SCCYAA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
NOVEMBER 14, 2005

Attending: John Moran, Katherine Taddeo, Deb Parkin, Susie Rose, Jim Markosian, Teresa Thomas, Laurie Maddox, Gwen Schwab, Tricia Heinz, Sonya Davis and John Miller.

Call to order by John Moran at 7:10 p.m.

Minutes of October 10, 2005 meeting. Susie Rose made a motion to delete paragraph “e” in the minutes.  The motion was seconded and passed.  Paragraph “e” has been deleted from the October 10, 2005 minutes.

New Business:

Middle School Cross Country Team:

Carrie Joyce came to apply for sponsorship from SCCYAA for the middle school cross-country team.  Karen Smith was accompanying Ms. Joyce.  Karen would act as the sports representative, pending approval from the cross-country program.  They presented the board with a detailed information sheet (filed with the minutes) of the cross-country program.  A motion was made by Teresa Thomas to approve the middle school cross-country program. It was seconded by Sonya Davis and passed unanimously.

Basketball Update:

Nancy Graney attended the meeting on behalf of her husband Mark Graney who was away on business.  Mark wrote a letter of upset to the SCCYAA board regarding the 5th grade basketball draft.  He felt that teams were unfairly stacked and the new coach didn’t appear to be clear on the way the drafting process worked.  The situation was discussed at length.  Some issues discussed were that children shouldn’t be involved with verbal input in the drafting procedure.  There needs to be a standardized procedure.  A motion was made by Teresa Thomas to have draft procedures in place along with coaching standards to include two items: a responsibility to pick the next talent, and a minimum of a 24-hour cooling off period prior to announcing the teams.  Katherine Taddeo and Jim Markosian will write the details of the drafting procedures.  Susie Rose seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.

8th Grade Resolution:  Bob Lyons approached John Moran requesting rental of gym time for a super league basketball team.  Coach Tim Gardner requested sanction from SCCYAA for this team.  After much discussion it was decided that the team would not be sanctioned and they will rent gym time.  This was due to the fact that due process was not adequately in place to create this team.  Laurie Maddox made a motion to officially state position on Bob Lyons’ team to be an outside rental team.  They cannot use SJB or Juan Diego team name.  The motion was seconded by Susie Rose and passed unanimously.

Letter of Understanding:  Laurie Maddox and John Moran will draft a letter of understanding to give to Steve Cramblitt as a draft for him to evaluate and revise to his liking.

John Miller tendered his resignation letter as the Para representative for St. John the Baptist.  He has volunteered for 13 years in this capacity.  Though this is a huge loss to the Para program of SJB, we can only thank John for many years of service to all the children he has helped.  John will stay on in a coaching capacity.  Paul Nagel will be doing the scheduling for Para sports.  For basketball uniforms John Miller obtained 3 bids.  The bids were from 1-Eagle Eye, 2-Jtees, 3-Athletic Edge.  Athletic Edge had the best price and they received the order.

Next Meeting: January 9, 2006.  7:00 p.m. SJB Multi-purpose room.

Happy Holidays Everyone.