Minutes

GEJFA Council Meeting

November 13, 2007

Call to order - 8:00 p.m.

Members in attendance: John Veentjer (President), Joe Morgan (Vice President & Woodinville), Tami Steckler (Secretary &Redmond), Billie Hartline (Scheduler, Webmaster & Inglemoor), Shawn O'Brien (Scheduler & Senior Coordinator), Rick Schoeder (Bears); Jim Brenden (Knights), Greg Pardee (Wolverines), Greg Brink (Bainbridge), Ron Walker (Bothell), JBR (Cedarcrest), Larry Feero (Eastlake), Robert Reeves (Five Star), Tom Olson (Kirkland B&G Club), Marlow Green (Issaquah), Craig Peterson (Lake Washington), Tom Michajla (Juanita), Sean Marshall (Mercer Island), Bob Van Liew (Mt Si), Jim Sypher (Skyline).

Systems not represented:

Minutes of the October 30 meeting were e-mailed. No comments were received, thus they are approved.

Schedule review-

Championships at Bellevue High.

· Trophies - A single trophy is provide for the winning team, the trophies are ordered and will be delivered this week.

· Home team identification – Per longstanding policy, the hosting systems teams are the "home" team. In those games in which there is no hosting system team, a coin flip was conducted at this Council meeting. There was a need to do coin flip for Varsity and Seniors and the results are as follows:

¨ Varsity - Skyline won the toss - home team

¨ Seniors - Newstar won the toss - home team

· Next meeting vote for elected officials - Nominations are open until the December 4th meeting

Social event following the next Council meeting - everyone is encouraged to attend

Game reports -

· Games that were not posted on the scoreboard for last week were games that neither System submitted a game report. Billie will make one more attempt to collect the scores.

Winter meeting agenda - any additions to the list:

· Consider moving season forward one week (maybe two?)

· System representation at Council meetings

· Revise the Field Managers guideline

· Revisit the Age Weight Chart

¨ revisit age point limits at levels above rookies

¨ address the "X" player maximum weight concern

¨ Seniors - all 8th graders to Seniors? maybe no 9th grade level

· Revisit game schedule format proposal to have an A and B league

· Review substitution rule

¨ proposal to allow teams with more than 22 players to run some players both ways

· Consider size of teams concerns

¨ 26 players on each anticipated team before closing registration or creating wait lists

· Review score management rules

· Address loss of players from roster

¨ e.g., require written notice (e-mail) each time a player is lost from a roster, e.g., quit, moved up, let go for cause

· Address discipline of players issue

¨ e.g., require an e-mail report before the game, copy of the e-mail to be attached to the roster; no advance report, no discipline.

· Create a Code for use of the Press boxes and PA Systems

· Consider holding Grievance Committee meetings every Tuesday by routine and bringing in behavior issues other than ejections.

· Need a diffferent, better and easier enforced system for background checks.

· Coach training

¨ Mandatory???

¨ Format: Classroom, On-line, alternatives, e.g., Glazier and Coaching School.

· Officials

¨ Recruit officials during the off season, expect one new official from each System, two from the larger Systems

¨ Target recruiting on college age and older

¨ Officials training (consider an extra 2$ for attending training, have primary dates and makeup dates)

¨ Pay increase for WOA Officials??? Research financial impact: will it draw in more WOA Officials???

Officials

· Need more officials - Adults in particular

· Preseason clinics

Calendar - A copy of next years proposed Calendar was distributed - attached.

Nominations for 2008 Officers

· President - Billie Hartline nominated John Veentjer for President

· Shawn O'Brien nominated Billie Hartline for Vice President

· Tami Steckler was nominated for Secretary

· Nominations remain open until the December 4th meeting

Other business-

Shawn O'Brien and John Veentjer suggested a couple of books for coaches to read:

· Season of Life by Jeffrey Marks

· Lifes Lessons Learned from Little League

Meeting adjourned at 8:42 p.m. Next meeting: December 4th, 7:00 p.m. @ Bellevue Boys and Girls Club