1 1 (Saugus Youth Hockey meeting called to 2 order at 7:41 p.m. on May 13, 2009) 3 MR. BRAZIS: Good evening, everyone. 4 Call the meeting to order at 7:41. 5 Mr. Secretary, could you give us a roll 6 call, please. 7 MR. GROARK: President Scott Brazis. 8 MR. BRAZIS: Here. 9 MR. GROARK: Pat Norton. 10 MR. NORTON: Here. 11 MR. GROARK: Pat Groark is here. 12 Dwayne Oxley. 13 (Pause.) 14 MR. GROARK: Stacy Tait. 15 MS. TAIT: Here. 16 MR. GROARK: Kevin Nigro. 17 (Pause.) 18 MR. GROARK: Anthony Bono. 19 MR. BONO: Here. 20 MR. GROARK: Rich Zabroski. 21 (Pause.) 22 MR. GROARK: Dana DeMatteo. 23 MR. DEMATTEO: Here. 24 MR. GROARK: Ken Patterson. 2 1 (Pause.) 2 MR. GROARK: Fred Moore. 3 MR. MOORE: Here. 4 MR. GROARK: Ellen Coccoluto. 5 (Pause.) 6 MR. GROARK: Joe Shrimpf. 7 MR. SHRIMPF: Here. 8 MR. BRAZIS: Has everybody -- we 9 passed around the minutes from the last 10 meeting. Has everybody had a chance to look 11 at them? Anybody like to make a motion to 12 accept? 13 MR. SHRIMPF: Motion to accept. 14 MR. BRAZIS: Second? 15 MR. DEMATTEO: Second. 16 MR. BRAZIS: All in favor? 17 (Group agreement.) 18 MR. BRAZIS: Opposed? 19 (Pause.) 20 MR. BRAZIS: Minutes passed. Very 21 good. Treasurer's report, I know Mr. Oxley 22 will be here -- at least he said he was 23 going to be here -- but he'll be late, so 24 we'll wait on that. I guess Executive 3 1 Committee reports would be next. I think 2 the only thing that we had in committee was 3 a motion by -- an amendment by Mr. Shrimpf. 4 If you'd like to take the floor and you can 5 look into that now; correct? 6 MR. GROARK: Sure. 7 MR. SHRIMPF: Basically, what it was I 8 made a motion to change the bylaws stating 9 that any present or previous member of 10 the -- nomination for president, vice 11 president, secretary and treasurer may be 12 submitted to the Board only if the nominee 13 has served in an E Board position or one 14 full year as a voting member of the Board of 15 Directors. That was my motion. 16 MR. BRAZIS: Okay. Does everybody 17 understand the amendment to the bylaws? 18 MR. MOORE: Was that the amendment or 19 was that the bylaws? 20 MR. SHRIMPF: No. 21 MR. MOORE: Could you read that again, 22 'cause it sounded -- 23 MR. BONO: I think people might have 24 missed something. 4 1 MR. SHRIMPF: Nomination for 2 president, vice president, secretary and 3 treasurer may be submitted to the Board only 4 if the nominee has served in an E Board 5 position or one full year as a voting member 6 of the Board of Directors. 7 MR. MOORE: You want to amend that? 8 MR. GROARK: I believe the current 9 reads that you need to have served a full 10 year on a Board position to become an 11 E Board member. The change is that anyone 12 who has served in an E Board position 13 before -- 14 MR. SHRIMPF: Past or present. 15 MR. GROARK: -- past or present could 16 run for an E Board position. 17 MR. BONO: I think there was just some 18 misunderstanding. 19 MR. MOORE: I got it. 20 MR. SHRIMPF: Somebody that was also a 21 previous E Board member ten years ago came 22 back and wanted to run -- 23 MR. DEMATTEO: He's eligible. 24 MR. SHRIMPF: -- he would not have to 5 1 wait a year to run again. 2 MR. BONO: Does that have to be 3 second? 4 MR. SHRIMPF: It has to be voted on; 5 right? 6 MR. BRAZIS: It has to be voted on. 7 MR. GROARK: I'll second the motion. 8 MR. BRAZIS: We'll take a vote. 9 Mr. Secretary. 10 MR. GROARK: All in favor? 11 (Group agreement.) 12 MR. GROARK: Anybody opposed? 13 (Pause.) 14 MR. GROARK: It passes. 15 MR. BRAZIS: Very good. Thank you. 16 Thank you, Joe. That's an amendment to the 17 bylaws, so that's a big one. The next thing 18 we'll have to do, Pat, is that will have to 19 go to Mass. Hockey, and then also to the 20 Secretary of State's office that we made an 21 amendment to our bylaws. 22 At this time, myself, I don't have 23 much to report on. It's just a few thank 24 you's. First of all, I'd like to thank 6 1 Lucia for the Saugus Youth Hockey banquet 2 this year. Over the years I've been to 3 banquets and you've all been to banquets, 4 and let me tell you something, that was 5 something that I'll remember, and I think 6 our kids will remember. That was topnotch 7 from right when you walked in the door 'til 8 you found yourself that you'd had enough of 9 the banquet and you wanted to leave. From 10 the parents to the kids, guests, everything 11 was just done perfectly. It was a great 12 night. It was a good night for Saugus Youth 13 Hockey. Besides the awards and the raffles 14 and all of that, to me, the most satisfying 15 part of that night was getting to see 16 everybody in Saugus Youth Hockey spend some 17 time together after the formalities were 18 pretty much over and spending some time 19 having a few refreshments and chatting and 20 getting along. It was just a good, good 21 night for Youth Hockey, and honestly, I 22 can't -- I know you got a bouquet of 23 flowers, but I cannot thank you enough on 24 behalf of the E Board. 