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Eclipse Board Minutes

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order by Greg Gibson.
Secretary Sallie Stuveck was absent, minutes were taken by Sondra Templeton.

Roll Call

Greg Gibson, president (coach 3 teams)
Bruce Merritt, vice-president (84 & 88 parent)
Hope Swoffer, treasurer (90 parent)
Sara Alden, coach 84 team
Danny Gibson, coach 89 team
Gary Bender, coach 91 team
John Starr, (83 & 86 parent)
Byron & Beverly Loma (91 parent)
Cindy Vredenbergh (88 parent)
Linda Colang (90 parent)
Debra Altraman (84 parent)
Amy Weekers (91 parent)
Laura Bender, uniform coordinator, (91 parent)
Lynn Gilbert-Gard (91 parent)
Sondra Templeton (90 paren


Acceptance of minutes for the April board meeting was tabled until the June meeting because the minutes that were sent could not be printed.

Accepted treasurers report as read.

CRAD presentation by John Starr. The discussion stemmed from the retention/non-retention section of the report. The parents evaluation will be a basis for retention of coaches. A motion to accept document as it stands was made by Gary Bender. There was no second, motion failed. Motion to adopt with changes listed below was made by Sara Alden. Seconded by Cindy Vredenbergh: Section I #7 from pay to retention. Section I #8 lead to decision of CRAD and board to terminate a coach. Section IV #5 take out the word payment.
Vote - no opposed, motion carries.

OLD BUSINESS

Clinic will use the FYSA fields, if there are any questions please direct them to the Brights. The cost of bringing the clinic to Fairbanks is costing less than originally estimated. All extra money that is collected will be credited back to individual players IPAs. Laura Bender gave a report on uniforms, all are here and the 91 team embroidery will be done this week. She also asked how many uniforms to keep in inventory. The consensus was 2 or 3 per team.

Linda Colang reported on the raffle. With six teams participating Eclipse club will have excess money over what the prizes will cost. The group consensus was that the extra money stay with the Eclipse Club to help defer other costs. Winners will be announced August 4th, which is the Tide Tournament. Teams should contact Linda Colang if they want to sell at stores, so that there won't be an overlap. There was a short discussion about where excess money needs to go. Consensus was that at the end of this summer at the board meeting everyone will come to an agreement about long term goals for the clubs money.

Car Washes --- equipment is still missing. If you know where the car wash equipment is, please contact a board member.

Picnic --- June 2nd is the Clean Up Day at the FYSA fields beginning at 9 a.m. The group consensus was that the Eclipse Club should participate in this clean-up day. Teams that work in the morning will be given scrimage time in the afternoon. Please check e-mail to see what you should bring to the picnic (it is alphabetical -- drinks, cups, etc.)

Ina K --- 5 Eclipse teams will be going, check with team managers to make sure reservations are made.

The Eclipse treasurer and president told us that MBA (which is currently where the team checking accounts are) will be changing to Wells Fargo sometime this fall. Denali Bank has offered to purchase checks free for the club. The motion was made by Sara Alden to move the Eclipse club accounts to Denali Bank and was seconded by Danny Gibson. The motion passed.

Equipment -- coaches wanted to purchase cones from equipment money. They agreed to 8 big cones and 12 little disc type cones per team. Coaches also wanted to purchase one keeper jersey per team (up to $60 per team). The motion was made by Sara Alden, seconded by Bruce Merritt. Motion passed.

Discussion about teams being reimbursed for indoor balls used this year by individual teams. The group consensus was that balls purchased in the future could be brought before the board but the teams would NOT be reimbused for money already spent.

Motion to approve for the Club to pay $300 to cover the '84 team
tournament fees was made by Bruce Merrit seconded by Gary Bender. Motion passed.

NEXT AGENDA:

Look at changing the by-laws for travel and per diem for coaches going to Regional Tournaments.

Next Eclipse Board meeting will be June 17th at 1 p.m. (outdoors at the FYSA fields).

Gary Bender said to watch the newspaper for the UAF advanced player camp being offered this summer by Dave Milne.

A play-by-play game of the week will be broadcast by KIAK from the soccer fields.

KTVN will give air time to Eclipse Club members to tell WHY they are raising money (all those purple girls out there....)