Mason City Youth Hockey Association
Board Meeting Tuesday, March 13 th, 2007
First Citizens National Bank 6:30pm

Members Present: Pam Metli, Julie Fistler, Geri Maulsby, George Jessen, Jerry Gribben, Jeff Cornick, Bob Barnes, Susie Smith, Mark Lassise, Mark Hicks, Dave Hepperly and Kristin McHenry.

The meeting is called to order by president Pam Metli at 6:35pm.

Guest Mark Vrba gave a presentation on Frappier Acceleration Sports Training Program.

Minutes: Amendment to last months minutes, Jeff Metli will be attending the Maha meeting with Tom Lundeen not Jeff Cornick. Jeff Cornick motions to accept the minutes as amended. Jerry seconds. Motion approved.

Financials: Our current cash position is around $35,000 at the end of February.

If the Outlaws should make the playoffs and extend into April they will be responsible for the cost of operations in April not Mason City Youth Hockey.

Kristin motions to approve the financials. Susie seconds. Motion approved.

Arena: Outlaws playoff potential: Motz is prepared to cover the ice if needed. They will not know their standings until the last weekend.

George presented Mechanical Air’s bid to put in a heat exchanger and boilers. Bid is $75,000. George states we can plan on around $80,000 by the time it’s all done.

Our heating system right now is only 50% efficient. Putting in a heat exchanger and replacing the duct furnaces with boilers would bring out efficiency up to 90%. Our gas bill for the year is estimated at $17,000 this year. We would potentially save $4,000 a year by making these changes. The project will take 5-6 weeks to complete and has to be done in the summer. Discussion was held on the feasibility of doing the project this summer and advantages of waiting and trying to obtain funding for the project. Bob Barnes, Jeff Cornick, Jerry Gribben, and Deb Lassise will form a committee for this project.

High School: Mark reports that this was a good season. Many freshmen stepped up and played well. Varsity finished 8 th in the state tournament and the JV finished 7 th.

Four players participated in the All-Star game. Assistant coach, Matt Paulsen, is done now. Hicks will coach in the Chicago Showcase. The High School banquet will be held March 20 th.

Youth Hockey: End of season tournament started this week. Youth Hockey Banquet is tentatively set for April 3 rd. Pam will confirm and report back.

Travel Program: Susie to get with Bill Davis to get patches/awards ready for the banquet. Susie states that Winterfest went very well.

Maha news: District 4 & 8 are joining. (Proximity will still play a factor for games.)

Annual Meeting: Thursday, April 19 th, 2007 at 6:30pm at Trinity Lutheran Church.

Nomination Committee: Bob reports that we have 11 candidates for the youth hockey board. Mark Lassise, Jim King, Jennifer Martin, Stacey Lancaster, Mike Butler, Steve Schmidt, Casey Martin, Craig Osland, Joe Goodrich, Jeanette Adamski, and Jeff Cornick. Bob motions to approve this list of candidates for the board. Susie seconds. All in favor, motion approved.

New Business: Jeff Cornick reports that he will handle the Band Fest application again this year.

Geri motions to adjourn the meeting. Susie seconds. Meeting adjourned at 8:08pm.

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Updated 09/27/2007