Date
of Meeting: October 28, 2004
Meeting
Type: General
Meeting
Minutes
filed on: October 28, 2004
Revised on October 29, 2004: the revision was corrected the amount the cub began the year with and projected amount at the end of the year
Attendees: Patrick Flanagan U-9 Rockets, Michael Grennier U-9 Rockets, Gary Herbster, Pete Kelly, Margaret Pezzolla U-9 Thunder, Paul Seyffart U-10 Hotspurs, Ed Collins U-14 Blast, Bob Bichler U-11 Bullets, Millie K. Hunt U-12 Sonics, Bruce Hunt-12 Sonics, Al Vill U-11 Bullets, Mark Resende U-9 Thunder, Gary Marks U-9 Thunder, Ken Noll U-11 Bullets, Paul Billich U-12 Spirit, Michelle Billich U-12 Spirit, Glenn Gross, Keith Heckel
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes were reviewed individually and approved by a motion.
Financial
Financial were not reviewed in detail. Treasurer
stated that there were no changes to speak of. Glenn Gross questioned if we had
a target for where the club would stand financially at the end of the year. The
answer was approximately $15,000.00. Glen then asked what was
the amount the club started with at the beginning of the year. It was
then looked up and stated that the club began with $17,742.00.
Al Vill opened the meeting with discussion that Vice
President/League Contact Tom Hardy was not going to be an active member of the
South Plainfield Soccer Club. This was due to the fact that Tom’s daughter was
moving on to a different level of play. Al asked if any one was interested in
filling the job of maintaining the fields and working with the sprinkler and
Landscaping contractors to please let us know. Tom
does a tremendous amount of work for this club and his departure will surly be
felt by the club.
Tom was not able to attend the meeting this evening,
but did get credit for attending the meeting as he was lining the fields for
tomorrow nights games.
Field 1 is in good shape. Field 2 is in tough shape
as there have been some problems with a broken sprinkler head and water not
properly draining from the field. No practicing is permitted on field 2. There
are cones set up in the 2 bad areas. If these areas get any worse games will
have to be moved.
United Soccer Academy (USA) has a website that
allows the to provide
feedback from the individual coaches about the
There are 2 teams that have hired trainers other
than
Glenn Gross agreed and wanted to put it to a vote.
Al did not see the need to vote on this topic as it was just a matter of common
sense and good business practice and stated the club would do this.
It is important to understand that the South
Plainfield Soccer Club is not giving up on the relationship already established
with
Team status and Needs
This agenda item was moved to the end of the
meeting.
A matrix of canning and Candy sale facts was
distributed. This was explained by Al Vill. The matrix shows the percentage of
each team that participated in canning. It also shows who did not can and who
did not pay the $25.00 fee for not canning. The matrix also showed the candy
boxes that were ordered and delivered to teams.
The Thunder ordered 18 boxes but then sent 16 boxes
back. They are going to sell 2 boxes of candy but had a misunderstanding
regarding how the training was going to be paid for. The Thunder will organize their own fund raiser along with the Bullets.
This spring we will try to form a U-13 girls team. There will be a meeting to explore how many
potential players there are. IF there enough players or more than we need a
Tryout will be scheduled.
The club will also look to form a U-19 Girls team. This team have a nucleus of the Blaze with players added
from a tryout
A U-19 boys team will also be added. Pete Kelly and Glenn Gross
will organize the efforts needed to do this.
The talk of tryouts led to a general discussion
between Gary Marks and various members of the club.
This lead to discussion that the by-laws did not allow
for a player to selectively choose what season he wanted to play. It was then
noted that no such By-law existed and there is language that if there are
players choosing to play only one season that could jeopardize that players eligibility for the following seasonal year.
Snack Stand bid is out and we should see a snack stand soon. There will be no cooking appliances in the stand so we’ll have to pay for that. Also it was noted that gas/propane will not be allowed inside the building.
Parking the Engineering firm under contract with the Boro has not begun any work on the parking situation. There are a lot of options to consider, but an engineering study must be done before any work can begin.
Meeting concluded approximately 9:00pm