Federal Way Soccer
Association
May 2, 2007
Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order at 7:12 p.m.
February and March minutes approved.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT- Congratulations to Darin Pool
WSYSA 2007 Adidas Boys Coach of The Year.
Attended
the WSYSA AGM on Sunday April 29, 2007
The AGM was
a challenging meeting. The meeting was started on time and after approval
of the January minutes went into executive session. The session was to
discuss some information that was passed out the day before. Went back into the AGM at 9:50 am.
Officers
handout thank you certificates to the committee members. Committees being,
rules, ethics, protest and appeals, soccer fair, publicity etcetera. A quick review of the
annual reports and on to elections.
Elections:
President:
Doug Andrreasson
2nd VP
administration: Ryan Shannon
Vice
President Competition: Gail Zimbleman
Secretary:
Cynthia Spencer
Dale Warren
and George Maitland removed their by law proposals and the rest were rejected
in accordance with the rules committee recommendations.
VICE-PRESIDENT’S of Admin REPORT-
No Report.
TREASURER’S REPORT- Handed out balance
sheet and commented on budget review under new business.
SECRETARY’S REPORT-
Open position.
REGISTAR’S
REPORT- State League registration complete. We will be allowed to move players around
when the state reopens the database.
Next step is United Fall registration.
RISK
MANAGEMENT- All people dealing with the players
need to be risk management cleared.
Coach, assistant coach, manager, treasurer, travel coordinator……
FIELD’S REPORT – No Report.
FW
MOD- Spring league is well under way. Had trouble with one team that was scheduled
to play but did not form. No one told
the Referee Assignor or Field Scheduler until after the 4th
game. Now had to rework the schedule and
pay the referees for game cancellations & changes.
FW
UNITED- No Report.
DISTRICT 3 REPORT – Meeting scheduled
for May 7.
WEBMASTER- Lots of discussion on how to improve
the communication on the web site. The
contact part is working well. There are
many questions coming in and it is easy to send on to the person that needs to
answer the question. There is a concern
that many questions are being asked of registrars that should be handled by
others. People will ask anyone they
think will listen. Registrars,
coordinators and the web master will receive many e-mails. The hard part is determining where to send
the questions. Discussion ensued on
providing some general questions the writer may use to determine who to contact. This is difficult and in many cases our
members will ask through the first e-mail ling that comes up. Since the president is listed first on
several pages the president gets lots of e-mail; goes with the territory. We can do a better job as boards helping
ourselves quickly direct questions.
2nd
VP of ADMINISTRATION – All is quiet. Need to complete the by law update.
COMMITTEE
REPORTS –
REFEREE REPORT – Grade 8 Referee clinic scheduled for May 14-16
and May 21, 22, & 24 at Saghalie Middle School
from 6-9pm. An adult is required to take
the clinic along with the youth if the youth is younger than 13 years of age.
TOURNAMENT CHAIR – State cup is over
and now we plan for next year. The GU15
and above championship cup may move to the late spring in support of the girls
league season moving. The U11 age group
may get its own tournament.
OLD BUSINESS-
None.
NEW
BUSINESS –
Budget was discussed and approved with no increase in player
fees this year. Discussion on the
sequence of events with mod and united setting budgets before the association
seems backwards. We need to look at a
way to set a budget for the association that the clubs can use to plan the next
year.
With increases for travel and decreases in web master the
budget was approved.
GOOD OF THE GAME- Carl talked about the need
to reorganize the clubs and association.
The game has changed. Parents
with players on scholarships should step up and volunteer more for the teams,
club or association. Are we making it
too easy to receive financial help.
Next meeting June 6,
2007