August 5, 2015
Senior Center
Attendance
Pat Browne Maureen Kenny Rob Gallacher Ed Merritt Vic Casamassa
Dave Sweeney Brian Farrell Nick Autorino Rob Cocozza John D’Urso
Joe Garbowski John Lorenzo Steve Del Campo Pete Gantert
June Minutes make meeting motion to accept – Casamassa all in favor
Board Member
New Member to soon join the board is Nancy Riggs. Nancy has been working on scheduling for almost a year and has attended the last 2 board meetings.
All board members are in favor of having her but need to vote her in the proper way. Will vote next month.
Honorary Member Language looks clear. We will be down to 21 members.
Pat wanted to have it read that it should be the the majority of the quorum present for the vote.
It has been decided to keep it at 66 2/3 of the quorum. Motion to accept John D’urso.
Next meeting we will vote on honorary members.
Second – Rob Gallacher – all in favor
Summer recap
Summer clinic was run by Frank Rizzo. On Tuesdays and Thursdays there was a clinic and played games on Saturdays.
9s made it to playoffs
10s did excellent
11s went 9-7
12s with Grasso were competitive
12s with Merritt huge improvement this season.
12s with D’urso all improvement
13s out of Sherman coached by Mcallister
14s Tom Jansen
16s John Barry
16’s Scott Roberti getting ready for semi finals
11s going to Nationals Brookfield
10s going to Arkansas John D’Urso will donate $300.00 for Brookfield trip on behalf of New Fairfield baseball Motion to donate $200.00.
Fall Ball
Kevin Gilroy and Frank will run the 6-9 year old athletes
May not have enough athletes to play here. Some conflicts with fall sports. If there is not enough to field a team, athletes will need to contact Danbury
Field closings
Question by Farrell: Do we have money to put clay down so that in the spring we are ready to roll?
End of September we will start working on getting the fields prepped and ready for close out. Fields should be totally closed end of October.
Alignment committee
This is just being worked out now and there will/may be some changes ahead. Here is the preliminary of what it will look like:
4 year old clinic
5-6 year olds will now be A ball. It will be coach pitching. After 4 or 5 pitches (and unsuccessful batter), the T will come out.
11-12 moving to majors. 12s will play majors unless a parent request otherwise.
Much of this is based on numbers. Will have updated pricing in September.
We need to get the youngest age coaches recruited earlier going forward to ensure we have coaches and are not scrambling the last minute.
Want to have competitive 16 year old Babe Ruth team. Would like to host Districts Things to consider for the future :
have 2 commissioners on each job or
have one commissioner and one assistant
Attendance should be on agenda for the September meeting.
Motion to adjourn Rob Cocozza - Second Kenny All in favor.
Next meeting Sept 2nd