Meeting on 1/16/2008
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Minutes
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Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association
Meeting of the Board
January 16, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Conference Call
1.Attendance:
·Dan Nourse, Keith Denebeim, Kelli Shore, Jim Robertson, Jenny TeStrake, Todd Samet, Dale Tills, Tony Grzejka, Betty Hartog, Jeff May.
2.Call to Order:
·The meeting was called to order at 8:06 p.m.
3.Approval of the Minutes:
·The minutes of the November 14, 2007 meeting were approved as written.
4.Commissioners’ Report:
A.Girls: Jenny reported. We’re assessing 75 teams. Master host team schedule almost completed. On schedule to be complete by Feb 1. Decided to split high school into 2 divisions, more experienced and less. Teams play everyone in their division twice, and everyone in the other division once. Some teams are still struggling to get a parent volunteer to umpire. NCJLA paid registration fee for CAL Play Day in 2007, and Tony will send Jenny a record of what NCJLA paid for in 2007. Tony asked if that is anticipated again for 2008. Tony said Carle’s 2007 budget could be a good reference for 2008 anticipated expenditures.
B.High School:Kent reported. Three geographical divisions (North Bay, SouthBay and EastBay) with about 20 varsity and 20 jv. Got agreement to do state championships weekend of May 31st/June 1st. May 17th will be playoffs for Nor Cal, and a high school venue still needed. Keith said 3 teams want to start season early (before March 1st), and he asked Board for approval.Palo Alto tournament will be a great event in April. Score sheets will be distributed at the February Delegates meeting.
C.Juniors: Keith reported. 82 teams. Only glitch in 7A’s; they will have their playoff May 18th, but be a part of B1 division for season games.
D.Pups: Keith reported. 66 teams, No C division. No 5A; they will join B1 division and participate in the B1 division playoffs. 6A-10 teams, B1-10 teams.
E.Pee Wees: Keith reported. Doug did a great job with travel selections. 37 teams. 2 basic divisions. Encouraged a lot of teams to go up to A division. May 17th Sweet 16 and Elite 8 playoffs; May 31st for both Pups and Pee Wee divisions championships.
F.Travel: Keith reported. Teams picked last weekend. $25 fee tryout covered costs of evaluators. Vail U13 coached by Doug, Beau and JC Reid. U13 Festival coached by Mike Emerson, Bill Glazer, Jon Walsh. U15 Vail coached by Peter Worstell, Bob O’Meara, Mike Costanza, Rory Manley. U15 Festival coached by Paul Abess, Paul Frank and Andy Gorman (practice will still be in Bay Area).
5.Treasurer’s Report:
·Tony reported. $178,000 in account with $12,000 in checking account. Remainder in CD’s. Tony asked Keith for a team registration summary and a travel teams’ registration summary. Keith has checks from Santa Rosa and Elk Grove. Next major task is to send to invoices for ref fees. Billing will be in same amount as 2007. Playoff assessments for boys will be $100. Still waiting for a decision from the girls as to whether they want to collect anything extra from refs or for Jamboree. Girls are still looking for a sponsor.
6.Scheduling Update:
·Final date moved to Jan. 18, 2008 from Jan. 10th. Couple of complaints about amount of time needed to be spent on self scheduling. All changes done through email which is distributed to three individuals. A “Done” email is returned to the request confirming the change. All schedules up on Arbiter by 2/1/08. Pros and cons of current method of scheduling: cons are each club has to handle their own schedules; pros are each club can put together their schedules without exact fields and times and can tailor their games to their needs. A scheduling “night” in early December would be a big help to clubs who struggle with schedules. Schedulers would get together, eat, drink and schedule. Will plan this for 2009 season.
7.PCA Training Schedule:
·Grant received from US Lacrosse for 65% of funding for 4 events. Scheduling for third and fourth weeks of February in Walnut Creek, San Marin, SG and Davis.
8.Officials Training:
·Feb 10th: San Marin HS, Foothills HS (Sac), Las Lomas, Gunn HS.
·Feb 9th: Tam HS
·One more at Pups and Pee Wee level on another day for youth referees participating in tournaments and games the weekend of February 9-10. Venue TBD.
9.Jamboree Cancellation:
·All youth games must be completed by May 7, 2008 because Jamboree had to be cancelled due to lack of venue.
10.Post Season Championships:
·Pups and Pee Wees: May 17th for playoffs, May 31st championship.
·Juniors: May 18th for playoffs, June 1st championship.
·Catch: Dragons have invited championships to be held at Spartan Stadium but want to charge ticket price for a Dragon game plus parking. Keith is opposed. They have 3 fields, 2 for Sunday and one for Saturday. Need to find a venue if we turn Dragons down. Maybe go back to Dragons with idea of just renting the fields?
11.Grade vs. Age:
·Keith would like Board to vote on changing to US Lacrosse system where age brackets are used rather than grade levels. Once specific decision would need to be made on young 8th graders. Divisions would be U15 (Seniors), U13 (Juniors), U11 (Lightning) and U 9 (Bantam) with A, B1 and C levels in each division. Do girls follow same setup? Rule book only applies to boys. Jenny would like it to apply to the girls as well. Amendment will be presented to delegates at 2/08 meeting.
·Motion: Jenny motioned to align division splits with US Lacrosse for the 2009 season.
·Second: Tony seconded.
·Vote: Motion carried.
12.Pay to Play:
·The discussion of Pay to Play teams being allowed into the NCJLA continued. After the U15 and U13 tryouts selections were posted three players dropped from the Festival teams stating that they were going to play for BraveheartAcademy program. While the Braveheart Team has never tried to join the NCJLA, it reaffirmed that our by-laws need to anticipate this eventual possibility and it is one of Dan’s major goals that the league make a decision this year about the makeup of the league and make any by-law, or handbook changes to formalize this policy. More feedback will be gathered from delegates to help draft these changes for formal approval on or before the September 2008 delegate meeting. In addition, with several private summer travel teams being created, it poses the questions to whether the NCJLA should put together more travel teams or travel to more different tournaments.
13.Adjournment:
·The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 p.m.