April BFOA Board Meeting – Minutes                                                         4/26/09
Meeting took place at the residence of Steve Epstein

Start: 3:04 pm  Present: Taglienti, Epstein, Gazzano, Simpson, Bowen, Davis, Craven

Not Present: Baker, Sager, Winston

White Hat Candidates: Collura, Erickson, Gazzano, Hickey, Klemm, McKinney, Rodwell, and Warren have expressed interest in becoming a Varsity Referee in the association. A discussion was had that all the interested officials should be evaluated in the spring at the Referee position.  Referee evaluations will be done on all candidates including pregame as long as an evaluator is available to do the game.

Spring Assignments:  Tye has posted the spring schedule on gremlins.

Spring Evaluations: Davis will get an email out to evaluators in the association to evaluate officials identified by the board to be evaluated for the spring games. The email will be sent to select officials to evaluate and who will be evaluated.

Candidates Attending Spring Games & Candidate Training: The board will encourage/invite new recruits to attend spring games to work the chains and/or observe the varsity crews in action. Tom Zace and Tom Winston will advise at the June board meeting when/where the new recruit training will be. During meetings this year, Tom Zace will take the new guys/girls to another training room to cover specific training topics.

White Hat Application Process: Evaluation and set of questions will be part of the interview process. A further discussion will be had at the June board meeting to determine what the process will be for the white hat candidates.

Varsity Crew Selection, Draft, Crew Freezes & Number of Crews: Tentatively scheduled for Sunday, August 9^th.  White hats will be able to freeze up to 2 officials for their crew.  Simpson made a motion to allow the white hat to freeze up to 2 officials for this year. Seconded by Davis, all in favor, motion passed. Number of crews will be determined when we have the final registration numbers in.

Attendance at Meetings: The board will start to hold members accountable if they don’t show up for meetings (inexcusable absence).   Reminder to members: If you can’t make a general membership meeting please notify John Gazzano (Recording Secretary) @ jgazzano@yahoo.com.

Banquets vs. Shirts: Contact will be made with Vince Mundo to do a Zoomerang survey via the internet with specific options. Costs of the shirt and banquet would have to be determined before doing the survey.

Payment to Webmaster: Davis made a motion to pay Vince Mundo $500, for web services. Second by Gazzano, all in favor, motion passed.

Communication to Membership: This is the board’s responsibility.

Game Reports: Report comments on the Gremlins system are public information and can be viewed by those who don’t log into the gremlins system. Simpson made a suggestion to make those private and for the Association’s information and not viewable by anyone who wants to read them (Should be members only).  The game card that is created by the gremlins system currently has the crew chief’s employment, it was suggested that be removed from the form.

FHSAA Officiating Leadership Conference: Taglienti will be attending on June 5-6, 2009 in Orlando.

Changing Upcoming Board Meeting Dates: Epstein made a motion to change the upcoming board meeting in May to 5/31 and the June 14^th meeting to June 28^th.  Second by Simpson, all in favor, motion passed.