Subject: minutes of 3/10/99 Executive Committee Mtg.

Present: Carl Stahle, Barry Coyle, Martin Rivas, Mike Machado, Steve
Dobrosielski

\(1\) Soccer season will start on Monday, April 12

To Do:

\- Work up schedule

\- Contact refs

Steve D. wanted to check with the Orange team to find out if there are
particularly bad days to avoid. Normally, we don\'t do this in the
scheduling but we can try to accommodate a team if a particular day of
the week is especially bad for a significant fraction of a team\'s
players.

\(2\) Work Party will be on Saturday, March 27.

To Do:

\- Fertilize and seed

\- Fill in holes, bad spots

\- Paint lines on field (Goalposts probably do not have to be moved)

\- Check Tractor: oil change, change filters, sharpen blade. Barry will
call Guilio or Steve Brown about tractor maintenance info.

\- Repair Shed - Orange Team will look into this.

As usual, we ask for 2 people from each team to come that day. If this
is a problem, contact Barry and he can try to work out a different time
and task for the team to do.

Please check with Barry and Tom LaFave (Scheduler) before you decide to
play on the field for any preseason scrimmages. We do not want to tear
up the field.

Barry said that he will need plenty of help on field responsibilities
this season because he is a new father.

\(3\) Budget and Team Dues

Money in our Credit Account (Savings and Checking): \$2394

Estimated Budget for Spring 1999

Refs \$4300 (\$100/game, 43 games)

Fertilizer and Seed 650

Insurance 400 (This is per year but we need to pay it now.)

Annual Meeting 125

Tractor 100 (gas, maintenance)

Paint 100 (We have a significant supply from last season so this cost is
less)

Miscell. 50

Total \$5725

Team Dues: \$5725 / 8 = \$715

We voted (5-0) to adopt this budget and that the team dues will be \$715
for this Spring.

No one is happy that our team dues have increased. For a team of 20
players on the roster, though, the cost per player is \~\$35, which is
still quite reasonable, compared to other leagues some of us play in on
crappier fields.

Our greatest cost is paying for the referees. There were the usual
complaints that we don\'t get our money\'s worth from the referees.
Barry suggested that we look around again at other referee associations.
Also, we need to be more diligent in giving feedback to the referees\'
association so we can persuade them to assign the better referees to our
games. The Scheduler is now responsible for getting the evaluations from
the captains and getting the information to the refs association. Barry
suggested that we find someone who can volunteer their time to work
exclusively on the the referee evalution issue. Martin pointed out, as
have a number of you, that we should just consider the refs to be part
of the game. There was a general consensus that we should all try to
work harder at evaluating the refs (good and bad comments) and make sure
the refs association knows our comments. We are the paying customer so
we should get satisfactory service.

\(4\) Missing Officers

Our Officer Corps is depleted because Stan Underwood resigned as VP (no
longer an official member), Will Mast (Treasurer) left to work at
Wallops and Eric Webber (Secretary) decided that he did not want to be
the Secretary. I will work to fill these positions before the season
starts. Please let me know if you think one of your players will make a
good officer. I will be happy to persuade/coerce the person to volunteer
Ideally, we would have a mix of officers from different teams. Barry
suggested that the VP work on the referee issue. Mike asked for position
descriptions so he could recruit from the White team. This is your
chance to have another person represent your team on the Executive
Committee (Each team and officer gets 1 vote.)

\(5\) Waivers

The waivers need to be signed again by all the players. A copy was
passed out - it is the same as last year. I can send you a copy if you
need one (electronic or hard copy). Steve D. objected to having to get
waivers signed again for players who have already signed one. Carl said
the the insurance people recommended to get the waivers signed once a
year, but he\'ll check with them again.

\(6\) New players

Any suggestions for new ways to advertise for new soccer players are
welcome. Carl will put in the usual announcements in the GEWA
Newsletter. Although this was not discussed, Carl has a suggestion that
we change the way we assign new players. I suggest that we assign a new
player to the team with the lowest number of players on its roster. This
would be done independent of a player\'s skill. Any suggestions or
comments are welcome. We can discuss this at our next meeting.

\(7\) Other

\- Next meeting will be within a month before the season starts to work
out any problems and, hopefully, to vote to approve new officers.

\- Captains should to try to get a co-captain so they have help in
running the team and representing the team at our League meetings.