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SCAHA MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
LAKEWOOD MALL MEETING ROOM
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESENT
Bob Doherty (Commissioner), Sandy Blumberg (Deputy Commissioner), Wendy
Goldstein (Member Services), Rosemary Voulelikas (Secretary), John
Silberstein (Parliamentarian), Chris Carcerano (Ice Convener), Nancy
Hodge (A.C.E. Coordinator) and Kevin Culbertson (Director-at-Large).
MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS PRESENT/ABSENT
GUESTS PRESENT
Hillary Hodding – LA Kings
Fan Development
Norm Kitano – LAHOA
President
Danny Condon – SDHRA
Representative
Bob Doherty called the
meeting to order at
Minutes
Chris Carcerano stated
that the following items as discussed at the October meeting need to be
added to the
1~ Chris Carcerano stated
that SCAHA should form a committee to review the impact the CAHA
Weekends are having on the SCAHA schedule and to formulate
recommendations to submit to CAHA on how the impact may be minimized.
2~ Chris Carcerano
reiterated the importance on the club presidents in reviewing the draft
schedule and to send their input before the schedule is released.
Requests for changes after the schedule has been released become very
difficult to implement.
3~ Chris Carcerano
clarified that the blackout weekends are holidays (Thanksgiving,
Christmas Break, Presidents’ Day), SCAHA Select Camp for certain
divisions and CAHA Weekends for both Youth and Girls’ teams.
4~ And finally, Chris
Carcerano stated that the SCAHA playoff entry fees will be increased for
this upcoming season 2010-2011.
Mike Kettlecamp motioned
to approve the minutes of the
(motion SECONDED and
PASSED)
Guest Speaker
Hillary Hodding, LA Kings Fan Development distributed a flyer. She
reminded the board of the Kings’ fundraising programs in particular the
LA Kings Season Seat Youth Hockey offer. The deadline to purchase season
seat tickets and earn $500 per seat for your youth team is the end of
November 2010. In addition,
Hillary Hodding informed the board of the LA Kings Skills Competitions
for Fastest Skater-Hardest Shot and Accuracy of Shot. The events are
held at various rinks and the finals are held at
Commissioner’s Report
Bob Doherty stated that
SCAHA Night at
Bob Doherty informed the
board that USA Hockey Rule 306 regarding the Blue puck for Mites has
been in effect for a few years. All Mite teams in practice and in games
must use the blue puck, no exceptions. Violations of an USA Hockey rule
will lead to a disciplinary hearing. Squirt teams playing Mites in
exhibition games must use the blue puck.
Bob reported that the
first Mite Subcommittee meeting will be sometime in late January. Louis
Soltero, James Gasseau, Rosemary Voulelikas and OC Hockey have
volunteered to be on the subcommittee. Bob Doherty will mediate the
subcommittee. It is open to everyone. The goal of the subcommittee is to
come up with recommendations to the SCAHA board and the SCAHA board to
vote on it. If interested, please send an email to Bob by
Bob Doherty informed the
board that we have had a lot of AAA16 and BN AAA players requesting
waivers from attending the SCAHA Camp because of tournaments, games,
etc. SCAHA does not issue waivers. Documentation for medical and out of
state waivers is given to CAHA for disposition. The next Youth Council
meeting is next Friday night. If you have any items please send to Bob.
John Silberstein spoke
about the new Coaching Code of Ethics. It is located on page 138 (D) of
the USA Hockey Annual Handbook. It is an extremely comprehensive
document. Coaches are now responsible for ethical violations involving
discrimination, sexual harassment, hazing, bullying, personal conflicts
and problems, misuse of influence, etc. The clubs are responsible to
investigate allegations under this form and to report on their findings.
John Silberstein stated that we will be developing forms for clubs to
use after the first of the year and it will be available on the web
site. John stated that a signature page will be created as well as an
investigation reporting form. Questions arose on how to implement this
document for this current season. Sandy Blumberg stated for next season
that this will be a multi-faceted process with the first step being to
modify the SCAHA LOI for coaches and the second step is to come up with
a document to report an allegation similar to the MAHA Reporting form.
Deputy Commissioner’s Report
Sandy Blumberg stated that parent/spectator ejections
and match penalties are on the rise. All of the current hearings for
next weekend are for spectator ejections.
Sandy Blumberg stated that she will be attending the
LAHOA meeting on the 16th of November. She is bringing a set
of score sheets for the referees to review and will question officials
as to why they signed off on certain score sheets. SCAHA will be
reworking the online score sheet summary form. They will be revamping
the questions concerning the officials to include items such as whether
the game was a safe environment, approachability and professionalism of
the officials and whether or not the officials were punctual.
Sandy Blumberg informed the board that SCAHA will be
automating the score sheet summaries to upload automatically which means
the scores of the games will be posted on the web site. Some of the long
term plans that Chris Carcerano has been working on is full automation
for next year.
