Wisconsin-Minnesota Hockey League

Board Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Grizzly’s-Onalaska

Members Present:  Danielle Nauman (Sec), Tim Flood (Ona), Bob Pitel (Pres), Margaret Ebner (LaX), Mike Gargaro (Treas), Marv Lehmann (WS), Tom Steele (Vir), Dawn Bernamann (Selects), Tim Klemm (Bar) Brent Henry (VP)

Members Absent:

Meeting called to order by President Bob Pitel at 6:09PM

I.                    Verbal Agenda:  Discuss giving stipends back to associations for promotion of hockey, based on team fees paid over the past 3 years; deciding what other issues need to be addressed over the summer; set the date of the next meeting

II.                 Treasurer’s Report:  Mike Gargaro presented the financial statement for 2006-2007.  Moved by Viroqua, second by WS to approve 2006-2007 financial statement, approved by a voice vote.  Mike then presented the May financials for the new season.  WS moved to approve, Viroqua second.

III.               Budget for 2007-2008:  Mike presented the budget he’s prepared for next year.  Patches from this year are still outstanding, and will come out of the new budget.  The following items were discussed as part of the new budget:

A.    Rebating money back to associations for recruitment and promotion purposes, based on team fees that have been paid in during the past 3 years.  Mike presented three different scenarios based on the amount of money we want to give back.  Mike moved to use $4000 to rebate back to associations for promoting hockey, second by West Salem.  Discussion included setting parameters for associations to request the rebate.  Monies will not automatically be distributed to associations.  Mike will develop a form for requesting the monies, and indicating how it was used to promote hockey and recruit, and bills and receipts from associations will need to be provided.  Approved by voice vote.

B.     Bob brought up that he would like to see the league provide league patches free of charge to the associations, as well as free scoresheets for league games.  Motion by Mike, second by Onalaska to provide league patches based on USA Hockey rosters, plus 2; and enough scoresheets for all league games, plus 2 extras to all associations free of charge.  Any additional patches or scoresheets will continue to be charged.  It was brought up to put the date on the new scoresheets, as well as printing rules on the back to help eliminate some confusion.  Mike moved to also provide 2 Blue Line patches for each team free of charge, second by Baraboo.  If teams want more Blue Line patches, they will need to continue to purchase them.  Approved by voice vote.

IV.              Divisions for next year- Tom presented a plan for changing the way we set up the divisions for teams, based on the Squirts, as that is typically the largest age bracket.  Brent moved to accept the new structure proposal for the Squirts, with flexibility for other levels.  Dawn second the motion.  Discussion followed regarding difficulty in not having the same structure for all levels.  Motion was tabled til next meeting, but giving Tom the assurance that we liked the track he was on.  He will continue to work more on setting up the other age brackets in the same fashion. 

V.                 Next meeting date was set for August 8.  It will be held in Sparta, Dawn & Danielle will look into finding a place to hold it, and getting pizza from Slice of Chicago.

Motion by Mike, second by Brent to adjourn.  Motion carried, meeting adjourned at 7:05.