August 2, 2000
The meeting was called to order by Bill Link, Vice President, at Saengerbund Hall at 7:36 p.m.
Women's Teams Absent: Azteca Femenil, Kodiaks, Meadows Too, Rice
Coed Teams Absent: Chaos, Hit Squad, Outback, Spring Branch
Board members absent: Jennifer Cooper, President; George Barnes, Secretary; Pam Gutierrez, Senior Commissioner; Stephen Jump, Field Coordinator
Minutes from the 7 June meeting were approved as submitted.
President:
No report
Vice President:
The Vice President is working on revising and standardizing fines and suspensions for player misconduct. When finished these changes will be presented to the membership and, if approved, will be included in the league’s by-laws.
Secretary:
No report
Registrar:
1. Tom distributed processed player cards.
2. New TSSAS registration forms will be available for the spring season; the player registration form will be unchanged for the fall 2000 season.
3. Tom does not yet have player ID cards or stickers from TSSAS for fall registration.
4. Care should be taken to ensure that all required information is provided on registration forms, including birth date, and team rep name and address. Incomplete forms will be returned unprocessed.
5. Team names need to be on all checks so that they can be properly credited.
6. Teams travelling to tournaments need to get new ID cards with numbers assigned by the State; teams can continue to use existing cards for league play.
Treasurer:
1. Financial summary was available at the table.
2. We took in about $80,000 and have spent about $69,000 to date (1999-2000 fiscal year).
Senior commissioner:
No report.
Women's Commissioner:
1. Teams playing at Bear Creek and Alief need to pay their spring season field fees before they will be allowed to register in the fall
2. Bear Creek has an additional field available; anyone wanting to play there should contact Mary DeBauche. Fields are also available at Houston Soccer Center ($25.00/game).
3. Blitz needs guest players for the Dallas Labor Day tournament.
Coed Commissioner:
1. Play in the fall will be on a regional basis (except first division). Teams should designate which region (north or west) they’re requesting on their team registration form. Second and third, and fourth and fifth divisions will be combined in each region.
2. The fall season will start on 18 September; player registration will be at the 30 August (September) league meeting.
U23 Commissioner:
Season was successfully finished. Express '85-'86, and Hurricanes finished in first and second places, respectively.
Field Coordinator:
No report.
Membership: No report
Public Relations: No report
Tournament: No report
The 2000-2001 budget presented at the June meeting was approved with no changes.
1. Coed league team registration forms are due at the end of the meeting.
2. Sandy Lewis (Synergy) presented a letter protesting overly aggressive play in the women’s league. She asked that players play in a manner that is consistent with the recreational nature of the game. In the general discussion that followed it was suggested that: speaking to the referees about control of the game beforehand might be helpful; filing a grievance with the league is the only way to provide a written record of repeated misconduct by a player or team; teams should be self-policing (poorly behaved players should be let go); and that game cards should be checked for accuracy on the part of the referee by the team captain at the end of the match.
3. Acting Secretary Tom Whitehurst decreed that game cards will hereinafter be named “game report forms” or “game reports” to avoid confusion with player cards, yellow cards and red cards.
The next league meeting will be August 31st at 7:30 p.m. at Saegerbund Hall. This date will allow sufficient time to process player registration materials and prepare schedules before the start of the fall seasons. Player registration forms and fees are due at this time.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:15 p.m.