7 1 MS. PLOUFFE: Thank you. 2 MR. BRAZIS: Thank you very much. 3 Great job. If Anthony Cogliano was here, I 4 just would like to notice him, make notice 5 of him also because we approached him back 6 in January, Lucia, and he's one of the 7 managers up there, but you working with him, 8 you guys made it happen, and I think we'd 9 all be surprised in the cost that it even 10 cost Saugus Youth Hockey and the money that 11 was made that night for Saugus Youth Hockey. 12 When you see a first-rate thing like that be 13 put on, and you were able to still make some 14 money, and it didn't cost an arm and a leg 15 is credit. Thank you again to Anthony 16 Cogliano. I can't thank him enough. Pat, 17 is there anybody I forgot that I should 18 thank? 19 MR. NORTON: Lucia and her whole 20 staff. Gina Sanderson, Miss Patterson. 21 There was a lot of women who put a lot of 22 time in and it was terrific. 23 MR. BRAZIS: That's right. I forgot 24 your committee. Would you please mention 8 1 them, Lucia, so we can get them into the 2 meeting minutes? 3 MS. PLOUFFE: Gina Sanderson, Janine 4 Patterson and Rachel Cieri. The night of 5 the banquet, Suzanne DaSilva helped out, 6 too. 7 MR. BRAZIS: I'll tell you, you know, 8 we even had some help from our professional 9 sports team in the area, the Bruins donated 10 some things to the program and we made some 11 good money on those raffles, and then the 12 raffles that you put together were fantastic 13 also. There was a lot of smiles that left 14 that night. 15 MS. PLOUFFE: Even at quarter past 16 eleven there was still smiles. 17 MR. BRAZIS: Like I said, I'm sure 18 there was right up until the moment everyone 19 left. Is there anybody else, Pat? 20 MR. NORTON: That's all I can think 21 of. 22 MR. BRAZIS: A class, class event. 23 Thank you. Besides that, I'd just like to 24 say that the Player's Selection Committee 9 1 got together in the last few weeks. It's 2 not a perfect process, but the process that 3 we have this year, there was a lot of work 4 put into it, and I think the teams that are 5 put together for next year, I think the 6 committee did one heck of a job. They had 7 so much data to go by. They had three 8 coaches' evaluations throughout the year. 9 They had Player Selection Committee 10 evaluations, three of them throughout the 11 year. Then we had tryouts where we had 12 nobody affiliated at all with Saugus Youth 13 Hockey looking at everybody trying out. 14 That was huge. When you get all that data 15 together, I think you pay dividends for the 16 committee to come up and make the proper 17 selections. Like I said, it's not perfect, 18 but everybody tried hard and there was a lot 19 of time and effort put into that. 20 So to anybody that's here that was on 21 the Player's Selection Committee, I'd like 22 to thank you also and give you a little hand 23 because you put in a lot of work, every one 24 of you, and that started back in October. 10 1 That was an idea of our last president, 2 Steve Worthley, and you had a dream, I 3 think, of putting the Player's Selection 4 Committee together, and you know something, 5 I was happy that I was able to be part of 6 that committee to see it come to life. I 7 think in the years to come we'll probably be 8 duplicated by other programs in the area, so 9 thank you. 10 MR. WORTHLEY: Thank you. Special 11 thank you to Patrick Norton who chaired the 12 committee, and Scott Brazis who was the vice 13 chair of the committee. All the other 14 committee members -- 15 MR. BRAZIS: Vice Chair Shawn Murray. 16 MR. WORTHLEY: I'm sorry, Shawn. So 17 anyhow, Vice Chair Shawn Murray, Fabulous 18 Fred, Bill Heff, Joe, Tony, James, Pat 19 Groark, yes. So it was -- as we all know, 20 it was hard. Joe, especially, he was there 21 at his position, but it's not -- it's a 22 process that can continue to evolve I think 23 as we all -- all eight of us were there, and 24 it's something that will evolve and it's 11 1 phenomenal work by that group. 