OTHERS PRESENT:

MINUTES of February 19th, 2003 regular meeting were tabled.

TREASURER REPORT: Mark Johnson presented the Financial reports for February and March. Interest Income was posted for the quarter. Advertising was invoiced. Pancake Day netted $8,746.35. Still working on some collection issues. The Bantam B team has not made a payment on their account. A motion was made by Soole and second by McCline to set-up an Audit Committee to help Mark with some of these collection issues. Motion passed. The Audit Committee members are Johnson, Soole, Harp and Quesenberry. We need to issue a check for the two Metro players selected to the Chicago Showcase. They are Aaron Limoges and Beau Erickson. The amount we have always given is a total of $500.00 to be split among the players selected. Motion by Soole; second by Logsdon the issue the check. Motion passed. Net Income as of Feb 28, 2003 is $16,800.08. Motion by Logsdon, second by Soole to approve the Treasurers Report as presented. Motion passed.

Soole presented High School Treasures report. The Metros will end the year in the black. They are meeting to finalize the balance they owe SYHA and should present the check at the next meeting. Final collections will be made at the Year-End Banquet.

DIRECTORS' REPORTS

Registrar: nothing to report.

Executive Committee: the Ted Neby award was present to Rich Chartier and Jon Soole by Maxine at the Metros banquet. They also discussed the engineer study report for the locker room addition at the ice center. The committee felt it was necessary to present the proposal to the entire board. Soole made a motion, second by McCline to approve spending up to $2,500 on an engineering study to add a locker room for the High School team at the Ice Center. Motion passed with two opposing.

Coaching Committee: The coaching committee presented a motion on team selection for the travel teams. It reads as follows: Upon completion of the travel team selections the skater will skate for the team for which he/she has been chosen. This policy will not affect the ability to double roster players where their primary team obligation is defined and acknowledged. Motion by McCline, second by Lukehart. Motion passed.

Risk Manager: nothing to report

Ice Scheduler: nothing to report

Player Development: nothing to report

Travel League: nothing to report.

House League: nothing to report

Communication Team: The Metros had 150 people attend the Year-End Banquet. Bantam B’s won the Midwest Tournament. PeeWee A’s placed 3rd and received the sportsmanship award. PeeWee B’s also received a sportsmanship award. Mite’s had a good year. Tyke’s – great Y/E Tournament.

Publicity: Maxine will meet with a representative from Sweden who is looking at Sioux City as a place to bring his business and he wants to make sure there is a good hockey program and swimming program here.

Musketeer Relations: we collected $600.00 on Chuck-A-Puck. Strachan will bring the money to Johnson.

Novelty: nothing to report.

Equipment: Discussion on the need to have a bag of goalie equipment issued to each house league team for the Tyke and Mite teams and 2 sets for the Squirts. Approximately 12 bags of goalie equipment is needed. Motion by Soole, second by Lukehart to get the bags for next year. Motion passed.

A proposal was made by Strachan to purchase new Travel Jerseys for the organization. After discussion a motion was made by Soole to purchase new Travel Jerseys for the Bantam, PeeWee, Squirt and Mite travel teams for next year. We will continue to collect the $40.00 per year jersey fee. Second by Mark. Motion passed. Strachan will bring a sample in for approval.

Fund Raising: nothing to report.

Legal: nothing to report

Referee In Chief: Dan Fraley has been recommended as our new Referee In Chief for house league.

League Representatives: nothing to report

Old Business: discussed under Coaching Committee section

New Business:

Board nominations. Lukehart made a motion to select new board members, second by Soole. Mark Johnson and Duane Hoffmeyer were re-elected to new 3-year terms. Noel White and Dirk Richou were voted in to replace outgoing board members. They will serve 3-year terms. The terms that expired were McCline and Sundlie.

Board Award Nominations were made. Eugene Flynn will receive the Board Award this year.

Motion made by Strachan seconded by McCline, the meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Soole Secretary

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