Minutes of FWSRA Board Meeting (August 22, 2007)

 

Meeting called to order at 6:09 PM by Mike Franco President.

6 of 10 voting board members were present (Maizie, Debbie, Judy, Kreig, Kerry, Lorenzo)

A quorum was established (4 voting members)

 

Officers Reports:

  • President – no report
  • Vice President – no report
  • Treasurer – Working on renewing insurance coverage for the Association and Board of Directors. Research ongoing will report more findings next meeting

 

Directors Reports:

  • Director of Assigning – Schedules from league expected only a few days before league season starts. Debbie will be out of state until the Monday before the season begins but will work on any schedules that arrive as time allows.
    • Assignor Debbie asked if President could help pressure FWU to provide more timely schedules. President is planning to meet with Jesse Hamashima and Perry Woodford in the coming weeks to review the temporary suspension of the game change fees in exchange for more timely/better formatted schedules.
    • Discussion of U-15 being pulled into the PDL but it was determined from information from Kreig Eley that this will likely not happen. A new league is being formed of just a couple teams of the best from the State. Likely teams from the East Side will be the only participants.
    • Discussed briefly the movement of the Girls U-15 to U-18 WSYSA teams to spring playing season. Shortened 10 game schedule but this should help assignments during the fall.
    • Mod assignor – no report

·        Director of Instruction – A note was sent from Betty Schmeck telling Lorenzo that 4 new instructors have been assigned to teach the upcoming FWSRA ELC. The note further said that “FWSRA instructors should not be burdened with all of the instructional duties and that there are numerous instructors today that do not teach.

    • The board agrees that this is a troubling situation and that we must address our concerns of outside instructors with Betty. President will draft a letter to send to Betty with concerns namely the cohesiveness of having only one or two instructors as well as the “extra” teaching that occurs in our ELC’s (WHAT to do when you do a game, not just the laws). FWSRA agrees that a team teaching approach is best and that we welcome other instructors to come and team teach with our instructors.
  • Director of Mentoring – no report
  • Director of Assessment – absent
  • Director at Large-Raschkow – no report
  • Youth Director at Large-Mondragon – absent
  • Youth Director at Large-Eley – absent

Unfinished Business – None

New Business – President presented an analysis of the pay structure of other associations for the Assignor position to address the issue of the difference of pay between the mod assignor per game fee and the United per game fee. Other associations are paying approximately 5% of the Referee fees. If the FWSRA referee fees are averaged and then 5% of that is considered, pay per game would be about $4.85.

Modifications were also made to the 2008 Blastoff pay schedule to raise the fee for the longer 70 minute preliminary matches.

President made a motion to accept the Blastoff changes and raise the United Assignor fees to $5.00 per game. The motion was seconded and voted unanimously in favor by a unanimous vote.

 

For the good of the game:

Meeting adjourned at 7:30 PM

Next meeting – 09-05-07 5:30 PM at Saghalie Jr. High