2023 Board of Director Meeting Minutes

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

Sunday, July 23, 2023

·     Nick - PA West

o  Coaches meeting

§ Starting the season on September 9th – ICL, 9/10 start of travel

§ ICL will have the homecoming parade day off, travel will

§ 11/4 will be end of the season for In House and ICL, 10/29 for travel

§ Fox Chapel Moonlight madness – 10/14

§ There will be preseason practices – working on dates

§ Plum – Denny field is the only field that we have during the township

§ Saturday coming up – Annual general meeting people going positions that are running unopposed

·     New President – 1.5 to 1 year is what the president’s have been averaging

§ Glory on the Grass – Great showing! U12 boys took the championship, U10 girls only weren’t in the final due to goal differential

§ Coaches have to put together a team – it’s the coach’s decision on who they want to take – they will need to answer to the parents if someone is not selected

§ We will not be getting into the tryout process for tournament teams

o  Encouraged to look to line the pavement

·     Julie – Travel

o  Have enough coaches – can accept everyone off the waitlist

o  Only true headache is the team building

§ Rubric or something

§ Keep the team together from season to season?

§ Do we draft?

§ Parent requests?

§ What changes season to season?

§ It depends on the season – and the coaches

·     U12 G: Four veteran coaches will be available for the season - have 2.5 people who said that they will help

·     Sort of the same detail from the U12 boys in the spring – coaches had to coach 2 games

·     Can’t have the same coaches for all the games on Sunday

o  Historically – fall to spring stay together as best they can, moving up in the fall

o  Large decimation of the u12s – concerns for U14

o  Rosters/Draft/etc. – evaluate for Spring season registration, from President Nick* on the special request, try to honor requests, when it comes to coach requests

o  Team building will be different for the boys

o  U12s – roster and ratings (all in drop box), will look to put in numerical rating on and then work through computer rating

o  Leave things as is – Julie and Kim will come up with coaches and teams for August 1

o  August 28th – uniform pick-up

o  Anderson and Scott and Glenshaw valley (games not before 12)

o  Go with the fall lining

o  2 U14 teams – 6 U12s, but likelihood of all games at home is unlikely

o  Need to get quick with the presentation

o  Volunteer pieces

o  Age group commissioners

§ Emily Whitco – U10B

§ Steve Dedrick – U10G

§ Holly Levin – U12G

§ Carly Kohler – U12B

§ Nate Fine – U14B

§ Courtney – U14G

·     Ben – InHouse

o  Age group – will talk with Jess

o  Has coaches for all ages – 3 lil kickers coaches, sent to Kim and JG

o  Coordinate the first weekend and mirror the energy

o  Jess – doing concession stand

o  Meet and greets will done the week prior to labor day (jersey pick up) 28th through 30th

§ Travel teams will have Denny nights scheduled

§ Lil kickers and TOPS need to be discussed

o  Consider recurring age group commissioners touch point – working together

o  Big things coming up this month, etc.

o  Plant the seed

o  Coaches v players – 5 coaches/33 kids (U5) Looking to increase coaches for U5 and U6, need 3 more for U8G, U8 Boys good,

·     Kim - Registrar

o  In house registration -

o  Travel – Getting together for that and did some “draft” teams for U12 girls

§ Too many for 2 teams for U12 girls

§ Will computer generate teams

§ Need a 3rd coach – U12 girls,

§ U14 Girls pickle – need 3-5 more players

§ U10B – 3 sets of coaches, enough for 4 teams for U10B

o  Uniforms: Travel -8/17, can have the inhouse around the same time

o  TOPS/U8 be specific, U4/5/6 coaches match

o  Commissioners for inhouse – neon shirts

o  Working on a new store – trying to get it out this week

§ Beanies back on, hoodies, messenger bags, ball bag, blankets

§ Donate cooling towels to the township

o  Fall fundraiser – Mum Sale – delivery on the 23rd, meet and greet hand outs

·     Kate - Secretary

o  

·     Holly – Communication/Volunteer

o  Concession/Field Clean-up/Timers/Field Set-up

§ 2 per age group

§ Adopted Denny park – 3yr commitment

·     Once per quarter – sign up for field clean up days

·     Fall run is also open for adoption

·     Glenshaw Valley available for the field as well

o  Parking – Hold until lined

o  Check – shred, communication needed if you want the check back

o  Stagger start times to avoid being at the start/stop at the game times

o  Emails out to when they are complete

·     Courtney – Sponsorship

§ On the Jersey – $2,000 ($1k, $1.5K) Season by season

§ Only available for the white jersey (Nox’s, Geno’s Pizza)

