Greater Edmonton Lacrosse Council

September  8, 2008 Minutes

Board Meeting

Attendance:

Donna Haggstrom , GELC                         Shaun Cunningham, Wizards     

Keith Talbot, President                               Lori Zdrill, Treasurer      

Bob Poseluzny, Rams                          Doug Frost, Discipline

Liz Roberts, Westlock                                Kent Gorham, Leduc

Kent Proctor, Rebels                    

Rob Davidge, Coaching Director,Titans

   Regrets: Ken Hansen, Daryl Hill                            

1. Call to order:

            Meeting called to order by President, Keith Talbot, 6:38 pm

2. Adoption of Agenda:

            Rob Davidge/Bob Poseluzny moved the adoption of the Agenda. 

            Carried. With the following additions, Floor machine, Junior Tier Three

3. Adoption of previous meetings minutes: July 8, 2008

            . Correction of Rob Davidge’s spelling of name.

            Bob Poseluzny/Shaun Cunningham Carried

4. Business arising from minutes:

a)     September 6^th Meeting in Red Deer – Keith gave an overview of the meeting with comments added by those in attendance.

b)     ALA Annual General Meeting:

Elections President, Registrar. Keith to approach Darlene about running for the position of President. Clubs need to be in attendance at the meeting.

c)      Casino – The Casino is coming up in December we require the names and forms for all the volunteer positions filled in and brought back to the October Meeting, at the latest.

d)     Field Nationals- Keith congratulated Doug on a job well done. Doug expressed concerns that referees where a concern. His volunteers were there and many children came and helped out as well. There will be a wrap up meeting in a couple of weeks.

e)     Building: Donna and Keith had looked at building that would be suitable for the needs of the Council. The board prior to purchasing a building would like a budget of expected expenses. Cost clubs, which would be involved, mortgage, or funding etc.

The building has an offer pending and as a result the realtor will continue to look on our behalf.

5. Reports/Correspondence:

a)        President's report:

Keith attended some games at Minto as well as midget nationals, has been meeting with John Tryrell over common issues and concerns.

b)       Vice Presidents Report:

Attended midget nationals as well as Minto. Brought forward the girls box rules from BC.

Kent Proctor/Bob Poseluzny moved to adopt the preliminary report presented to the board. Carried

This will be send to CDLA, and taken to ALA for implementation in the province.

c)        Treasurers Report

Lori presented Profit and Loss statements and balance sheets.

Lori Zdrill/ Doug Frost moved to accept statements.

d)       Discipline Report

Doug has a couple of matters to deal with potentially set up a meeting for September 18^th to deal with the issues left over.

He will send out an email to confirm.

e)        Field

Razorbacks will cease to exist as a playing club. Parents will be holding a meeting to decide on the status. The School program at Vimy will be taking over that aspect.

Fall league, apparently TLP, Traids and a Rogue Warriors Coach are trying to put together teams for a fall field league.

Kent will be calling a field meeting to find out what is happening.

f)          Coaching Director – nothing to report

6.       New Business

a)        Raffle – 50 –50

Bob Poseluzny/Kent Proctor moved to apply for a raffle license under $100,000. for the 2009 Rush Season 50 –50 raffles.

b)        Planning Meetings

Prior to the Planning meeting of October 18, 9:00 AM

Committees should hold their planning meetings to bring recommendations to the Planning meeting.

       November 3 AGM

       November 3 Regular meeting

c)        Floor machine

To get prices from the Miners.

d)        Tier Three

Go to Box for recommendations, decision on how to do this on 18^th of October.

e)        Winter lacrosse

Rebels are currently doing drop in conjunction with the City of Fort Saskatchewan at the Dow Center on Monday evenings.

Open to any one in three divisions beginner, intermediate and advanced.

Titans will advise the board when they know what they are doing.

Leduc new facilities being built there nothing currently happening

Rams will have Tuesday and Thursday drop in again at Servus after Christmas.

Wizards are looking for a facility to hold a winter program in.

7.       Adjournment

Shaun Cunningham/Bob Poseluzny moved the adjournment of the meeting at 8:30 pm.

Greater Edmonton Lacrosse Council

Meeting

September 10, 2007

Attendance:

John Frame, Blues                                                        Bud Fagrie, Warriors

Bob Poseluzny, Rams                                                   Keith Talbot, Vice President

Daryl Hill, Leduc                                                          Darlene Anders, President

Shaun Cunningham, Wizards                                         Jim Andrews, Wizards

Bill Clarke, Box Chair                                                  Kent Proctor, Rebels

Donna Haggstrom, GELC

Guests: Graham Sterparn, Triads, Duane Vienneau and Scott Zerr of the Rush

1. Call to order:

The President Darlene Anders called the meeting to order at 6:41 pm.