2 MR. BRAZIS: It was a vision that 3 started with you and Pat picked up the ball, 4 and I'll tell you, I think the reason that 5 you had wanted to see that when you were 6 president is because you thought that maybe 7 the old way of doing things wasn't maybe 8 100 percent. And we may not be 100 percent 9 now, but I think it's pretty darn good, the 10 work and effort that everybody put into it. 11 MR. WORTHLEY: The whole goal was to 12 be able to -- if a parent has a question, we 13 have something to reference to, and, 14 obviously, either Pat or whoever keeps all 15 that data -- how it goes going forward, if 16 any parents have questions about where their 17 child ended up, there is a tangible 18 discussion that could be had other than 19 "Well, it was just four people in a room." 20 So again, that's all based on the hard work 21 of the committee, and, you know, you knew 22 there was people out there that were 23 chomping at the bit and they wanted to be 24 part of it and had great ideas, and lo and 12 1 behold, we saw the fruits of that labor. 2 MR. BRAZIS: Besides that, I think 3 it's pretty much current. Pat, I'll pass it 4 to you next. 5 MR. NORTON: I have nothing to add. 6 MR. GROARK: I just want to add the 7 coaches' applications. For anyone here 8 who's coaching, we need to get those in as 9 soon as possible. Tony, do you have -- 10 MR. BONO: I have some. 11 MR. GROARK: If you know anyone else 12 who is planning on coaching, tell them to 13 get the coaching applications in. The forms 14 are online on the website. So anyone 15 interested, get them in so we can get that 16 ball rolling. 17 MR. WORTHLEY: Pat, is that for head 18 coaches only or all coaches? 19 MR. GROARK: No, it's for -- all 20 coaches should fill out the forms. I 21 believe the forms you can actually select 22 head coach. 23 MR. NORTON: It asks head coach, 24 assistant coach, and what level. Just on 13 1 the Player's Selection Committee, the 2 letters will be mailed out to the children 3 tomorrow morning. So the parents, by the 4 end of the week, will know where their child 5 is slotted for next year, so that's easy to 6 help them make a decision to which team 7 they'll be interested in coaching. 8 MR. GROARK: That's about all I have. 9 MR. BRAZIS: If I could, Pat, just a 10 segway off of what you said about the 11 coaching stuff. I'd like to pass out, pass 12 around a piece of paper to see if anybody 13 would like to be on the Coaching Committee. 14 MR. NORTON: Coaching Selection 15 Committee. 16 MR. BRAZIS: If you could, just send 17 that around. Everybody here would like to, 18 that's fine with me. The more the better. 19 MR. RAGO: Just a question, if you 20 were applying to be a head coach, would that 21 prevent you from being on the committee? 22 MR. GROARK: No. 23 MR. RAGO: Thanks. 24 MR. BRAZIS: Coaches Selection 14 1 Committee together and keep this thing going 2 in the right direction. I'm sorry, Pat, I 3 didn't mean to interrupt. Anything else? 4 MR. GROARK: That's it for me. 5 MR. MURRAY: Just a suggestion, maybe 6 we send Anthony Cogliano a formal letter 7 thanking him. Is that possible? Maybe he 8 can use that in his business that -- 9 that's -- he usually gets all negative 10 press. In case something comes up and 11 Anthony can present that. 12 MS. PLOUFFE: We'll post it on the 13 website. I just had fun. I don't care. 14 MR. BRAZIS: That's a great idea, 15 Shawn. Thank you. That's a great 16 suggestion. 17 Registrar. 18 MS. TAIT: I have nothing. 19 MR. BRAZIS: Ice coordinator. 20 MR. BONO: Nothing. 21 MR. DEMATTEO: Nothing new, but I just 22 had a question. I just want to confirm, is 23 it going to be two Bantam teams? 24 MR. BRAZIS: Correct. 15 1 MR. DEMATTEO: Do we know how many 2 kids, how many skaters we're going to have. 3 I know parents have asked me, so I know the 4 numbers have kind of moved all around, but 5 today do we know? 6 MR. NORTON: As it's slotted now, 7 provided all of the kids stay, one team will 8 have, it looks like, 12 skaters, and one 9 team will have 13 skaters -- no, it's 12 and 10 12, actually. They'll both have 12 skaters. 