GHLL Board Meeting 12/7/06 7:00pm

Present:

Bill Glover, Curt Morford, Brian Villa, Cy A. Oatridge, Joe Guinn, Rick Nordi, Roy Kaldestad, Tiffany Bestwick, Lou Hassan, Deana Fanning, Debbie Selby, Shawn Hanon, Dave Koberstein, Steve Sutton, Kelly Busey, Sean Scanlan, David Kilcup, Tom Taylor, Brian Horton, Gary Gallinger, Jim Reyes

 

 

Old Business

  • Bill Glover updated the Board on Rule Changes
    1. Teams will bat entire order at Major League level and have free substitution after meeting mandatory play of six consecutive outs
    2. Changed 7:30 game time limit to the same as the early games no new inning after
    3. All 12 year olds will be in the Majors unless they opt to play AAA or miss tryouts.

  • All Board members must fill out Volunteer application and sign up to be a member of GHLL($10)

 

New Business

  • Bill Glover reviewed the current registration levels. Discussion followed about numbers trailing past years. We will be doing a mailer to remind previous players that have not yet signed up and schedule another registration for early January.  Late registration will be at the Hatteberg clinic on 1/27 and late fee will be charged for LL players.

  • Roy Kaldestad spoke about the Hatteberg Clinic. Looking at 10 different stations during the clinic plus the Swing Away Rep.
          1.   Curt Morford will put information in the gateway about the Clinic.

2.      Registrations forms ready tomorrow.

3.      Location Peninsula H.S. Aux. Gym on January 27.

4.      Board Members will be delivering posters to all the area schools.

5.      Took volunteers for working on the Hatteberg clinic so that the committee could meet more often as the date approaches.

  • Snack Shack….We will advertise in the Gateway for a third party to run the snack shack.

  • Bill Glover announced March 3rd will be the date of our breakfast at Chapel Hill. Curt Morford will post on the website

  • Parent Meeting… do we want to have one or not? Gary Gallinger and Brian Horton volunteered to work on this project.

  • Brian Horton talked about a two day training clinic for new umpires. He is planning on bringing in GHLL Regional Umpires to provide the training. He will need a few teams to play scrimmage games to help the rookie umpires get trained.  Brian will also work up a planned proposal to utilize AAA/Majors umpires to cover AAA games.  This will be a requirement for this years Managers.

Note: Considering that league would pay for umpire’s jersey either after they have completed training or after they have completed a set amount of games.

·         Bill Glover discussed new proposed rule changes to be voted on next Executive Board meeting.

a.       Re-instate AAA standings.

b.      Rule about replacing a hitter after 3 hit batters

 

·         Gary Gallinger updated us on alternate field use. Gary will work to get us an estimate on possible revenue per tournament and a fee schedule to determine how/if we will offer the field for rent.  Brian Horton will try to contact Regional LL representative so we can discuss possible insurance issues.

 

·         JR/Sr players will stay on the same team.

·         Late fee changes will be $30 for GHLL from $50, none for Jr/Sr

·         Work Party will be December 9 at 9:00am.
Location: 9913 Burnham Drive,
Bring gloves, wheel barrels and tools

·         Pitch in for Baseball….bring in old equipment to the meet the Manager breakfast.  Tom Taylor will look at this for us and report back at the next meeting.

 

Next Board meeting will be held on January 4, 2007 at 7pm at the Ray Nash Fire Station.