GEJFA Council
Meeting
Bellevue
Community College
August 15, 2005
Minutes
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Call to Order at 6:00pm
ATTENDANCE:
John Veentjer; Chris Garrod (VP &
Five Star); Beckey Ranstrom (Secretary & Inglemoor); Shawn O’Brien (At Large);
Billie Hartline (Scheduler); Bob Goldberg (Officials); Ed Rafferty and Greg
Richardson (Bears); Greg Pardee (Wolverines); Jim Brenden (Knights); Wayne
Houston (Bainbridge); Ron Walker (Bothell); Bob Woods (Eastlake); Chris Garrod
(Five Star); Beckey and Duane Ranstrom (Inglemoor); Dave Ciszewski (Issaquah);
Tom Michajla (Kirkland); Meredith Cutting (Mercer Island); Doug Evanson, Eric
Geyser, and Chris Ahlers (Redmond); Mike Cameron (Skyline); Louis Lee (SnoValley
Redwolves); Mike Burrus (Woodinville)
Not present: Bob
Peterson (Bellevue B&G Club); Sham Austin (Webmaster); Dave Redemann (SnoValley
Wildcats)
Introductions
- Reminder to update
System Presidents and System Reps for web site listing and John’s
distribution.
- Web site updates –
continue to update your websites.
- “Chain of Command” –
Please resolve issues at the system level when possible. Parents should not
be calling John when they have not used the proper chain of command and
spoken to the President of their system.
Minutes of the last meeting
(June 14, 2005) – they were emailed; received no comments, thus to be posted as
they are.
Calendar Review
- Master rosters and
birth certificates due at August 23 Council Meeting – These should all be
turned in by now. Final roster are due by the 2nd game. Please
send them in ASAP. The ladies at the counter can stamp your rosters but
John would like Bob to take a look at them. Remember just because they are
stamped does not mean that you are not accountable for the information on
them. Aug 23rd or Sept 6th is a good time to get your
rosters in if you haven’t already done so.
- Game Schedule
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Final team count reviewed.
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Huskies games – Inglemoor has firm
date – Apple Cup.
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Seahawk games – John is working on
getting 2 or 3 games this year. The formatting has changed for games. John
will update us as information becomes available.
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Special – Seahawks Parade for
players at Seahawk Stadium on Sept 2nd. The Seahawks have invited
teams to go to Seahawks/Vikings game and wear their jerseys and participate in a
parade during half time. They ask that there be mostly players vs adults; a
50/50 split of adults/players is okay; don’t abuse. These are free tickets
available thru the Seahawks – John provided email to whom requests should be
made.
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Oct 2nd at Seahawk
Stadium – PSYFA (Boys and Girls Club of South Puget Sound) are looking for some
of our teams to scrimmage some of their teams. This will be an away game for
the Seahawks so there will not be any active players at this event. The folks
that went last year really enjoyed it. They are looking for the following:
Seniors (6 teams), Varsity (5 or 6), JV (6 teams), Soph (6 teams) and Cubs (5
teams). This is a fund raising event primarily for PSYFA. There is a $5 per
adult (other than coaches) admission charge.
- Split policy due – All
of these should have been turned in. If you haven’t, please do so right
away. John needs to have this information on file. Please ensure that you
are splitting based on the guidelines set up by the GEJFA.
- Boys and Girls Club
fees due at or before August 23 Council Meeting- these are due and should
have already been paid. $13 a person unless you belong to the Kirkland Boys
and Girls Club or the Bellevue Boys and Girls Club or the MI Boys and Girls
Club.
- Admin and referee
fees due at or before September 6 meeting – some folks have already paid.
Those who have not paid, please bring to the next meeting.
Rules
- Clarification changes
posted on website. Added later was clarification regarding size of football
– this information was emailed out by John …*dimensions are included*… also
now posted with rules on web site.
- Player weight
management – Weigh kids weekly, kids need to play. If they are over weight,
move them up. It is not fair for a kid to have to miss games due to a
weight issue.
- Scouting – no scouting
practice, no video for scouting, no video taping games other than own, no
video tape sharing – Follow the rules or you will be called into Grievance.
- No electronic
communication – no press box to sideline communication. No cell phone usage
on sidelines for game play issues.
- 21 point rule in score
management – The team that is behind by 21 points can elect to receive the
ball at half time or even after scoring a touch down. Keep scores down and
mix things up.
- Free substitution for
special teams – no exception for special teams; punter should be on
offense. This is covered in the examples of the substitution rules on the
website.
- There are no
exceptions on age/weight chart.
Coaches
- Coaches Meeting starts
at 7:00pm. It will emphasize importance to be good teachers and examples.
- Breakouts – will start
at 8:15pm.
- WSP Forms (should have
already been turned in) – continue to turn them in as coaches are added to
the coaching staff. Strongly encourage use of the Coaching Application
form.
- Code of Conduct Forms
- You will need to have the coaches sign these for all levels if you chose
not to use the new coaching application form.
- First Aid – If you
didn’t go to the clinic that took care of this requirement you will need to
have someone on every team first aid trained and noted on the roster.
- Coaching clinics
(NFL/NFF Coaching Academy) – We had 50-60 coaches. It was very
informative. There were training/drills/$40+ book/t-shirts and great food.
- Video taping pass –
anyone video taping needs to have a video taping pass. Each system should
be making these.
Players
- Camps – feedback so
that we can help to improve availability, content, quality – some were
expensive, not much notice on others. If you had folks go to a camp, please
provide some feedback to John.
Jamborees – who, when (date
and time), officials – we need this information tonight. Please email Bob for
officials for your jamboree. It is strictly volunteer referees so they don’t
have to show up. They use this time for training. You get one jamboree free,
if you choose to participate in two you must give up one practice.
Referees
- First referee’s
meeting – tonight – If the referees attend 3 hours at a jamboree and attend
3 meetings they can earn up to $2 more per game.
- New referees from each
system – each system is supposed to supply 2 referees each year.
- Zero tolerance –
Please ensure that your parents/coaches understand the impact to the
coaches/team if they don’t follow the zero tolerance rules. No shouting,
arguing, name calling at or to the referees. The head coach will be the one
that takes the suspension. This includes but not limited to players/parents
and assistant coaches.
- Spectator behavior
(Parent Code of Conduct) –Each coach should have a parent meeting in part to
discuss their behavior. There is also a Parent Code of Conduct that should
be signed by parents and they should be held to it.
- Rate the officials on
your game reports….please do it accurately and it is your responsibility to
get the referees names. Some of them carry a piece of paper with all of
their names on it. They generally hand them out to you prior to the start
of the game. If you are not given one, you need to ask for it.
Other business
- Filming Championship
games – John Holmes wants feedback from last year, what was liked, what can
be done better, etc. He will come to one of our meetings in October to
discuss this.
- Still pictures at
games that are for sale – a photographer from Bothell wants to take pictures
generally all day of players from various teams and then make the pictures
available to parents. No one at Council sees problem with this.
- A representative will
come to the next meeting and discuss this a youth sports newspaper for which
he wants input from GEJFA on a regular basis.
Adjourned at 6:55
pm --- NEXT MEETING AUGUST 23, 8:00pm, B&G
Club