Minutes of the
NASL Board Meeting
Wednesday, October 29, 2003

  • Minutes of the NASL Board Meeting of October 29th, 2003

  • Held at The Chinese Restaurant at the corner of Memorial Parkway and Governors Drive in Huntsville

  • 11:00am – 1:30pm

  • Board members present at the meeting were: Christy Clark, Craig Hardwick, Irene Wisner, Becky Vansant, Belton MacCary and Ken Gamble.


    CALL TO ORDER:
               The meeting was called to order. The main topic of business was Preparations for State Cups.
     

STATE CUP

 

STATE CUP – DIVISION I
      There are 63 teams attending this week’s Division I State Cup. Games will be held at Rec Field, Kiwanis, John Hunt complex, Bell Mountain, Randolph Garth, Randolph Drake, McGucken, Dublin (Madison), UAH and the Merrimack complex.

PARKING PASSES:
      Parking Passes are $5.00 each.
Will we be selling parking passes at the Friday night Registration meeting?
Irene will design the passes for both Division I and Division II Cups using the new 2003 State Cup logo. Ken will send her a copy of the logo. Irene will print out enough passes (1,500 minimum) for this weekend on a bright color paper.

      The net proceeds from the sale of parking passes will be donated to FOSNA for use in purchasing lights for fields. It was proposed, seconded and voted in the affirmative that we specify that the money can only be used for lights.


PARKING AND FIELD MARSHALL OUTSOURCING:
      It was proposed and accepted to use soccer booster clubs to take up money for parking passes and to provide field marshals.
      Grissom Girls Soccer Booster Club will handle these chores at the John Hunt Soccer Complex. They will be paid $800 to cover the 40 games being played there.
      Bob Jones Soccer Booster Club will handle these chores at the Merrimack Soccer Complex. They will be paid $600 to cover the 30 games being played there.
      At the remainder of the fields we will not take up money for parking passes since most (if not all) of those teams will have to go to either John Hunt or Merrimack at some time and will have to buy their pass there. But field marshals will be needed at all those fields. There are 36 games being played there but 4 will be handled by Craig and Becky so we need a booster club to handle field marshalling at 32 games. It was proposed that we pay $500 for that responsibility. The price is higher due to the variety of locations that have to be covered even though parking pass sales will not be made.
      NOTE: The Grissom Boys Soccer Booster Club has accepted the responsibility of providing field marshals for the "Other Fields" and will be paid $500.
      On Friday night there will be 3 games at John Hunt and 6 games at other fields. On Saturday there will be 21 games at John Hunt, 17 at Merrimack and 16 at other fields. On Sunday there will be 16 games at John Hunt, 13 at Merrimack and 14 at other fields.

TENTS:
      Ten tents will be needed and will be borrowed from the Kicks and RCIT.
Tents will need to be put up on Friday afternoon at each location.

TEE-SHIRTS:
      It was suggested and agreed that we provide a sample tee-shirt at each tent with a sign showing pricing and that they can be purchased at John Hunt or Merrimack. Irene will provide signs for the tee-shirts. We will need about 12 signs. The tee-shirts will be sold for $15 for short sleeved shirts and $18 for long sleeved shirts. Christy noted that there are a few ASA shirts available for the NASL Board volunteers. Spare

SPONSORS:
      The official sponsors for both the Division 1 and 2 tournaments are Pete’s Soccer Shop and Diadora. There was some question whether Snickers is still an official sponsor since they are listed as the official sponsor for the national tournament.

TABLES:
     Tables will be needed and may be borrowed from Lee Hovater with the City of Huntsville.

BINS:
     Bins will need to be provided at each field for the field marshals. Things to include in the bins are:
Emergency phone numbers, size 5 game balls (in the D2 tournament some size 4 balls will be required), field marshal instructions, tournament program, vests for the field marshals, radio, updated game schedules.

REFEREES:
      Water and ice will be needed for the referees. HSC will provide some coolers. Becky and Irene are to purchase 600 bottles of water and will be reimbursed. Any water not used this weekend will be used next weekend at the D2 tournament.

JAYCEE BUILDING:
      Will the kitchen be available? Christy will check and be sure since there is a haunted house there.


OTHER BUSINESS:
 

REC-PLUS TOURNAMENT:
      Which teams will be participating? Some ended their season with the Governor’s Cup so Ken will send out an e-mail to find out which teams will be playing and what group (U9, U10) they will be playing in. Belton will check on trophies and/or medals for the first and second place teams. No guest players will be allowed in the tournament. It was decided that the deadline for entering the tournament will be next Tuesday, November 4th.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL COURSE:
       Christy recommended we contact the Red Cross about a CPR course for coaches and managers. Ken recommended we contact the Red Cross about a full Sports Medicine Course instead. It was agreed to try and set this up for next fall or possibly spring if there was interest.

TEAMS WHICH ARE NON-ACTIVE or NON-PAYING:
       Remove the following teams from the website as they are no longer in existence: #183, #023, #116, #145, #164, #221, #263. Add Team # 145 Scottsboro Wildcats U14 Boys.
       The following teams have problems as they scheduled games and have not paid their NASL fees or have not paid enough NASL fees.

  • Team #251 – Madison Soccer Club ’89 Shockers Girls – Carl Blair, coach - Owes $25.00 for additional NASL games scheduled above the $50.00 for scheduling state games and refs.

  • Team #224 – Lady Kicks ’92 Girls – David Barrow, coach - Owe $75.00 – No form or check paid.

The checks should be paid to NASL and mailed to Irene Wisner, 2502 Scenic Drive SE, Huntsville, AL 35801.

The meeting was adjourned.