AASA Meeting Minutes: November 16, 2009

AASA Soccer Meeting
November 16, 2009
Minutes

The minutes were sent out to everyone and read.   Stephanie Hegstad made a motion to approve.   George 2nd the motion.   Motion carried.

Financials – $2957.11 in the checkbook right now.   Reviewed what was submitted so far.   Stephanie Hegstad made a motion to approve, Stephanie Heseltine 2nd.  Motion carried.

We did discuss jerseys at this point.   We can get on line jerseys for around $12 with $5 screen printing.   If we did this every year it would eliminate having to store and keep track of jerseys all the time.   It was decided to table this since we just paid for all new jerseys last year.

Registration night will be February 9th, 2010 at 7 p.m.   Brochures will go out the first week of January.   Stephanie Heseltine will call to schedule the cafeteria.   She will also get the registration form draft read for our next meeting so we can go over it and make any changes necessary.

Fundraiser – could we do a fundraiser to get money for jerseys.   We could sell cakes at Culvers.   We used to get business sponsorships to help pay for jerseys.

District meeting – We would be able to get a free player clinic and a free coaching clinic.    Andy Kutz would be the contact for this from MYSA.   He is also willing to come and talk at our registration night.   He could come down and do a youth module.   Andy lives in Mpls.   MYSA picks up his expenses.  He gets paid by MYSA.  MYSA will also pay for the use of the fields.   The first 2 weeks in June are open for them.   It would be a great opportunity for both our coaches and our players.   Our Challenger camp is set for June 14-18th and the agreement has been signed.    Stephanie will check to see if we could get out of this agreement.   David will see if he can arrange for different dates so as not to conflict.   Will try to make both work if possible.    April 9, 10 and 11th is the Coaches clinic dates that work.      We will advertise on the MYSA site.   This will be the only E cert course until next year.    We could send a flyer to all clubs in our district and all coaches an email.   It could also go in our registration brochure.   We need to advertise that the AASA will pay the $150 but they will have to coach the following year.    Also at the District Meeting it was suggested that we sign a neutral site agreement.   We did not do this.   We will leave it up to our coaches to decide if they want to meet at a neutral site or not.   From what we know, no one signed the neutral site agreement.

There is no referee clinic set up yet.   We need to bring in someone certified.   David will talk to Tom Roos about this.   We do need more refs.   Needs to be 14 y/o.   We do not pay for that clinic.

Advertising.   We need to do flyers, reader boards in town, see if we can get a newspaper story with photos, is also free in the scoreboard section.   We can get to other local towns that do not have their own teams.   We have no set boundaries.   We can do a Chamber Blast Fax – is $50 for a tag line on that.   Hit LAR for their emails.   Advertise in the Free Times – there is a cost to that.   Hand out to the indoor soccer members.

Website – Duane sent some ideas to Andrew.   Sent links from other soccer sites to him also.   Hasn’t heard back from him yet.   We would like to put the schedules on line, scores and also team contacts.   Push parents as that is where to go for information.   Link to coaches emails.   Paid GoDaddy $62/year.   It would also be nice to have a link to MYSA and soccer.com.   Let Duane know if you have other ideas.

Budget 2010  is not done yet.   There should be no major purchases in 2010.    Paul Stennes will not do the field lining next year.   Frank said he has done this in the past.

There is a field improvement grant from MYSA.   Ruth did it last year for $1000.   Needed to be in by January 16th last year.   Could we possibly get some donations of black dirt and improve the Jefferson Field?

Storage space rent is paid through February.

Our next meeting will be December 7th at 7 p.m. at the Tastefully Simple Meeting Room.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Krueger

This entry was posted in Minutes and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.