March 2024 Meeting Minutes
Hamilton Soccer Club
Meeting: Wednesday, March 13th, 2024
7:07 Start
Minutes from last month – approved
| Nelson Hernandez | William Conway | Andrea Viteritto | Rich Ehrmann |
| Dave bergren | Kurt Bliefernich | Kyle Oravsky | Hamlet Caminero |
| Eric todd | Laurie heimes | Frank Bisanzio | Chris Bensch |
| Sylvanna Bartholomew | Gregg smith |
Agenda and notes
| Item | Notes | Follow up? |
| Fundraising | Killarneys – 50.00 check
Honeygrow ~ 20.00 Current: Cheesecake Lady – orders due friday SkyZone – 3/22, deadline 3/20 5 below – 3/24-3/31 REmind philadelphia union – push again |
Coaches – please push fundraisers to your players. Please try things like coordinating times and visits. |
| concessions | We can run the stand on Sunday’s, volunteer only – this is more about having things available to families | Sylvanna is going to work on kona ice as a possibility
Are we allowed to have bake sales? |
| League rep | MOSA hall of fame dinner, most recent event
8 teams came back with trophies! Flight night 3/14 – no war stories – ½ move up, ⅚ go down, ¾ stay Schedule needs to be done a week after flight night – frank |
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| treasurer | Preliminary budget done, present next meeting
27 open invoices – will start sending things on sunday 3/15 was the first payment deadline |
Payments:
Rich first Bill second Nelson also |
| fields |
Opening day – you need to come out… 3/23 bring your kids, bring your team – 9:00 and on |
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| Updates on teams | Cobras – 5/4/1 tough competition
Banshees – last day of agility, back outside next week Strikers – 3/3/4 – speed of the game! Cyclones – 5/3/2 – player paid, started, stopped, probably has 10 players. There are some 2017s Dragons 4/4/2 – outdoor on Saturdays Predators – 4/5/1 – new player, moving along, may lose one player Warriors – 5/4 – played good teams, we lost two players from the fall. We will be looking for a replacement at the id clinic Terminators – 6/1/3 – tough competition with guest players. Cosmos – 4/3/2 – many new players but great job! |
To add a new player – tell nelson. He will reach out to rich and rich will take over from there.
Spring only add is 375 plus uniform |
| Templates for ranking players | Let’s get this done asap. Please bring printed templates to the next meeting. | MOSA is reviewing how many can be secondary |
| Pricing for guest players/EDP | with trainer and 5 games is 210, plus 50 per tournament
EDP – extra 50 for the year to cover the registration fees, one tournament EDP secondary pass needs approval and it costs 30.00 for the carding fee |
We will be replacing the Manalapan tournament with Voorhees |
| tournaments | 225 more for Manalapan, per team
Voorhees tournament – do we like this? 4 games, you have to earn 1st/2nd |
Cyclones follow up by friday with tournament status
We will be doing Voorhees Let nelson know by 3/22 if you plan on doing sunburst |
| Player id session | Rich has been sending information to us… 38 registered participants and 14/15 through the old ones | |
| trainers | 2 weeks before the season starts
Retaining the same trainers We lost coach b – hamlet keeps him Pete goes to the warriors Kate does wolfpack and banshees |
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| permits | Nelson filed permit…. No nets. Not worth putting nets out with the rains because he wants to line at the same time. They are aerating the fields at hughes drive. We will not get into 3-9 until may. They are tournament fields and require extra work and maintenance. | |
| 4 minutes to talk | Rich – leave game numbers on schedule, Frank, please
Gregg – Rec ends around 5 on Saturday and will also play on Sunday afternoons, we can play Saturday night as travel. There are not enough volunteers – please help when Gregg asks for things. Also has asked rec. Fewer volunteers, more teams, more players Laurie – is there a cabinet or shelf where we can put some things that players may need? Nelson says he is working on a travel locker. Kyle continues to look for follow through. Nelson will forward to kyle, kyle to parents. Hamlet – new player – looking for info, may help Saturday…. Frank – time frame concerns. We have had several weeks where there were too many teams at once. Nelson says we are working on a ref assigner by maybe next season. Frank lost a player from both teams. Will be looking for immediate rostering. 9 families have not been credited back for the bags. Nelson says that is coming soon. Bill – time… does a lot for both sides. We need to get the parents involved. We are 100% volunteers. |
Gregg – share with social media |
| refs | Payments will be available in the safe… there will be 3 – main ref and ARx2 – if you do not have 3, put extra money back | Do you have any further questions? Talk to nelson. He prefers phone calls. Nelson will be sharing the codes with head coaches. |
| Fall schedule | Banshees, predators, dragons – past fall, schedule not accommodating longer play time. |
New Business
| What needs to be done? | Gregg will be bringing up annually at our meetings | We will also be posting needs for volunteers on social media. Andrea will help Gregg |
| Picture day | Picture day is coming up. Every single team needs to come. It is mandatory. April 27th | Mandatory attendance at picture day |
Adjourned: 9:11
