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Directors Meeting - Past Minutes
March 26, 2003
Landfall Activity Center
A meeting of the WSSA Board of Directors was held at the Landfall Activity Center. Present was : Pres. Ken Denne, V.P. Marty Plage, Commissioner Phil Rose, Treasurer George Scelzi, Secretary Mike Abernathy and Managers, J. Seme, H. Rowe, G. Rose P. Kaufman, representing the Roosters in place of R. Mongero was J. Kelly. Guests were Dennis Wolownik and R.B. Hunt.
Before the meeting was called to order, Marty Plage stated that tonight the majority would approve one of the two proposals being presented. After ;the decision is made no matter what your position was during the discussion and votes, all Board members should leave this meeting as gentlemen and agree to work as partners to implement the decided proposal.
The meeting was called to order by President Denne at 7:21PM and distributed the meeting agenda.
Treasurer's report: No official report , but finances are good.
Commissioner's report: Phil Rose has tentatively set up the teams for the Senior Games for April 15 and 17.Hestated that Northstar Financial Advisers was willing to give him $800.00 to sponsor Phil's team. He offered the money to one of the new teams Managed by Joe Narbut. Phil also stated that Gary & Mel's restaurant was willing to give Phil $400.00, Phil offered that money to the other new team Managed by Dwight Crainshaw. Phil suggested that both teams have $600.00 each instead of one team having more that the other. Phil's team still has no sponsor.
Old Business: Harry Rowe stated that the draft should be considered first as it was the oldest business pending. The draft was included in the agenda of the meeting and Ken stated that it would be considered then.
New Business: None
Agenda: Draft
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George Rose handed out a draft proposal. Most agreed that this proposal would not make the new team or Kohl's, competitive with the rest of the league. |
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Discussion centered on hand picking the new team plus additional players needed for Kohl's. |
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Concern was to address the needs of the new team first. |
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League Reorganization: |
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Joe Seme presented a proposal to restructure the whole league into two separate divisions with four teams in one division and three teams in the other division. |
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Some of the arguments against the proposal were: we are moving to fast, wait until next year, we need at least four teams in each division there would be too many players on the three team division and not enough on the four team division. Being that the case there would be a lot of forfeits in the four team division and the three team division will only be able to play once a week because of the byes and would be playing the same team over and over, disagree with the structure where older players may have to compete with younger players, need equal use of all playing fields and players willing to play down would be a managers decision. |
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Joe Seme made a motion that the Board accept the concept of the proposal to reorganize the league into two divisions P. Kaufman seconded the motion. |
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Harry Rowe added four amendments to the ;motion. |
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1.- Those players designated as "B" players if they desire, can play down with the "A" team Divison. Approved 9-1. P. Rose was the one desenting vote. |
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2- Restructure the WSSA Board to four elected officers, the Commissioner, and two voting representatives from each division ( Player reps. ) Approved by a 6-2 vote ( 2 abstentions ) |
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3- Younger players can not play up ( older Division ), Rejected by a 6 Agains and 4 for vote. |
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4- All fields will be in use by all teams. Approved by a 9-0 vote. ( 1 Abstention ) |
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The motion with the three approved amendments was approved by a 6-4vote. |
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Next item addressed was the need for two Managers P. Rose and K. Denne will try to line up these Managers. |
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Joe seme ;made a motion that due to the reorganization of the league the starting date should be Aprill 22,2003 instead of April 1, 2003. Harry Rowe seconded the ;motion, which was approved by a 10-0 vote. Commissioner P. Rose made a statement that he was against the reorganization at this time, because there just isn't enough players to do it, there are only 105 players. |
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Meeting was adjourned at 10:40PM. |