GMHA Meeting May 18th 2010

 

 

Present: Bob Thirlwall, Rachelle Johnson, Marilyn Gosnell, Cheryl Murray, Sandy Crosby, Scott Purbrick, Greg McFadden, Eddie Gould, Cindy Staels, Pete Holt,

 

Regrets: Jeff Tidball, Tom Holder

 

Guests: Brian Dellar

 

Motion to Adopt the Agenda      Scott/Cindy        CARRIED

 

Motion to Accept the March minutes     Scott/Pete     CARRIED

 

Board Application

-Application from Tim Kunkel received

-There are 3 positions still available

  

MOTION to accept Tim Kunkel’s application    Pete/Cindy     CARRIED

 

Treasurer's Report 

- year end report was sent in today to Dean Titus 

-Bingo 6886.14, Nevada 6387.26, General 45897.04, Term Deposits  69451.55,

-Brian is willing to help with the treasurer position until it can be filled

 

Motion to accept the treasures report    Cheryl/Eddie     CARRIED

 

 

Voting for Board Positions

 

1st  Vice - Cindy Staels

2nd Vice- Tom Holder

3rd Vice - Bob Thirlwall

 

Secretary - Rachelle   (will be getting mail)

Treasurer - Brian Dellar

*Referee In Chief - 

Ice Schedule -  Greg McFadden

Equipment Purchasing - Scott Purbrick

Development Education - Eddie Gould

Comm & Human Relations - Tom Holder

Ways Means (Nevada) - Pete Holt, Cindy is willing to help

Coach Committee/Risk Management - Marilyn Gosnell

Registration - Sandy Crosby

Sponsorship - Cheryl Murray

Tournaments - Jeff Tidball

Bingo Paperwork - Angie W

*Bingo Volunteer Schedule -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

League Report

 

Shamrock- Cindy Staels

-Meeting held May 10th

-League thinking of 16-18 games to be played before Dec. 31st and before play downs start.  More games will be scheduled in total

-Use ice times thru the week to play games as most centres have home ice on weekends

-Port Stanley to have Juvenile Rep team, wondering what other centers may have one

-Suggested  to have coaches from all centres vote for goalies for the All Star games instead of picking top Centres in League.

 

OMHA Report Cindy Staels

-AGM meeting June 11-12th in Richmond Hill

-Received  Notices of Motion for AGM (Circulated at meeting)

 

 

Local League -  No Report

 

 

Girls Report -  Bob Thirlwall

-Attended the May 15th OWHA meeting in Brantford

-Affiliation fee has gone from $45 to $47.50

 

Budget

- Should someone prepare a budget

- Treasurer's report provides us with a framework to work with

- Bob will look into heading up a committee to form a budget, Greg and Brian have agreed to assist him

 

Ice Scheduling

- Looking into booking ice through Chatham Kent for Sept Tryouts

- 48hr Cancellation  policy has been reinstated into our contract

- Will be looking into booking ice for the end of August and Beginning of Sept in Watford for tryouts

 

Motion - to start Tryouts Aug 30 -31 Sept 1-2  and the week following labour day, Greg to facilitate     Pete/Sandy    CARRIED

 

Letter submitted by a midget player regarding inconsistent practice times

 

Equipment & Purchasing - no report  

 

Development & Education - nothing new      still looking into running a beginning of the season clinic

 

Comm. &Human Relations -  no report

 

Ways & Means -  Dance will submit a budget

 

Risk Management

- 5applications have been submitted, coaches committee has been formed

 

Registration

- 5tykes, 3 beginners, 11Novice, 18Atom, 12Peewee, 20 Bantam, 24midgets, 6girls

-Registration is down from last year

 

Sponsorship - no report

 

Tournaments - no report  Cindy to ask Jeff for tournament registration

 

"New Business"

 

1. Phone service at the arena -  do we need a phone?  We are being billed approx $90(phone) $62(for the internet)

Discussion regarding changing over to execulink for $79

 

Motion to change our billing from Bell to Execulink    Pete/Cindy     CARRIED

 

2. Request from a parent to allow their child to be released to play rep hockey in another center

 

Discussion - if we release 1 skater we release all players with the same request, could cause serious registration problems for our centre

 

Motion to deny any skater a release to play rep hockey in another center  Greg/Sandy    

7 for 1 against    CARRIED

 

3. Bingo Volunteer Refund

 

MOTION - to change the Bingo volunteer  refund back to $100 per skater not per family             Cindy/Rachelle                     2for  5against    DEFEATED

 

4. Amalgamation

- Bothwell attended the meeting  

-Tim sent a letter to West Lorne, Bothwell and Mt.Brydges  regarding a possible amalgamation

- Bothwell is concerned about their centre as their numbers are dropping

- Mt. Brydges has not shown any interest

-is GMH interested in being apart of a amalgamation discussion?

 

Motion to sit and discuss amalgamation with West Lorne, Bothwell and Mt.Brydges as requested via the letter from Tim Hamilton   GREG/CINDY      CARRIED

 

5. There is a potential to put together a girls hockey team, more to be discussed after the next meeting.

 

 

Motion to Adjourn  10:45      Cindy