Athletic Club of the Sandhills – Meeting Minutes

December 2013 –OFFICIAL – Quorum

Members Present: Luis Pages, Todd Abbey, Tim Copper, Rodney Tolentino, Rod Bolanos, Con Mahoney, Betsy Thomas, Carie Driver, Norma Stilwell& Karen Gutierrez

Meeting was called to order at 6:13 PM on Monday, December 2, 2013.

November 4, 2013 meeting minutes approved.

President’s Report:

NCYSA has their General Meeting coming up. Proposed changes are:

  • Change to bi-laws – reduce to 2 meetings a year – all are in agreement.
  • Rec members – Members without enough numbers become inactive for three years. Can be reinstated if numbers go up anytime in that three years.
  • New level of competition to be added – Select would be a level below Second level to be a bridge from Challenge to Classic.
  • Would like to eliminate hosted rec events for a few years (Rec State Cup and Festival)

Land – The Town Council and Mayor of Cameron are all on board and ready to go ahead with plan based on drawings.

Eurosport – Luis, Todd and Jackie toured the Eurosport facility and stated it was an impressive facility. The club is interested in their corporate partners and they are developing a program to do that. A motion was made to move to Soccer.com from Ewing Sports. Carie motioned it and Rod seconded it.

Directors report:

Carl Flemming has accepted the position of DOC and will move here in December and start on January 1, 2014. He will be evaluating and involved with everyone and not coaching.

CASL would like to merge CASL South with ACS. Todd feels it would be more of a takeover and is not interested.

Volley Ball –Combined U17 & U18 teams and have 2 U13 teams at this time. Schools have agreed to usage and will charge an hourly amount versus a lump sum. Giles property is still moving ahead.

Referee assignor – Zach is still working on it.

College recruitment meeting in January.

College Combine – December 14th

Winter Academy started December 2, 2013 with about 50 kids U12 and under.

Classic Council meeting discussion referee assignors.

NCYSA Website has Awards and Nominations for Coach of the Year. Only one nomination at this time. We need to add a link to this website to our website for future. ACS would get more recognition.

Norma motioned for adjournment. Conseconded it.

Next meeting is Monday, January 6, 2013 at Longleaf CC. Meeting adjourned at 7:26 pm