meeting minutes
Minutes from CGLA Board Meeting on November 15th, 2007
Buck Recreation Center at 6:30 pm
Participants:
Delegates
Jan Carl West Side
Les Snivelt Castle Rock/Parker Cougars
Neil Mellberg Columbine
Jill Nunes Highlands Ranch
Pam Kochis Highlands Ranch
Elizabeth Erhardt Boulder
Michelle Kraemer South Suburban
Shannon Eller South Suburban
Kris Call Creek Indians
Cindy Woodman Creek Indians
Alex Vigil Native
Chris Buechner Mountain Lacrosse
Lisa Padgett Mountain Lacrosse
Mike Gordon Patriots
Chris Cosentini West Side
Other Participants
Sam Bartron Team 180
Kristin Linhardt
CGLA Board
Kate Dresher ED
James Beram Treasurer
Marc Luckett President
Wendy Zerr VP - outgoing
Kim Wallace Member at Large
Marc called meeting to order at approximately 6:35 pm
Motion to approve the September 19 th meeting minutes was called, seconded and unanimously approved.
Wendy Zerr introduced Kristen Linhardt to replace her position on the board as VP in charge of fund raising. Kristin was approved with no opposing votes.
Marc introduced Chris Cosentini and motioned for a vote to approve her to replace himself as Secretary of CGLA, motion seconded and approved.
Marc summarized the September 19 th meeting points of discussion:
- field/game consolidation to improve availability of officials
- games on both Saturday and Sunday to give high school players an opportunity to officiate
- field monitors on the sidelines
- continue to use MyLacrosseLeague for scheduling
Marc led discussion on the cost/benefit of having side line observers as CGLA representatives at games. Due to many reports of inappropriate behavior by parents, players and coaches there is a need for third party observation of team behavior during games. The cost of having paid adult side line observes at each game would increase team registration costs by $50.
The group decided to the best course of action for the coming years is to put effort and training into the US Lacrosse required side line managers before going further with paid sideline observers.
In the sideline manager program each team is required to assign an adult to manage behavior on the side lines. It was agreed that the following items were needed to better implement the side line manager program:
- Delegates need to get the information to coaches about the side line manager requirement
- CGLA needs to define expectations for the side line managers
- Train side line managers to meet expectations
- Develop a reporting process to gather data from the side line managers
- Have side line managers sign in with the coaches at the start of the game
- All clubs must inform their coaches of the CGLA requirement that all coaches have US Lacrosse level 1 coaches training (either on-line or in clinic)
- CGLA board members will conduct random spot checks at games through out the season
Sam Barton requested to enter one of the former Blue Sky girl's teams in CGLA. There was discussion on the pros and cons of this and no vote was taken or decision made.
VP report - Fund raising for 2007 made a net revenue of $6500 from merchandise sales at the festival and fall ball.
Treasurers Report - estimated costs for each club team is $500 per team ($415 for 4 th grade teams). 63 teams last year, used that estimate to prepare the 2008 budget.
Kim Wallace - Officials training check the website for dates and places for clinics. Need new adult officials and junior officials.
ED Report - scrimmage days in early March to be used as training for officials. Pick a field for 3/15/08 with 3/16/08 for the snow day.
Turkey shoot - 70 girls registered; mostly 6 th grade
Fall Ball - 78 players
January 26 - USLacrosse level 1 coaches clinic
February 2 - Colorado Springs free player clinic
February 23 - Free player clinic at All-City Stadium
February 27 CGLA mandatory coaches meeting and training
BY FEBRUARY 28 ALL HEAD COACHES SHOULD BE CERTIFIED
Marc requested that admins contact him with the fields they have available and the days, Saturday or Sunday, and the cost for the fields to allow for consolidation of game fields.
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