LAHOA/SDHRA Report
Sandy Blumberg reported on behalf of Norm Kitano who
is absent. The last officials’ certification seminar will be on November
Danny Condon reported on behalf of SDHRA. This year
they have 108 registered members of which 32 are new to SDHRA. So far 77
members have completed the process of registration and the 30th
of November is the deadline. SDHRA has its own deadline of Nov. 15 and
if registration is incomplete then those officials are removed from the
schedule. Of the 77 members registered about 75% of these officials have
level 1 and level 2 certification. They have monthly meetings, do
trainings and review performances. And finally, their meeting attendance
is up this year and their main goal is to provide the best product to
the league.
Bob Doherty informed the board that Turi Daniels
retired as the USA Hockey Pacific District Associate Registrar for
Staff Reports
Member Services
– Wendy Goldstein has extra LOI’s for anyone that needs them. There are
still some clubs who have yet to submit their player fees; Dragons,
Wave, Express, Bears, Red Wings and Stars. Player fees are calculated
based on the number of players in the club times $30 each. At the time
of final rosters Wendy will send the accurate final amount owed by all
the clubs.
Statistician
– Nancy Hodge reported on behalf of Annie Fisher who is absent. Nancy
Hodge stated that Annie Fisher sent out the preseason penalty minutes to
the club presidents. She would like for the team managers to keep track
of the penalty minutes while the automated process is being worked on.
In addition, both the home and away teams are responsible for submitting
the online summaries. Nancy Hodge stated that she as the Tier II CAHA
Commissioner is still having problems with some of the teams performing
this task. A lot of the away teams do not think they need to submit. And
finally, both teams must include the game misconducts of both teams on
the game summaries.
Ice Convener –
Chris Carcerano informed the board that there are some minor changes to
the schedule that he has to do that have to do with some doubling up of
games. Rule 26.04 states that clubs are supposed to submit their ice
costs before the season starts. To date Chris has only received the
information from 10 clubs. Please send the information a.s.a.p. There
have been requests regarding rescheduling because of the Super Bowl
weekend. There will be no rescheduling because of the Super Bowl. Chris
stated that on occasion you will see a A/B rescheduling notice. This is
because the rink has taken back the ice from the club for different
reasons. Reminder; please have your Squirt B teams check the Mite A
schedule to see when their exhibition games are. It is too confusing to
implement these exhibitions games into the SQ B schedule.
Chris Carcerano stated
that he is forming a committee to review the CAHA Weekends. The goal of
the committee is to see if we can reduce the impact of the CAHA Weekends
on the A/B SCAHA schedule. It is open to all; however Chris would like
the committee to be made up of members who have a good understanding of
the CAHA and SCAHA schedule.
Chris Carcerano reiterated
that the playoff fee will be increased this year for the first time in 3
years. The exact amount has not yet been determined. The top 8 teams of
each division will be advancing to the SCAHA playoffs except for the
Mite A division where all 3 will be advancing to the playoffs. Chris
stated that he will be sending out a SCAHA Playoff Bid packet to all of
the presidents and encourages rinks and clubs to bid.
And finally, Chris stated
that for the SCAHA Select camp this year, SCAHA will be giving out
certain giveaways to the coaches who are volunteering their time.
SCAHA is looking at
coach’s jackets, or coach’s bags, etc. as possible giveaways for the
coaches. They will be compensating some of the gas expense as well.
Chris added that at the
Tier II the away team requesting the reschedule has to pay as per the
rule. SCAHA will be sending the invoice to the clubs. The rescheduling
at the Tier II is not automatic. Notification still must be sent to the
league.
Treasurer’s
Report
Bob Driffill distributed the financials dated October 31, 2010 to the
board. Bob Doherty has asked Bob Driffill to review the securities
account. We have made $3 in interest and Bob Doherty feels that it is
time to look at this. Bob Driffill stated that if there are any
questions or concerns to email him.
Director-at-Large Report
Kevin Culbertson reported that of the 143 applicants received for the
financial scholarship assistance program, 102 were awarded amounts.
Kevin Culbertson stated that represents about 71% awarded. Of those that
did not get approved it was due to insufficient documentation submitted.
Bridget Hopkinson asked if the entire allotted amount was awarded. Kevin
Culbertson stated that $25,750.00 was awarded.
Parliamentarian Report
John Silberstein stated that many of the teams have implemented the
locker room attendant policy. He is asking the club presidents to make
sure that all of their teams are doing this.
A.C.E. Coaching Coordinator Report
Nancy Hodge informed the board that we are going to use the old CAHA score
sheets
for the CAHA weekends. For those of you hosting, please make sure to pick
up a
packet. Nancy Hodge stated that they may be having another coach’s clinic
level 1-3
during Thanksgiving weekend at
New Business
Bob Doherty stated that they do not have any more CHAMPS patches left to
distribute.
He asked the club presidents to be patient while they wait for the patches
to come.
Bridget Hopkinson motioned to not have the December SCAHA Board of
Directors
meeting.
(motion SECONDED and
PASSED)
Adjourn
Meeting was adjourned at |