MNLGLL Meeting Minutes

MNLGLL Meeting Minutes

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May, 21 2012

Attendance taken at main table – Separate Sheet – Added below

Meeting called to order by VJ Sarullo at 8:15 pm

Notes taken by Michael Merchant – League Secretary

VJ:

·  Secretary Notes to be sent out upon request from last meeting, emailed to VJ then sent to membership. Mike Merchant to send notes to VJ after meeting for prior meeting.

Finances:

·  Taken in $86K, paid out over $55K, cash balance of around $39K in cash. Cash balance is more than enough to sustain our league this season.

Joe Cretella:

·  Interleague play is a new initiative, playing in the majors level for this year.

·  Question – Do they play our rules? By handbook? We believe that they do play the same little league handbook rules.

·  Kipp – Make sure we are in understanding of their house rules if there are any.

·  Keep it competitive and build good in town relations with this schedule between the 2 leagues.

·  Smoking at our fields – Town is on board with our initiative to ban smoking at our fields – Joe Boreski is helping us with the town to ensure that we have town support with a smoke free environment

·  We cant stop them but hope to in the future

·  Bathrooms at Clarkson – There was vandalism at Clarkson in the mens room. JML is locking the bathrooms as JML is not happy. Bathrooms should be open

·  Asked the town to cut back the trees at liptak field, cutting back on the fenceline for us.

·  Next meeting we will vote on trophies.

·  VJ – Bathrooms – Is it necessary to get a port ‘O’ Pottie

Gary – Player Agent update

·  Some rainouts have caused some reschedules

·  3 rainouts tonight

·  May have to play memorial day weekend

·  Gear with Nantucket – Gary is working on the gear to sell

Umpires – Joe Trapani

·  Umpires meetings bi-weekly and they are addressing with them on certain situations such as 10 run rules, etc…

·  Most issues have been taken care of on the spot, and issues have been resolved

·  New Umps – Getting their feet wet, gaining experience

·  Sticker issue is being made aware of and they are paying attention to the bats

·  Umps are not allowed to miss any games, and need to show up and call if late

·  VJ – 10 run rule was an issue early on, however has been cleared up

·  Bat stickers are on back order, and we have to adjust until then

Ed Flynn - Fields

·  Sheds – Put things back

·  Sprinklers are being worked on and should be all fixed

·  10 new heads and check valves have been placed in

·  Need to order some speedy dry and some more infield mix under new business

·  Mike Shannon – Can we get a hose at the field to fix the mounds? Yes, looking into it?

·  VJ – Is there a problem with the liner at Clarkson? Only if it gets wet, just keep it clog free and is free of MUD.

·  Put the foul lines down each game, make an agreement with the other coach prior to the game, help the umpires out by putting down the lines prior to the games

·  Need to have a system and start volunteering some more time to assist the fields for lining, Also has paint and the machine to use either type of lines

·  Joe – Just collaborate to get the lines down. GET THE LINES DOWN!

·  Seems like the machine is not working right, but we will look into it.

·  Clarkson – the electrical box is damaged and hanging by a thread?

Dan Maxwell – Equipment

·  Dan is not at meeting

·  Need more baseballs, we will get them out

Paul Marino – Safety

·  Signs are in, just need to be put on the fences

·  Hopefully tomorrow the foul ball signs will be up

·  Cold packs are under the sink at Gehrig field if you need more

·  Keep equipment in the dugout with the exception ONLY for T-Ball with the bats.

·  Limit the # of coaches in the dugout. Keep them in the dugout area.

·  Heart Guards – Not a bad idea to think about wearing these

·  WEAR the coaches shirts!

Ed Moyer – Snack Stand

·  Overall very good

·  Some times the refreshment stands were trashed in the stand.

·  Ed spent 2 hours cleaning up seeds, Chad disagrees

·  Please make sure the stands are clean

·  Monitor the field house, we will put a vacuum cleaner up top!

