Federal Way Soccer Association

September 6th, 2006

Meeting Minutes

 

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

The minutes for August were not approved

 

PRESIDENT’S REPORT- Planning to meet with mod president candidates and United club president soon. See treasurer and other officer reports.

 

VICE-PRESIDENT REPORT- No Report.

 

TREASURER’S REPORT- Financial Statement was passed out.  Concern with Bonzi billing.  Difficult to work club player counts to determine which club owes how much.  This report and registrar report blended into one report.  Lots of discussion about the registration tool, processes, and the trials and tribulations of working with the membership, coordinators, treasures, and state to make it all work.  It is not smooth.  Many of the suggestions seam to go unrecognized.  The use of user ID’s and passwords has not worked well.  Hope to have this changed for next year.  How is not known.  The transition to Bonzi has not been as clean or smooth as expected.  This change and the push of responsibilities from the state office to the association is making the Registrar duties more time consuming.  An example is the association printing player cards.  Are registrars picking up some treasurer duties? It feels that way.  Balancing player counts to club and between Bonzi and WSYSA charges to determining billing is driving the volunteers nuts.  It appears to be a good thing that we have not signed on to a merchant account for player registration.

 

SECRETARY’S REPORT- Not present

 

REGISTAR’S REPORT/RISK MANAGEMENT- See treasurers report.

 

2nd VP of Development – Not Present.

 

FIELD’S REPORT – No report

 

FW MOD- Need a President and a Secretary.  The board is in good shape outside of these positions.  The team is working hard to get the Tracy Whitney tournament going.  We hired help to run the concession stand.  The company will buy the Blast Off excess drinks.  Sharon has come through during her transition out of mod.

 

FW UNITED- Getting ready for fall season.  Registration has been a challenge.  The PDL is not well organized.  How much of the confusion is being a new league and ability to administer is the question.  We submitted two teams and both were accepted in to the CYL.  This  makes us more successful and we do not know why.

 

DISTRICT 3 REPORT – Meeting is scheduled for September 11.

 

WEBMASTER-  Too busy with many other tasks to work the details on the new web site.  Sorry.  Being pushed by the president to find some time to provide Eben design some data to start working on the new pages.

 

2nd VP of Administration – No report.

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS –  no report.

 

Referee Report –  There is a referee clinic planned for the week of  11September2006.  We need more participants.  Membership comments about the timing.  Difficult for coaches or players this time of year.  When is a good time for coaches and players or the referee training staff?  We are posting the fall games as soon as we get them.   Perry stated that Debbie Frazier mentioned some trouble covering the U11 games.  Is this because we are not providing AR’s?

 

OLD  BUSINESS- None.

 

NEW BUSINESS –

EUROSPORT has asked for player mailing or e-mail addresses in exchange for sponsoring the Tracy Whitney .  There is little if any interest in providing these addresses for some financial or product support to mod.

A company pushing NIKE product to United contacted a number of board members.  They are from Portland and want us to buy all our uniforms from them.  Perry brushed them off with our current agreement and told them we are interested in working with local companies.

Talked about the PDL and CYL.  What is good for us or our teams and how do we want to proceed.  General discussion and no direction determined.

 

GOOD OF THE GAME-  missed this one