Board Members Present: Brent Kawaguchi, Annette Duvall, Jan Woldseth, Luke Syverson,
Mike Bailey, Dan Jurdy, Craig Olson, Gill James, John Wiley, Pat McCarthy, Gary
Emslie for Kim Eng, Chris Bigelow, Peter Bentley (IAC)
Board Members Absent: Mickey
Fowler, Ryan Burke, Bob Dowding
Tom & Marilyn Doyle – District Directors
Savings: $ 25,937.92
A.
District
8 reported that Wal-Mart was selling Cheney HS logo and apparel. They suggested we might look into trademarks
for our school logos.
B.
Financial
Report – Leah Francis reported on the last year for WIAA. Profits are down significantly from several
years ago. Adding the additional L&I
costs into the budget will make this a lean budget this year.
C.
Passed
on 2nd reading the criteria for schools changing districts. Available online.
D.
Regional
Wrestling alignments are now posted on the website.
E.
Potential
conflicts in testing in 2010 meant extending our time period for jamborees held
in the spring of that year.
F.
A
proposal for requiring certified track officials for track meets was heard and
voted on in the first reading. If
passed by the WIAA board, it is to be used at track in three yearly phases.
Year 1. Certified officials will
be trained and certified this year and used at State this year. Year 2.
All post season and state meets are required to have certified
officials. Year 3. Any state qualifying time/distance must be
made at a meet that uses certified officials.
Any school with concerns about this should contact Craig or Chris to
provide input.
G.
Allowing
the Tri-Co league to experiment with two basketball games (JV & below) to
be played on the same date. This allows
schools to cut back travel. They must
present an amendment to continue this after this year.
H.
Jan.
26 is the Winter Coalition Meeting this year.
I.
Schools
with 5 or more ejections presented a sportsmanship report to the board with a
plan to improve the situation.
J.
Hall
of Fame – Nov. 14, nominations are due to the WIAA. Please advise all schools to submit candidates for our WIAA Hall
of Fame.
K.
Use
of an ineligible participant in a team sport.
The WIAA board developed a set of guidelines to help clarify the purpose
and administration of the rule. This
document is available on the WIAA website.
Craig reviewed the document with our board.
L.
Annette
asked about the new Academic amendment and the interpretation. The board is reviewing all the information
on that amendment and expects that there might be a new amendment presented
this year to work out the bugs associated with the present one.
6. Sea-King District 2 Executive Board: Luke Syverson
A. WIAA Report
– Mike Colbrese
a. Recap of
Fall To-Date. The Medical Aspect of Sports
committee is looking to join the national in the tracking of injuries.
b. WOA – Craig Olson represents us on
an “agreement review committee” to discuss all the issues from fees, to
recruiting, to training, to retention. Mike
reported that L&I has determined that tournament workers must be covered at
state tournaments. This may “trickle
down” to the districts, leagues, and schools.
c. State Events. The 3A/4A volleyball tourney had to be moved a week
later as a result of a scheduling conflict in Tri-Cities. As a result, we will be putting three
classifications together for the tourney.
The football bracket has been “thawed”, allowing the #1 and #2 to be in
the same half of the bracket if the criteria required it. The thought was that this would cut back on
the amount of travel required. The
board also altered bracketing for soccer by moving to a “regional site” concept
in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
Basketball brackets will be reviewed again during this cycle with the
idea of determining whether the 16-team, double elimination tourney is the
right way to go. We are the only state
that uses that type of bracket. The
board will take it on as a study project.
d. Committees –
WIAA has
committees looking at school relationships and has looked at the data over the
years for the public/private issue. The
committee has looked at what other states have done and looked at options that
might come up through the representative assembly. The assumption is that the private schools are over represented
on winning state championships, but the data did not support the
perception. There is at least one more
meeting scheduled and the committee will determine whether or not to put up an
amendment to address the issue or whether to address the perception in other
ways.
e. Emerald City
Classic. The gate was up this year
with over 10K in attendance.
B. Violations. Approved
league sanctions. M/S/P.
C. District Tournament Allocations.
Tom reviewed the district agreements for all the
allocations and asked the board to approve them for the next cycle. M/S/P.
D. Review of 2007-2008 Annual Financial Report. Jim Murphy presented the annual report and
audit. Jim goes through every single
transaction to verify the cash transactions.
Jim made the following recommendations:
a.
We improved in the tourney management ticket
reports, but still have some work to do to get those up to standards. We need to focus on reconciliation of those
reports.
b.
Money Market Account. We are getting .02% for this. The idea was floated to put it into short
term CDs. The bank has been charging us
for counting cash when deposited; they are now reversing those.
c.
Revenue was down 12% and expenses down 22% (we
didn’t pay out any excess funds back to the leagues this year). This is the first time ever to go below the
$40K in our carryover fund.
d.
The tax return is also completed and ready to
be filed.
e.
M/S/P to accept Annual
Financial Report.
E. Site Selection for Football/Soccer. Schools are once again reminded that the
sites for state bracket contests are determined by the Sea-King District, not
by the schools involved. The team on
the bottom of the bracket does not necessarily get to play a home contest. The home site may be a district selected
site. Please make sure your coaches are
aware of this issue.
F. WIAA Insurance (L & I/Catastrophic). See above.
G. League Reports –
a. Kingco – This will be a learning year this year as the
league and commissioners learn to work with the sports and the new alignments.
b. Metro. Metro
& Kingco AD’s met at Blanchet to discuss common issues and develop relationships.
c. Emerald City.
Going back to the tri-district format has been working well and they are
getting used to the new tournament formats.
d. SeaTac. Working
through the new format with the 1B/2B and divisions.
7.
Sea-King District 2 Executive Director Report: Tom & Marilyn Doyle
A.
Correspondence
B.
Web Site:
www.wiaa.com/dist2
A.
Fall
Eligibility Report – Craig Bakken
B.
Review
Fall Tournament/Play-Off Status
C.
Winter
District Tournament Dates, Sites & Managers
D.
Proposed
Amendments for Rep. Assembly
E.
Submit
Amendments for Spring Rep. Assembly
F.
Fall
District Tournament/Play-Off Financial Report
G. Nominations for Sea-King District 2 Athletic Director of the Year
H.
Leagues Report A.D. of Year Nominees
9. The
Executive Board meeting was adjourned at 5:24 PM.