WCOA Football Board Meeting Minutes on 1/25/2017 at the Germany Library at 7:00 PM

Football Board Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm.

Dr. Greg Kaiser (WCOA VP of Football) Presiding:

1)  Award Nominations for 2016

Nominations were discussed and the candidates voted on and approved by the board.

Official of the Year

Rookie of the Year

Most Improved

Iron Man Award

2)  Key dates for Flag Football (meetings & clinic). No test this year.

First Flag meeting is Thursday, February 16, 2017 at Jefferson high school at 7pm (auditorium).

Dan Renfro (clinician) confirmed his availability for meetings and clinic.

A few schools have expressed an interest in hosting the Flag clinic in the past, so a location has not been decided yet. Plant has been the host in past years, for their field house does not require the school to be opened, etc. on the weekend.

3)  Flag Football training sessions due to the FHSAA January 27th.

Training Director Marty Palenik will submit this to Shanell Young who is the administrator of flag football for the FHSAA.

4)  Currently there are 60 Flag Football official registered with the FHSAA.

Given the failure of the C2C computer system at the FHSAA, we get muter updates on Fridays from the FHSAA.

A few of the names on this list are likely in error given their geographic address.

The WCOA must ensure proper eligibility for those signed up.

This includes Fingerprinting, Lawson numbers, Arbiter (with picture) and attendance at meetings.

5)  Preseason “Classics” in Flag Football: Alonso, East Bay, Chamberlain & Steinbrenner.

6)  What to do about the side Flag Football Church Leagues.

The Board decided to turn the Church Leagues over to someone else to provide officials and perform bookings.

These leagues have their own rules and schedules.

The Board decided not to be involved in these matters, even if one of our own officials decides independently to take on the responsibility of booking one of these leagues. In such cases, it will not be considered a conflict of interest and the WCOA will not get involved in the process.

7)  TBYFL Update:

The WCOA will continue to fully support the TBYFL league per our contract with them.

8)  TCYFCC (Brandon League) Update:

The WCOA will continue to fully support the TCYFCC (Brandon League) per our contract with them.

a)  The TCYFCC has eliminated the Chiefs (conduct) and Panthers (shorthanded) from their league.

b)  The TCYFCC is back to 12 teams.

9)  FHSAA has proposed a new “Multi-Site” Tackle Football Clinics/Scrimmages set for Saturday August 12th.

a)  These will be “joint” training sessions between associations, coaches & member schools held simultaneously at approximately 35 sites across the state of Florida.

b)  The goal is to make this an annual event.

c)  There are several issues we noticed with this new proposal:

a.  It would replace our requirement for a clinic scheduled in May each year.

b.  The new clinic/scrimmages would be held in early August. Our youth leagues start in August which would make attendance by all of our members difficult.

c.  The new clinic is schedule from 8am to 6:30pm – 10 ½ hours.

d.  While FHSAA field clinic credit would be given, this is something most all our members already have through 2020.

10)  Recruiting Update from James Strickland:

a)  Harold & Nancy developed a flyer for recruiting new officials

b)  The flyer has been posted to our web site.

c)  Richard McCluskey has contacted Bobby Cooper to get pictures added to the recruiting effort.

d)  James Strickland has contacted several local radio stations to get the word out over the air.

e)  Harold Greenfield, to date, has received only a few new officials hitting the web site (become an official).

Harold has responded to these new recruits with no response yet.

Rodney Dickerson (WCOA President) Absent

Dr. Greg Kaiser (WCOA Football Vice President) Present

Richard Birdsong (WCOA Board Member) Present

Harold Greenfield (WCOA Board Member) Present

Marty Palenik (WCOA Board Member) Present

Jerome Ford (WCOA Board Member) Absent

Ken Calhoun (Varsity/JV Booking Commissioner) Present

Hank Weil (Youth Booking Commissioner) Absent

The next Board Meeting date will be announced at a later date.

Meeting adjourned at 8:55 pm.

WCOA Football Meeting Minutes Page 1 Revision Date: 1/27/2017