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Saint Albans Skating Association
Saint Albans, VT
July 13, 2008
These minutes are not approved until accepted by the SASA Board Members at their next meeting.
Present
Board Members: Bob Berno, Vern Boomhover, John Cioffi, Tom Dukas, Dan Ellis, Candy Granger, Mike Ladd, Heather Lamothe, Jim Phelps, Tonia Raftery, & Laura Wilson
Others: Brad Brouillette
John Cioffi called the meeting to order at 7:08pm.
1. Review minutes from June 8th meeting:
Bob Berno made a motion to accept the June 8th minutes. Vern Boomhover seconded. Motion passed, unanimously.
2. Mites – Brad Brouillette:
Brad asked to have the travel mites structure continue to keep pushing them forward & make them keep playing up & continue to get some full ice exposure at the cross ice level, & not take a step back & become more like a house mite program.
3. Fundraising Committee:
A. Calcutta – July 18th:
Vern is all set for Calcutta, approximately 9 tickets left to sell. All board members are to be there by 5:30pm to help set up.
4. Registrar:
A. Needs for coming registration:
Heather has made up a new registration forms for the ’08-’09 Season & all registration must be done online.
5. Treasurer:
A. Needs for coming registration:
John Lovelette will make sure the credit card machine is available for registration. Both he & Mark Deso won’t be able to attend the first registration session.
B. Update on status of assistant position:
John Lovelette& Candy are getting together on Thursday this week to set up the banking changes. John Cioffi will ask for a list of outstanding registration fees from the 2007-2008 season to report back to the board. Candy will be assisting John Lovelette with Treasurer duties & will focus on collecting past due registration fees.
6. Head Coach:
Tom Dukas had nothing really to report at this time.
7. Snack bar:
Tonia Raftery, Laura Wilson, & Pam Ellis have agreed to run the snack bar.
8. Master Scheduler:
Mark Deso can get Highgate ice times on Fridays from 5-9pm. The board thought that sounded good, especially with the high school time change & ice times being pushed back later. Mark & John Cioffi will look into this option further.
9. Equipment Manager:
A. Uniforms Returned:
If anyone has equipment still, please ask them to return it.
B. Any needs for equipment:
Tim Vallee wasn’t here, so nothing to report at this time.
10. Old Business:
B. Pre-season Clinic: Will be similar to top gun, but McGinn isn’t running it. We
will be looking to mix up the coaches to have kids with coaches or previous coaches/players that they aren’t familiar with.
11. New Business:
A. Newsletter:
John Cioffi has the newsletter ready to be emailed out.
B. Young Blades Flyer - Draft:
Heather Lamothe & John Cioffi shared the colored tri-fold flyer. Bob Berno made a motion to approve spending up to $500 to make colored copies. Vern Boomhover seconded. Motion passed, unanimously. These fliers will go out to all the schools & also put at various stores in the area, to really try to increase our young blade numbers.
12. Other Issues:
Milton has expressed interest in having their players come to SASA. We’ll need to wait until after registration. Although the Amstein family is allowed, since they were here last year.
Candy Granger asked to have as many people as possible at registration.
13. Next meeting – August 10th @ 7pm:
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Candy L. Granger
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