BWSL Meeting Minutes

9.14.2009

I –Roll Call:

Teams present: Rocking Flamingos, Lunachicks, Sisterhood, X’treme, Renegades and Red Bulls

Teams Missing: Ravens and Fury

II – Communication Reports from Board Members:

A. President: Ericka Barquin: nothing to report

B. Vice President: Jennifer Reeves:

1. Rain outs will be rescheduled for November

2. Red Bulls did not report game stats from first game

C. Secretary: Jen Pudsey:

1. Jen Reeves will show Jen Pudsey how to update the minutes on the website with the Front Page software.

D. Treasurer: Albania Macrae:

1. 1 refund given for a double payment of a playerr’s pass.

2. Jen Reeves has a check from March that will be returned and a new one written for her to cash.

E. Registrar: Teresa Mujica:

1. Missing photos for passes and missing all of the info for one of the Red Bulls players.

F. FSSA Liaison: Heather Aguilar: absent

G. Referee’s Liaison: Marie Amatulli: absent

H. Games Rules Chairperson: Debbie Chin:

1. Updated Rules to reflect no slide tackling

2. Will update the rules to reflect minimum age is now 18.

I. Arbitration and Discipline Chairperson: Gail Markowitz: absent

J. Marketing, Growth and Promotions Chairperson: Renia Perez: absent

III – New Business

A. Fall Registration:

1. We are not changing the rules for the deadline to add new players. It will remain as 4^th game.

i. All players’ info will need to be finalized by the 4^th game for the final official roster.

B. New Players Looking for a Team:

1. Marketing Position will be in charge of system to handle the players looking for a team.

i. Draft System

ii. Last place team would have first pick of the new players

iii. Possibly organize a scrimmage so teams could have a look at potential players.

C. Championship Day:

1. Because of the 2 rainouts we have already had, we might not be able to have the Championship Day. Will table until next meeting.

D. Fall Tournament:

1. Table until next meeting

E. Monthly Meeting Day:

1. Will be kept as Monday unless new board decides to change it.

F. Elections:

1. Nominations for the Board positions will be accepted via email

2. Debi Chin will draft an email to the team reps with a link to the place on the website where the board positions are explained with their responsibilities. The email will explain that nominations are being accepted through October 8^th.

3. Election Day will be October 11^th with voting taking place at the fields.

4. Teresa will have ballots ready for Election Day and will tabulate the results before the meeting on Monday, October 12^th.

5. There will be 9 positions up for election. President, Vice President, Treasurer, Registrar, Secretary, Referee’s Liaison, FSSA Liaison, Game Rules Chairperson, Marketing, Growth and Promotions Chairperson.

i. We are eliminating the Arbitration and Discipline Chairperson position.

G. Ref Fees:

1. The old agreement said that if games are cancelled after refs arrive but before kickoff, then they were to be paid a $5 transportation fee.

2. Marie and Bania will work on revising the ref fees agreement to contend with rain outs. Refs should be paid something, but possibly not the full fee since we will have to reschedule the game and pay another set of refs the full fees.

H. Weather:

1. Conditions will be checked by Board Members and a decision made as far ahead of time as possible to cancel games. Teams will need to be notified of the cancellations.

NEXT MEETING: MONDAY 10.12.2009 AT 6:30PM AT TERESA’S HOUSE

AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING:

1. Elections

2. Fall Tournament

3. Championship Day

4. Draft System