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