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April BFOA Board Meeting
– Minutes 4/13/08
Meeting took place at
Roy Liese’s Office
Start: 4:09 pm, Present: Craven, Taglienti, Gazzano, Baker, Davis,
Liese, Winston, Sager. Not Present: Bowen, Getzoff
Financials & Treasury:
Brian Baker advised that
the bank balance is $9240.00 and he described the budget for the
year including expected expenses, income and fees. After
discussing the projected budget, a few changes are needed and the
board will vote on it at the next board meeting. Craven advised he
had one bill for business cards the BFOA handed out at Canes Fest
for $20.79.
First Meeting of the Year:
Discussion was had on
getting a guest speaker for the first meeting and locations were
discussed. Apparently the Dolphins Training facility will be in
the middle of a mini camp so that choice was out and the meeting
will take place at South Plantation High School. Suggested
possibilities for guest speakers were, Deon Lawrence, Steve Klein,
Al Riveron, Pete Newton, Rocky Gillis, Virgil Valdez to name a
few. Refreshments was discussed as well no matter where we have
the meeting we will provide food and drinks. A great effort is
being put forth to set the tone for the New Year with new and
current officials. Food is a great way to meet new officials, talk
and network.
Referee Replacements:
We may need three
replacements for the white hat position this coming year. Next
week John Craven will send an email out requesting those meeting
white hat requirements and are interested to contact him showing
their interest. Tom Winston discussed a plan where Steve
Ciardiello would work as a trainer, in other words, Steve would
work the umpire position for the season and train a new referee on
his crew. This would give a trainee some valuable training at the
referee position during the games. Steve would continue to be the
crew chief on the crew however would work at the umpire position.
Steve presented this to Tom Winston and Tom thought it was an
excellent idea. This idea is not limited to using Steve
Ciardello’s crew only; it can be used by others after figuring out
how many referees we need. John Craven will talk with Ciardiello
and make sure he is still interested in doing this.
Training:
Tom Winston advised the
board that he needed a projector screen to use this year instead
of the dry erase board he has been displaying the power point and
videos on. He received two quotes from Staples, one is 60 x 60 for
$171 and the second was 70 x 70 for $214.
Strategic Plan for
upcoming year:
Roy Liese will discuss at
the next meeting.
Recruitment & Spring
Games:
Tye will send each board
member a list of ten prospective officials and email contact
information. He would like each board member to initiate
communications with these prospective officials. Tye also talked
about using the spring games as a way to have some of the new
officials at these games to observe. Rocky has provided Tye with
the spring schedule and he will be using that to audition
prospective officials for the varsity level.
New Business:
Davis suggested putting a
time limit on general membership meetings. For example, one hour.
Meeting Adjourned: 5:20 pm |