SLP Traveling Baseball Board Meeting
September 10, 2015
Gallery Room, Rec Center
Attendees:
- Greg Meyer
- Mike Thyne
- Joel Abrahamson
- Mark Young
- Gino Giovannelli
- Jenny Harper
- Brian McBride
- Todd Dvorak
- Chris Hauer
- Board of Directors Election- October 4 meeting
2016 Board member renewals and annual Election
- Jenny to send out e-mail 2 weeks ahead to all Traveling families
- Mike to create flyer for tryouts to promote attendance
- Jenny to create ballot for meeting
- Additional non-voting board member positions we need to fill:
- Registration coordinator, Uniform coordinator, volunteer coordinator
- Slugfest: Field general, concession manager
- These will be communicated in e-mail about election
- We also need to do targeted recruiting of volunteers, look for parents of younger players.
Tryouts for 13 and over
- Evaluators and tryout leads for each age group- we will pay non-parent leaders and evaluators $50 per try-out session for their time and effort
- Registration $25 payment and player form completed. Jenny will send link to registration form ahead of try-outs.
- Tryout #’s for players and recording sheets for evaluators
- Team selection committee
- Player level eligibility guideline discussion.
Head coaching options for 2016 for 13-15 year olds
- No coaches will be selected prior to try-outs.
Player registration:
- Mike and Gino will look into getting our NGIN account for registration
- 13-15 Try-out fee $25 due at try-outs, cash or check; $100 commitment fee due upon acceptance on a team; Remainder due in March.
- Website payment updates. How do we proceed in 2016- would like to use NGIN if we can get our own account. PayPal would be second choice.
- Fees for credit card payment add on? 3.5% presently
Winter Clinics
- We will look at winter training options after try-outs- would prefer to start later in February, after winter sports are complete.
- Winter break clinic with the HS program. We will wait to hear how BK will handle this.
Fundraising – Mike Thyne:
- Ways to generate additional funds
- Looking at fast food fundraising options- Panera and Noodles
- On-line shopping
2016 Traveling baseball 10-12 discussion:
- Little League relationship. How to best co-exist
- Little League is not interested in a compromise proposal. They want to maintain teams at every level.
- All present agreed that we need to proceed on our own, and not continue to try and coordinate with Little League.
Budget discussion:
- Review of 2015 seasons and present status. We basically broke even this year.
- 2016 Budget- need to figure out ways to either make more money, or cut expenses to ensure financial viability.