11 If more join, then it's obviously based upon 12 skill and they'll be slotted. If anybody 13 else joins, they'll be slotted in -- what 14 we're calling the B Team, and then through 15 the parity period it will be determined 16 where they end up. We're not going to 17 overload -- in all of the leagues, they're 18 all going to carry the same number of kids, 19 if possible. If there's one odd kid, 20 they'll be one off, but there's not going to 21 be one team with two or three fewer kids 22 than another team. They're all going to 23 carry equivalent amount of kids. 24 MR. DEMATTEO: Then on -- was it three 16 1 goalies amongst all the Bantams? 2 MR. NORTON: Yeah. They're all 3 slotted at the level for flexibility in all 4 leagues. 5 MR. BRAZIS: I don't want you to think 6 that was just at the Bantam level. That is 7 throughout hockey. That was done for a 8 reason. 9 MR. DEMATTEO: I know I've been asked 10 questions. 11 MR. BRAZIS: You know as well as 12 anybody, it's easy -- if you're supposedly 13 put on this roster -- 14 MR. DEMATTEO: -- it's easier to move 15 up. 16 MR. NORTON: You can't move down. 17 MR. BRAZIS: It gives this program a 18 lot of flexibility. Anything else? 19 MR. DEMATTEO: No. One other thing. 20 Lucia, great job. 21 MR. BRAZIS: Mr. Moore, how's the 22 equipment? 23 MR. MOORE: I'm still lacking some 24 equipment, which hopefully I'll be getting 17 1 this week, and that's it. 2 MR. BRAZIS: You need any help making 3 phone calls for that? 4 MR. MOORE: No, I got it handled. 5 MR. BRAZIS: Joe. 6 MR. SHRIMPF: Basically as far as the 7 Bantams, too, you just stated 12 and 13, but 8 right now we only have ten and we left space 9 for people in parity to move up. If people 10 start asking questions, if you say 12, and 11 they start counting heads and say "There's 12 only ten" or "There's only nine" or whatever 13 the number that comes up, that's the reason. 14 Also, I didn't go to the banquet. I'm 15 hearing that it was great, and I think maybe 16 Mr. Cogliano should probably get a little 17 note in the local paper, because he does get 18 other little notes in the local paper, and I 19 think a little note in the paper might help 20 him. 21 MR. BRAZIS: We can put a nice piece 22 together and get that in the newspaper 23 besides a personal note to him. That's a 24 good idea also. We'll recognize everybody 18 1 that we did here tonight, we'll get a nice 2 article together. 3 MS. PLOUFFE: Just so you guys know, 4 too, as a little side note. Whatever Jin 5 didn't want him to give us -- well, give out 6 as a price, Anthony covered the difference. 7 MR. BRAZIS: He helped with the 8 trophies, too, didn't he? 9 MS. PLOUFFE: He donated the DJ and he 10 covered all the extra expenses. 11 MR. WORTHLEY: Make sure that goes out 12 to several papers, the Item. 13 MR. BRAZIS: Good idea, Joe. Anything 14 else? 15 MR. SHRIMPF: Nothing else. 16 MR. BRAZIS: We went around for our 17 Executive Board here and the Board of 18 Directors -- Ellen, I'm sorry, I didn't see 19 you. 20 MS. COCCOLUTO: I'm all set. Nothing. 21 MR. BRAZIS: I apologize, really. I 22 didn't see you. Can you put her down as 23 present, Colleen? Do we have anybody as our 24 guest that would like to come up and say 19 1 anything or make a comment? 2 MR. WORTHLEY: Can I say it from here? 3 In staying with the theme of Jin, just as -- 4 I'd like to recommend to the Board to 5 potentially finding some room on the website 6 to put them in as a sponsor on the website 7 just, you know, free of charge. Again, in 8 addition to all the other stuff. I mean, I 9 was looking on the website today, it said it 10 have over 55,000 hits, so just another thing 11 to help out, especially hearing what Anthony 12 has done. That's just a suggestion. 13 MR. BRAZIS: Very good. Anybody else 14 like to speak? 15 (Pause.) 16 MR. BRAZIS: I guess that's it for our 17 monthly business. The next thing we should 18 be doing is nominations so that those can -- 19 positions that people get nominated for can 20 be filled next month. I apologize for being 21 naive, but if you could help me along on how 22 it's done. Go ahead, Mr. Secretary, please, 23 nominate away or anybody else that would 24 like to. 20 1 MR. GROARK: Why don't we start like 2 this, we'll just go right down the list. 3 First spot, president. Anyone want to 4 nominate someone for president? 5 MR. MOORE: Nominate Scott Brazis. 6 MR. DEMATTEO: Second that. 7 MR. WORTHLEY: You don't need to 8 second. 9 MR. GROARK: Anyone else? 10 (Pause.) 