Charleswood Men S Hockey Association Meeting

Charleswood Men’s Hockey Association Meeting

Date: April 24, 2008 Time: 7:30 – 10:00 pm Location: Charleswood Hotel Present: Dan Lucovic, Cam Sutherland, Kelly Boyson, Court Reyda, Bob Mauthe, Eric Lunenberg, Doug Collins, Shawn Chambers, Scott Lougheed, Dan Wuerch Regrets: Brian Ormel

1. Financial Update: With one exception, all teams and players have paid their fees. The present bank balance is approximately $4000 dollars

2. Scholarships: The league will once again award two scholarships to deserving graduating individuals. ACTION ITEM : Court will look after Shaftesbury, and Bob will look after Oak Park. The scholarships are open to male and female players. The criteria are as follows:

a. Must be going on to some post secondary education b. Must have an academic average of 75% or better c. Must have played hockey this past year at the School, Community Club, or Winnipeg Minor Hockey level

The school will select the individual and forward their names to us.

3. Referee Payment: Referees have asked for an increase in their remuneration of $5 for next year. ACTION ITEM: Dan will offer the increase to the referees but on the condition that there is no increase for 3 years after.

4. Annual Golf Tournament: Brian forwarded information for the annual golf tourney. The intent is that the tournament be held at Breezy Bend with an afternoon tee-off of 3:00 – 3:00 on Thursday, May 22. ACTION ITEM: Brian to confirm date with Breezy Bend and circulate tournament information.

5. Expansion to 7 Teams: The possibility of expanding to 7 teams was discussed. ACTION ITEM: Dan will look into ice times that are available on a night other than Sunday and at the earliest time possible. ACTION ITEM : Player reps are to canvas their teams ASAP to find out if they are playing next year.

6. Fundraising: The league will do some sort of fundraising next year. Two suggestions were Grey Cup Tickets, and a Social. We are tentatively looking at a Social downstairs at the Charley in January 2009.

7. Executive and Team Rep Turnover: Dan brought up the idea of having the executive and team reps have three year terms. Dan is willing to do one more year as president.

8. Discipline Committee: The idea of a discipline committee was also floated. The group agreed that a mechanism should be put in place. ACTION ITEM : Starting in the 2008-09 season, team reps who are not involved in the dispute/suspension issue will make up the discipline committee. The referee and two teams involved would have input before the final decision is made. A discipline committee decision will be sent to the president and he will inform the offender(s), affected reps and referees. 9. CMHA Foundation: Shawn presented information about the establishment of our foundation that would be administered by the Winnipeg Foundation. The Winnipeg Foundation has a minimum commitment of $7500 dollars to start with an admin cost of ½ of 1%. Donators would get a tax receipt for any donations. ACTION ITEM: Shawn will arrange a meeting with a rep from the Winnipeg Foundation to further explain how this might work for us.

10. Socks/Equipment: Each team will get 6 new pairs of socks. Kelly has a heat press and can fix numbers that are coming off. ACTION ITEM: Scott to provide the old Sharks sweaters and fill in the missing sweaters. Team reps to check their sweaters and have the numbers fixed.

11. Draft and Goalies: Dan will ask goalies about their intentions for next year. Goalies will be part of the draft next year and go whenever a team rep decides. If there is a goalie as team rep, then that rep must pick himself immediately after the first goalie is selected in the draft. The team reps ranked as either # 1 or # 2 will choose themselves third in their respective levels during the draft round. The # 3 ranked rep’s will pick themselves first in their respective round.

12. Points: Next year there will be NO POINTS awarded at Xmas or for the Xmas tourney. Individual stats will NOT be recorded. The Xmas tourney is for wings and bragging rights only! At the end of the season, one point will be awarded for finishing first and one-half point for finishing in second place.

13. Timekeeping: This was a problem at the end of the year (again). Players will be required to make out a $30 cheque payable to the league at the beginning of the year. Players who miss their timekeeping will forfeit their cheque. ACTION ITEM: Dan Lucovic will administer the fund for the 2008-09 season.

14. OTHER: Scott Lougheed thanked the exec and reps for their support over the years and announced that he is done as past president. Thanks for all your hard work Scott.

Meeting adjourned at 10:00 pm.