EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

Monday, April 13, 2009

 

Board Members Present:  Annette Duvall, Luke Syverson, Craig Olson, Gill James,
Bob Dowding, Pat McCarthy, Dan Jurdy, Joe Thompson, Gary Emslie for Kim Eng, Chris Bigelow, Brent Kawaguchi, Michael Bailey, John Wiley

Board Members Absent:  Megan Marson, Ryan Burke, Peter Bentley

 

Tom Doyle – District Director

  1. Introduction of Guests:  Rhondi Adair, Mickey Fowler, Craig Bakken

  1. Approval of Monday, March 9, 2009 Executive Board Minutes.  M/S/P

  2. Financial Report:       Checking:        $ 49,594.08

Savings:           $ 25,944.58

           

  1. Approval of Vouchers: Vouchers # 14988 through # 15138 for a total of $ 35,714.81  M/S/P

  2. WIAA Executive Board Report:  Craig Olson

A.     Mar. 25 – Basketball will be ordered by classification the same next year as this season.  The Culminating Events Committee will look at starting the season one week later and at the tournament playoff format. 

B.      District Directors will submit site selection criteria.

C.     The board will approve inter-district agreements for post season qualifying events in the future.

D.     Editorial changes to Handbook to be presented to the Rep Assembly.

E.      Financial Report.  3A Basketball is down while everything else seems to be even or up from the previous year.

F.      State Track Officials – the board couldn’t pass this and it has been dropped for now.

G.     Soccer will be on consecutive Saturdays beginning in the fall of 2009 for the 1st and 2nd Rounds.

H.     Several proposals passed to allow 8th graders to be used to salvage programs this spring.

I.        WOA – we continue to work to try to develop an agreement with WOA on costs and a statewide assigning contract.

J.       State Track & Field proposal – 2 ˝ day program approved.

K.     Dr. Warren Howe approved for Bruskland award.

L.      The Hall of Fame will be celebrated in Renton on Wednesday.

M.    The board would like to compile information on what schools are doing to save money in the budgets so that we can have information to take back to individual districts.  This will help all schools to promote athletics with their school boards.  Ideas such as reducing the number of contests for each team rather than cutting squads.  Using regional “league” set ups for lower levels would help with transportation.  Sending several spring sport teams together to the same site would help transportation costs as well.  Many of the private schools have frozen salaries in order to try to save some programs and budget dollars.

6.      Sea-King District 2 Executive Board:  Luke Syverson

A.     Annual Eligibility Report.  Craig reported on the eligibility hearings for this year.  The numbers are up for the winter.  There were 40 actual hearings.  Craig reported on the number approved and appealed to the WIAA and the results of WIAA hearings.  Craig thanked all those who contributed their time and energy to sit on the eligibility committees.  Pat asked about the number of dates scheduled for next year and wondered whether the number of dates is appropriate because of the new eligibility rule.  Craig believes that we have enough volunteers to add another committee if needed or add additional dates if the numbers require that.

B.     Violations – Approved league sanctions.  Joe indicated that the officials are not pleased with the Garfield/Redmond decision and requested that be put in the minutes.  We also decided that we need to look at the process for discovering information from officials about an event to try to improve the reporting of ejections.  We have time issues which also add pressure to resolving situations.  We need to work on the relationships between schools and officials to provide a more positive environment for all.

C.     League Reports

D.     2009-2010 Proposed Budget.  Tom presented a draft budget for 2009-2010 and asked board members to review and email suggestions so that we can try to finalize at the next meeting.  The board authorized purchasing $1500 worth of calendars for next year.

E.     4A Seeding to state – allocations Yr. 1 – 3/1; Yr 2 – 2/2

                                                                          i.      D2#1                    

                                                                        ii.      D2#2                    

                                                                      iii.      D2#3 vs. D4#2

                                                                      iv.      D2#4 vs. D4#1

F.      2009-2010 Executive Board Meeting Schedule.  Find out spring vacation schedules for next year and the WSSAAA date.  Vote on next meeting.

G.    League Positions on Amendments to Spring Rep. Assembly.  The board took positions on each of the amendments.

H.    Review Sea-King District Documents.  Set up a committee: 

I.       Selection of 2009-2010 Basketball Sites.  Take back to leagues and bring positions back to the next meeting…do we do home sites at 3A level again next year?  Do we do two rounds?  We need to vote on this at the next meeting for budget purposes.

J.      Calendars? - $1500 sponsorship NW Designs.  Buy $1500 worth of calendars.

K.    Coaches School.  Gill would like us to discuss whether we ought to be doing this as a district event.

7.      Sea-King District 2 Executive Director Report: Tom & Marilyn Doyle

A.     Correspondence.

B.      District Tournament Financial Reports for Basketball

C.     Web Site: www.wiaa.com/dist2

  1. Other Business-Agenda Items for Monday, May 11,  2009-3:30PM Bellevue ESC

A.     Spring Rep. Assembly Review

B.     Discussion of 2009-2010 Sea-King Budget

C.     Delegates to 2009-2010 Spring Rep Assembly

D.     Spring District Tournament/Play-Off Status

E.     Appointments to WIAA Committees

F.      Nominations for WIAA Hall of Fame

G.    Election of 2009-2010 Executive Board President and President-Elect

9.      The Executive Board meeting was adjourned at 5:45 PM.