11 MR. GROARK: Let's go to vice 12 president. 13 MR. BONO: Nominate Steve Worthley. 14 MR. GROARK: Any others? 15 MR. DEMATTEO: I'd nominate Pat also. 16 I'm assuming you would still run. 17 MR. NORTON: I can't accept the 18 nomination. I can't do it next year. I 19 can't give the time I'd want to give 20 directly. 21 MR. DEMATTEO: I just want to 22 acknowledge that you've done a good job and 23 done really good. 24 MR. NORTON: I appreciate that. Thank 21 1 you, Dana. 2 MR. GROARK: Next, secretary. 3 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Pat 4 Groark. 5 MR. GROARK: Anyone else? 6 (Pause.) 7 MR. GROARK: Treasurer. 8 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate 9 Anthony Bono. 10 MR. NORTON: I want to dominate Dwayne 11 Oxley. 12 MR. WORTHLEY: For what, treasurer? 13 MR. GROARK: Anyone else? 14 (Pause.) 15 MR. GROARK: Registrar. 16 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate 17 James Rago. 18 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate Bill 19 Heffernan. 20 MR. GROARK: I'd like to nominate Mike 21 Moriello. 22 MR. SHRIMPF: I'd like to nominate 23 Stacy. 24 MR. GROARK: Any others? 22 1 (Pause.) 2 MR. GROARK: League rep. 3 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate Dana 4 DeMatteo. 5 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Matt 6 Murphy. 7 MR. GROARK: That's it? 8 (Pause.) 9 MR. GROARK: Ice coordinator. 10 MR. WORTHLEY: I'd like to nominate 11 Bill Heff. 12 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate 13 James Rago. 14 MR. WORTHLEY: I'd like to nominate 15 Dana DeMatteo. 16 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Matt 17 Murphy. 18 MR. MOORE: What was that for? 19 MR. BRAZIS: Ice coordinator. 20 MR. WORTHLEY: I'd like to nominate 21 Mike Bennett. 22 MR. GROARK: Anyone else? 23 (Pause.) 24 MR. GROARK: Next up, coaching 23 1 director. 2 MR. BRAZIS: Peewee/Squirt? 3 MR. NORTON: Coaching Director. I'd 4 like to nominate Dwayne Oxley. 5 MR. GROARK: Any others? 6 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate 7 Shawn Murray. 8 MR. GROARK: Next, Peewee/Squirt 9 director. 10 MR. BONO: Shawn Murray. 11 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Mike 12 Bennett. 13 MR. WORTHLEY: I'd like to nominate 14 James Rago. 15 MR. GROARK: Any others? 16 (Pause.) 17 MR. GROARK: Next is Mite director. 18 MR. BONO: I'd like to nominate Mike 19 Moriello. 20 MS. PLOUFFE: I'd like to just make a 21 comment. Like I said to you earlier about 22 Bennett, with regards to the directors of 23 the levels, just as seeing what happened 24 this past year, I don't feel that it 24 1 should -- that's my own personal opinion 2 that if you have a child at that level, you 3 shouldn't be the director for that level 4 because you're going to have conflict with 5 your own parents that you have to deal with. 6 You might be better off dealing with a 7 different age level. My personal opinion. 8 I don't know how other people feel, but I 9 just want to put that note out there. 10 MR. BRAZIS: That's fine. Thank you. 11 MR. MOORE: The only problem I have -- 12 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate 13 Lucia. 14 MR. MOORE: The only problem I have 15 with that is you're going to be putting more 16 pressure on people to put more of their 17 time. They're going to be at the rink times 18 they don't need to be at the rink. 19 MR. NORTON: You're right. It makes 20 it harder to manage. 21 MR. MOORE: How did we do it last 22 year? 23 MS. PLOUFFE: Dana had Bantam and his 24 kid wasn't on Bantam. 25 1 MR. MOORE: Right, but Rich had 2 PeeWee/Squirts and he was a PeeWee. 3 MR. DEMATTEO: I actually -- you know 4 something, this year Bantam, I think it 5 would actually be a lot easier for me this 6 year 'cause like you said, you're going to 7 be at the rink, you're going to catch half 8 the games any way, and then you're going to 9 try to get to the other games, so you get to 10 see more games. The other way, you're kind 11 of limited to how many games you're going to 12 see. 13 MR. MOORE: Also, the practice times. 14 If there is another division closer to your 15 practice times and you're going to be at the 16 rink for practice to address issues with the 17 parents. 18 MR. DEMATTEO: I think it's an 19 advantage. Plus, you're going to know the 20 parents. It was harder for me because I 21 didn't know the parents. 