Wickliffe Baseball League Meeting - 10/20/2016

Start time – 8:15pm

Roll Call:

Executive Board – Pugh, Gilman, Levon, Novotney, Motta, Krizner

Excused – Pasquino

Trustees – Shirer, Rossman, Brandt

Excused –

Also present: 

Motion by Levon to approve the meeting minutes of September 15th, seconded by Shirer.  Motion passed.

Officer Reports:

VP – Gilman stated that she is already planning our fundraiser, Game Show Night, at the I&A hall.  All Fridays are open in February, no Saturdays though.  She will decide between Friday, February 17^th and Friday, February 24th.  Game show guys are already booked as well.

Treasurer– Novotney delivered the income/expense report for October 2016, which is stated below. 

1)      Checking account balance - $7,469.18

2)      Savings account balance - $1,616.75

3)      Cooperstown 2017  (11U) - $8,250.62

4)      Other Savings / Clinics - $840.28

5)      Nationals 2016 (14U) - $466.21

6)      Ripken 2016 (12U) - $230.57

Pugh has invoice for plaques for sponsors and will give that to Kathy.

Secretary – Levon stated that we need to define the date for opening day.  We are looking at either Saturday, April 29th or Saturday, May 6th.  From there, we can determine when registration will start and end.

Equipment Manager – No report

Umpire in Chief – Not present

Player Development Manager – Motta wants to meet with coaches to develop a plan for clinics, whether we should use an outside location, and if so, which one.  He would like to use the High School gym but that all depends on availability.  Having some of his high school players at the clinics is a strong possibility.

President – Pugh notified the board that he will have to create a new GroupMe thread with the current members as the one that was in place earlier had past board members on it.

Eastlake & Willowick still owe money from our tournament.  Levon knows a parent of a player on the Eastlake team and will contact them to get the coach/manager’s information.

All logins & passwords for WBL items have been received and stored.

He has started passing out sponsor plaques.

Old Business: 

None

New Business: 

Motta suggested a promotion to get young kids to be ball boys for WHS Varsity games.  Discussion ensued on how to promote it.  It was determined that we would add it as a click box during our online registration.

Brandt expressed to the board that we have to come up with individual and group objectives to determine how we did at each position and as a board as a whole at the end of each year.  If we don’t, than we are not fulfilling the objective outlined in our bylaws.

Shirer notified the board that the website provider has changed hands.  It will not affect functionality or appearance of our website.  The price may go up in the future, but there has been no notification of it going up this year.

Pugh said he would create a Dropbox account to store our documents, such as insurance, permits, etc.  This would allow board members to access them on demand.

The board discussed doing a safety check on our equipment before the start of the next season.

The board also discussed sending a survey to parents of the players in the league last year to get some feedback on what we are doing well, and what we need to improve on.  This survey would be emailed out in January before registration.

Meeting ended at 9:17pm

Date of next meeting – November 17, 2016