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Brooklyn Park Youth Hockey Association The meeting was called to order by President Al Erickson on Wednesday, October 10, 2000 at 7:05 p.m. BOARD MEMBERS ATTENDING: Patti Olson, Paul Leland, Jon Ledin, Al Czapski, Al Erickson, Wendy Leland, Rob Anderson, Jim Lee, Paul Warren, Diane Therrian, Amy Johnson, Kris Kavanagh, Brian Schipper, Terri Stanley, Paul Feuerhake, Brad Therrien, Kurt Carman, Marc Wanvig, Brian Langseth. PRESENT: Dawn Paxton, Jeff Stoll, Greg Rosett, Scott Tolve, Judi Cobb, Greg McDougall, Bruce Franz, Cindy Swanger, Wade Setter, Alan Cornelius, John Borer, Loren Thompson, Roger Paxton, Pat O’Brian, Dan Swenson, Kevin Borer, Michael Johnson, Kris Johnson, Butch Horner, Scott Miller. PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Al Erickson thanked Wendy Leland and the army that helped at all the tables for registration. He also thanked Mike Buckley and Dan Ficken and everyone evaluating and helping with try-outs. VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Brad Therrien reported that the audit is closed so we can celebrate. He reported that on September 28, 2000 a gambling meeting was held. He went over highlights of that meeting as follows: 1) things are going well, a new girl was hired at Benchwarmer Bobs and another will possibly be hired at Kellys, 2) the meat raffle at Bobs is not going very well and we haven’t started at Kellys yet, 3) a reminder given that employees can’t play games at Bobs, 4) Marie will send a letter and probably keep the file open and watch the trash bills for awhile., 5) Jacque is handling the meat raffle- they are looking for someone to help sell tickets on Sat. afternoons if anyone is interested let Brad or Jim Ahlvers know, 6) the audit is done-Al Erickson and Jim met with the auditors on the annual audit, Jim has a copy of the report at home and will send one to the state, 7)the check for $154.00 was sent to Dave Neuman, 8) we are caught up with the City and the copies of the reports they needed, 9) the issue of a successor for Jim was discussed and he will get us more information on what needs to be done to insure continuity of our gambling license if something happened to Jim. Jim thinks we should look for someone interested in learning the ropes. Brad invited Jacque to our next board meeting.SECRETARY’S REPORT: Patti Olson presented the September, 2000 Meeting Minutes for approval. Paul Leland made a motion to accept the September minutes with a change in the motion he made in his report- he wants the motion to read: Paul made a motion to accept the budget as presented. Paul Warren seconded. Motion approved. TREASURER’S REPORT: Paul Leland presented the Monthly Treasurer’s Report for August, 2000. Paul reported that we have a net cash balance of $232,627.11. Paul Leland made a motion to accept the report for August. Rob Anderson seconded. Motion passed. OFFICER-AT-LARGE: Al Czapski reported that once again he attended the monthly gambling meeting. Al thanked Kurt Carman and Wade Setter for all their help getting our new web site set up. We have had over 300 hits to this site so far. The developer of the web site will be at the managers meeting on Saturday to help explain how to get information to him that we want put up. EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Tom Cook was absent.
Committees BOOSTERS: Diane Therrien reported that Deb Korb is going through some family difficulties at this time and we should giver her our help and support. At registration we gave our bumper stickers, mini hockey sticks and mouth guards to all pony and mites. Sales were good at the Booster stand during registration. A lot of old items were sold and the Booster stand will be open again on picture night. Dan will be at tournaments for action shots using a digital camera. There was an issue with many missing items at the equipment sale- this needs to be rethought for next year on how to avoid this problem again. Hat and coat orders will be taken through team managers. Diane had hats to pass around and asked for opinions on color, style and design. Times are tight for pictures and teams need to move along quickly.C-LEAGUE: Terri Stanley gave out numbers for all C-league teams and is in need of players at all levels. She is thankful for being able to have pictures taken on ice this year. Bruce Franz is making C-league banners. Terri has purchased 100 tickets for the WILD game to kick off the start of the C-league. CONCESSIONS: Jim Lee brought up the question of parents that miss working shifts in the Concession stand and how is any consequence enforced? Please let Jim or your team manager know if someone misses a shift. EDUCATION: Jon Ledin is open for ideas for the Coaches Educational Session which will be set up for early November. The list of tapes available for teams to view will go out at the managers meeting. EQUIPMENT: Paul Feuerhake discussed the difficulty he has had trying to collect equipment from team managers. Paul made a motion to charge a $132.00 deposit per team to cover the cost of first aide kits, puck bags, water racks and pull overs. When these articles are returned he will returned he will return the check to the manager. John Borer seconded. Wade Setter made a friendly amendment to change the amount to $100.00. Both Paul and John accepted the amendment. The motion passed with 1 nay. Paul again reminded everyone that jerseys may not be worn to school and if a player is caught the team manager will collect the jersey and give it back for games. An exception to this will be during a Park Center hockey game against Duluth East when all kids wearing their B.P.Y.H.A. jersey can get in free to the game. Paul will confirm times for ponies and mites to pick up jerseys on Saturday. October 26th every traveling team has a time to pick up socks and jerseys. The C-league needs District 3 patches for 5 team (200 patches) and Amy Johnson will check into getting these