22 MS. PLOUFFE: But you were an outside 23 voice at that point. 24 MR. MOORE: I understand your point. 26 1 Both points are valid. 2 MR. BRAZIS: That's why you speak up. 3 MR. GROARK: Any more nominations for 4 Mite director? 5 (Pause.) 6 MR. GROARK: We'll move on to 7 Bantam/Midget director. 8 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Dana 9 DeMatteo. 10 MR. DEMATTEO: I'd like to nominate 11 Mike Bennett. 12 MR. NORTON: I nominate Shawn Murray. 13 MR. GROARK: Anyone else? 14 (Pause.) 15 MR. GROARK: Next is Clinic director 16 or Learn to Skate. 17 MR. WORTHLEY: I nominate Fred Moore. 18 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Matt 19 Majeski. 20 MR. DEMATTEO: Nominate Ken Patterson. 21 MR. GROARK: I'd like to nominate 22 Shawn Murray. 23 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate Mike 24 Moriello. 27 1 MR. WORTHLEY: I'd like to nominate 2 Pat Norton -- I'm sorry, I withdraw that 3 nomination. 4 MR. GROARK: Equipment director. 5 MR. NORTON: Fred Moore. 6 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Fred 7 Moore. 8 (Dwayne Oxley is now present.) 9 MR. GROARK: Anyone else? 10 (Pause.) 11 MR. GROARK: No one wants to take 12 Fred's job, that's good. 13 Fundraiser. 14 MR. BONO: I'd like to nominate Lucia 15 Plouffe. 16 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate 17 Ellen Coccoluto. 18 MS. COCCOLUTO: I decline. Sorry. 19 MR. GROARK: Anyone else? 20 (Pause.) 21 MR. GROARK: Ethics. 22 MR. WORTHLEY: I nominate Joe Shrimpf. 23 Last spot is web director or publicity 24 director, same thing. 28 1 MR. BRAZIS: I'd like to nominate Bill 2 Heffernan. 3 MR. DEMATTEO: I'd like to nominate 4 Ken Patterson. 5 MR. NORTON: I'd like to nominate Matt 6 Murphy. 7 MR. BRAZIS: Any other nominations 8 that we have to get, Mr. Secretary? 9 MR. GROARK: That's it, unless anyone 10 wants to add on to this. That's the list. 11 MR. MOORE: Are we talking about some 12 position that we were -- wasn't there a 13 position that we were -- 14 MR. NORTON: Web director. 15 MR. MOORE: Right. I forgot what it 16 was. 17 MR. BRAZIS: If I may, is there 18 anybody out in the crowd that is interested 19 in any position on the Board? 20 MR. NORTON: Or know anybody they want 21 to nominate? 22 MR. BRAZIS: Fatima, are you 23 interested -- 24 MS. ALLEN: I'm sorry, what? 29 1 MR. BRAZIS: Are you interested in any 2 position in the Board? 3 MS. ALLEN: President -- no. 4 MR. BRAZIS: I can nominate you for 5 that. 6 MS. ALLEN: No, thank you. I'll help. 7 MR. BRAZIS: Thank you. 8 MR. GROARK: That's it for 9 nominations. 10 MR. DEMATTEO: I had a question. If 11 you decide you want to add somebody, is it 12 too late after tonight or can somebody be 13 added? 14 MR. OXLEY: It can be added. 15 MS. TAIT: They have to be here, 16 though, at the next meeting to accept it. 17 Is that when we vote? 18 MR. GROARK: That's the vote. 19 MS. TAIT: They have to be here. 20 MR. BRAZIS: Just to switch gears here 21 a little bit here. Mr. Oxley is here now. 22 Is there a treasurer's report that -- a 23 short one that you'd like to make? 24 MR. OXLEY: No, not really. 30 1 MR. BRAZIS: Any statement that you'd 2 like to make? 3 MR. OXLEY: I'll have a full financial 4 statement for next month. Tony and I have 5 been kind of sharing duties the last -- 6 really since registration. As far as bills, 7 I'm still reconciling the Valley. I did 8 send them another payment. I didn't want to 9 give them any more 'cause I think 10 somewhere -- they say we still owe, I think, 11 8,000, but it's somewhere between zero and 12 eight that we owe. 13 We are paid in full for all of our 14 North Suburban practice ice, for the 15 Kasabuski practice ice and the Mite 16 Instructional, Cross Ice, that's all paid in 17 full. I wish I had a balance to give you, 18 but I don't. Tony's made several deposits 19 over the past month, small ones, so I've 20 been cutting the checks. Tony has been kind 21 of taking the money in. I'll have a full 22 report for next month. 23 MR. BRAZIS: If I may, I know you've 24 been able to write the refunds for anybody 31 1 that has decided to go in a different 2 direction? 3 MR. OXLEY: Yeah, we actually had a 4 handful the past couple weeks. 