Mason City Youth Hockey Association
Board Meeting Thursday, November 16 th 2006
First Citizens National Bank 6:30pm  

Members Present: Pam Metli, Julie Fistler, George Jessen, Susie Smith, Dave Hepperly, Bob Barnes, Jeff Cornick, Jerry Gribben, Chad Wilhm, Kristin McHenry Mark Lassise. Guests attending: Bill Davis and Neil Noterman.

American Cancer Society Fundraiser: Linda and Joe Anderegg presented “Put Cancer on Ice” campaign proposal. This fundraiser held at the arena would help raise money for the American Cancer Society. They would like to hold the fundraiser Saturday, February 10, 2007 during the Mohawk and Outlaw games. Joe presented raffle, auction and other ideas to raise extra money. Linda would handle all advertising for the event. In return they would propose that MCYH donate a portion of ticket and concession sales to the American Cancer Society.

Discussion was held. George motions to let Linda go ahead and organize the fundraiser. Jeff seconds. Motion approved. Jeff, Chad, Julie, and George to help Linda and Joe work with the Mohawks and Outlaws on this event.

Minutes: Jerry motions to accept the October minutes as printed. Bob seconds. Motion approved.

Figure Skating: Thursday ice times have changed. They are now getting off the ice a half hour earlier.

Arena: T/V monitors and cameras to be installed at the arena tonight. Casey Martin donated two TV’s and Scott Moorman donated one. Outlaws did not help with purchase of camera. Mark L. to work on getting grants to help pay for cameras.

The donated computers are not working well. Software updates are needed on the laptop to help with scheduling.

Concession stand freezer died. New freezer was purchased from Sears.

Still having issues with people volunteering for the concession stand. The concession stand needs to be open! Will put reminder in the newsletter again.

The Vision Iowa coordinator would like pictures of the arena addition for a report she is putting together. Jeff will send pictures.

Outlaws: The building of a beer garden has been talked about. Discussion was held and the youth hockey board is not in favor of this. The Outlaws will have to go through the arena operations committee with any other further ideas.

High School: Varsity is 4-0. JV 2-1-1. Things are looking good.

Youth Hockey: It has been asked that Bill Davis or Kristin McHenry handle new registrations. New players will have to call Bill or Kristin and set up a time to coordinate filling out registration forms and renting equipment. Trying to sign up new players and fit equipment during Learn to Skate practice times is not appropriate.

Discussed the need for a Parent Handbook to be made and handed out. This handbook would cover parent responsibilities concerning Mason City Youth Hockey.

Bill reports that learn to skate, initiation, and icehawk levels are going well. At the superhawk level we only have three coaches still. At the peewee level there are some players not showing up for their house games and coming to practice later that night. A reminder will be sent out about playing house games.

Neil reports that the referee situation is good. Two Outlaw players are getting their level 3 certification.

Jerry reports that the December tournament is not looking good. The January tournament only needs two more teams. And Winterfest only needs one more peewee team.

Travel Jerseys: All board members are in favor of looking in to getting new travel jerseys. A committee will looking into a couple different jersey options and present a proposal to the board at a later date.

Fundraising: Jeff to contact John Fischer about Culver’s night. Kristin states that the Schwan’s fundraiser will run January 10 th-27 th 2007. Jeff Pietig to contact Margo Underwood with Waste Management again about doing the recycling fundraiser.

Risk Manager: Attorney Rustin Davenport has accepted the position of risk manager.

Old Business: Jim McKinnon has written a letter to the board requesting a response as to the outcome of last year’s incident between him and Rod Mariner. This incident will be further investigated and reviewed by the Discipline Committee.

New Business: Cornick requests that John Lloyd give a list to the ticket takers as to who is working as arena staff. The ticket takers will then know who pays and who doesn’t.

Discipline committee to review incidents between Brian McHenry and Rich Piscapo, Steve Schmidt and Jeff Spear. Also, they will review eligibility of (a high school aged player).

The board discussed letting (a mite aged player) play Squirt B. Neil motions to let (the mite aged player) play on the Squirt B team. George seconds. Nine in favor with two opposed. Motion approved. Jerry to contact (the mite aged player) father and let him know what the board has decided.

Dave would like to hold a fundraiser for the Stan Mikita Hearing Impaired Hockey camp Saturday, January 13 th, in the mezzanine. A meal or something similar would be sold to raise money for the camp. Jeff seconds the idea. Dave to go ahead and organize the event.

December Meeting: The meeting will be held December 20 th at 6:30pm at George’s home.

Mark motions for adjournment. Pam seconds. Meeting adjourned at 8:59pm.

Updated 12/04/2007