Fort Wayne Youth Hockey, Inc.

Board of Directors Meeting

March 29, 2010

 

 

A meeting of the Fort Wayne Youth Hockey, Inc., Board of Directors was held at the Canlan Ice Arena, Fort Wayne, Indiana on Monday, March 29, 2010 beginning at 6:34 p.m., pursuant to notice duly given.

 

 

Present:                  Ted Scholten                        Rusty Richardson                Chris Shoppell                      Julie Roach

                                Angie Gottschalk                 Coleen Houlihan                 Dawn Cummings-Keesler 

Rick Wynn                            Mike Swartz                         Randy Kwapis                     Charlie Hire         

                                Bob Kohlmeyer                   Roy Davis                             Mitzi Toepfer                      

                                Greg Chess                            Chuck Reddinger                 Matt Robison

 

 

Absent:                  Colin Chaulk                        Andrew Achenbach            Terry Reincke

                                                               

 

Guest:                    Deanna Fisher                     

 

 

As a quorum was present Rick Wynn, called the meeting to order.

 

 

 

PUBLIC COMMENT

 

 

None scheduled.

 

 

 

REGULAR MEETING

 

 

 

MINUTES

 

A motion to approve the March 8, 2010 minutes was made by Greg Chess, seconded by Rusty Richardson, motion approved. 

 

 

 

 

TREASURER

 

 

Rick Wynn provided a copy of the Treasurer’s Report dated March 29, 2010 prepared by Terry Reincke.   A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Greg Chess, seconded by Rusty Richardson, motion approved.   Greg said the State tournament had a net loss of $165.00.  Rick Wynn thanked Greg Chess and the entire State Championship committee and all the volunteers for the tireless efforts all weekend.

 

A motion to approve FWYH giving $1000.00 to the PW AA to assist the team with the additional expenses associated with attending the National Championships was made Greg Chess, seconded by Rusty Richardson, motion approved.

 

 


 

COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

 

Rick Wynn presented the letter from State High School director.   Open discussion about high school hockey being absorbed by FWYH.

 

Open discussion about the U16 midget program and the NAPS League.  A motion to approve FWYH paying $600.00 to make application to the NAPS league was made by Greg Chess, seconded by Roy Davis.

 

Discussion about having a meeting with all the 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995 birth year players and parents to see if there is an interest in the U18 and U16 levels.  Mike will work with Ron to choose a date for the meeting.

 

The date for the annual meeting is set for Saturday, April 24, 2010 from 2pm to 4 pm.  Canlan is offering $10.00 for skating and bouncing.   FWYH will offset 50% for FWYH members and offer this to them for $5.00 from 2-4 during the meeting.

 

 

VICE PRESIDENT

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

HOUSE LEAGUE

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

PARKS DEPARTMENT

 

Nothing to report. 

 

 

 

 

TRAVEL

 

 

Rusty Richardson reported

 

 

 

MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS

 

 

Coleen Houlihan reported that the raffles are doing very well.  The raffles will be split 12 ways and each team will get roughly $817.00.

 

 


 

COACHING

 

 

Mike Swartz reported that his committee met and spent 3 evenings of multiple hours over last several weeks.

 

Mike Swartz presented a list of candidates for approval as follows:

 

TEAM                    CANDIDATE                                       MOTION APPROVED BY:

 

Squirt A                 Bob Kohlmeyer                                   Greg Chess, Rusty Richardson

Squirt AA              Steve Hundersmarck                          Rusty Richardson, Julie Roach

PeeWee A              Ian Boyce                                             Greg Chess, Julie Roach

PeeWee AA           Roy Davis                                             Randy Kwapis, Rusty Richardson                  

Bantam B             TBD                                                      

Bantam A             Derek Ray                                             Greg Chess, Rusty Richardson

Bantam AA          Mike Olinger                                         Greg Chess, Rusty Richardson

U16                        Ron Leef                                               Julie Roach, Rusty Richardson

Girls                        Coach needed

U18                        Coach needed

 

 

 

DISCIPLINE

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

REFEREE

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

 

BYLAWS

 

 

Nothing to report. 

 

 

 

LONG RANGE PLANNING

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

 

 

NOMINATING

 

 

Julie Roach advised that she has her slate of nominees for 2010-2011 season.

 

 

 

ICE SCHEDULING

 

Nothing to report. 

 

 

REGISTRAR

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

INTERNET SERVICES

 

 

Coleen Houlihan reported that she met with Kevin Zion tonight.  They are working to separate our site from others.     Teri Freeby will back up to Coleen for the website.

 

 

 

 

 

ACE COORDINATOR/RISK MANAGEMENT

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

HOUSE/IP

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

ACE CLINICS

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

SILVER STICK

 

 

Greg Chess reported that the final tally for the 2009 Silver Sticks Tournament.  Members of the Silver Stick will be attending the Annual General Meeting for Silver Stick International to secure continued tournament sanctioning and to apply for a Sled Hockey Silver Stick Finals to be held in Fort Wayne.

 

 

GIRLS HOCKEY

 

 

Nothing to report.

 

 

 

 

SLED HOCKEY

 

 

Randy Kwapis reported that he took a team to Grand Rapids last weekend and they finished 3rd in the youth program. 

 

 

 

 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

Ice Contracts.  Successor planning.  Do we continue on with the $10.00 fee to be collected by Can-lan from the house league players?  Select program.  Storage.  Suit-up for hockey inventory.  High School Hockey.  Fort Wayne Youth Hockey Board for posting.

 

 

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

 

 

 

NEXT MEETING:            MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010 AT 6:30 P.M.

 

 

FUTURE MEETING DATES:           MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2010 AT 6:00 P.M., ANNUAL MEETING

 

 

There being no further business, Greg Chess, made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Rusty Richardson, seconded, meeting adjourned at 8:50 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

Angie Gottschalk

Recording Secretary