RAYHA Mission Statement-

The purposes of our programs are to teach and to promote amateur youth ice hockey, develop good sportsmanship and fair play, and to teach each participant to accept both victory and defeat graciously. Above all we want our youth to have fun. We want to develop individual and team skills, teamwork, knowledge of the game, loyalty, responsibility, and sportsmanship.

RAYHA Board Meeting | February 20, 2017 5:30 pm | Raider Room

Call the Meeting to Order

Gambling Business

  • Gambling Update
  • Approve January Activities
  • Approve March Estimates

Old Business

  • Communications Report- Approve January Minutes
  • Change the website to have the girls program mimic the boy program and change the wording to boys and girls. (We do not need a rule for this. We will just have to do it after the season when we remake the site.)
  • Treasurer Report- Approve YTD Financials

New Business

  • Confirm timeline for the next few months and assign responsibility:

a)Announce the Town Hall Meeting-Jill

b)Announce acceptance of Board Applications-Jill

c)Board applications must be received by the EOD of the Town Hall

  1. Need date for the town hall- Board decision
  2. Need to reserve the location (VFW?)- Volunteer

d)Announce Members who are running and get them on the Website-Jill

e)Online voting if that is the way we plan to go - needs to have an open/close date. The close date is the last Friday before the March meeting.(If we are not going online, then more work on getting ballots created via our printer, Alegra, and in the mail)-Tom King

f)Official ballot counting with Lonnie - do we still involve him if we go online? – Board Decision

*All beforeMarch 20if we truly want the new board in place byApril 17instead of May.

  • Ice Scheduling Update
  • Software- I will bring Brad into the fold on the software we want to use
  • Brad Sleeman has agreed to be our new ice scheduler. We have not agreed upon a price but he is willing to take it on.
  • Member concerns/comments

Director Reports

  • CEO
  • Registrar
  • Second registration numbers
  • Anyone still outstanding will need to be contacted. Can we run the names again?
  • D2 Rep
  • Bantam complaint- WI teams in D2
  • D2 meeting update
  • Volunteer
  • Overall Number update
  • What do we want to do for those that did not fulfil their required hours?
  • Girls Traveling
  • Dave Lehto- Liaison between HS teams and Youth Association
  • RAHYA
    All girls are strongly encouraged to play in the girl’s program. Girls are allowed to play in the boy’s program, however once a girl participates in a tryout at any level of the boys program she loses her eligibility to play in the girl’s program for that season. Likewise, once a girl participates in a tryout at any level of the girl’s program she loses her eligibility to play in the boy’s program for that season.The player must notify the travel director and girl’s travel director in writing prior toSeptember 1of their intent to play in the boy’s program.No girl may try out for more than one level of hockey within RAHYA boys or girls. Any girl who registers after tryouts or does not participate in tryouts will be placed on the lowest level team of her appropriate age level.
    RHYHA board will be so notified with written confirmation of all girls approved to play on boy’s teams.
    Hopkins
    Girls playing on boy’s teams is only permitted under the following circumstances: a. The player must play at age appropriate level. b. The player must notify the travel director and girl’s travel director in writing prior toSeptember 1of their intent to play in the boy’s program. c. Once the decision is made to move a girl to the boy’s team she must stay with the boy’s team she is on for the duration of that season. She will NOT be allowed to return to the girl’s program that season. RHYHA board will be so notified with written confirmation of all girls approved to play on boy’s teams.

OMGHA
All girls are strongly encouraged to play in the girl’s program. Girls are allowed to play in the boy’s program, however once a girl participates in a tryout at any level of the boys program she loses her eligibility to play in the girl’s program for that season. Likewise, once a girl participates in a tryout at any level of the girl’s program she loses her eligibility to play in the boy’s program for that season. No girl may try out for more than one level of hockey within OMGHA, boys or girls. Any girl who registers after tryouts or does not participate in tryouts will be placed on the lowest level team of her appropriate age level.

  • Membership Development/Recruitment
  • Little Wild
  • Initiation
  • Jamboree update
  • Equipment
  • Jersey Process Review
  • Ordering jerseys of the correct size during the summer months.
  • We may want to nail down the correct size now
  • Coaches
  • Player Development
  • Managers
  • Youth Travel
  • Playoff update for our teams
  • Friends of the Oval/Sponsorship
  • Goalie
  • Jr. Gold

Outstanding Items

  • TeamGenius follow-up (
  • Who is best suited to take this on? Our new registrar next year? Travel director?