Sr. League – Kip Taylor

·  Just drafted the high school players

·  Some make up games to go, Orange is working well with us, minimal complaints

Majors – Mike Shannon

·  Had some minor pitch count issues and make sure they are correct, period

·  Need to make sure they are correct, and put them in correctly. Make sure it is accurate.

·  Batting Order – VJ – stick around to discuss the batting order for remainder of year.

Farms – Dave Liptak

·  One issue with Mercy rule but everything is running smoothly

C.P. - Chad Badell

·  Chad wants to do the raffle

Raffle Drawing:

·  $300 - High Intensity Prize Award – Winner is Larissa Primavera

·  $450 Gift Card to Stop and Shop – Winner is Paula Brownhill – Massachussets

·  IPAD3 – Winner is Quinten Garatoni – Derby

·  YMCA Family Membership – Winner is Mary Brethaeur

·  $1000 Costco Gift Certificate – Winner is Bob Barrette – Robert Street Milford

T-Ball – Paul Castello

·  Nothing to ask

Old Business – VJ

·  Opening Day – Isabella Basics sang the National Anthem and presented her with an award courtesy of All Awards

New Business – VJ

·  Ed Flynn – Motion to accept the infield Mix of $350 for 6 yards and speed e dry for $500 all delivered. Motion accepted, all in favor, no oppositions, motion is carried

·  District meeting is this week – Need to tell them how many post season teams we will be having.

·  Need to get an extra farm tourney and major tourney team for this year. Let VJ know tonight!

·  Still working on the board of ed fields – VJ is in communication with the Board, and they are in agreement and are submitting a capital improvement plan to the city in the next couple week to fix the town athletic fields

·  We are awaiting to see if the improvement plan is accepted before we look for extra support. Process is in place and we will wait for an answer.

·  TARPS – Determined that we don’t need the tarps – Looking to get rid of them

·  Field Inspections – District and Eastern Regions were checking out the Clarkson fields, and they were very impressed with how our league runs the fields. 2 minor issues they found, the rubber behind home plate, and a piece of broken fence. WE are obligated to fix those issues prior to the tournament, we will get estimates to fix those fences temporary and permanent basis. City will be asked to help with the repairs.

·  Speaker system for the tournament – Paul Marino can get a system for $399.

·  Please bring this up at the next board meeting

·  Member has an issue with the photographer, says there were not enough choices.

·  Bishop gave the league back a donation of $850 back to the league, even if there were some issues

·  2 other issues to bring up by VJ:

o  Sportsmanship – Please make sure to keep something in top of mind when it comes to being a good sport and manager. Hope is to have some upsets. However, please try and be conscious of 1st and 3rd Steeling when up big, pay attention to the game and check out the score and make good decisions. Be conscious of this fact, and these are kids in OUR league. Pay attention to when its time to pull back. Pay attention for the kids sake, it’s a MUST.

o  We received an anonymous letter stating that folks are already on a district team.

o  The executive board will make a recommendation of who the managers will be, at the next meeting on 6/4 we will announce who those managers will be, then we will present them to the membership and get a majority vote.

o  Next, managers will receive a list of players, and then meetings and teams will be selected. Players have NOT been chosen yet and we cannot tell kids they are on any post season team until 6/15. This is a MUST! Cannot tell kids early, period. The league, the division managers, and the board will ensure it is done fairly and without cheating.

o  We will post our rules to the league website to help squash any questions on this topic.

Motion to adjourn the meeting, Paul Marino – 2nd, no oppositions. Meeting ended at 9:35 pm

Membership Attendance – As taken on separate sheet and transferred to these notes:

Chris Engel, Ed Flynn, Dave Liptak, Mike Shannon, Mark Lombardi, Chris Lazar, Sean Lawless, Paul Goglia, Wayne Robertson, Anthony Vogl, Ed Moyher, Kipp Taylor, Rob Hunter, Joe Cretella, Dan Quirk, Bob Thomas, Joe Zarnoch, Eddy Supple, Steve McCullough, Rober Chakar, Mark Deitelbaum, Pete Bravo,

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