MEMBERS ABSENT: Lynn Mills

GUESTS: none

MINUTES of the October 17th, 2001 board of directors meeting were reviewed. Motion by Strachan and seconded by Johnson to approve the minutes as printed. Motion passed.

TREASURES REPORT: Johnson presented the treasurer's report and review the check register, income statement ending October 31st, 2001 and the summary of all travel team and novelty accounts. Questions were asked and answered. Motion by Elstad and seconded by Harp to approve the treasurer's report as submitted. Motion passed

DIRECTORS REPORTS:
Treasurer/receivables: Johnson indicated he had not yet received any 30 day team at delinquency account but was anticipating these would be received shortly. Travel Team the treasures are reminded to report all outstanding balances over 30 days delinquent.

High-school Treasurer: Mills was absent but Soole mentioned bills are out and moneys are being collected.

Registrar: 239 skaters at present

Executive Committee: no action

Coaching Committee: Hoffmeyer reported on December 8th and ninth in demoting there will be a "Last chance" coaching clinic. Hoffmeyer will notify all present coaches so they can't attend, if needed. The initiation program will be scheduled by Strachan prior to this clinic. It is also recommended the individual travel teams pay the cost of their coach "Carding". An Initiation Program card is $25 and an Associate Coach is $35. A Travel Team will not be responsible for more than three coaches carding fees.

Risk Manager: Still trying to finalize our contract with the city of Sioux City. The disagreement remains with the city's requested language being unacceptable to U.S.A. hockey which provides our blanket policy.

Ice Scheduler: Holzrichter reported things are going well. We may have a possible accommodation we need to make with the Silver Blades "Switchblade program" which they are doing with the Musketeers. No one had any opposition should this occur.

Player Development: In addition to the flag decals donated and being utilized by all of our skaters, Deb Logsdon had obtained the Red White and Blue ribbon promoted by USA Hockey. We will distribute these ribbons to the house league coordinators' with instructions for them to be placed on the back of our skaters helmets.

Travel League: Hoffmeyer reported receiving comments inquiring if the Squirt B team was exceeding the out-of-town travel limitations. Discussion revealed several overnight friendship game weekends but it did not appear as if the limit of 10 overnight tournaments' was being exceeded. It was mentioned this is a topic to be covered at our coordinators' or coaches meeting next year. Teams should not be able to circumvent the 10 overnight tournament limit by scheduling friendship game weekends.

Also, mention was made the Peewee B team may have exceeded the number of tournaments'. Johnson stated he keeps a copy of the tournament checks but does not necessarily monitored the number of tournaments. It was mentioned in the past the travel director would have to approve all tournaments. Discussion ended with us a green the need to keep better track of the number of tournaments'. Johnson will check on the Peewee B team tournament and report back next month.

House League: Sunday reported things are going okay. House league Jersey's have been distributed. There were a couple of mistakes but seemingly these have been resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

A discussion then it took place on the division of house league ice time. After a discussion of some length motion by McCline and seconded by Buckmeier that the Squirt and lower age divisions all ice be utilized in the house league format of effective December 1st, 2001. Further discussion took place. Motion passed. Moreland was only dissenting vote.

In the past all house league practice schedules were approved by the house league director. It was recommended we get back to that type of practice. House league director was not a filled position last year.

The effect of this motion is to prohibit travel team practices during house league time. Accordingly, at the Squirt and below levels all travel teams will have to purchase ice for their practices.

Communication Team Comments: the age of division representative gave everyone a brief update on how house league and travel teams are doing in each division. No major problems for identif.

Publicity: Buckmeier reported the photographs have been scheduled and to the video is ready to be distributed. Also, there was a recent article in the Sports Source magazine on youth hockey .

Musketeer Relations: Strachan reported Siouxland Youth Hockey has made $1,023 to date from the Chuck A Puck contest. November 30th is our last scheduled night to benefit from this contest. Strachan will check to see if others are possible. Several of our teams will be skating during Musketeer games. Tentative nights are November 30th, January 26th, February 16th, March 2nd and March 16th.

School Liaison: None

Equipment: We are waiting for the additional team socks and Mite B Jersey's which were ordered some time ago. The board was reminded the money is made from our Musketeer relations will be utilized for equipment purchases. Hoffmeyer also mentioned Jean Mayberry has told him she will be moving to Hornick and probably will not be available to sew panels on to Jersey's but would be interested and doing the panel's. Moreland mentioned his team used Professional Alterations and were satisfied. This is an item we need to monitor for next year. The board has always chosen to use one individual to keep some consistency from a year to year and so they match.

Fund-raising: dasher boards have been sold to FiberComm, Bankers Life and Security National Bank. The Christmas greens will be in on December 3rd at the auditorium with distribution to be arranged for that evening. Deb reported on how things are set up to go.

No other director reports were presented

OLD BUSINESS
Moreland reported on the city contract status. Again, trying to resolve the requested language dispute.

Moreland reported on Midwest League champion banners. The cost is $180 to $200 at Avery. Last year's Mite A, Peewee A and Bantam A were league champions. Someone was to check and see if there had been a past Squirt champion. The board is only considering the champions since the IBP Ice Center went into operation.

Moreland reported on the collection efforts of past rink construction pledges. Mike showed us a proposed letter he plans on sending to those who still owe monies on their pledge. The board approved sending the letter to those with outstanding balances.

Moreland reported he had sent a letter to a USA Hockey in opposition to the age change. Mite reported that he received a phone call from USA hockey executive director Doug Palazzuri. The gist of the conversation was any change to this policy would have to come from the grass roots level up. The board discussed this would be difficult to change considering USA Hockey meeting schedules are not very frequent. Mike and the board will continue to monitor this situation.

NEW BUSINESS
Moreland reported we had received an application for any interested in the Cornhuskers games. He will notify teams and have posted on the Web site.

Moreland stated we were low on score sheets and he had arranged to have more printed. Those printed will have one less carbon copy. Score sheets will be available in the office desk drawer.

Upon motion made and seconded the meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,
Duane E Hoffmeyer Secretary

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