open seats on the board.
  35. Elections will be held March 27, 2011 at the Ice Arena starting a 5pm with the Awards Ceremony following which begins at 6pm.
  36. Coach issue
  37. Discussion of incident by board. Support provided to coach. 1 game suspension served for leaving the game early which is required by WAHA rules. Issue closed.

Meeting Adjourned at 9pm.