§ Talked with everyone a year ago – most are year to year, but can do season’s

§ Communication are all available – and at the price points

§ A couple of new places this season

§ Photos – 8/1 plaques

§ Notary – another date

§ Scheduling – grace period window, Key points (contact other coaches)

§ Jr. Referees – GameChanger – 1 week to give out to the kids – give up the day, not making up the days

·     Referee jerseys? Jr. Referee on the back? Give us their sizes and order their jersey size – give them one and do an official jersey

·     JG – Clearances

o  No issues right now

·     Carly – Spring Fling 2024

o  Parent committee to run with

·     Amy – Spring Fling 2024

·     Motion:

§ Motion – Julie/Amy

·     Technically a U13 player and can play down

·     Don’t see a major challenge to it

§ His skill level will be in line with the age

§ Vote: Unanimous - approved

·     Motion to adjourn: Julie/Steve (2nd). Adjourned

August

Sunday, July 23, 2023

·     Nick – President report

o  PA West – everything relatively calm

§ President’s AGM

§ Kim/Kate – alternatives to stack sports – either get more granular or look at teamsnap

§ Plum – good showing, No U10 B PARTICPATION,

·     Plum soccer expressed their thanks for our participation

·     Represented as best we could

§ Retrospective to Last Spring Season

·     18-20 on a varsity team, 16-18 JV, 18 Girls varsity

·     Smaller group of Lil Kickers

·     Wouldn’t expect to see the JV/Varsity teams in the fall

·     Middle school kids as well

·     Check to see what is going on lil kickers

·     Look at encouraging participation in

·     Julie – Travel VP

o  Good mostly

o  Pending on the practice fields until the insurance card is turned in

o  Waiting on the game schedules from PA West

o  Fields are lined

o  Butler Plank Road closed – Glenshaw Valley – notify other coaches to let them know there may be traffic issues

·     Ben – In-house hVP

o  Missing 6 coaches – all in some level of communication

§ 1Tops, 2 in house

§ Everyone supposedly working through it

§ Nothing happens over the weekend so updates on Monday

·     Kim – Registrar

o  Late registration, late cancellation, late team requests - Aggravation

o  Have the conversation of late registration

·     Kate – Secretary

·     Board Reports

o  Jess – Concessions

o  Holly – Communication/Volunteer

§ Volunteer sign in up

§ Sign for the fields

o  Courtney – Sponsorship

§ Nox’s new sponsor

§ Jr Ref – Wed, September 6th Training Session

·     Ben Communication – starting at 5:30 or 6PM for training

·     On

o  JG – Clearances

o  Steve – U10

o  Carly – Spring Fling 2024

o  Amy – Spring Fling 2024

·     New Business

o  Motion: Accept and adopt the Conflict of Interest Policy and Agreement as aligned to the 501C(3) application – Motion – Kate, Second: Ben

§ Discussion: Electronic version would

§ Motion accepted: Unanimous

o  Motion: Propose to increase the budget for the refrigerator to $2000 – Kim, Second: Steve

§ Discussion – Does 2K give us enough?

§ Motion

o  Follow-up with Josh - Turning radius of the new parking lot spaces are too tight.

§  Add an exit arrow

§ Requesting the company come out to adjust

o  Reminder – uniform distribution this week!

o  Parade Candy – Jess at Sam’s

o  Permanent signs for registration to hang out

·     Motion to adjourn: Ben/ (Jess - 2nd). Adjourned

September

July

Sunday, July 23, 2023

·     Nick – President report

o  Fridge – delivered broken, new fridge coming tomorrow!

