RDYSL Board Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
7:00 – 9:00pm
JCC 1200Edgewood
Avenue
Board Attendance: Gary Levine, Neil Fisher, Jacky
VanDellon, Mark VanDellon, Mike Nelson, Dennis Crowe, Karen
May, Jim Legrett, Lou
Boyon, Tom LaSpina, Kurt Knoblauch, Susan Gurak
Meeting Called to Order: 7:07pm
1.
2005 Board – Are you returning?
A.
Board
– all returning
B.
Division
Coordinators
I.
No –
Tom LaSpina, Joe Walton
II.
Unknown
– Curt Regruit
III.
Replacement
candidates discussed
2.
Calendar
A.
September
meeting with Club Presidents
I.
MCC
Empire room
II.
Suggested
dates – Sept 11 or 18, later afternoon
III.
Possible
agenda issues for Club Presidents Meeting – to be finalized in one of the next
couple meetings
(a)
U12
(b)
Fees
(c)
Team
registration dates
(d)
Matching
fields for to level of play - Girls U17 & U19
(e)
Premier
League
(f)
Rule
changes
B.
AGM –
Week of Monday November 14
C.
Next August meetings – why we missed June & July meetings
D.
Move
up team registration? – such as move it up to the end of the year
I.
Decision
- There is not a need to move registration up
II.
Keep
the same registration timeframes as last year
E.
Calendar
for next year
I.
Proposal
to pick a consistent day and time for our monthly meetings – so that when we
select DC’s we they can pre-arrange their schedules to make meetings
II.
Alternate meetings each month
(a)
Saturday
am
(b)
Week
night
3.
Treasury
A.
How
much money is needed?
I.
Income
versus expenditures
(a)
Referee
payments occurred twice last year in the fiscal calendar
(b)
There
were additional costs due to bad weather in 2004, the 2005 season was free from
weather related problems and additional costs
II.
Review
of current operating budget
III.
What
is the annual deficit?
(a)
Do we
feel comfortable with a one year cushion in the account? Decision is yes
(b)
The
target amount needed as a one year cushion is TBD
B.
Options
to raise fees
I.
Assignors
costs paid directly by clubs
II.
Increase
per player
(a)
Decision
to hold the line for this year and leave fees at the current amount
(b)
Potential
that fees will be raised next year or in future years
III.
Team
fee at registration
(a)
Decision
to hold the line for this year and leave fees at the current amount
(b)
Potential
that fees will be raised next year or in future years
C.
Review
Fines
I.
Game
change fines
(a)
DC’s
need to collect this up front
(b)
There
was confusion this year about whether time and field changes were finable
i
Proposal
to modify rules to account for time and field changes not having to be paid in
advance
ii
Other
options discussed
II.
There
were some odd fines that were over or under the required dollars
(a)
Forfeit
- paid referee fee but not the $150 forfeit fee
(b)
Split
fine between both teams
(c)
Number
of in season game changes versus dollars collected
D.
Referee
bill
I.
Contract
calls for the referee bill to be delivered two weeks after the season
II.
Need
to review the bill – DC’s and Board
III.
No
shows should be a credit on the bill
4.
NYSWYSA
A.
NYSWYSA
AGM – 10:00am on Sunday, November 13, 2005
B.
Sue’s
Report
I.
Currently
reviewing ways to reach out to the membership – publications…..
C.
Under
12 Proposal
I.
Where
does this stand?
(a)
Not
currently on the AGM agenda
(b)
Need
to discuss this at the Club Presidents meeting
II.
Meet
with Buffalo
(a)
Yes we
want to meet with them
(b)
Action Gary will talk to Buffalo and
coordinate a meeting if they are interested
D.
Premier
League
I.
NYSW
will not be running the Premier League
II.
Folding
– becoming an exclusive Jr. Rhinos type league
III.
What
options are there for the more competitive of our better club teams
(a)
Option
- Intercity league with Buffalo and Syracuse
i
Champions
league
ii
Played
on weekends
iii
Gary
will coordinate a discussion with Buffalo and Syracuse
(b)
Discuss
this at the Club Presidents meeting
5.
Rules Analysis
A.
In
season game changes
I.
34 in
season game changes this season
II.
Should
they be billed at end of season or due at request
(a)
Teams
not paying get billed to club
(b)
Proposal
– add the following to the current rule - if $75 is not paid by the time the
game is played a forfeit will be charged at $150
(c)
Decision
to go with option in (b) above – Action
Jacky to send out exact wording
B.
Sideline
offense - coach versus manager
I.
Our
rule is intended to make the coach responsible
II.
Decision
- no reason to change this
C.
Propose club pass (Gary and Mike to propose the logistics to board
and board to approve)
I.
Experiment with 15, 16, 17 and 19
II.
Limit call ups to:
(a)
Approved by club presidents or designate
i
After consideration of individual players ability
ii
After consideration of the teams need for the player
(b)
Ladder system, write on pass both teams?
III.
Club call-up system proposal: A club president or other suitable
club designee may authorize a player of suitable age, maturity, size and
ability to play on an older team within the same club. Players MUST BE 15 YEARS OR OLDER TO BE
ELIGIBLE TO PLAY UP. A Player may not
play more than two age brackets from the players registered age bracket (for
example – a U13 player could play U14 or U15 but not U16 and older).
D.
Accumulated
cards
I.
Propose
– 3 yellows equals a one game suspension rather than equivalent to a red
card. No points, fines or second game
suspension for first 3 yellows, simply double for 2nd three yellows
(a)
Decision
to leave the rule as is
(b)
Whose
responsibility is it to know that a player has two yellow cards?
i
DC
ii
Coach
iii
This
is not slated for Website development in the near future
iv
Decision
the coach
E.
Review
of some recent changes
I.
Team
penalty points
(a)
Approximately
30 penalty points were given out
(b)
Penalty
points did have an impact on first and second place results
(c)
Decision
to leave this rule as is
F.
Steve
Pogal of Rush Henrietta – intentional infraction of the rules such as not
filling out game reports correctly (game numbers….)
I.
Sanction
Proposals
(a)
Escalate
the fines for each occurrence after the first
(b)
Send
letter to Rush Henrietta President
(c)
Decision
to impose both (a) and (b) above
G.
Marks list:
I.
No valid coach left after ejection
II.
Large goal differential
III.
No council at appeals
IV.
Silent Soccer Sunday
V.
Tryouts and poaching of players
VI.
Eligibility of end of season awards (teams with forfeits, ejected
coaches, etc not eligible)
6.
Referees
A.
Too many blanks in referee names
I.
Told by Dave Baxter that they are going to Arbiter Program
B.
Changing the way we do business – Curt’s letter
I.
Contract with assignor
II.
Own assigning
C.
Referee quality improvement
I.
Ref coach – we pay a senior referee to go to games and coach
younger refs (could also evaluate our coaches, etc.)
II.
Assessing
(a)
Pay assessors to do more assessing of younger refs
(b)
Hire our own assessor
III.
Give our ref analysis to individual refs as constructive criticism
IV.
Have refs (and coaches) sign summary of RDYSL rules
D.
Three man system
I.
Limited resources – need to see if refs could do it
II.
Girls U19 and U17
(a)
Based on allowing higher level of play
(b)
Limit to first divisions
III.
Boys U16 and U15
(a)
Based on cards
(b)
Limit to first and/or second divisions
(c)
Financial limitations – half of fee not enough to entice refs
7.
Division Coordinators
A.
Submit next years divisions based on this years results
B.
Division analysis
C.
Identify problem teams, players and coaches
8.
Website
Meeting Adjourned: 8:55pm