AYSO Board Meeting:   October 28, 2003

 

In Attendance:  Mark Anderson, Bernie Barbero, Gene Batter, Doug Brown, Jack Coyne, Rob Ford, Peter Frankel, Eric Haas, Bill Hastings, Keith Jobe, Mike Loy, tracy McSheery,

Dan Nelson, Ken Outzen, Rand Potter, Brigitte Shearer, Sandy Walker, Kelly Winterbottom, Karin Wolfsohn, Ursula Wong, Donna Young, Kimberly Fitch

 

Meeting Notes:

 

WELCOME

Gene Batter welcomed everyone and thanked them for volunteering.

 

MEETING MINUTES FROM SEPTEMBER 2003

Keith made a motion to accept the September 2003 meeting minutes, Mark seconded.  The minutes were unanimously approved.

 

LEAGUE REPORTS

League Commissioner’s Reports:

Regional Commissioner, Gene Batter, commented on U16/U19.  He stated that the U16 Boys won and are going onto the Section Tournament in Foster City.  The U19 Boys were disqualified due to not having enough sportsmanship points.

 

Girls League Commissioner, Eric Hass has nothing to report at this time.

 

Chief Coach, Doug Brown nothing to report at this time.

 

Regional Referee Administrator, Brian Kersten not present at meeting.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

Rand Potter handed out a cash flow report to Board members.  He stated that there is a little over $100,000 in checking and savings.  He also stated that he will do a comparison budget for the next meeting.

 

OLD BUSINESS

Surveys:

Tracy and Eric condensed the surveys and improved them tremendously.

 

Yearbook:

Yearbooks are being delivered to Gene on October 30th.  There will not be rosters included in this year’s yearbook.  Division coordinators may come and pick up the yearbooks along with the trophies from Gene.

 

Player Ratings:

Eric presented findings and recommendations for their AYSO Player Rating Process Improvement Initiative.  The core team included Willy Aguilar, Mark Anderson, Barb Black, Kimberly Fitch, Eric Haas and Donna Young.  The extended team included Graham Hampton, Kevin Kiel, Jerry Manos and Dan Nelson.  The contributors were Ante Buljan, Rick Dauchauer, Guy Lynch and Tracy McSherry.  Gene Batter acted as Advisor. 

After a long discussion by Board members, they came to a decision.

Rob made a motion to eliminate the exception form and accept the player rating form with the following modification…to change “max # of players” to “suggested # of players.”  Keith seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved.

 

NEW BUSINESS

San Mateo Youth Sports Foundation:

John Shield is a member of the non-profit organization, SMYSF, founded to develop multi-use outdoor recreation fields in San Mateo.  He spoke to the Board about their current initiative which is to explore the possibility of new artificial turf fields (similar to Serra, San Mateo High, Burlingame High) at Hillsdale High School and/or Abbott Middle School.  John talked about the funding, advantages, and how AYSO can help.  The following motion was made by Tracy, to write an informational letter of support to SMYSF, Peter seconded the motion and the motion was unanimously approved.  Keith will also work with John to add the information to AYSO’s website.  John passed out a short survey to the Board members for additional information.

Other members of SMYSF include Javier Pulido, Bill Matthews, Terry Pipp and Karen Gough. 

 

Section Meeting 2004:

Gene talked about the 2004 Section Meeting being held in Las Vegas, NV on

Feb. 2nd, 2004 through Feb. 8th, 2004.  Rand handed out a proposal outlining requirements if Board members choose to attend.  Keith made a motion to accept Rand’s 2004 Section Meeting proposal, Mark seconded.  The motion was unanimously approved.

 

Tournaments:

Gene asked for help running tournaments.  Bernie agreed to run the GU10 Tournament, Kim and Mark will run the Boys and Girls U12 Tournament and Gene will run the Boys U10 Tournament.

 

OPEN BUSINESS

Gene announced that he is attending a meeting with the City of San Mateo, High School District representatives and field users on 11/5/03. There will be a proposal for new field use fees.

 

 

Bridgette made a motion to adjourn, Tracy seconded the motion.  The meeting was adjourned at 9:15pm.

 

Respectfully submitted by Anusheh Chavez

LAST 2003 BOARD MEETING – November 25th, 7:00pm at Hope Lutheran Church