Northwest Chargers Hockey Association
Board of Directors’ Meeting
April 14, 2008

Regular Meeting Minutes

 The regular meeting of the Northwest Chargers Hockey Association was called to order at 6:35pm.  Present at the meeting where Linda Becker, Doug Grupe, Melba Hartman, Scott Larsen, David Miller, Gene Raffone, Lori Sall, Chris Sciortino and Jim Zeman. Not in attendance was Russ Fitton.  Also in attendance were Ken Smith and Brent Dolan.

 Old Business: The minutes of the regular meeting held on May 3, 2008 and special meeting help on March 31, 2008 were unanimously approved.

 Hockey Director: Brent mentioned Spring League was going well.  Brent plans on sitting down with coaches at the end of the season. The Squirt White team would play the remainder of the season in their division, then, possibly not play on the league play off. Banners will be going up by Ice Show weekend. Brent is looking into various options for goalie instruction for the upcoming fall. Once option to keep the cost down on goalie instruction is to split the cost with the Renegades.  Brent has spoke with Rob from True Performance and wants top teams to participate in True Performance workouts.

In addition Brent is speaking with Chris Kayln to coach the 3^rd Pee-Wee team and with Jim Basic to coach 3^rd Midget team.

 Communications:  Mike mentioned that he received good feedback relative to posting team selections on the web-site.  Mike will be soliciting area business for an advertisement slot on the Charger web-page.  Cost to advertise would be $1,300-$1,500.  

 Equipment: Dave placed the order for additional 60-pairs of intermediate socks.  We will need to replace a couple of jersey’s which where ruined during the season.  The cost to replace the jerseys will be the same as last years per jersey cost. 

Fund Raising: The board mentioned using unused ice to play an alumni game. The board also stressed the need to form a fundraising committee to help out in this area.

 League: Scott attended the NIHL year end meeting on March 17, 2008.  The league mentioned that they had a good response regarding the how the NIHL tournament was done.  The Midwest Maniacs’ out of Dyer, IN have shown interest in receiving Tier II status.  The league will also be further looking into mandating a B tournament for those teams that do not qualify for the NIHL tournament.  In addition Scott mentioned that NIHL is considering approval of the Yellow Jackets and Admirals for Tier II status, as long as they have one team at every level. Southwest Spring League is in the process of redrafting their by-laws. The SWSI is also looking into restructuring their leagues format, to be more a tournament structure where you would play all of your games over the course of 3 weekends instead of the current 6-week season. The Chargers will host the Mite SWSL tournament May 16^th –May 18^th.

Registrar:  Lori has completed all Spring League Rosters.  In addition all players and coaches will need to go to usahockey.com to register on line for their annual hockey insurance, prior to tryouts.  Proof of insurance will need to be presented, prior to the start of fall league try outs by all participants.

Rules & Ethics: Jim had no additional information to report. 

 Scheduler: Ken is working on scheduling summers skates what will be help beginning the week of June 29, 2008 and concluding August 17, 2008. Midgets and Bantams will skate on Wednesday evenings will all other division skates on Sunday.

 Tournament: Doug approached the board with their position on advancing tournament entry fees to teams wishing to participate on in early fall tournaments.  The board will allow a coach to request an advance for early tournament entry fees.

 Treasurer: Russ was not present.

 New Business:

The Board interviewed Heather Stimetz, Frank Avino and Tria Murphy for open board positions as a group the board decided to form a committee consisting of Linda Becker, Gene Raffone, Chris Sciortino and Jim Zeman to draft a letter to all Charger families regarding open board positions.  The letter will be sent out to all members the week of April 28^th.  After that time, the board will conduct additional interviews for interested board members and then take a vote on the new board members.

 The Chargers will be holding their 1^st Annual Golf Classic on May 22^nd at the Glendale Lakes Golf Club.  The board will be sending out a reminder to all Chargers Families regarding this event as well as posting to our web-site.

 Our next board meeting will be help on May 12, 2008 at the West Meadows Ice Arena. The meeting adjourned at 9:20pm.

 Respectfully submitted,

 Chris Sciortino, Secretary