5 Surprisingly, a lot of young kids, which I 6 was -- you know, Mite level, lower Mite 7 level kids that are going to play for other 8 programs, and it is what it is. So yes, 9 we've cut some of them. There's still a few 10 more to cut, but they've been getting out. 11 MR. BRAZIS: Very good. 12 MR. NORTON: As a reminder, the teams 13 are being mailed out tomorrow. The 14 deposits, the initial deposits are 15 non-refundable after June 1st. So they'll 16 have -- this way the parents have a couple 17 weeks to look at it, and then any refund 18 will be net of a $50 processing tryout fee. 19 MS. COCCOLUTO: Pat, will Lauren's 20 deposit go towards the two boys? 21 MR. NORTON: You can talk to Dwayne 22 about how you want to have that applied. I 23 requested the other ones. Just talk to 24 Dwayne about that. 32 1 MR. DEMATTEO: When will the teams be 2 put on the website; a couple weeks? 3 MR. NORTON: At least a week to get 4 the letters out. 5 MR. MOORE: Probably after June 1st to 6 the -- 7 MR. DEMATTEO: Just in case for some 8 crazy reason a letter doesn't get to 9 someone's house, do you throw it on there at 10 some point the end of next week? 11 MR. MOORE: Wait 'til June 1st until 12 you find out who gets a refund back. 13 MR. NORTON: The parents might want to 14 know who else is on the team as well to make 15 their decision. 16 MR. DEMATTEO: You never know if 17 somebody doesn't get their mail, and then 18 all of a sudden -- you're probably better 19 off if you put it on. 20 MR. MOORE: Usually know within a day. 21 News travels quick. 22 MR. NORTON: We want to get the 23 information out. 24 MR. DEMATTEO: I have another 33 1 question, too. Is the ice situation all 2 behind us now with the Kasabuski? Is that 3 all squared away? 4 MR. NORTON: The next two years our 5 ice is finalized, and our ice cost is 6 finalized with the Valley for next year. 7 Once we have the final number of the kids 8 after June 1st and we reconciled the Valley, 9 we account for the fundraising from the 10 wrestling, from the poker tournament, the 11 money we made, that's going to give us a net 12 number, then we'll be able to establish our 13 final tuition once we know what the final 14 number is and that will be based on the fact 15 that the deposit is non-refundable. 16 MS. PLOUFFE: Final decision on the 17 league, is everyone Valley? 18 MR. NORTON: That was going to be 19 next. 20 MS. PLOUFFE: Sorry. 21 MR. BRAZIS: That is next. We wanted 22 to get the teams out; correct? 23 MR. NORTON: Yeah. 24 MR. BRAZIS: We wanted to get the 34 1 teams out, then we were hoping that we could 2 have meetings with the teams and get some 3 feedback from the parents, instead of just 4 saying "Maybe you're going to this league 5 and you're going to this league." We'd like 6 to get some feedback. We had a very 7 constructive meeting with the Bantams on how 8 they wanted the teams split up and 9 everything, so it was discussed with the 10 E Board, and we just felt it was best that 11 maybe we could get some feedback from the 12 parents once the teams have been decided. 13 MS. PLOUFFE: Will that also be before 14 June 1st? 15 MR. BRAZIS: We're running short on 16 time. I'd like to. We'd certainly like to 17 do that. That was the original plan; 18 correct? 19 MR. NORTON: Yes. 20 MR. BRAZIS: That's why we wanted to 21 get the teams out by June 1st. 22 MR. SHRIMPF: Have we heard anything 23 more from North Suburban and FMC on the 24 amount of teams they have in their leagues? 35 1 MR. BRAZIS: I have not heard anything 2 else. They were emailing almost every other 3 day up until last week, wanting to know what 4 we were going to do as a program, but we 5 have budgeted to have the whole program 6 playing the Valley League. 7 MS. ALLEN: It's not going to be more 8 money if you're going into two leagues. So 9 if one league was $1,600, we go to two, is 10 it going to be 2,000? 11 MR. NORTON: It's probably going to 12 be -- if it was the other league, it would 13 probably be like a lower level, maybe lower 14 level Mite to begin or Squirt, potentially, 15 and you would -- the team would be committed 16 to that league and they would pay the 17 appropriate fee for that league. No team -- 18 like in the old days -- belongs to both 19 leagues. You belong to just one and you pay 20 the appropriate fee that corresponds with 21 the league that you belong with. So the 22 Valley League would be one. The Valley 23 League, I believe, is charging about $241 an 24 hour for a game with a very broad range of 36 1 teams and the ability to slot a team for 2 competitiveness. FMC, at this point, is 3 offering, I think it's 170 an hour, but 4 you're going to have fewer -- the 5 competition may be varied because you're 6 probably only talking about maybe five or 7 six teams per division, so that's sort of 8 the -- that's the risk you run. It's cost 9 versus certainty of competition, and also 10 FMC should be closer. 