L.L.H.H. January Board Meetng January 7, 2010

Posted: January 07, 2010 3:41PM; Updated: January 07, 2010 9:18PM The L.L.H.H. Board of Directors met at the V.F.W. Northenders at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday January 7, 2010. Those in attendance were President Gary Wells, Treasurer Dave Ryan,
Andy Gordon
Vice President, Sherry Fields Glenwood, Ted Miller, Decatur, Jeff Rocco Rochester, Shannon Elliott and Wayne Shures Rochester, Doug Nelson Springfield,
Gary
called the meeting to order at 6:40 p.m.
Gary
asked for a motion to approve the minutes which had been posted on the website. The motion was made by
Shannon
and seconded by Andy and passed unanimously.
Gary
then asked Dave for a treasurers report. Dave reported the following balances:
LLHH Checking account $22,250.16
LLHH Money Market $22,024.36
Hickory Point Account $ 13.36
TOTAL -à>> $44,287,89
Dave then presented a print out of expenses from 12/1/09 to date for review by the board members. Dave also reported that Doug Nelson now has the logons and passwords, to electronically view LLHH financial records. A motion to accept this report was made by Jeff and seconded by Sherrie, The motion passed unanimously.
Ted Miller had asked the board for an opportunity to speak to the board. Jeff made a motion (seconded by Andy) to let Ted speak and not follow the agenda. Ted wanted to address the issue of the
Decatur
fine. Ted spoke of his team’s situation and saying that the he only had six players,. Ted said he offered to come but only with the six players. Various board member presented their position on the matter.
Gary
too said as of 11/13/09 a final schedule had been posted.
Doug Nelson made a motion to waive the $300 fee. This motion was seconded by Jeff Rocco. Then further discussion ensued. Doug then withdrew his original motion and then resubmitted a motion , the motion was this. “In a non-prescience setting manner, the league will waive the $300 portion of the fine.” This motion was seconded by Jeff Rocco The vote was 4 ayes, 2 present, 1 nay.
Gary
told Ted that the fine would need to be paid within three days.
Gary
went back to old business, and first u p was Doug Nelson’s request for a hardship fee for one of the SHS player. He made this as a motion, that was seconded by Jeff Rocco. The measure passed unanimously on a voice vote
The next matter discussed was game night problems.
Gary
stress the importance of getting the stats properly recorded on the web sites.
Gary
reminded the teams to call WICS with the scores to see if they could run the scores.
The All-Star Game is scheduled for January 22, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Gary
reminded the teams to get their all-star picks to the league very quickly. Additional plans for the game were discussed.
Moving on to new business,
Gary
discuss the following items
The BlackHawk Cup – No LLHH teams are going to participate this yearTeam Logos – and relations to local schools.
Combined Schools –
Gary
explained the league’s thinking as to why teams from combined schools receive little recognition, The premise is that the league would like to have each of the combined school player work at developing their own team.
Disciplinary Committee
Gary
appointed Doug, Dave and Andy to look into a matter which took place in a January 6, 2010 game at the
Nelson
Center
. The two players in involved were Woo –
Champaign
and Brook –
Rochester
.
Fan Conduct -
Gary
discuss some inappropriate fan conduct, and what could be done about the matter.
Gary
asked each club to tell the players and parents to behave better and games or the league will have to look into some type of sanctions against the team for bad fan conduct.
Gary
asked if there were any other matters that need to be discussed.
The next LLHH Board Meeting will be on Thursday February 4, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at the V.F.W. Northenders. |