FMYSA Organization Meeting Minutes 9/13/05

Attendees:

Ken Skillett, Bret Williams, Mike Rooney, Jim Antionelli, Nick Jamele, Larry Burwell, Amy Burwell, Gene Gray, Miles Pollok, Pat Cavanaugh, Roger Vowell, Paul Rademacher, Damon Trammell and Chuck Berneche

The meeting opened with the approval of the minutes from the prior meeting

A presentation/proposal was made by Brandon King for his Eagle Scout projects.   The proposal was that he would construct dugout shade structures for Tiger Fields.   The league would furnish the materials ($2900 est.) and Brandon would build the structures to the Town of Flower Mound’s specifications.

Fall Season Update:

Other than some confusion around playing up rules (driven by the cutoff age change), there were no significant issues with registration.

The coaching clinic went well.   MVP has offered to host the next one.
Moving up the fall registration date will be examined in order to provide additional time.
Nick Jamele and Ken Skillett will examine sending a survey to parents on some ideas such as “reduced schedule, t-shirts instead of uniforms etc.”
Uniform distribution needs work.   Amy Burwell will list the issues.
Water will be provided for umpires in their room’s refrigerator.

A website redesign will be examined to provide a new and enhanced look.   The cost would appear to be 1-1.5k.

Softball
Softball will begin working/scheduling through NTI in the spring.

Baseball
Pepper Hastings will for a Select Winter task to force to examine the current structure and look for improvement opportunities.

Rattler Baseball
The Rattler Baseball coaches were invited to the meeting and prompted to think about generating ideas to help promote the Rattler Club’s visibility in the community.   The coaches were encouraged to funnel their ideas to Nick Jamele.

Meeting Adjourned