Sunday, August 20, 2017

Minutes

President

  1. Welcome back- welcomed all back for the 2017-2018 season
  2. Registration costs and coverage (Ref Fees)

Registration costs $695 for all levels includes 40 hours of ice and any league fees

All ref fees will be paid for by team. The cost can be revisited at the end of this season for next season. If association goes cover ref fees registration costs will increase.

  • Communication (Chain of Command) (cc’ing appropriate positions on emails) CC the proper board member on all communication with in the team. This also applies to board members. Any emails regarding the travel teams, John Clark must be cc’d.
  • Meeting attendance is mandatory and sharing info-whomever is attending the coaches/mangers meeting must send out the meeting minutes to their team. So that information is communicated within the organization. The manager director should be cc’d as well. The entire meetings wort of minutes do not have to be sent but maybe a few basic bullet points that should be common knowledge among all members. The main message can be that the minutes to their entirety are posted and can be viewed by any member any time.
  • Expectations in the Area of continuity between teams-we have multiple teams (A and B teams) in the same level of travel. We need to keep a supporting each other and make sure the players are not competing negatively against each other. We are one organization.
  • If you would like to get involved in the hockey association will are always looking for help. Contact Joe to get involved.

Treasurer Report – Bev -

  • Registration-there are still some players that have not registered. If they need to make a payment plan please contact Bev immediately.
  • Un paid or Un registered – Players must be registered to be paced on a roster.

VP – John Marrone

  • Short meeting report – upcoming schedule and past info
  • Reminder of reporting penalties- teams are to report any major penalties of 2 and 10 or above to our At Large position.We need to stay on this and try to handle any problems before they get out of hand.

Secretary - Kim transitioning into position after all rosters are complete.

At Large – John Marrone – temporarily filling position until the position is filled.

Travel Director – John Clark

  • Ice scheduling, billing and communication on anything that has to do with ice. Ice schedule is complete and sent to the coaches. He has some changes to be made with adding another Bantam team.Contact him with any changes. Once finalized the trades will be up to the teams and they will need to collect the funds. You will be billed according to the final schedule. All teams will get 40 hours. Anything over the 40 hours the team is responsible to pay for. This applies to travel and MOHL.
  • Travel scheduling meeting is Saturday September 9th 9:00am-1:00pm at Classics V
  • Jerseys – Bantam Major TB will be wearing a new jersey this season. Possibly changing all the travel teams next season. John showed them to the coaches
  • Ice bill
  • August bill will be sent Sept 30,
  • Sept, Oct, and Nov bill will be sent Nov 30
  • Dec, Jan, and Feb bill will be sent Feb 15
  • March ice is not yet available. If you need March ice let John Clark know as it gets closer to March.

Mohl – Bert Dunn

  1. Registration
  2. Squirt-few spots still open for skaters and 2 goalies spots
  3. Peewee-skater full, need goalies (we have none)
  4. Bantam-7 skater spots, goalies are full
  5. 16U-few skater spots
  6. 18U-1 skater spot, goalies are full
  7. Evals-Thank to all that volunteered to help it went smoothly.
  8. Draft -to be completed
  9. Possibly starting a select teams. Need coaches. Coaches will be responsible for getting their own ice and scheduling games

Registrar – Kim Standish – Kim Storfer will take over for Kim after rosters are completed

  1. Report on reminders to get things tightened up-Joe reminded all to have players register. If not registered they will not be placed on a roster.

Coaches – John Franke

  1. CERTS – Dates etc… all certification needs to be completed otherwise they will not be placed on the roster and not allowed on the bench. (Safesport, background checks, and modules) Modules are now open on USA hockey website. Must do safesport recertification before Sept 18th. The program is changing after that and will be 3 hours long.
  2. There are level 1-3 going on now. A level 4 clinic will be available during the World Juniors here in Buffalo. Sign up now. It will fill up fast.
  3. Coaching Ethics-always try to be positive and work together. We are not competing against each other.
  4. Link to the refs scheduling website is on the website. Breakdown of ref fees for each division.
  5. Jill Pitiss sent a link, username and password to the travel managers. MOHL manager will get it the managers meeting.

Managers – Jill Pitiss

  1. Ref Scheduling-sent out link, username and password to travel managers. MOHL managers will received it at the managers meeting.
  2. Mandatory managers meeting Wed Sept 13th 6:00pm. Janice Cavaretta will be attending to answer any questions you may have.
  3. Paperwork- managers received emails with forms that are owed. Fundraising needs to be approve. Forms are on the website, fill them out and the return to her for approval.

Apparel – Erin Jerome

  1. Mohl Jerseys passed around a picture of the new jerseys.
  2. Shells and jersey projected delivery-waiting for delivery and 1 teams jerseys. Any mistakes on jerseys email Erin immediately.

RWB – Nate Miller

  1. Anything information that you can use coaches, managers and board as a sounding board to public-explained the program and players are getting approximately 60 hours of ice time. They are involved in Jamborees which are tons of fun for the players.
  2. Program is divided into 2 separate divisions. 6 and under having more basics of hockey and 7-8 years olds having a higher level of play to get the ready for the jump to Squirts and full ice.

Boosters – Colleen Sperry-not present

  1. Upcoming meeting no date and time as of yet.
  2. General plan for season will discuss at next meeting
  3. Ask teams to contact you on who their rep will be

PR – Kevin Bidtah

  1. Encourage all to use website and feel free to make suggestions