PEBBLECREEK SENIOR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION

BOARD MEETING MINUTES

 

November 21, 2013

Tuscany Falls Capri Room

 

           Board Members Present

              Dan Rea, President

              Chuck Tredway, Vice President

              Fred Schmidt, Dir. of Player Development

              Lyman Rinehart, Dir. of field Mtce.

              Steve Fletcher, Secretary

              Rich Elliott, Dir. of Marketing

              Norm Smith, Treasurer                  

           

            Board Members Absent

 

 

              

 

            Call to Order: President Dan Rea called meeting to order at 3:56 PM

 

            The minutes of the October 17, 2013 Board Meeting were approved as written

 

            Old Business:

Ø      PIR Summary- Chuck announced our work at the PIR went very well and was thankful for the help of 5-guys from the Pickle ball club for their help.

 

Ø      Opening Day Summary-Dennis Miazga said that opening day went without a hitch and thanked Lee Ayers for his invaluable assistance.  He recommended that we use Paradise Bakery again next year for the coffee as they delivered and saved a lot of work making coffee.  He said that the requirement not to require tickets was great and even so, we ended up with extra sandwiches, but ran out of diet Coke.  11-sponsors showed up and were appreciative for the invitation.  Good job Dennis.

 

Ø      HOA Update-Shade Cover-Dan announced that he had met with Bill Barnard regarding the shade cover for our field patio area and that Bill said that the cost to cover this was on the new budget which he believed would be approved on December 4th.  The only drawback was that the company that bid on the cover was no longer in business.

 

Committee & Director Updates:

Ø      Financial Update-Norm Smith-Norm reported that everyone has paid their dues who was required to do so

Ø      Marketing-Rich Elliott-Rich reported that we had 8 new banner sponsors, 37 total and 12 team banner sponsors totaling 49.  Also 4 league sponsors were committed to sponsor spring teams and he would have 6 by start of spring league.  Bill Gaines and Lee Ayers will be heading up our golf tournament which will take place February 19th.

 

Ø      Player Personnel-Fred Schmidt-Fred announced that we had 142 players signed up for this Fall, 10 of these were new players and we had 8 associates.

 

Ø      Field Maintenance-Lyman Rinehart-Lyman announced that the first field maintenance took place this morning and that the field was looking very good, including the newly sodded area in short left center field.

 

New Business:

Ø      Use of game bats for practice-Dan announced that another set of 5-bats had been ordered and when they arrived we will put 5 of our present game bats out for use during practices and the new bats will be incorporated into use during games. 

 

Ø      Substitution Rule Exceptions for holiday games: 11/26, 11/30, 12/21, 12/28-Dan announced that the Board had determined to slack up on the substitution rules for these dates as well as 11/25 should that be needed to make up a 11/23 rain delay.  The exceptions would allow subs to play in 3-games per day (including their own game) and they would be allowed to sub for the same team on all of these dates if needed.

 

Ø      Sub Runner Rule #12 revision-after a lengthy discussion it was decided to leave 12a as is, but to change the wording from “batter” to “runner”.

 

Ø      Decision on protested game of November 9-Desert Golf vs. Augies-Although the protest was upheld and the board had decided on how this should play out, the managers of the 2-teams decided to leave the outcome of the game as is.

 

Questions/Answers (time allowing)-

 

Ø      A l-e-n-g-t-h-y discussion ensued spear headed by Steve Ward which centered around his proposal to change the use of the present ball used by the league.  No final decisions were made as to whether or not the ball would be changed. 

 

 

 

 

With no further business, it was moved and seconded that this meeting be

adjourned. This meeting was adjourned at 5:20 PM.  The next meeting will be on

December 19th at 4:00 PM in the Milano room

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Steve Fletcher