Mason City Youth Hockey Association
Board Meeting August 23, 2007
North Iowa Ice Arena 6:30pm

Members Present: Pam Metli, Dave Hepperly, Kristin McHenry, Geri Maulsby, Stacie Lancaster, Craig Osland, Jerry Gribben, John Wagner, Susie Smith, and guests: John Lloyd and Mark Hicks.

Minutes: Minutes from July were reviewed. Jerry motions to accept the minutes as printed, Geri seconds. Motion approved.

Figure Skaters: Pam reports that Jean Moore is the President. They will hold their registration September 13 th and 15 th, separate from ours this year. Their Pro will be here on Fridays, lessons Thursdays. Pam will have schedule conflicts (Outlaws, High School, ect.) typed up and given to the Figure skating club before the season starts.

Financials: Pam reports that our Raymond James account needs updating with current board members names. Pam will get forms to those who need to sign.

Geri reports that our taxes are not done yet and they have filed for an extension. Financials tabled until next month.

Arena: John Lloyd reports that the dirt comes out September 17 th. The compressor will be turned on the 18 th. He would like to paint by Friday the 21 st. Saturday, September 29 th will be the first day youth hockey could use the ice. The first Outlaw games are September 28 th & 29 th.

The cooling tower has all new bearings.

We may possibly get all new florescent lighting in the arena through Alliant Energy. Alliant is writing up a proposal showing us our cost savings and will be sent to us soon.

Holland should be here any day to fix gutters. Ice dams will be put up to help prevent any further gutter damage.

It has also been recommended that we get a roll of rubber flooring and replace some of the old flooring around the west side of the ice by the stairs to the stands. Arlen Lindsay would install this again for us.

Sound System: Dennis Higgins here to present what satellite speakers would do for our arena. Bob Thoms, business manager for the Outlaws is here as well to hear the presentation. The board listened to music and voice with thru the new speakers and compared them to our current system. Dennis recommends that 9 speaker be installed replacing our old system. Dennis will get us an estimate on how much that would cost next week. He will also get us a separate estimate on how much it would cost us to rewire the mezzanine so that announcements would be heard and not the music. We are looking to have new speakers in by the middle of September. Sound system tabled until we have the quotes and a reply from the Outlaws on whether or not they will be able to help us pay for the new system.

Schedule: A conflict has already arisen. The Outlaws have scheduled games February 15 th & 16 th against the Blizzard. This is the same weekend as our Winterfest Tournament. Bob Thoms to see what he can do to rearrange game times to help facilitate making our tournament successful.

Hicks Clinic will be held October 1 st, 2 nd, & 4 th. Tryouts will be held October 7 th, 8 th & 9 th. Our program will start Saturday, October 13 th.

Referee Clinic: Stacie to call Mike Owens from Ames to book a time for the referee clinic.

High School: John W. to make changes to the high school code of conduct form. The mandatory worker schedule handout is done. Sponsor form is done.

Youth Hockey: Jerry motions that any player playing on the bantam team will sign the high school code of conduct form. Dave seconds the motion. Motion approved.

Youth Rep: Bill Davis will be the youth hockey rep with Michelle Bamrick and Jennifer Martin helping him.

Coaches: Hicks reports that the coaching situation is not looking good. Has not received as many applications as he would have liked.

Volunteers: There are 27 Outlaw home games. 162 slots open to fill for concessions those nights. At registration families will have to sign up for an Outlaw game to work before they can register their child.

Fundraiser: Kristin reports that we need to make a decision on whom to go with for our fundraiser. Pro’s and Con’s were discussed using Schwan’s and Party Time. Dave motions that we go with Party Time fundraising this year. Jerry seconds the motion. Motion approved.

Travel Jerseys: Discussed having stop patches sewn on. Pam to forward an email of what the jerseys will look like to the committee.

New Business: Julie Fistler has submitted her resignation via email effective immediately. Julie is removed from the board in accordance with bylaws section 3.12 resignation and removal.

Next meeting will be on Thursday September 13 th, 2007.

Raises/Wages for John Lloyd and Mark Hicks tabled until next meeting.

Motion to adjourn was made by Jerry with Geri seconding the motion. Meeting adjourned at 9:48pm.

Updated 12/03/2007