GEJFA Minutes

November 9, 2004

Call to order at 8:00PM.

ATTENDANCE: John Veentjer; Scott Shelton; Beckey Ranstrom (Secretary & Inglemoor); Shawn O’Brien (Scheduler & At Large); Bob Goldberg (Officials); Ed Rafferty and Greg Richardson (Bears); Jim Brenden (Knights); Greg Pardee (Wolverines); Ron Walker (Bothell); Bob Woods and Larry Feero (Eastlake); Beckey and Duane Ranstrom (Inglemoor); Steve Warren and Dave Ciszewski (Issaquah); Neil Aguiling (Kirkland B&G Club); Steve Cox (Skyline); Louis Lee (Redwolves); Chuck Nichols and John Nelson (Univac); Mike Burrus (Woodinville)

Not present: Sham Austin (Webmaster); Bob Peterson (Bellevue B&G Club); Chris Garrod (Five Star); Meredith Cutting (Mercer Island); Doug Evanson (Redmond); Dave Redemann (Wildcats)

Minutes of the last meeting (October 19, 2004) –John will send them out by email if they are not posted on the website.

Web site

Great job by Sham – Website is updated quickly and looks great! Nice job Sham!
Remember to get your sites updated for next year-It is important to update your websites in the off season, contact information is important. John gets numerous requests in the off season who folks should contact for information on individual systems.

Sportsmanship

Coaches review/evaluation – Systems may want to look at sending out an evaluation to their parents for feedback on their coaches. Some things to look at are: Did the kids have fun? Are they returning?

Schedule Review

Semi-finals 11/13
(Rookie/Cubs @ Pop Keeney; Soph/JV @ Newport; Varsity @ Eastlake)
Seniors – Need more systems to field Senior teams. If you can’t field one perhaps you can buddy up with a neighboring system.
Matchups – remember you need to schedule the fields/opponent and then contact Shawn.
Game score reporting -- Game reports
Video recording Championships – videos must be paid for in advance of the game. No refunds will be given to teams that lose for example. Additional DVD/VHS can be purchased directly from the company – Final Take Productions - Owner: John Holmes 425-338-7500 www.finaltakeproductions.com

Winter meeting/committee work

Streamline administration – perhaps pass some administration back to the systems.
Universal Coaching Application (WSP form – Code of Conduct) – How did this work? Do we need to make systems responsible for ensuring that all information on all coaches is turned in?
Roster review – This went fairly well. We may look at doing this again – other options will be looked at.
Age/Weight Chart – see handout.
Rule updates/clarifications – everybody is a lawyer – will look at addressing a few rule issues in the off season.
32 point rule – this rule is for sportsmanship.
Huskies/Seahawks – may have systems contact the Seahawks/Huskies individually when it is their turn. Seahawks confused with the fact that we have 17 systems in our association.
Grievance Committee – discipline schedule/limits/precedents – we will discuss setting guidelines for the grievance committee to act on with regards to suspensions, etc.

Officials

Consistency – enforcement of zero tolerance (profanity); timing rule – remind your coaches, parents, players of the zero tolerance for any profanity, fighting, yelling at the refs. Officials are aware that they need to be consistent in calling these and they are cracking down.
Need more officials, adults in particular – Every System is supposed to recruit two officials every year. We need more adults.

Preseason clinics – looking at doing some preseason clinics with officials.

Early sign-ups

Early determination number of teams; waiting list; remember split rules – systems may want to look at having early registrations so that there is a better count for the scheduler on how many teams and at which level there are.
A Preliminary 2005 Age/Weight Chart is attached – see hand out.

Nominations for 2005 Officers – No additional nominations were offered at this time. We will revisit this at the next meeting.

President
Vice President
Secretary

Other Business – There is a system that would like to become part of our organization. Shawn addressed the concerns. Bainbridge Island. We will be discussing this in greater detail. They need to have a sponsor for one year and need to be voted in.

Adjourn

Next meeting: December 7^th, 7:00 pm @ Bellevue Boys and Girls Club, followed by a social event for all to attend.