Board
of Director's Meeting Minutes
FYSA
Monthly Meeting Agendas
June 18, 2003
(7pm at Norway Savings Bank)
Attendees:
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Board
Members Present: Colette Twigg, Bob Keach, Ken Alvarez, Marsha
Lycan, Jim Goodrich, Ben Weigel, Chris Murry
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Board
Members Absent: Phil Bruen, Charlie Clement, Jim Seely
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Public:
George Bloom
Public
Input:
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George
Bloom - U10 goals: Other than the two new sets of U10 goals
all the U10 goals and nets are several years
old. Some of the U10
nets were on their last legs last year and with going through
the winter outdoors are likely overdue for replacement. The
suggestion was for someone to see how many sets of U10 goals
were needed
and
get them ordered so we have them for the start of the season.
If needed George offered to check the goals out and see what
I think
is needed for the coming season. U12 & up goals: For the FFC
last year we needed 6 sets of full size goals. We used all the
portables we had plus at least one set of the permanent goals,
which we shortened,
posts on to make them easier to handle. One set of the old heavy
goals was damaged following the FFC and either needs to be repaired
or replaced. Having another set of full size goals that can be
moved around would be helpful during the season and is likely needed
for
the FFC. George suggested to have someone take another look at
this and see if another set of goals is needed (Colette asked George
to
check both the U10 goals and U12 & up goals and let
us know). In both cases FYSA can work with Matt Gilbert
to get prices on
the goals and purchase without tax. We then donate them
to the town as
we have in the past (insurance and PR reasons.
Meeting
Minute Review.
Committee
Assignments
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Colette
once again stressed the need for referee assignors for the
club. As required by Soccer Maine,
a ‘certified’ referee
assignor must now assign all referees. Currently George Bloom
is certified but we will clearly need more, ideally one
per age group.
We need to push coaches to elicit volunteers for this position.
There will be an upcoming certification class to be announced
Communications:
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Colette
and Charlie have begun working on a coach’s handbook,
which will take some time to assemble.
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Marsha
Lycan agreed to help Colette and Charlie in also developing
a ‘board
member’ packet to contain policies and
procedures of FYSA
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Charlie
Clement has started the new website which can be found at falmouthsoccer.org.
It is still in
very preliminary stages,
but being used to provide information and forms for the Fall Classic currently
Approval
of Rosters:
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Ben
Weigel made a motion to approve team rosters assembled
to date with a second by Marsha Lycan. Currently there are
still issue
with a couple of age groups, and whether or not we
will be able to form “B” teams.
We need approximately 5 additional players at the U13 boys
in order to field a second B team. The board decided on imposing
a deadline
of July 15, after which time, we would take 2 more players
to
the A team to have a roster of 18 if there were not
5 additional players
found to make 16 for the B team. At the U14 boys level,
we did not have enough players to field one team of our own
and
Tom Munroe is
currently working on the possibility of combining with
PAYSA or some other neighboring town.
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Review
of tryouts: The consensus was that tryouts seemed to work
out adequately, but there may be room for improvement next
year. Everyone seemed to agree that it may be a good idea
to have tryouts on 2 weeknights next year and make it absolutely
mandatory.
Bob K. suggested we may even consider an ‘alpha’ split
which would have the first half of the alphabet one night
and the second half on another night.
Coaching Committee:
Falmouth
Fall Classic – Update:
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Ken
Alvarez is working hard on the FFC already and provided a current
update. Mark Peterson has agreed to work as the referee assignor
for the event. Ken is actively looking for volunteers, particularly
some people willing to take on ‘chair’ positions
for such things as ‘concessions’. He asked that
we get the word out to all coaches to start pushing for volunteers
as
soon as
they have their beginning of the season meetings.
New Business
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Youth Module tentatively scheduled
for August 20th but trying to change to the 25th or 28th.
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We
discussed the fact that the football boosters are trying to push
for new
lights at the stadium field. It was a consensus that
we did not feel obligated to donate any money towards this at this
time. New lights for stadium field. Football organizing. Do we want
to donate?
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It
was also a consensus that we could purchase shirts for recently
certified
referees
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Info
from the Metro President’s meeting included a
policy added to the Fall Handbook regarding referee compensation.
The new policy dictates that the away team has a check payable to
the home coach for ½ of the referee fee prior to the start
of game.
Next
Meeting: In light of vacation schedules and meeting overload
after tryouts, etc, we decided to forgo the July meeting and convene
next August 4 at 7pm at Norway Savings Bank
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