Elma Logan Minor Hockey

Elma Logan Minor Hockey

Executive Meeting Minutes<= /o:p>

September 8, 2009

Present:

Dennis McEwen &nb= sp; Jeff Smith &= nbsp; &= nbsp; Joe O’Rourke

Albert Leeuwen &n= bsp; &= nbsp; Elly Leeuwen = &= nbsp; Jackie McCourt

Jeff Earl &= nbsp; &nbs= p; Jenni= fer Calder

The meeting was called to order at 7:15.&n= bsp; In the absence of Jenn Smith, Jackie agreed to act as secretary.

Treasurer&#= 8217;s Report

There is no change in the financials from the last meeting. The registration che= ques will be deposited soon. Jacki= e is working on a 2009/10 budget for the next meeting. There is an OMHA invoice for the 2= 009/10 insurance in the amount of $5314.95.

Lion’= s Club

The Monkton Lions need at least $6400 to get the groce= ry card project going. This woul= d give them the initial $20,000 needed to get back the 5%. This would be a loan to the projec= t. Our money would be returned.

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; Carried

Referees

Per Joe, Jamie Dewar will be Referee-in-Chief again for the upcoming season. Joe woul= d like to have someone collect the referee sheets monthly and prepare the report f= or the treasurer. This will be a= dded to the fundraising board.

Registratio= n

We have some families who are struggling to pay for ho= ckey this season. The applications= for Jumpstart closed at the end of July. Jackie will follow up to see if there are any further opportunities = for funding under this program. J= eff Earl will follow up with the Monkton Lions and Joe will follow up with the Atwood Lions and WOAA to see if they would support us on this. Dennis wondered if we could consid= er it a loan, with the families paying as they are able, while Joe wondered if we could cover half with the families paying the other half on a payment plan. The worst case scenario= is kid’s not playing hockey, and the consensus was that we would not lik= e to see this happen, and would work to support these families to keep them in hockey, if possible. Jackie w= ill follow up with the families.

Coaches

Jeff has all of the coaches lined up except for the at= om team; he has someone who is considering it and will know soon. The coach’s meeting will be = held on Wednesday, September 16^th at 7:30PM at the arena. Joe will be there also, and we decided that we should consider invit= ing Jamie Dewar as well.

Teams<= /o:p>

We don’t have enough tykes for a team, and there= is currently not a tyke league. = In Mitchell, the tykes are senior CHIPS, not tyke. We decided to make a CHIPS 2, and = Dakota Leung, Nathan Earl, Nick McCourt, Boyd Kirkham, Lucas Quipp and Darren Kloo= stra would be eligible to move up. This will require a further registration fee of $125 to cover their extra ice ti= me. We discussed whether they should b= e a Novice LL team, however, this will be decided after we get some skating in. Joe will follow up with O= MHA to see if we can register them as instructional and still bring them up to Nov= ice if needed.

The atom team is still going to be one team unless more kids register,

Quintin McEwen is injured and won’t be able to s= tart with the midgets until at least January.&n= bsp; He is not going to register this fall, but if he can return midway through the year, he will register then.&n= bsp; We don’t have to submit the final OMHA player’s list or = the OMHA insurance reconciliation until January.

Jackie will put registration ads in the school newslet= ters at Elma, Upper Thames, Grey, Ellice, Dublin and Kinkora.

Ice Time

Monday &nbs= p; 4:30-5:30 = Tyke practice

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 5:30-7:00 = Bantam practice

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 7:00-8:30 = Midget/Juvenile practice

Thursday &n= bsp; 4:30-5:30 = Atom practice

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 6:30-8:00 = PeeWee Rep game

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 8:00-9:30 = Midget game

Friday &nbs= p; &= nbsp; 4:30-5:30 = Novice practice

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 6:30-8:00 = PeeWee LL game

Saturday &n= bsp; 7:30-9:00 = PeeWee practice

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 9:00-10:00 Inst= ructional practice/game

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 10:00-11:00 = Tyke game

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 11:00-12:00 = Novice game

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 12:00-1:00 Atom game

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 1:00-2:30 = Bantam game

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; 5:30-6:30 = Intermediate girls game

Sunday &nbs= p; 2:30-4:30 = Juvenile game (every other week)

Any unused ice time should be reported immediately so = that it can be given to another team for a practice. = ;

Wednesdays are available until curling begins on Novem= ber 11^th. There are 8 = hours of ice time available. We dis= cussed options for using this time including, 4 weeks of juvenile practice, peewee/bantam body checking clinic or power skating. Further discussion on body checking clinic - we have body bags for stationary checking training, and we could follow up with the Wildcats, Bob Johns, Charlie Smith or Kevin Ward to have someone lead this clinic.

Hockey School Week will begin on October = 5^th, with the Novices/Atoms on at 5:30, the PeeWee’s on at 6:= 30 and the Bantams/Midgets on at 7:30. The Wildcats will lead this clinic again, except for Friday evening when they have a game. Our coaches will lead the hockey s= chool that night.

New and Ong= oing Business

= · = Mitchell Minor Hockey is apparently miffed with us and the OWHA over Tori Terpstra’s release.

= · = We will be building storage at the west end of the arena, just off of the ice = to store coaching aids, pucks etc… that the coaches will need during practice.

= · = Ryan has updated the website, and made changes.= We discussed adding the meeting minutes, last season’s award winners and the schedule to the website.&n= bsp; We decided we should try to make better use of the website this year= .

= · = The arena addition proposed plans were looked at. We suggested changes to Dennis to = take back to the next meeting including making three dressing rooms rather than = two on the south side so that teams are divided; this would leave one of the existing dressing rooms to be divided for storage and an additional referees/girls room.

= · = Ryan will be coaching the Juveniles again. Dennis is looking into September ice time in Mitchell for two nights= to get them started.

= · = Albert is working on getting the Boy’s Tournament filled up.

Next Meetin= g

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 13th, at 7:00pm. <= /o:p>