NOSO Board Meeting Minutes Tuesday, April 17, 2011 In Attendance: President Miguel Cora
Vice President John Cannon Treasurer Beth Hayes
RegistrarOpen
Boy’s Travel John Loftus
Girl’s Travel Cindy Salazar
SecretaryColleen Hayes Director of Fields Matt Steinmetz Tournaments Tom Hatfield
Public Relations Ken Janosek
ExcaliburWalter Schlothauer Director of Schedules & Referees Pete Meckes Director of In-HouseOpen
2011 Schedule of Events Dates NOSO Golf Outing NOSO Soccer Camp NOSO Cup Kick It 3 v. 3 Soccer Tournament
June 4, 2pm @ Springvale Golf Course June 13-17, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. @ Barton-Bradley July 2-3 July 9-10 Barton-Bradley
Important Websites: NOSO: www.nososoccer.org NOSO Cup: www.nosocup.org Ohio North: www.oysan.org Meeting was brought to order by John Cannon at 8:06 pm. Decisions:
March meeting minutes approved, motion by Pete, 2nd by John Loftus Nominations for NOSO Scholarship approved, Sarah Loeser & Josh Javor
Miguel Cora, President:
Final decision regarding NOSO Scholarship Award to be made, 1 boy & 1 girl
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After registration deadline for In-house, there were an additional 200 registrations up to 2 weeks after the deadline
In-House registration is over 400 players
John Cannon, Vice President:
Golf outing contract with Springvale has been signed
Still looking for a vendor to provide steak for the outing, some ideas are Giant Eagle, Heinen’s & Ace’s Bar & Grille
Chik-fil-A will provide lunch for the outing & will run the concessions in the Coke Trailer at Barton-Bradley for the spring session, profits will be given back to NOSO
Sponsors for holes are needed, would like to create a bundle package w/NOSO Cup. Bundle hole sponsor, signs and ad in NOSO Cup program Night At the Races contract signed, the date is October 4, 2011
Beth Hayes, Treasurer:
Emailed financials to Board members
Colleen Hayes, Secretary:
No Report
Open, Registrar:
No Report
Pete Meckes, Director of Referees & Schedules:
Rescheduling games In-house start date was pushed back a week due to low enrollment, numbers did pick up with the delayed start date.
Picture day make-up date is 4/30, with an alternate date of 5/14, forms are at Barton-Bradley coaches can pick up. Ken Janosek, Director of Public Relations: Can give John Cannon & Miguel a password to access the website in order to post messages, such as field closings NOSO Camp information is posted & set for registration online, will open soon
NOSO Board Meeting Minutes Tom: will mail brochures to last year’s attendees, as well as out of town NonNOSO members Ken: JD’s can make changes to brochure
Arnold confirm Cedar Point will sponsor NOSO Cup, same agreement as in the
past email blast from Arnold, some response from 1st round, 2nd round will be sent w/ a final blast 1-2 weeks before registration deadline 21 early registration, most since Ken has been involved discount $50 was applied to early registrations, some were charged an additional $50 below discounted rate if paid by c/c change registration deadline to May 31, 2011 Miguel-can we get reports of open rate on email blast, Ken: can send reports
Open, Director of InHouse: No Report Tom Hatfield, Director of Tournaments: NOSO Camp will have the following coaches: Christian Marsh, Erica Klienholz, Joe Buchek, Clint Holiday, Patrick McAndrew has a request from a team to bring 20 players to NOSO Cup even though the roster limit is 18, per Ohio North Need to follow Ohio North rules because they sanction the tournament need age group coordinators, Ken: possible change to registration night, so Clubs that have teams in multiple age groups don’t need to travel from table to table, John C., maybe organize in alphabetical order? Matt Steinmetz, Director of Fields:
No Report
John Loftus, Boys Travel Director:
No Report
Cindy Salazar/Rachel Dunn, Girls Travel Co-Director:
Working on rescheduling games
With no more business to discuss, the meeting adjourned at 9:42 pm.