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Thursday, April 19KPLL Board Meeting Minutes
Key Peninsula Little League
Meeting Minutes
April 19, 2007
Meeting called to order: 7:00 pm
Attendance for Board of Directors: Kurt Self, Scott Russell, Deanna Russell, Todd Davis, Kyong Bertsch, Kim George, John Jansen, Marty Price, Monica Wulff, Teri Lewellen, Greg VanOverbeke, and Bob Queenin
Members: Mimi Jansen, Kristi Adams, Debi Dahlstrom, and Rich Henry
Non-Members: Mat Michalke, Kyle Coonan, Ty Parkhurst, and Lucas Admyers
March Meeting Minutes: Motion to pass the March Meeting Minutes made by Marty Price; 2nd by Monica Wulff; motion passed.
Presidents Report: Opening Day was a success! Games started well. Field 2 is working out well w/ the new fencing. Kurt is contacting other leagues to schedule games with us for the Major Softball Division.
Treasurers Report: See Report. Breakfast income was well over $7,000 compared to $2,000 last year. Metals will be ordered soon.
Player Agent Report: 329 players are signed up. 58 have been signed up since the Draft. Both waivers for 2 players have been dropped. April 17th was the deadline to close registrations other than Big League Division. A mother wants to sign up her 2 daughters in the Majors and Juniors Divisions. There’s room in the Juniors but not in the Majors. The majors softball division is closed. Marty Price made the motion to put the 10 year old girl in the Minors baseball division (since there is 1 slot left); 2nd by Todd Davis; motion passed.
Fundraising Report: Teri Lewellen turned in $153 of the Taco Time Coupon Sales. The Fundraising Committee is discussing the pros and cons of cooking ourselves or hiring someone else to do it. Auction Donations are already taken care of except for the team basket donations.
New Business: Major Baseball Division – Major player broke her arm, and will be out for at least 4 weeks. Marty Price made the motion to let her stay with the team; 2nd by Bob Queenin; motion passed.
Secure Mailbox: A Secure mailbox will be purchased and installed on the new Storage Shed on Field 2. The cost is around $70 – 80 that will come out of the Shed Budget. This mailbox can be used as a drop in box for All-Star votes, Manager/ Coach’s Application, Suggestions, complaints, and any other business paperwork.
Next-To-Do Projects: This is the order of projects that the board agreed to get done. 1) Field 3 Dugouts. 2) Screens for T-ball field. 3) Move the Batting Cage to the Lower Field. 4) Improve the M-Prep and T-Ball field (the lower field). The Field 3 dugout has $1400 to spend. If it’s going to be over this amount, Kyong will e-mail the board and request an increase.
Tournament: Only 2 teams are officially signed up and paid. According to Kurt, Andy Mattingly stated that we have 12 teams committed to play in our tournament. Plus our All-Star Teams will participate. 8 10U teams verbally committed. Rich Goddard would like to be paid for last year’s trophies. No Invoice was sent to our league for this.
ASAP Status Report: Dan will take care of it on Friday, 4/20. Deadline to turn it in is May 1st.
All-Star Uniforms & Applications: Marty is looking into the hats and visors. Monica selected a short sleeve red batting jacket ($22-24 w/ name and # on it)for players, and long sleeve red/or navy jackets for parents ($38 w/ name embroidered). The hats color combo will be Grey and Red; navy socks, and red belts. Sponsor would like to assist with donating towards the All-Star Uniforms. Rich Henry has committed to donate $5,000 towards the uniforms. Rich suggested a fundraiser to help offset the cost of putting in names/ #’s for players. Marty made the motion to accept Rich’s Donation along with charging $25 per player and make the best uniform possible; 2nd by Bob Queenin; motion passed.
The All-Star player Application form will be sent out to the Board for review. Manager’s Applications will be passed out on May 1st, and collected on May 11th.
Equipment: We seem to be having problems with the 3rd Base on field 1. Scott Gallagher is working on this. Greg VanOverbeke will be purchasing 2 more sets of the Breakaway bases this year since it will be cheaper to do so. The double bases will have to be a breakaway base.
Umpires: All Seniors games this coming Saturday are not assigned any umpires. If no umpires are signed up for these games, by 5pm on Friday, all the games will be cancelled. Rich Henry stepped up and signed up for the 12pm game on Field 1. Brent Adams can umpire the 9am game on Field 1. The 3pm and 6pm are still not signed up by umpires.
Waivers: Marty suggests all the select team managers who participate in All-Star Little League Tournaments put in a waiver to Williamsport. Marty made the motion to create our own (with the help of another league’s form) waiver for all select Managers to fill out when applying for All-Star Manager Position; 2nd by John Jansen; motion passed.
Big League:
Big League Roster: The Executive Board met and discussed the roster and recommended Registration Deadline on April 20, 2007. At least 15 players need to be signed up to form the Big League Team. The maximum number of players on one team would be 18. If only one team can be formed and more than 18 players are signed up, the 16 year olds currently participating in the Seniors Division will remain in the Seniors Division. If two teams are formed with more than 30 total players, the same will apply.
Tryouts: The Tryouts are tentatively scheduled for April 22, 2007. The first is at 10am, and the 2nd at 11am on Field #1.
Kurt spoke with past presidents and they all have said that we should have at least 15 players to form one team.
Marty made a motion to have a minimum of 15 players to form one team and 30 players to form 2 teams; 2nd by Monica; motion passed. The deadline to sign up is April 20 by 8pm.
Kurt has appointed Mark Rasmussen to be the 2nd Manager in the event we have enough players signed up to form 2 teams. The Board still needs to vote on this tonight.
Marty made the motion to set the senior division teams’ roster at a minimum of 11; 2nd by Bob Queenin; motion passed.
Meeting adjourned: at 8:51pm.
Managers Voting Result – The Board voted for the following Coaches and Manager:
Coach: Glen George - approved
John Kopp – not approved
Manager: Mark Rasmussen – approved in the event we have enough players signed up to form 2 teams in the Big League Division.
Next Meeting: May 16, 2007 7:45pm at Volunteer Park Annex
Submitted by:
Kyong Bertsch
(Secretary)