At the regular meeting of the Fremont Youth Hockey Boosters on January 13, 2009, the following items were discussed. 

President Scott Prunty was unable to attend due to the passing of his mother.  The board wishes to send sincere empathy to the Prunty family during this difficult time. The following were present for this meeting: Paul Kohler, Alan Binger, Dave Pulaski, Rachelle Bickley, Linda Moir, and Stacy Dickman. 

Minutes The minutes from the previous meeting held 12/16/08 were reviewed and approved.   

Roster topics The mite in question for signing up decided not to join the team.  Rachelle informed the board that there was another potential new player, who has never played ice hockey but has played roller hockey, who wanted to join as a goalie.  Her question for the board was if he could play and practice this year with the Squirt team even though his is of the Peewee age.   Coach Sean talked it over with her and since the Squirts are not in the league they would like Sam to play and practice with them excluding tournaments.  The board approved this request with his fees being $5.00 per practice and $10.00 per game.  

Coaches registration Paul did speak with Coach Zender and Coach Halsted to inform them they needed to register with USA Hockey.  They were unaware that they had to do this and would tend to it promptly.    

Treasurer’s report The board reviewed the updated treasurer’s report dated 12/31/09 with an ending balance in the account of $10,898.27.  Alan also provided a list of paid and unpaid player fees.  There were very few families that have not paid their fees in full.  The team managers will remind any family of their remaining balance and also inform Scott of the families with unpaid fees.

Fundraisers  Alan has received some money from sponsors.  LPL Financial and Crown Battery increased their donation from last year.  Stacy gave the board a $100.00 check from her employer, Attorney Fiser, to help offset the web page’s yearly fee.  Stacy will be working on getting some information to various businesses regarding becoming a sponsor.  Paul is going to ask Kelly Seymour about setting up the Kroger card for the Ice Wolves.  Each family would receive a rechargeable debit type card from Kroger and use it when purchasing items.  A percentage then would come back to the organization. 

Tournaments  The mites will be playing in the Parma tournament the weekend of March 6-8.  The President’s Day Weekend tournaments are as follows:  the Squirt team will be playing in the Shaker Heights Killer B tournament; the Peewee and Bantam teams will be participating in the Garfield Heights tournament; and the Club team is undecided yet as to if they will be playing in a Cleveland area or out of state tournament that weekend.  Dave has blocked out rooms during President’s Day Weekend for all the teams involved in tournaments.  The hotel this year will be the Sheraton in Independence, Ohio.  It was decided that all the teams participating in a Cleveland area tournament that weekend would be staying there.

Club team issues  A Player has quit the club team at a discipline committee hearing.   It was decided that a portion of the player fees ($200 less costs of a tournament and practice jersey) would be refunded back to the family.  Coaching of the team was also discussed. 

Skate with the Falcons The event was cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.

Other new business   1. Stacy suggested that if possible, the head coaches for each team should be a non-parent.  The board did agree that this is a good choice. 2.  Rachelle and Stacy would like to head up a Squirt tournament in Fremont.  Dave suggested that March would be a good month since most of the teams are finished with games at the end of February.  He thinks that one can be set up yet for this year.  Rachelle and Stacy will look in to this. 3.  Dave suggested, as he does every year, the request to have the club purchase team jerseys for keeping and passing out yearly.  Paul stated that while this would be a good idea the initial cost would be very high in order to secure the right number of jerseys.  Dave did say that Garfield Heights’ have this in place even with their lower number of players from previous years.   Suggestions were also made that maybe we could purchase the jerseys just for the Bantams next year and then add another team each year.  Alan did mention that the third jersey ordered this year for the Club team had to be reordered due to the full name being misprinted on each jersey.  The board wondered if Peranis’ still had the misprinted jerseys and if so, is there a possibility that the Ice Wolves could get them back for little to no charge.   

Adjournment The meeting was adjourned with the next meeting date and time to be determined.

At the regular meeting of the FYHBA board on December 16, 2008 the following items were discussed.