Wisconsin-Minnesota Hockey League

Board Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

American Legion, Sparta

 

Members Present:  Amy Voigt (Dells); Danielle Nauman (Secretary); Marvin Lehmann (West Salem); Tom Steele (Viroqua); Timm Klemm (Baraboo); Brent Henry (Tomah); Tim Darling (CRG); Mike Kunes (BRF); Fritz Degner (Sparta); Mike Swanson (Winona); Ken Olson (Reedsburg); Tim Flood (Onalaska); Bob Pitel (LaCrescent); Dawn Bernamann (Selects)

 

Meeting called to order by President Bob Pitel at 7:13 PM.

 

I.                    Secretary’s minutes: 

A.     Motion to approve by Tomah, second by West Salem.  Approved as presented by voice vote.

 

II.                 Treasurer’s Report:

A.     Motion to approve by Tomah, second by CRG.  Approved by voice vote.

 

III.               Committees

A.    League Statistician:  No report

 

B.     Selects:  Looking at holding Selects March 29th, one weekend only, Squirt/PeeWee I & II.  Do we need to call for bids?  Discussion was held on potential interest of associations to hold Selects.  Sparta was the only association that thought they would be interested in holding Selects.  Discussion was also held regarding whether bids should be taken for a flat fee, or for hourly ice.  Motion to hold Selects in Sparta for a flat rate of $2000 made by Tomah, second from BRF.  Motion approved on a voice vote.  Each association is eligible to send 5 players and a goalie or 6 players and no goalie.  Dawn also mentioned that the past couple of years, we have given $20 gas gift cards to coaches.  Tomah moved to purchase $20 gift cards for coaches, second by the Dells.  Approved by voice vote.

 

C.    WAHA Report:  No report

 

IV.              Old Business

A.    Dues-all have been paid, except LaCrescent.  It was also reminded that if rosters have not been submitted yet, please do so ASAP.

 

B.     Annual Meeting:  Discussion was held regarding holding a buffet-style banquet, versus a cocktail/hors d'oeuvres hour prior to meeting.  Discussion was also held regarding who the league would pay for to attend.  It was decided to continue to hold a buffet-style banquet, with chicken and tips.  Cocktails will be at 5:30, dinner at 6:30 and the meeting will be held at 7:30.  The league will pay for the league rep and a guest, association presidents and a guest, new association presidents and a guest, President Award winners and a guest.  Others will need to pay.  We will need to have a numbers count at the next meeting, and Danielle will take care of finalizing the numbers and getting final numbers to Gail Raddatz by April 1st.

 

C.    Forfeitures:  We continued the discussion from last month to clarify forfeiture rules:  If both coaches do not agree to a forfeit, then the $100 fine applies.

 

V.                 New Business

A.    President Awards:  please be sure to get your association’s nomination to Bob, with a bio/description of what that person has done for hockey in your area by the next meeting.

 

B.     Patches:  League will provide league patches to all teams, and 2 Blue-Line Patches for each team.  Additional Blue-Line Patches are available for purchase.  They will be available at the next meeting. 

 

C.    Nominations for officers:  will be needed at next meeting.  This will be Bob’s last year, so we will need nominations for President.  Bob will continue to maintain the website for us.

 

D.    Scoresheets will be due Monday March 10th to Del by 5pm so that results can be confirmed at the March meeting.

 

E.     Next Meeting:  Wednesday, March 12th, 7pm at the Sparta American Legion.

 

F.     Grievance:  Sparta’s grievance against Viroqua has been resolved by the league reps, and is withdrawn.

 

Motion to adjourn was made at 8:25pm by Tomah, second by CRG.  Meeting adjourned.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Danielle Nauman

Secretary