Directors Meeting - Past Minutes

July 11, 2002
Myrtle Grove Library

A meeting of the WSSA Board of Directors was held on July 11, 2002 at the Myrtle Grove Library. In attendance were Ken Denne, Russ Puckett, Mike Abernathy, Harry Rowe, Phil Rose, Rick Mongero, Joe Seme, George Rose and Phil Kaufman.

President Ken Denne called the meeting to order at 1:13PM and distributed the meeting agenda. The minutes of the last meeting were approved. Treasurer’s Report was the same as last meeting as Russ has been out of town.

Phil Rose in the Commissioner’s Report addressed several issues: Metal fence at Ogden Park has been moved, Ogden Park is available at night for make-up games or maybe practice time for the State tournament teams, conversation with the Wilmington Parks and Recreation Supt. concerning the construction of more adult softball facilities, more publicity from the Star-News for our league. Also let Phil know when a player drops out of the league, any change in an e-mail address and when new sponsors are acquired for the web site.

Schedule/Playoffs Format

There was a lengthy discussion around the schedule/rain make-up games and first half and second half of the season. With 17 make-up games to be played to finalize the first half and some teams needing to play more games than others, the Board decided to play the regular scheduled games on Tuesday July 16 and on July 18 only Kohl’s and Leon’s Rooster’s will play. Then after a two weeks break we will start again on Tuesday August 6.

A motion was made by Rick Mongero that the playoffs format be a standard double elimination tournament with the league standings at the end of the season to determine the team seedings in the playoffs. Phil Kaufman seconded the motion, which was approved by the Board 8-0.

Player-Team Evaluation

During the Player-Team evaluation, it was noted that the majority of the players were happy with their teams. The managers are playing everyone and didn’t have any problems. George Rose still needs players for his team as only one of the three new players assigned to his team showed.

Steve Weiss (new to the league) has expressed interest in playing so the board assigned him to Kohl’s.

Board Reorganization

The Board next considered the proposal from Chip Krieger on the reorganization of the Board of Directors. Most agreed that the league was running smoother this year than in the past and the status quo is fine without any changes needed. It was mentioned that the new organization may be too time consuming due to many back and forth meetings to resolve issues. Also there may not be enough issues to split between the Board and managers and what would the specific issues to be dealt with. (Board issues verses Managers issues)

New Business

Rick Mongero brought up changing the slide rule to make it legal to slide.

After a lengthy discuss, Rick Mongero made a motion: To make sliding permissible “only’ if the defensive player is blocking the base.

The motion was seconded by Joe Seme and approved 8-0 by the Board.

Phil Rose made a motion to: Change rule 5.6 of the WSSA bylaws to read as follows.

Each team should have twelve players in the lineup unless less than twelve players show up. Phil Kaufman seconded the motion, which was approved 8-0 by the Board.

Phil Rose made a motion:

That when a player leaves the game for whatever reason his team will not be penalized with an out when his turn in the batting order occurs. George Rose seconded the motion and the Board approved 8-0.

A tentative date of September 12 was made for the league picnic. Details will be communicated later.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:09PM.

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