§ Joshua will be there to receive it

§ Concession stand in general

§ Volunteer – 80% filled slots per week

·     Sundays – open/closers are getting email

·     Slots being locked on Fridays to lessen issues

·     Now it’s working

·     40 people are done

·     Need to be 13 or older

§ Flowers

·     Exposure for Wendy

·     No drama for trucks

·     Learning Pros and cons

·     Vouchers

·     Delivery

o  Varsity Boys Game – 9/28

§ Email to the club

§ JV game at 6:00PM

§ Varsity Game at 7:30 PM – be there by 7:00PM

o  Varsity Girls Game – will have a game

o  RMU – Women’s game – not great turnout, but did have a few families

o  Homecoming

§ PUSH to get as many kids as we can

§ Make sure to communicate

§ Enormous candy stash once we hit the library/viewing stand

§ Coordinating with Matt Kohler

§ Asked to throw the candy into the crowd

o  Saturday Performance

o  AGM – Wednesday November 8th

§ 6:00 – 10:00 PM (but we will not be taking until 10)

o  Saturday – InHouse - Ben

§ Signage in the concession stand

§ Seem to be better as we go on

§ Guidance on the maps for the fields

§ TOPS –

·      approached by Lilly (North Hills), Ashley (Shaler) have recommendations and we may get thank yous

·     Looking for a director of tops for the new alignment of the board positions

§ Lil Kickers – good commissioners this year for all ages

§ 

o  ICL/Travel – Julie

§ Looking to get the new schedules

§ Last week, there was a parent who was asked to leave the game by a coach

§ Coach let us know, the parent did reach out to us

§ Parent did reference the code of conduct, one time

§ They had a game tonight – all’s quiet

§ The parent did ask to not have the center ref – Craig McCallen

§ Hopefully resolved in the next 2 weeks with the schedule updates – seen considerable amount of blowouts, in our favor but realignment

·     Kim – Registrar

o  Multiple Gym spaces – for sure what days by next week

o  Mike Bianchi (U8 and below) - reached out to do titan training in partnership with the school – footskills for little kids

o  Inhouse futsal

o  Spring opening December 1 until January 30th, February 12th late deadline

o  Clay’s older team played in last winter – Marx court time running a futsal league in either elizabeth or PISA, no Futsal/assassins (over October 1st)

§ Outside the club, responsibility to take your own team

§ Try to get the kids involved

§ Monthly tournaments –

o  Uniforms – want to start to not order uniforms

§ Same numbers,

§ Checks for volunteers would be more difficult

§ Nightmare in Joshua’s hand

§ Think through it – need to figure this out can’t be a barrier to entry

§ If they refuse, not welcome back

§ Things to think about – add an option to buy an additional jersey

·     Joshua – Treasurer

o  Financial Health is good

·     Kate – Secretary

o  Emails good

·     Spring Fling

o  Parent volunteers, will send an email to U8s

o  Donation, etc.

o  Date – first weekend? Last weekend?

·     Board Reports

o  Jess – Concessions

o  Holly – Communication/Volunteer

o  JG – Clearances

o  Steve – U10

o  Carly – Spring Fling 2024

·     Bylaws at the AGM – Sent again to the group

o  If voted in, it would be accepted

§ Bylaws would dictate up to 15 directors would be

§ Number of directors would be determined by the directors

§ Aligning with the 501c3

§ Directors after elected – vote President, Vice President, Secretary, Registrar and Treasurer

§ We used to have folks do very specific roles, and then when not done, the e-board did them.

