MEMBERS ABSENT: Marty Holmes, Deb Logsdon, Curtis McCline

OTHERS PRESENT: Roger Kelly, Bob Harp, and Mark Adam

MINUTES of June 19th and July 17th, 2002 board of directors meeting were reviewed. Minutes had been previously sent to the board members. Motion by Hoffmeyer, second by Harp to approve the minutes. Motion passed.

TREASURERS' REPORT: Johnson presented the treasures report with a review of the check register and income statement. Revenues were reported for July of $3,651.73 from the Session II summer camp. The travel accounts still outstanding from last year are $7,600.73. Net of Liabilities and Capital is $151,487.33. Mark reminded the board that he would like to see all A travel teams collect and receive the ice bill for tryouts. Motion by Hoffmeyer second by Soole to approve the treasure report as presented. Motion passed.

DIRECTORS REPORTS:
High School Treasures Report: The treasurer for the Metros will be Peggy Hoffmeyer and Lisa Soole will assist her.

Registrar: Fall registration dates will be Sunday August 25th from 6pm to 8pm and Monday August 26th from 6pm to 8pm and Tuesday August 27th from 6pm to 8pm. The Metros registration will be Sunday, August 25th. New skater registration will be Sept. 8th.

Executive Committee: No action taken.

Coaching Committee: Moreland submitted a clinic schedule for IP, Associate & Intermediate Levels. Coaches must write their certification number on the score sheets beginning Jan 1, 2003. Tri-State did not set penalties for us to enforce for noncompliance. We need to put penalties in place before Jan. 1, 2003. We will remove all noncompliant coaches from the bench. All clinics must be taken in order. The coaches can be registered online. We will work out a reimbursement program. Please refer to the supplement to the meeting Mike provided for specifics regarding the clinics.

Strachan brought the board up-to-date on the coaches meeting which took place this month. Some discussion at the meeting on Gold & Green teams replacing the A & B concept.

Risk Manager: The coaches and board members need to sign a waiver for a background check.

Ice Scheduler: Holzrichter submitted his final draft dated 8/8/02. Motion by Buckmeier, second by Soole to approve the schedule as submitted. Motion passed.

Player Development: Nothing to report.

Travel League: Travel League Coordinator position is still open. We will decide the frequency of travel after the final Midwest Schedule is received.

House League: Nothing to report.

Communication Team Comments: High School - A high school committee of 9 parents met on Aug 20th to discuss the program this year. The high school numbers will be approximately 46. The current program needed to be reviewed to accommodate the additional Midget B team the High School program will be supporting. The current fundraiser of selling advertisement in the Metro program cannot fund the numbers we currently have. Each skater must sell $1,300.00 in ads or come up with the difference. Hoffmeyer addressed the board for assistance with the program. A motion was made to help fund the program with approximately $7,000.00. This would help cover the additional tournaments and coaches expenses associated with the Midget B program which we have not incurred in the past. We needed a commitment from SYHA so we could proceed with the fundraiser. With this assistance each skater will sell $1,145.00 in Ads. The program will cover all Regular Midwest fees and 4 Tournament fees up to and including 33 games and coaches expense up to the $7,000.00. This assistance will be for one year only. Motion was made by Moreland. Second by Harp. Motion passed.

Bantam B - ice issue from last year travel season. We will divide ice time for 1 week with the skaters who practiced for the advanced programs.

Publicity: Julee Elstad addressed the board regarding a SYHA Banner, which could be used for multiple events. We discussed the fact it would have to fall within the advertising budget. A flyer should be in the Sioux City Journal on Sat August 24th. Julee will follow up. Also, we are ordering 10,000 extra flyers for the schools.

Musketeer Relations: Jeamie has met some of the new people involved in the program.

Equipment: The Bantam Jerseys were not ordered as directed by the board. Mike made it clear the jerseys needed to be ordered. Lisa will have Dan Cownie determine the numbers needed. Lisa will order Metro socks.

Fund Raising: Nothing to report.

Legal Committee: Nothing to report.

Referee in Chief (House): Mike McClennen will serve again.

Novelty Committee: Julee Elstad relayed for Lynn Hardenbrook- she is looking @ all new novelties. Wants to have a 50% off sale during registration. She will show samples at the next board meeting.

League Representatives: Mike and Maxine attended a meeting this month in Des Moines. Mike presented a topic of interest sheet. Scott Ball will attend our IP Clinics. We have two people who would like to assist Scott with the goal to conduct future clinics. Jeamie should contact Scott regarding this.

Regional competition is through Tri-State. If you want to advance to Regionals you must play Midwest League games. Some Des Moines teams want to qualify for Regional competition without playing Midwest League. No decision was made to allow them to do this.

Maxine reported we voted to do 2 one's as opposed to 4 one's. Sioux City will host 9 Midwest tournaments. Midwest dates should be out by Labor Day.

OLD BUSINESS
City Contract still waiting for final approval.

Moreland handed out a practice format policy and a motion was made by Hoffmeyer to accept it as written. Second by Holzrichter. Motion passed.

The Golf Outing brought in $5,700 in receipts and $4,800 in expenses. A big thanks to Cody Harris.

A proposed draft was presented by Moreland to administer a scholarship program. To sum it up the Board of Directors will determine an amount to be set aside for scholarship. This amount may change from year to year. A Scholarship committee of three board members to include thw SYHA Treasurer will establish guidelines to be used in receiving and granting scholarship applications not to exceed $600 per year per skater. The minimum sales criteria for SYHA fundraising activities will be 1.5 times that of non-scholarship skaters. Refer to the handout for specific details. Motion made by Buckmeier. Second by Holzrichter. Motion passed.

NEW BUSINESS
The moving up policy was reviewed again. The policy will remain the same.

Motion made to adjourn the meeting by Hoffmeyer second by Harp.

Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Soole, Secretary

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