Federal Way Soccer Association

February 1, 2006

Meeting Minutes

The meeting was called to order at 7:10 p.m.

There were no minutes to approve from the January meeting as there was no meeting. The minutes were approved as written for the December meeting.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT- Super Clubs - Trying to keep a finger on the pulse of the proposal and direction that it is being proposed by the five big clubs. United/Royals, crossfire, emerald city, east side and northwest nationals. They are proposing to form a league above division 1 run by them. There is likely to be a spring league for U11 through U13. However, to be a part of it United will need to have a coaching director. Analysis of player counts. FWSA down 15% in two years. Mod down 21% in one. Select level consistent across the three years. With Judy Johnson and Kreig Eley’s help we are setting up a meeting with Varsity Student Institute and a college financial speaker to meet with the U14 to U18 players and parents about attending college as an athlete. Topics include scholarships and financial planning. January WSYSA Council Meeting. One of the more enjoyable meetings. Bonzi talk. Improvements to risk management and disciplinary are supposed to be here by May. Non-users complained about not being supported. One person kept on about the release of Bill White and was not satisfied with the answers. How can the executive board remove a person that the body elected. Some concerns over the budget and a couple tried to disagree with a couple line items and wanted to vote against the player fee. Line items were budgeted to look into an employee retirement program and budget for employee benefits. Nobody squawked the over run on soccer fair. We need more clubs involved with top soccer. Being a little buddy can get you community service credits for school. Soccer fair is coming. Open forum on referees and U11/U12 player development were good. Information sharing was the goal with no real direction or proposals at the end.

VICE-PRESIDENT’S of Admin REPORT- Jammie working with a group on the coaches selection committee and on a coaching director.

TREASURER’S REPORT- Not Present.

SECRETARY’S REPORT- No Report.

REGISTAR’S REPORT- Working on setting up Spring in Bonzi for mod and tryouts. Spring League money for mod will be due in mid April.

RISK MANAGEMENT- No Report.

2^nd VP of Development – No Report.

FIELD’S REPORT – No Report.

FW MOD- AGM is on Feb. 13^th at 6:30 at the FW Regional Library. Lots of open positions. Getting ready for Spring League.

FW UNITED- Support Coaches Selection Committee. 25 formal meeting hours and many more on the phone. More to come. Very pleased with the committee. Good questions. Really concerned and working hard to do what is best for players & Club. If we do this, what will or might happen. Director of Coaching. Received an unsolicited proposal in late November. The board took this as the right time to look into a new direction for the club. A request for proposal was sent out and 3 additional groups or individuals submitted proposals. We have met with met with two of them and plan to meet with the third within a week.

Two proposals are from within the club and one is from out of state. Based on the interviews and the current position of coaches selection and tryouts we may not see a change as soon as some would like. Blast Off application was approved.

DISTRICT 3 REPORT – AGM in March. Paige resigned. Stu Snow is in charge. Concern with Stu Snow being Commissioner with wife an employee of the State. George Maitland present to raise money. Bring taxes or insurance to him and he will provide 25 dollars in your name to club. Discussion on D3 brackets and concern with spread from 1^st to last place; goal differential and win/loss. Commissioners reviewing CYL and deciding what to do. Concerned with spread. Lots of talk about Director of Coaching. Push by clubs to create a super group. D3 awards will be ready for pick up January 20^th in the late afternoon. I will contact the coaches to make arrangements

WEBMASTER- I am working with Eben Design to get all the FWSA data loaded onto the new web pages.  This is very time consuming because I have to first make sure everything is current on our website and then convert everything to a Word file and then e-mail it to them.  If Eben Design did this they would have to charge up by the hour.

2^nd VP of Administration –No Report.

COMMITTEE REPORTS – FWSA State Cup Tournament Chair: Sharon has taken over in place of Jen as the chair. Federal Way has 15 teams (11 boy’s teams and 4 girl’s teams) still in the various State Cup Tournaments with 7 of them playing in Federal Way this weekend.  All quarter finals will be finished by the end of next weekend.  Any team advancing to the Semi Finals must submit to me an electronic team picture with the players identified by February 14^th.  The pictures will be used in the State Cup Final program if the teams advance.  Federal Way is hosting the U14 & U17 Challenge Cup Semi Final games at Federal Way Memorial Stadium on February 18^th & 19^th. We need volunteers.

Referee Report – Not Present.

OLD BUSINESS- None.

NEW BUSINESS – Motion was made by Perry to buy one table for 10 at the soccer fair dinner – cost 450.00. Motion was not passed at this time as we look at other options. A motion was made to join the Chamber of Commerce at a cost of 340.00. The motion passed.

GOOD OF THE GAME- Good Luck to all that advance through the State Cups.

Adjourned at 8:00 pm.