§ Sometimes when people excelled, sometimes they didn’t do anything at all

§ After seeing what works/doesn’t work – reviewed with the e-board

·     President – reports back to PA West – Advocate with Shaler soccer club

·     Day to Day – VP, Secretary, Treasurer, Registrar will then have the directors

·     See Flow Chart


·     For InHouse

o  Reality vs. On Paper

o  Commissioner coordinator

o  U4-U6 are typically chaos – hard to manage

o  Coaches

o  The VP need to look across the whole

o  Commissioners and Coaches split (a LOT of new coaches with questions)

·     We have this meeting and next meeting to discuss and continue to refine

·     Term of the roles are listed in the squares above with the term limits on the years in parentheses

·     Nominating committees -

o  New Business: None

·     Motion to adjourn:  Josh/Ben secondAdjourned

October

Sunday, October 22, 2023

·     Nick – President report

o  Winter Schedule

§ We have ALL the gym space

§ Marzolf: Thursdays - Jan 11, 18, 25, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29: TOPSoccer indoors 6-7:15

§ Starting on 11/8 - 3/22 – gym space at Marzolf - Tues/Wed/Fri will communicate out

·     U10/U12 will likely use this space due to gym time

·     U8 coaches – Jess opportunities to take anyone above and beyond - Friday

§ Elementary School – February M/W/F in March Footskills

§ Scott – Fridays Nov/Dec/Jan and March – good option for older age group

§ Middle School – Fridays before Christmas, Tuesday/Wednesday

§ U8 G/B, U10 G/B, U12 G/B consistent inhouse futsal (need to schedule and figure out)

§ Mike has offered to run a foot skills clinic – U6 to U8 for most impact

o  Sponsorship

§ Multiple checks – reviewed sponsor list with Josh for payment

o  Volunteerism

§ 321 Families

§ 242 of 321 – 79 have not done anything – Josh will reach out

§ 105 of 242 (

o  Spring Fling

§ Setup/Cleanup, transportation

§ Earlier in the season, season should start the Saturday after

o  AGM – Meeting

§ Review alignment of new board

o  Christ

·     Saturday – InHouse - Ben

·     ICL/Travel – Julie

§ Looking at Winter Activities

·     Kim – Registrar

o  Opening registration for the winter sessions soon – per gym opening

·     Joshua – Treasurer

o  Financial Health is good

o  gif

o  Will need to get with Julie and Ben (Steve motion below)

·     Kate – Secretary

o  Nominating committee - Names

·     Carly item -

·     New Business –

o  Motion: to appoint Steve as the delegate for the VP of inhouse for the purpose of auditing of the account (Kim/Josh) for a defacto (step-in) VP to evaluate the budget and account as required by the bylaws

·     Motion to adjourn:  Josh/Jess - Adjourned

November Annual General Meeting

11/08/2023 – 6:30PM – 8:00 PM

Shaler Township Building – In Person


AGENDA

 

•      Call to Order – 6:30 PM

•      WELCOME! We are glad you are here!

•      Nick Druga – Club president

•      Reflections for the year

•      Without question, these are the most people that we have at the meeting, we have Quorum

•      On many different fronts – we have had the most folks registered

•      It shows and it is reflective

•      We’ve had more wins and more goals the past 2 seasons than we have ever had

•      What we do – the people that are present – it matters what we do

•      Motion to Accept of the Minutes of the last General Meeting

•      Motion: Joshua Dadeboe, 2nd Amy Proie

•      Motion accepted -

•      Reading of Annual Reports

•      Treasurer

•      This has been a great year, continues to be a great year

•      With the change in interest rates – we have not gotten much over the year, this year we have gotten about $3K this year

•      Uniforms and referee fees are paid

•      Costs will stay the same – it has been 3 years that we have been able to maintain our registration cost

•      Investments

•      Parking lot striping/maintenance

•      Replaced old equipment

•      Increasing supply of soccer ball, nets due to increased registration

•      Cleaning service at Denny to keep the restrooms clean

•      Display refrigerator – been delivered 2x and has been broken 2x

•      Any questions on the budget? None

•      Registrar

•      Our numbers have been amazing!

