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New Structure for MYFAI
October 3, 2013
Presidents,
Since the early 1990’s Mississippi Youth Football has operated under the same basic structure. This system has served us well over the many years it has been in place.
I have served as President, Chairman and Commissioner, and this was no problem for many years, however in that time we have grown by 293%.
The operation of league has grown to a year round job. The sheer number of task that have to be looked at, completed, investigated, and then reworked while still trying to make substantial improvements have grown by 293% also.
In trying to do all three very separate jobs I feel that none of them are getting the attention they, our league and our kids deserve. For this reason I have been looking at restructuring our Association for several weeks, beginning Friday, October 4, 2013 we will begin operating under the following structure.
1. I will remain President and Chairman of the board of directors.
2. Lester Ivy will be promoted to Commissioner, and Vice President reporting directly to me, and will assume the duties of the day to day operation, hear, investigate and rule on protest and other issues. The final ruling will be sent to me and I will dictate to appropriate disciplinary action to be taken.
3. Johnny Dear is hereby promoted to Sr. vice Commissioner, reporting directly to Lester and shall serve as chief adviser to Lester and will assume the role of Commissioner in the event that Lester not be able to perform his duties for any reason. With his new duties Johnny will appoint a VC to act in his old role as Sr. vice Commissioner for the flag league.
4. Michael Brown will continue serving as vice Commissioner for the association as well as Sr. vice commissioner for the growing Tinamite league.
5. Dwayne Ruffin will continue as vice Commissioner for the association.
6. David Jones (aka: DJ, Big Daddy) of the Hattiesburg league is hereby promoted to vice Commissioner for our Association.
7. I have ask Lester and Johnny to submit at least two names to be promoted to fill open VC slots within the next two weeks.
8. Paul Walley, JL Breazeale, Ken Ferrell and Bill Dwyer shall serve as vice Commissioners but will report directly to me and will work on continuing improvement projects for the Association and as advisers to both Lester and I.
Some projects that I will start work on are:
A full 10% of our leagues are now Park and Recreation leagues now, these leagues operate differently and have different needs. I will work with JJ Williamson, Billy Meeks, Ms Shirley, Wild horse and the other P&R leagues to determine how we can better serve their needs and to be sure we are providing them with all the tools necessary for their kids.
We now have three people working on, and in at least one case doing a trail run for our new scheduling software. The objective here is to be able to provide a complete, timely schedule that will fix all the little things that are important to our leagues like, being sure team X travels to team Z if they traveled there last year. Better reduce travel required and eliminate the costly and aggravating process of cross checking 2500 games each year. (Along with saving me a week of vacation!)
in addition to USM and JCCC I will be working on a deal to secure a couple exciting new fields for the playoffs next year.
Finding a new contract for MYFAI day at a college football game where our kids can attend FREE or for a dollar like we once had with USM. This reduction will allow coaches to treat their teams to the game without bankrupting them. It also allows lower income kids, some of the main one we hope we are helping be able to attend.
A large number of leagues have asked me to provide a set of BY-LAWS for their leagues; I am working on creating a generic set that each league can adjust to their individual leagues needs.
Reformatting our updated rules and the list goes on, and on.
IF you know of any improvement projects you would like to see our association undertake email me the details.
I ask you to join me in thanking each of these guys for accepting their new responsibilities and duties.
I also ask you each show them the same respect and loyalty you have shown me for all these years. Together we will continue to grow and provide an association that is second to none for our kids.
Tom Polk, President
MYFAI, 2013
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