RDYSL Annual General Meeting
Thursday, November 17, 2005
7:00 – 9:00pm
MCC Empire Room
1. Roll call
a. Identify each club and rep
b. Clubs not in attendance – Brockport,
Gates, Spencerport
c. To be in good
standing, must be paid up
d. Unable to register teams without being
paid up
2. Introductions
a. Welcome to the start of our 2006 season
b. Last year was very successful
i. We had record number
of teams (510)
ii. Record number of
divisions (45)
iii. All but 2 clubs had a
team that was awarded trophy shirts
iv. Fines and disciplinary issues declined
v. Our divisions had
some of the best competition we have seen
vi. And the over all
operation of the league was very smooth
c. Thank you to all the Club Presidents:
i. Recognition for running such wonderful organizations
ii. Recognition that the kids
are lucky to have such great clubs
3. Introductions
a. Board members:
i. President Gary
Levine
ii. 1st V.P. Boy's
Coordinator Neil Fisher
iii. 2nd
V.P. Girl's Coordinator Jacky Van Dellon
iv. 3rd V.P. Referee,
Discipline Concerns Joe Walton
v. 4th V.P. Website Matters Mark Van Dellon
vi. Secretary Mike Nelson
vii. Treasurer /
Scheduler Lou Boyon
b. Guest-District Commissioner: Roger Best
c. Division Coordinators
i.
DCs:
(1)
Are the connections between the teams and the league
(2)
W/O them a league this size could not operate
(3)
They do a great job
(a) setting up the divisions
(b) collecting scores and other data
(c) implementing policy set by the board
(4)
We welcome 3 new DC’s
ii. Girls:
(1)
U8-U10 Peter Deckman-new
(2)
U11-U12 Susan Gurak
(3)
U13-U14 Jim LeGrett
(4)
U15-U16 Karen May
(5)
U17-U19 Mary Arter - new
iii. Boys:
(1)
U8-U10 Dennis Crowe
(2)
U11-U12 Peppy Ehrlich
(3)
U13-U14 Kurt Knoblauch
(4)
U15-U16 Jon Zatyko - new
(5)
U17-U19-Curt Regruit
4. Election of
Officers:
a. Proposed slate
b. Are
there any other nominations? No additional nominations.
c. Any motions
Motion to elect the proposed slate – Eric Schaff Fairport SC
2nd – Dan Phelps Greece Cobras
5. Reports:
a. NYSWYSA
i. Per player fee:
(1)
going up 50 cents 2006-07
(2)
not this coming summer
ii. U12 issue not voted
on this year
(1)
several of you wrote very good letters that Gary knows had impact with
the leadership
iii. Another one of our
people is on NYSWYSA board
(1)
Sue Gurak, Treasurer
(2)
Curt Regruit as Secretary
(3)
Roger Best, District Commissioner
iv. US Club Soccer
(1)
Last year we had a rep come in to meet with us
(2)
The issue is not dead in Western NY
(a) NYSW AGM showed there are still issues
(b) Buffalo is hotbed of discontent
(3)
Buffalo issues
(a) Buffalo is an unhappy group
(b) Issue over their version of Roger Best
(c) Issues smoldering from headgear and U12
(4)
Can our clubs sign up alone?
(a) Discrimination of registration method
(b) Might need to change Rule 302(2) to read players
register with USSF sanctioned
organization rather than NYSWYSA
b. Budget-Lou:
i. No increases in
$2.50 per player fee
ii. Fines
(1)
Ran a deficit last year due to decrease in fines
(2)
We think that the word is getting out and people's conduct is changing
for the better
(3)
If we can keep the fines down, then we are going to have to raise our
revenue in the next
year or two
(4) Options:
(a) increase per player fee
(b) charge a per team registration fee (may decrease
teams dropping out)
(c) have assignors paid by refs and therefore increase
fee paid to refs
c.
Computer-Mark:
- Bulk field changes will again be available this year
- Returning team data will be available through a pull down menu that will auto populate
- A field for explanation on why you want to be placed where you want will be available
(suggestion that an example be put on the website for greater clarity on what is appropriate use
of this field)
- Suggestion that DC contact the Club President when there is not enough data when deciding
on difficult placements
- The division field will now have a selection for Division 5
- The website will no longer directly publish email addresses in the team standings, to fight web crawler problems. Info available indirectly
- Field directions plea
-
Futures
- Club Presidents will have access to the web admin feature that DC’s have today to change contact info, review fine report, registration status (suggestion that a report be made available to show which coaches are providing evaluations)
- 2006 setup takes place in December in time for Jan testing and registration start
o Discussion on Club Call Up Rule proposal under consideration 13 Yes, 8 No Committee
e. Calendar - Gary:
i. Team registrations
(1)
12 days! January 28-February 8, 2006
(2)
Make sure all your teams are signed within that time
(3)
You all did a great job getting your teams registered, but remember that
a couple of years
ago there were several teams that did not get registered
in time
(4)
Once we close registration, we have 10 days to complete division
formation
(5)
RDYSL does not take late registrants
ii. Division Placement
(1)
Although no hard and fast rules
(a) we are going to try and have 7 team divisions
(b) we are going to try to relegate and delegate teams
(c) one difficulty is when we have a team jump a
division
(2)
The most important single factor is last years performance
(3)
But we also consider other factors:
(a) change in players
(b) change in coaches
(c) game performance-looking beyond wins and losses,
such as how close were the games
(4)
therefore you must give us an accurate assessment of the team
(5)
I recommend that you review your submission with your coaches
iii. Other Dates
(1)
Watch website
(2)
Spring Mandatory Coaches Meeting-Saturday afternoon March 18, 2005 at MCC
f. Referees - Gary:
i. Arbiter will be
implemented
ii. Increased mentoring and
assessing will be attempted
g. Communication required
i. Make sure we have
correct email addresses: yours, your coaches, etc.
ii. Remind coaches the chain
of communication is thru their DC
6. New Business
a. Issues from membership - None