•      We try to keep our kids coming back through the different things we do

•      Main seasons – Fall and Spring

•      Also offered UGKA Keeper training – Fall, Spring, Summer

•      Summer pick up

•      Complete Moves

•      Winter Bootcamp style training (U13 and up)

•      Winter InHouse Futsal (U8-U12)

•      Plum Classic

•      6 Teams registered this fall

•      Fox Chapel Moonlight Madness (U10)

•      PA West Open Tournament

•      3 Teams registered

•      2 of the boys teams came home champions

•      Winter FUTSAL season

•      PISA

•      Marx sports time tournaments (Elizabeth)

•      Travel and Intercommunity Leagues

•      Overall Reflections

•      Age groups have winning seasons and some don’t have winning seasons

•      Don’t want to see staggeringly high win rates – we want to see healthy competition

•      The level of training – a lot more has gone into the training (academy style)

•      The last piece – as we continue to mature across not only SSC but PA West

•      We will see team building exercises that put more “like” teams together

•      Classic Bell Shape – Teams on both ends getting what they need as well as the ones in the middle

•      VP Inhouse – Ben

•      Went well – Parent involvement has been great

•      Last few weekends of the season, the concession stand was closed

•      It was a great time for Halloween

•      Had some cold and rainy days – overall we had some really great days

•      Comment: Could we get more parents to RSVP that they will be at the games?

•      As we continue to talk through organization and instruction- we want commissioners to be laser focused on getting folks

•      TOPS soccer

•      Shaler continues to be the showcase

•      Seneca Valley and Deer Lakes have come in to see how we run our program to be buddies

•      We continue to build out our

•      We are going to be offering a winter program for TOPSoccer – Thursdays on Jan/Feb to be a buddy (13 or older)

•      TOPS registration will be out by the end of this week

•      Typically, we host North Hills, Fox Chapel and Pine Richland to have more people in Shaler participate

•      If we have the new bylaws accepted – we will have a director of TOPSoccer into the organizational structure

•      Flyer for TOPSoccer

•      Parent Involvement

•      301 families – almost 700 kids total

•      253 Checks destroyed

•      48 not doing the volunteer hours

•      Most are TOPS, Travel

•      4th season – coach

•      1 of 4 for 4 teams – coaches

•      Coaches are always welcome to jump into the season midway through- absolutely (enter the process at any time)

•      Encourage the parents – reach out or have them reach out!

•      Must have 2 cleared coaches at every field

•      Made substantial progress

•      Some folks make it as a donation due to interest or time, the end of the season really had the volunteering fall off

•      About half of the slots were w

•      578 out of 819 that slots were filled – we want to make sure that there are a lot of opportunities

•      48 of the no completions included only folks completed the season

•      Coaches were required – would be offended that that I had to turn in a check. Re: Coaches were quitting

•      Was offended – for a half second – and then understood what is takes to have the kids on the field (2 coaches required, etc.)

•      We don’t know people that are volunteering for coaching and if we don’t get a “commitment” and I just don’t’ show up, there will be a team that won’t be able to play

•      Have coaches that have volunteered and then don’t do clearances

•      There is a little bit of work involved – but you are good for 5 years

•      Have discussed pros/cons – trying to figure out how make it most fair and still make sure that folks are there

•      Understand the feeling – you are seen and heard

•      Kicking around – only opening the registration for the number of kids that we have coaches to support

•      Usually the coaches have a kid that coaches – earn my money back

•      Affinity is the largest issue with clearances – scheduling games is 30 minutes

•      Level the playing field – keep all the checks until the end based on the feedback we have received

•      Coaches – Clearances/safe sport – knew what he was getting into – did you have a number that didn’t do the clearances

•      1 – yes we absolutely have it

•      2 – For years, we would do 2 coaches meeting

•      New to Coaches – this season we would walk you through the steps, XYZ

•      Coaches meeting – this is how many coaches we have

•      If you haven’t done the process, how many folks are overwhelmed?

•      82 coaches: 11 out of 82 are new – 5 backed out after they got their clearances

•      Get the

•      Spring Fling – want to have a spring fling for the U8 kids

•      This would be fun for the kids to have a spring fling tournament

•      U8boys/U8 girls and kick it up a notch with community involvement (VOLUNTEERS!)

•      Working through getting an email out to the parents to form a parent committee who like to work on events to help/support for registration, sponsorship, set-up/clean-up etc.

