PEBBLECREEK SENIOR
SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION
BOARD MEETING MINUTES
May 16, 2013
Tuscany Falls Milano Room
Board
Members Present
Dan Rea, President
Chuck Tredway, Vice President
Fred Schmidt, Director of Player
Development
Steve Fletcher, Secretary
Norm Smith, Treasurer
Board
Members Absent
Rich Elliott, Director of Marketing
Lyman Rinehart, Director of Field
Maintenance
Call to Order: President Dan Rea
called meeting to order at 4:00 PM
The minutes of the March 17, 2013
Board Meeting were approved as written
Old
Business:
1.
PIR
contact update
a.
They
are very interested in continuing with us
b.
There
is potential for 120 positions
c.
They
would like for us to be able to do more
Committee and
Director Updates:
1.
Financial Update- Norm Smith
a. Norm has received
the ushering monies from the A’
2. Marketing-
Rich Elliott
a.
All sponsors have been lined up
3. Player Personnel-Fred Schmidt
a.
Fred is attempting to line up a new pre-season practice field at Avalon
and Litchfield
4. Field Maintenance- Lyman Rinehart
a. Sandy reminded
everyone how important it is to cover the plate after use
b. AED needs to be
returned to guard shack, high temperatures will damage the batteries
New Business:
1.
Fall league schedule
a. Paul Zuckerbrow
got the start date moved up 1-week, this will help accommodate the 44 game
season without having to play 3-games a week once a month. We should be done by 2nd week of
April.
2. Length of games and start time
a. Game schedules
will be every 70 minutes, the 1st half games will start at 8:00 AM
and the 2nd half games will start at 9:00 AM.
3. Fall registration: form,
dates, content, etc.
a. In order to “jump
start” registrations, forms will go onto web page as soon as finalized,
reminders will be sent to those who don’t register
b. It was suggested
that ads be made via the E group and the Post
4. Player evaluation dates:
a. Evaluation dates are September 10, 12, &
14 and are listed on the web
5. Meeting with PebbleCreek HOA-Updates. Dan and Norm met with the
HOA and there are
6-issues being addressed by the HOA; there response
was very positive
a. They will put a
field notification sign both at the main gate and at the
entry to the field
b. In order to direct
emergency vehicles to the ball field they will speak to
the City of Goodyear and
try to get an address designated for the field
c. They are getting a
bid to apply pea gravel to the west side of the parking lot
d. They will move the
existing pile of dirt
e. By opening day we
hope to have a shade covering over the picnic tables; we will share in the cost
f. They are going to
paint the maintenance building
6. The Board is working on a
league fee based upon the A’s ushering and/or
PIR participation
Questions:
1. Jack Hogan asked
the possibility of getting new bats to start each
half of the season. The new bats
will be purchased and someone will
coordinate placing them in play
2. Dick Gwilt asked about getting
“hot bats” for use by players rated under 15
and for older players. It was decided that this would be discussed
3. Dan Rea announced that the
board was working on providing some field
time for our travel team when
playing outside teams
4. Dick Gwilt questioned the need
to keep buying bottled water since we have
drinking fountains, it was
agreed that this was unnecessary
5. Dick and Al Chandler are
working on installing 24 hooks on the fences for
glove placement
6. Sandy Riddle asked about
adding some more tables in place of the tree
that will be removed
With no further business, it was moved and seconded that
this meeting be
adjourned. This meeting was adjourned at 5:05 PM Next
meeting will be on
August 15th at 4:00 PM in the Milano room
Respectfully Submitted,
Steve Fletcher