NCYHA BoardMeeting Agenda–4/19/2016

MeetingheldatRonstan at 6:00
Attendees: / Board Members: Frank Toner, Dan O’Conner, AndrewBellagamba, Scot West, MJ Bregenhoj,Cindy Schuster, Jen Lopes, Sean King, Andrew Castella
Advisory Group Member: Patrick Cavanaugh, Colin Jackson
Old Business
Approval of Meeting Minutes from3/1/2016- Approved
Elections- Frank
-Elections Complete:
-Vice President – Sean King
-MDP – Dan O’Connor
-Treasurer – Jen Lopes
-Secretary – MJ Bregenhoj
-Scheduler – Andy Bellagamba
-Christmas Tournament Director – Sharon McNeil
-Registrar – Cindy Schuster
-LTS –Andrew Casella—Appointed
-76 people voted
Christmas Tournament Numbers – Jen
-Final – waiting for final ice bill
-Stanley cup-only 2015
-1100 on supplies – we will not have next year
-Basket raffles -
-44 team instead of 45 teams participated in 2015
RI/SNEHC Hockey Update – Frank
-Cindy will attend to get the training for the new registration software. Will go online this summer.
-Training must be completed by all coaches, will get advisory board member/safe sport coordinator in place to help police prior to the season start.
-LTS commercial statewide. The footage was shot in Newport. Commercial will air on local channels in late summer.
-Shortage of goalies because of ADM model.
-The league will subsidize, new quick change goalie pads for the younger skaters.
-Dramatic drop off in interest to be goalies, as a league we are not identifying goalies soon enough in the game.
From our MDP program we have we only graduated one goalie
New Business
Mite Update – Dan
-Confirm Tucker West -coach
-Cut 3 kids
-This will be a Mite A
-The plan is to schedule practice with Tuesday night MDP nights.
Squirt Update – Colin
-Tryout results went well, perfect numbers
-Confirm coaches – Pete Godbout Squirt A
-12 skaters and 2 goalies max and Brady Squirt A
-Coaches for the B 14 player 1 goalie Zack- Scot West Squirt B
-Coach for Tom Rocco will coach C 14 +1 goalie.
PeeWee Update – Todd – Not Present
-A Team with 13/ 2 B teams with 12/ C team with 11 4 teams There might be 4 level, A/B/C/D. This will be confirmed at the next league meeting.
-Confirm coaches Todd wants to be the A coach –conflict of interest with Level director and is picking the teams. There is not policy in place for a level director to coach if needed.
-There are several names coming forward with several years of coaching experience.
-We will table this topic for now and have a follow up meeting in a couple of weeks.
Midget/Bantam Update – Patrick
-Ryan Mulhern A coach
-Bantam C division??? Should we make 2 B
-Potential coaches/ Kevin McDonald and Rob Edwards
-There will be parity rounds at the beginning of the season to ensure everyone is in the right level– the games still count
-The teams are split are into A B C
-15 skaters and 2 goalies in A and possibly lose2 kids to HS
-14 on B and 14 on C.
-Midget tryouts 43 skaters 6 goalies
-A and B 18 skates and 2 goalies, not sure if we will have a C level (not enough players)
-Possibly cut 7 and 2 goalies (full refund if cuts are made)
-We will double check on the Max number of players per team. Likely 20 total.
-Steve Regine and Arthur Woody for coaches
Coaching Director Position – Scot
-We will table this for August meeting
Team Fees/Registrar – Cindy
-Update – try out registration- any issue
-Coaches Evaluation Results
LTS – Andrew
-No Update
House League – Chris not present
-No Update
Scheduler – Andy – Not Present
- No Update
Next Board Meeting Date/Time/Place – MJ
-Meet May 4 for follow up
-Will confirm Annual Meeting date and venue at that time.

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