•      Look to have it in May – not the Pittsburgh Marathon weekend – will be during the normal time – play more games – 3 games per team

•      If we have a big U8 Group – then yes, if we don’t we can invite community teams

•      Don’t have to be in person – can do over zoom and meet to put together

•      If we don’t get enough volunteers – we don’t have it

•      If we get enough volunteers – we will have a GREAT event

•      Something what the U8s will never forget

•      Unfinished Business

•      Reports of the President and Vice Presidents

•      New Business

•      Voting on Bylaw and Constitutional Amendments

•      Election of Executive Board

•      Adjournment

 

 

Call to Order – Nick Druga – 6:30PM – Have quorum


Presentation of and motion to accept the Minutes of the last General Meeting


Reading of the annual Reports (Treasurer, Secretary, Registrar, Administrators, TOPSoccer, PDC)

·      Treasurer


·      Secretary role

o  Registration campaigns

o  Social Media

o  Weekly Communication letters

o  Fields meeting with the township – gotten fields back

o  Increased indoor spaces and sitting in a better place permit-wise

o  As we continue to grow, it will be our challenge to stay in touch with the club with the right messages

o  Talked with township commissioner about more space behind Denny

·      Township manager is retiring at the end of this year, new going in at the beginning of this year

·      Registrar

·      Administrators’ Report – Courtney Bianchi (travel), Jess Destefano (in house)

o  Courtney

·      Really good season

·      More difficult than COVID

·      Game Schedules came out later than normal

·      This season we had a couple of weeks that we had a couple games 9v9 and 11v11 sometimes we had to put multiple games at Glenshaw valley

·      Ref scheduler wants to have 2 games in a row at Glenshaw valley (not waste their refs time)

·      Separate 11 v 11 and 9 v 9 in the spring due to not having Glenshaw valley.

·      Try to limit wear pattern – alignment

·      Field conditions have been better condition

·      Referee scheduling

o  Jess – not here tonight

·      The in-House program

·      Some coaches walked away during the season, which is hard once the ratios are set

·      Had the same amount of parent engagement with double the kids

·      TOPSoccer

o  By far Nick’s favorite team to coach out of four

o  Buddies – one from Shaler, North Hills and North Allegheny that are there weekly

·      The kids are there for their TOPS player

·      Rewarding for them and the players

o  There are a lot of kids that would benefit

o  Great partnerships – Blackhawk, Norwin,

o  Talk with all presidents about the

o  Nice TOPSoccer Shaler SC flag – coming soon for that program

o  Getting captains arm bands for the buddies

·      Distinguish them

·      Connect them

o  If you want to get involved, Nick would be glad to give you more information

o  12/3, 9AM – 12PM (10 kids will be there)– TOPS soccer from Western PA – close to 50 kids coming for a 1 day festival

 

·      Unfinished Business

o  No Unfinished Business identified

·      Reports of the President and Vice Presidents

o  VP Travel – Julie McDermott

·      Any further reflections – big thing that we added this year – added age group commissioners

·      Will continue to utilize that as a role

·      Coaches – we need you and we appreciate you, especially those that continue to come back

o  VP In House – Ben Sheets

·      All good

o  Attestation to the budget

·      VP attest to the audit of the budget

·      Steve: Yes

·      Julie: Yes

o  President

·      Vision 2024 –

·      Fun

o  Want to make sure that everything that we are doing is fun for the kids

o  Have to leave the field with a smile on their face

o  Continue to ask for the support from the coaches – loading into affinity

·      Development

o  Really would like us to continue to enhance our coaching education

o  The club will reimburse ¼ of the cost of grassroots – 9v9 – get a quarter back each season – to pay off over the 4 seasons

§ 2 hours online and 2 hours on the field

§ Housed on USYS

§ If we have a big enough group to do it, we could host a training session

§ Fox Chapel, Plum, New Kensington have hosted in the past

o  We don’t have a lot of coaches that go through that training

o  Can’t make it a requirement – but if you are with the club long enough, you would benefit from the training

o  Had Coach Erik – UGKA – to coach the coaches for goal keeping to give everyone a head start

o  PA West started a coaching in the community

§ Can come in and do the workshop here

§ How much more effective would we be if we focus on that earlier?

