AHA Board Meeting

February 28, 2008

Roll Call:

Also present:  Mark Scott

Called to order:  at 6:33pm

Review/Approve January Minutes: 

Motioned to approve:  Rick

Seconded:   Amy

Approved:  Unanimous

Treasurer’s Report:

General fund:  Balance as of Feb 28 = $ 4649.46

Deposits since November: Registration Fees of $90 and Kroger Card check of $279.50.

Expenses:  Service charge for all accounts of $48; AT&T (Oct-Jan) for $187.30; Deininger & Wingfield for taxes of $163.50 (discount of $523).

House account:  Balance of $5389

For the mites & squirts, with all ice fees for practices & games, was around $14,500.

Some deposits still need to be made.

Mites have $245 which belongs to them.

Will leave with a balance of $5215.

Maybe could use Mark for the next 2 Wednesdays for the older kids.

Mites originally raised $500, minus expenses to the rink for the fundraiser, jerseys, pizza, etc. leaves with the $245.  Mites would like money for the end of year party and trophies or medals.  Ice fees for Springdale will be $600-700, or $40-50 per kid, depending on participation.  Ken motioned that the $215 surplus over the $5000 be added to the $245 to use for ice fees for those Springdale games and end of year party, since most of the house kids are mites.  Susan seconded, unanimously approved.

Old Business:

The new webmaster is Errin Lavin, who has already been working on the website.  Her email address iserrin_lavin@hotmail.com.

Nominations/Volunteers for Board members so far are as follows:

Mites:  Susan Pomtree & Ken Lavin

Squirts:  Jeff Southard & Polly Herren

Peewees:  Stephanie Simkin & Chris Orem

Bantams:  none

Midgets:  Janet Korenblat & Paul Petrarca

Adult:  Amy Morrow & Rick Murray

Dasher boards:  Tabled for now due to neither party being quite ready.

Wall Logo:  The Chaos logo was discussed and it was decided to put the words “youth hockey” under the logo.

New Business:

Learn to Play Hockey:

Amy said that LTPH would be moving to during the Learn to Skate time.  Hopefully this will encourage more participation through more exposure to more interested people.

Then the goal is to have an in-house league, especially during the off-season.  Have a 3-on-3, not drop-in, sign up in advance.  Maybe do this during one of the current AHA practice times.  Not fully organized yet buy in the works. 

Some parents wanted to do a practice and a game.  It was suggested then to do 1 hour of games for mites/beginners, then the next hour to be for the more experienced/older kids to practice and/or play full ice.

Mites requested that they are told ASAP when it is organized.

SAHA rep:

Paul’s term expires June 8, 2008, according to an email AHA got from SAHA.  The notice stated that we must nominate a person for Arkansas by the 1^st week of March.  Paul & Chris Orem both volunteered.

Paul said that the Travel Director and the SAHA Arkansas rep both have voting rights in SAHA.

After much discussion, it was decided that Chris is nominated, unless such nomination affects Paul being on his committees within SAHA.  Paul will continue as Travel Director either way.

Notebooks:

Nick brought up that perhaps the AHA could purchase notebooks for each board member in which to keep a copy of the bylaws, minutes, newsletters, etc.  Rick motioned to set aside $100 from the general fund to buy notebooks & copy the bylaws.  Ken seconded, unanimously approved.

Adjournment: 

Motion made by Amy to adjourn, seconded by Susan, unanimously approved at  7:37p.m.

Next meeting is March 27, 2008 at 6:30 pm at the Skatium. 

If you cannot attend, please give your written proxy (or fax it) to another Director.  Email proxies cannot be accepted.