11 One of the things -- we are going to 12 reach out at some point to the Valley and 13 let them know our concerns about the travel, 14 the options that we have with other leagues, 15 and the fact that we're not crazy about a 16 lot of games for our program in the 17 Haverhill, Lawrence area. We'd like to have 18 those limited as much as possible to have 19 the parents happy. In no way are we going 20 to be moving the whole league into FMC. 21 MR. OXLEY: Not that it matters, 22 'cause they ask you every year, this year 23 they did expand. The Valley League asks 24 every year what rinks you want to play at. 37 1 I've been the one that's been deciding that 2 pretty much for the last couple years 'cause 3 I'm the one who gets -- when I send in the 4 registration forms for teams and what levels 5 we're supposed to be at, another 6 questionnaire is what rinks you want to play 7 at. They used to ask you your top five. 8 This year they asked you your top seven and 9 none of our top -- what I listed, none of 10 the top seven were either Lawrence or 11 Haverhill, so they know where we stand. 12 It's just sometimes if you're playing 13 Haverhill, you're probably going to play in 14 Haverhill or if you're playing some team 15 north of New Hampshire or Maine, you're 16 going to play somewhere far away. 17 MR. MOORE: Ultimately it becomes 18 based on which division you end up against, 19 which teams you play, which is more 20 important to the program than -- 21 MR. OXLEY: Right. 22 MR. MOORE: I don't want to be in 23 Malden playing a team that I'm going to kill 24 or get killed by every time. I'd rather go 38 1 to Woburn. 2 MR. NORTON: Is there a reason you 3 have to be in Burlington for every game 4 instead of them coming to Malden once in a 5 while? You know there's ways that -- 6 MR. MOORE: That definitely happens 7 because they'll throw one game closer to 8 you, and then you'll have to play them -- 9 MR. NORTON: We play Woburn every time 10 in Woburn. Woburn is not much of a 11 difference, but Haverhill every time. Can 12 Haverhill come to Malden once in a while? 13 MR. MOORE: We played North Andover in 14 Kasabuski, which was great. Obviously, 15 whoever facilitated that situation, I 16 believe it was -- 17 MR. WORTHLEY: That was a great thing. 18 MR. NORTON: We were told that they 19 weren't going to be selling -- Kasabuski 20 wasn't going to sell ice to the Valley. I'm 21 not sure if that's going to be the case next 22 year because I don't know if the North 23 Suburban is going the way they thought it 24 was going to. 39 1 MR. MOORE: Can I ask a question I 2 guess or -- are you done? 3 MR. OXLEY: Um-hmm. 4 MR. MOORE: Are we going to get the 5 Learn to Skate hour back on Saturday or try 6 to? 7 MR. GROARK: Absolutely. 8 MR. BRAZIS: Certainly. We're going 9 to get in the schools, elementary schools 10 quicker. That's the future. 11 MR. MOORE: That would be great. 12 MR. BRAZIS: We learned, and not 13 through anybody's fault of having to move it 14 to Sunday night, but Saturday was better. 15 Numbers were better and everybody else was 16 used to that. It seemed like that was the 17 night, so yes. 18 MR. MOORE: We gained a little bit as 19 a program on the other end. Maybe it wasn't 20 as beneficial to the young kids, but having 21 the games there was tremendous, but I don't 22 think it's that beneficial. 23 MR. BRAZIS: Anything else, Dwayne? 24 (Pause.) 40 1 MR. BRAZIS: That's it. Any other 2 business? 3 (Pause.) 4 MR. BRAZIS: Anything anybody would 5 like to bring up? 6 MR. BONO: The plaques for the 7 sponsors that went out at the banquet, I'm 8 offering to -- do you need help on how 9 they're going to get them? 10 MR. GROARK: I delivered them already. 11 MS. PLOUFFE: There were only two; 12 right? 13 MR. GROARK: Yeah, Nasty Nonnie's and 14 Universal, they've both been delivered. 15 MR. BRAZIS: Very good. Any other 16 business? 17 (Pause.) 18 MR. WORTHLEY: Motion to adjourn. 19 MR. MOORE: Second. 20 MR. BRAZIS: All in favor? 21 (Group agreement.) 22 (Meeting concluded at 8:27 p.m.) 23 24