Minutes of the Danvers Youth Soccer May Board Meeting

August 8, 2007

 

Attending:   David Tye, Jeff MacInnis, Brian Harrison, Sharon Pollock, Maureen Merritt, Bob Gilmore, Frank Missett, Rino Vitolo, John Barrows, Jeff Chambers

 

10 people attended the meeting.

 

The meeting was called to order by President, David Tye at 8:10 pm. 

 

Secretary’s Report - Maureen Merritt

June, 2007 BOD minutes have been posted on website.  Brian Harrison made a motion to accept June, 2007 meeting minutes; motion was seconded by Frank Missett, motion accepted.

 

President’s report- David Tye                

New Uniforms – Committee has been formed to obtain new uniforms for the 2008-2009 season.  Loren Rocker is chairing the committee.

DSSSF- Jeff MacInnis volunteered to co-chair.  Neal Hovey will not be available during the tournament weekend. 

DIT Director – Longtime Director, Tom Conway will be phasing out his involvement.   His tremendous dedication to DYS and the Danvers Invitational Tournament is remarkable.

 

Registrar’s Report- Dianne MacInnis

628 players are registered so far for the fall versus 500 registrations at same time last year.  Implementation of late fee seems to have helped considerably.   Letters and emails recently went out to players from last year who had yet to register for the up coming season.

 

Treasurer’s Report – Sharon Pollock

June and July, 2007 treasurer’s reports were accepted.

 

VP Administration Report – Jeff MacInnis

U10 will be changing to 6v6 format.  Intramural season begins Sept. 9th and ends Nov. 5th.  Travel begins Sept. 8th and ends Nov. 4th.  No games will be played Columbus Day weekend.  Jeff introduced the idea of skill patches.  The patches are purchased through MYSA and are awarded to players by coaches for mastering skills such as juggling, penalty kicks, dribbling, etc.

 

VP Operations Report – Brian Harrison

The field permits have been filed (Aug. 18th).  Gates looks really good.  We will need to use two fields at Plains.  We might possibly need to use Rotary.  Brian would like to change the field format at Smith School.  The YMCA looks good.

 

Travel Director’s Report– Dave Kamens(not present)

$412 in fines/fees for the spring.

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

 

Danvers Invitational– Tom Conway – no report.

 

DSSSF-Jeff Chambers- no report.

 

Intramural Tournament Committee– Jeff Chambers

There was some confusion with players registering for tournaments.    

 

Touchline– Bob Gilmore

Next issue will be coming out in September.   Brian Harrison made a motion to increase Touchline budget to $2,000; seconded by Jeff Chambers;  motion passed.

 

Scholarship–

DYS awarded four $500 scholarships to High School Seniors.  Congratulations to the recipients:  Gardner Trask, Will Libby, Christopher Gabel and Michael Waring.

 

New Business

 

Rino Vitolo, DYS coach and parent, asked to speak on behalf of his daughter (U14 Jr.)  who was placed on the “B” team.  He believes that she was wrongly placed and asked that she be moved up.  Board members explained the process that the board has in place in regards to player movement.  If a player’s team placement is in question, various board members will watch the player over the course of a few games and determine if movement is necessary.

 

Next BOD meeting will September 5th.  Check the calendar on the website for details.

 

Meeting adjourned at 9:34PM.

 

Minutes taken by Secretary, Maureen Merritt