at the District meeting. The STOP patches were brought up and Amy says there is no word on them yet. FUNDRAISING/CANDY: Al Erickson reported for Mary Erickson who ran the candy sale. At registration we had 287 people buy-out paying the $50.00. There were 174 people who sold candy. So far 46 extra cases have been sold. Just a reminder that the candy sale ends October 31st. FUNDRAISING /GAMBLING: Al Erickson read the monthly report for July, 2000. He reported that gambling is going well and that we made a monthly net profit of $24,191.00. The audit is completed and everything is filed with the City and State of MN. Al reminded that anyone who is a member of B.P.Y.H.A. can vote on gambling related issues. Rob Anderson made a motion to accept the monthly report for July, 2000. Al Czapski seconded the motion. Motion passed. Paul Leland made a motion to transfer $50,000 from the gambling account to the general account. Paul Warren seconded. Motion passed. GIRLS: Cindy Swanger reported that numbers for girls are phenomenal this year and for the first time all the girls at the U10 and U12 level are from Brooklyn Park and most of the girls on the U15 are from Brooklyn park. All the reams are set for coaches. Cindy thinks that the U15 A’s will combine with another District to be able to play more games. GOALIE EQUIPMENT: Brian Langseth reported that lots of equipment was given out at registration and has already been paid for. He had a check for $495.00 to give Paul Leland. Brian would like to be able to order more equipment so that he is able to give 2 sets out to each mite team to encourage more mites to come to clinics. GOALIES: Marc Wanvig has been working with Rob Anderson and Brian Langseth to set up clinics with Dave Larson and his group. He has sent out schedules to all known goalies starting with a 1 hour clinic for squirts and mites. He needs pucks please and Paul Feurerhake will get him some. He also needs a list of coaches so he can let them know when the clinics are as he wants at least 1 coach from each team to attend. ICE: Paul Warren thanked Dave Olson and Kim Thompson for scheduling Bantam and boys traveling games while Paul was out of town. Scheduling for girls will be here on Thursday night. MAHA DIST 3: Amy Johnson reported that the coaches, referee meeting is being scheduled for managers. They will stress the points that the referees will be calling, mainly stickwork. Tournament forms MUST be PINK. Again we need to know that everyone who wants to be involved needs to get trained. St. Luis Park may need to help if their building is condemned. MARKETING: Diane Therrien sent out over 2000 letters prior to registration promoting Brookly Park hockey. MIDGET/JR. GOLD: Director needed. MITES/INITIATION: Pete Hauck was absent but Brian Schipper reported that they have 82 mites signed up this year – 5 are girls. They were given ice time through October and want to thank Paul Warren. The pony/mite meeting is set for Saturday. The pony/mite jamboree is set for March 10th. PONIES/INITIATION:Brian Schipper was happy to report he has 11 ponies registered so far with more coming in 23 are girls and they form 8 teams. They have 38 coaches identified and are trying to get them to coaches clinics and training. They have had many parents concerns but no complaints yet. PUBLICITY: Debi Burling was absent. REGISTRATION: Wendy Leland read the list of players registered at each level including free skaters. Background checks need to be done on every coach, manager and executive board member. SCHLOASTIC ACHIEVEMENT: Director needed. TOURNAMENTS: Kris Kavanagh and Kurt Carman reported that tournaments are booking good and they have generated $20,900, worth of tournament fees. Squirt A’s are full, B’s 11 out of 16 have paid. Girls U10 is full and U12, 7 out 8 are full, U15 5 out of 8 are filled. C-league PeeWee’s are 6 out of 8 filled, Squirts 6 out of 8 filled and PeeWee’s need help. Traveling PeeWee B1, 3 out of 8 are full and B2, 6 out of 8 have been filled. TRAVELING COMMITTEE: Rob Anderson reported that try-outs are over!! Rob reported that there were 47 Squirts at try-outs and 4 were underage. Of these 4, one placed in the top 25. Rob explained the possibility of keeping all 4 skaters at the traveling level so they could benefit from more ice time. Rob Anderson made a motion to waive the rule for this year to allow the 3 underage mites who didn’t make the top 25 spots to play Squirt B hockey. Wade Setter seconded. Much discussion was held, Patti Olson requested a hand count from the 14 directors. Vote: YES=6, NO=7 with 1 abstention. The motion did not pass. Al Czapski made a motion to take the next highest ranking mite and place on a Squirt B team to fill it out to 15 skaters. Paul Leland seconded. Wade Setter made a friendly ammendment that if a skater wants to be identified as a goalie the next highest ranking mite would move up. Al Czapski and Paul Leland accepted the ammendment. Now only 13 directors were present. Vote: YES=11 NO=1 with 1 abstention. Motion passed. Terri Stanley wants it noted that rules are broken all the time. OLD BUSINESS NONE NEW BUSINESS ***The Park Cup has been set for November 19th except the PeeWee A’s will play November 12th as Champlin is in a tournament the next week –end. Paul Warren will have a schedule of all games soon and will post it on our web site. ***Amy Johnson had hand-out material about Park Center High School Booster Books. Amy Johnson made a motion for B.P.Y.H.A. to pay $500.00 for out side covers for both the Boys and Girls Booster Books. Paul Leland seconded. Motion passed. Amy will put our tournament dates in the Booster Books. There was information on being an honorary member of the Booster Club. The next board of Directors meeting is Wednesday, November 1, 2000. A motion was made by Paul Leland to adjourn the meeting. Brian Langseth seconded. Motion passed. The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 p.m. Respectfully submitted |