Mahtomedi Hockey Association Board Meeting
Mahtomedi Hockey Association Board Meeting Date: July 19, 2015 Time: 8 PM Attendance: John Thompson, John Mack, Kim Schwieters, JJ Begley, Alex Rogosheske, Mike Kasel, Cory Huberty, Jen Harnisch, Dan Lallak, Jeremy L’Allier Absent: Dino Marino, Kevin Suoja 1. Approval of minutes from June board meeting and Amended May minutes – Minutes were emailed prior to start of meeting. Approved 2. Vice President Report: DEC window repaired. Glass donated by White Bear Glass, parents lined up to build out windows for boarding up each year (DIBS credit), ABC is donating shingles for the shed, Kevin Souja will line up roofing crew. Kick plates for upper and lower rinks will be ordered soon, working on inventory of socks, jerseys, and equipment…short on puck bags (AGAIN) 3. Bantam Update: High school plans to expand summer camp to include all incoming bantams in future years. Also a possible week-long summer camp for Peewee and Squirts. Would like to see about finding permanent coach for the bantam level. 4. Peewee Update - none 5. Squirt / Eval Update – Need email lists of all families at each level for all coordinators. Level coordinators will meet outside of board meeting to discuss eval process. 1 outside and 2 inside evaluators w/ strong backgrounds in hockey to evaluate at each level. Changing process a bit to better evaluate bubble players…groups will be reconfigured after first evaluation to keep kids of similar ability together. Waiting on recommendation from Comp Committee on how best to achieve this. 6. Mite Update – Mite meeting with all D2 mite directors to discuss fair competition amongst teams. Level 3 to have full ice/refs/on the fly changes. Mite 2 half ice and jamborees. December 10th meeting to schedule games. 7. Girls program Updates – 14U may become 15U, MN hockey to vote 7/26. Expecting 14A & B statewide. Michelson says he will not take any 8th graders and will cut 9th graders. Parents did not like the wide range of abilities at U8 last year. Divide into U6 for the mite 1 price and U8 for the mite 3 price. (ice scheduled will be commiserate with those levels) Encourage girls to stay in girls program and work to strengthen that. Kim will work with Tracy to get this implemented in the registration. 8. Sponsorship/fundraising/Golf tourney – No placards on jerseys going forward…too costly and too time consuming. Need to get facebook page updated and continue use for updates. Golf tourney had 21 groups and sponsors for each hole. On course games were very successful. 9. PCA Update- Dates are set, blast needed to inform parents of new requirement before registration goes live. First Strides date 10/24, need ice at St. Croix. Lots of coaches will be needed for this. 10. D2 Updates – Jr Gold discussion on number of referees 3 vs 4. Likely will stay at 4. Losing referees due to cost of becoming a referee, scholarship fund suggested for student referees. Ramifications will be in place if parity is not upheld on levels with multiple teams. North St Paul has moved to district 8 with Johnson Como. Peewee AA only has 6 teams in district, will need to go outside to fill game schedule. Jake is petitioning MN hockey for a redistrict to get more teams in D2. Forest Lake will be staying in D2. All coaches will need to complete concussion training. More than likely MYHA will get Bantam C tourney again. 11. Fall Camp Update – Numbers are getting too high, need to close. Will blast tomorrow and close.
12. Peewee Levels – Comp committee recommends 1 team at each level. Majority of last years’ PW coaches feel we do not have the depth for an A and a AA team and suggest AA, B1, 2-B2, C. Motion to follow CC suggestion – passed. John to notify Jim to notify Shelli for tourney scheduling. 13. President comments – Just notified on Friday that one group at the golf tourney destroyed property at DCC – carts apparently used for demolition derby and sustained quite a bit of damage and wet areas of course were intentionally driven through after being told to stay on cart paths and grass was torn up. Waiting to hear from DCC for names of foursomes involved – names are always on carts. MYHA is no longer allowed to utilize DCC for this event. Complete embarrassment for our association. Cost of repair would certainly eliminate any profit from event.
Meeting adjourned 10:52pm.
12. Peewee Levels – Comp committee recommends 1 team at each level. Majority of last years’ PW coaches feel we do not have the depth for an A and a AA team and suggest AA, B1, 2-B2, C. Motion to follow CC suggestion – passed. John to notify Jim to notify Shelli for tourney scheduling. 13. President comments – Just notified on Friday that one group at the golf tourney destroyed property at DCC – carts apparently used for demolition derby and sustained quite a bit of damage and wet areas of course were intentionally driven through after being told to stay on cart paths and grass was torn up. Waiting to hear from DCC for names of foursomes involved – names are always on carts. MYHA is no longer allowed to utilize DCC for this event. Complete embarrassment for our association. Cost of repair would certainly eliminate any profit from event.
Meeting adjourned 10:52pm.