2. Adoption of the Agenda:

Note that Duane and Scott from the Rush will be attending.

            Keith Talbot/ Kent Proctor moved to accept the agenda of the meeting. Carried

3. Introductions Occurred.

4. Adoption of the minutes of the previous two meetings June 3 and July 9^th.

Keith Talbot/Bud Fagrie moved to adopt the minutes. Carried.

5. Business Arising from the minutes:

Provincial Intents- Darlene had sent a letter of request into the Provincial Committee of the ALA in regards to the $1500.00 that where the bonds for three teams which did not have participation from the GELC clubs. The request was that the $1500 be returned to the GELC as we had supported provincials with a large portion of the team base.

6. Guests: Edmonton Rush, Scott Zerr, Duane Vienneau, spoke about the upcoming Rush lacrosse season.

Rush is holding the All Star game on Sunday March 16^th. The schedule will be released later this week.

March 15^th there will be a game with the Rochester team and following it the skills competition.

The Rush would like to outreach to the community and turn the all-star game into a special event. They wish to create a committee to begin brainstorming.

They have a new kids program called the Junior Rush Fan club all children of season’s tickets holders will be come members. Others may join for a nominal fee. There will be contests specific to kids and T-shirts.

Note on the Rush season ticket increases:

The building was re configured for the sale of tickets to market specifically for lacrosse sightlines.  The ticket prices include 9 games (all-star game) and the 8 regular season games. Last season there was a charge for only 7 games.

The Rush School Program will be run by Ben Prepchuk this season.

The February second date was picked for the Rush – Registration day Tournament day.

7. Field Lacrosse Concerns

Keith Talbot led discussion on field lacrosse concerns in the GELC.

Concerns:

 a) That there was no consistent program.

b) Both the Razor Backs and the Triads where side stepping the GELC

c) 2008 Field Lacrosse Championships

Much discussion occurred on field.

The 2008 Nationals where awarded to the Razorback club for the Labour Day weekend.

There is a fall field league happening between the three provincial areas

With fields and officials booked. There is a lack of field lacrosse referees.

It was decided that there is very much a need for all interested people in field lacrosse to get together and look at the structure of field lacrosse in Edmonton prior to the GELC planning meeting.

8. Reports:

a) Presidents Report

Darlene reported that she would be attending the ALA strategic planning meeting on the weekend. She requested items to bring up at the meeting. The growth of minor lacrosse was one. Encouraging box lacrosse provincial meetings. She would share issues such as ladies box lacrosse, provincials, help for the smaller clubs.

b)      Vice President  -

Had nothing to report

c)      Treasurer –

 Reports provided there was an error in the Warriors; an invoice was reflected in the amount twice.

d)      RIC – Absent

e)      Box –

The box planning meeting will be held on Monday September 19^th at 7:30 pm following the Facilities meeting.

f)        Facilities –

Will hold a meeting on September 17^th, at 6:30 pm all clubs using Edmonton Faculties are especially requested to attend.

g)      Gaming-

Darlene indicated that Alberta Gaming had called her and asked if we would be interested in moving up two quarters and taking a Casino at Christmas time 2008.

h)      Discipline –

Discipline chair is absent, an email will be sent to him to make arrangements to hold a discipline pre-planning meeting.

i)        Field-

Triads and Razorbacks to meet and make decisions about field lacrosse to bring the GELC planning meeting.

j)        Administration

The Casino in July went well with one person missing from each shift. A suggestion was made that we incorporate an extra person into each day who would call the volunteers and if they did not show up be available to come in and fill in. 

All invoicing for the past season has gone out.

10)   New Business:

a)      Eclipse had requested to make a presentation about floor time, they did not attend the meeting, and Darlene believes that the issue had been clarified with them.

b)      Westlock and the building fund – Westlock is to be billed for the building fund.

c)      Subcommittee Planning meetings – discussed under reports

d)      2008 Field Lacrosse National Championships –

Championships where discussed earlier in the meeting.

e)      Winter Lacrosse-

All clubs where asked to come to the Box planning meeting with an idea of what they where doing for winter field.  Donna was to send an email out requesting information from all clubs to complete prior to the Planning meeting. Information to include no, of booked hours when, who could attend, cost etc.

There was a discussion on if a common fee could be charged or if each club charged a fee if those who had paid the fee could attend the other clubs evenings.  This will be discussed in more detail at the box planning meeting.

f)        Community Operating Grants –

Darlene reminded the city clubs that this grant was available via application for the clubs if they where interested.

g)      Coaching Clinics –

A request to hold coaching clinics earlier in the season was made and it will be discussed at the box planning meeting.

11)   Adjournment 

 The President adjourned the meeting at 8:46 pm.

12)   Next Meeting

The next meeting will be held on October 13^th at 9 am in the morning.

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