§ Continue to bring in

o   

·      Competition

o  Adapt the team building to align with the North Division of PA West

o  Tried different team building to place players to build

o  We know what we have – and do that in good faith – but not every other team followed suit

o  PA West continues to work to align team correctly and we will do the same in Shaler

 

·      Community

o  Want to have community events

o  Invite first responders

o  Food drives through the season

o  Get the soccer club together not necessarily for soccer

o  Keeping the community and the players/families engaged and together

§ You don’t know what will be missed when that family or player leaves

·      New Business

o  Re-write of bylaws to align to 501(c) 3 classification

·      Have the proposed the new bylaws

·      Rewrote the bylaws to align currently 501 (c) 4

·      This allows for donating/supporting a politician

·      Getting 501(c)3 means we would be tax exempt and operate as a charity

·      The tweaking of the current bylaws

·      Main changes – Currently - 6 executive board members and 7 members at large

·      Board of Directors – 12 member – 5 executive members

·      Positions after this main – is 2 year terms – have cleaner handoffs

·      What we have seen – December is great – January would suck! Half of the board is new and the other half would be burned out

·      Lots of agitation

·      Overall, the plan would be that the President/VP would be leave at the same time

·      Motion: Ben Sheets, Second Dave Repko

·      Vote: Motion accepted Unanimously

o  Description of the organization chart (shown below)

o  Notable mentions:

·      U8 Jr Referee Assigner – should be someone there

·      ICL is so critical from a developmental perspective and is influential in whether or not the player remains with Soccer or may move away from the game

·      Travel – community/scheduler (commissioners should have a lot of input into those schedules – due to heartache and headaches we have had

·      Home games schedule them logically

·      Are all commissioners needed – not every season potentially

·      JV/Varsity for the spring so it does not conflict with the season

·      As president, it is a problem with the naming convention – Middle School, JV, Varsity – moving it away from U14/U16, etc.

·      Secretary:

·      Registrar: Risk Management – not alone in validating risk

·      Treasurer: Fundraising and Concession Stand

·      Meeting Frequency –

·      The officers – Pres, VP, Secretary, Registrar, Treasurer meet monthly

o  Officers keep in touch with their directors – text chain, meeting at least once per month

o  Trickle down – Ad Hoc, text, at the field can we catch up

·      There will not be a meeting every month

·      Quarterly meetings will be held with all board and directors

·      AGM will have everyone involved

·      Coaches under the commissioners – talk to the commissioners

·      Who does what?

o  Nominations

·      Nominating Committee Chair's Report – Kate Koch, Jess Jackson, Holly Levin

o  Executive Board –

·      Nick Druga - President

·      Kim Rios – VP

·      Holly Levin – Registrar

·      Kate Koch – Secretary

·      Joshua Dadeboe – Treasurer

o  Voting Directors –

·      In House – Tiff Johnson

·      TOPSoccer – Kirk Howard

·      ICL – Jim Marsula

·      Travel – Julie McDermott

·      Parent Engagement – Theo Nelson

·      Risk Management – Jordan Snead

·      Fundraising – Nate Cushion

·      Motion to accept the nominations of the 23-24 Motion: Steve 2nd: Ben

·      Discussion of terms

·      All in favor

·      Opposed

·      Abstention:

o  Non-Voting Positions

·      InHouse Commissioner Coordinator – Jess Johnson

·      U4 Commissioner – Alyssa Falarski

·      ICL Girls Coordinator – Steve Dedrick

·      Travel/ICL Game Scheduler – Courtney Bianchi

·      Parent Committee – Carly Kohler

o  Nominations from the floor –

·      Amy Proie – Parent Committee

·      Closing thought – We have come a long way over a short period of years

o  We have a better relationship with the school

o  We have more teams going to tournaments/futsal/summer/winter

o  All we can do is create the opportunities

o  Really hopeful that we can do that, looking at the people in the room

o  Thank you for coming and participating

·      Thank you – Ben Sheets

o  Thank you – went 0-60 and kept his feet under him

o  Thank you for the passion and

o  Anything that was needed – you were there

o  Thank you for your time and dedication

o  Everything is very much appreciated

·      Motion for Adjournment – Ben/ Kim

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