GHLL Volunteer Board Meeting Minutes

May 17, 2007
Start 7:15 pm

Present:
Bill Glover, Brian Villa, Cy Oatridge, Joe Guinn, Ron Brentin, Robert Young, Curt Morford, Tiffany Bestwick, Deana Fanning, Debbie Selby, Shawn Hanon, Dave & Terri Koberstein, Bob Werner, Sean Scanlan, Kurt Carlson, Leo Bundick, Maurice Hanks, Brian Horton,

Old Business:

· Bill Glover, President, started the meeting thanking all the volunteers for the great job at the Golf Tournament and Auction Dinner raising over $21,000 for GHLL.

· Bill Glover announced GHLL received $10,000 grant from the Cheney Foundation to install overhead netting covering the GHLL spectator areas.

· Terri Koberstein spoke about the All Star tryouts. Discussion followed as to the pros/cons as to when to have the tryouts are best suited.
All Star tryouts and voting will take place on June 16.
Dena Weiss and Dave Kilcup will manage the uniforms.
Curt Morford will manage the Coaching selection committee.

Discussion followed about having a Players vote for five(5) All Star candidates as well as coaches choosing five(5). Terri Koberstein will craft a letter for all the information to go out to all the Managers.

· Julie Gustanskie and Laurie Crawford spoke about the PenMet Foundation (Harbor Family Park 19 acres). $250,000 is needed to be raised by September 14^th to secure the field. Question about GHLL usage going forward-Rosedale/Arletta.

· Brian Horton and Robert Young will be scheduling Umpires for the Tournament. Dave Koberstein completed Tournament Rules and Brackets all will be posted on the GHLL website.

New Business:

· Bill Glover announced KP is interested in expanding their Junior League with GHLL next year.

· Bob Werner gave a presentation to the Volunteer Board on the next steps to acquire New Fields for GHLL in the near future. Next step will be to get a smaller committee together to move forward on this topic.

· Maurice Hanks will manage Fall Ball with the help of other volunteers. Maurice will present information about Fall ball to the Board during the June meeting

· Bill announced International Rule Changes
1. All shall bat during games at the Minors levels(GHLL already does this)
2. All twelve year olds will play Majors(GHLL passed this for 2007)
3. Players must play 60% of games to be eligible for All Stars

4. League boundaries are frozen as of 2007

5. Coaches from other organizations are OK to coach all-stars

Other topics covered and available on the Little League International website.

· Bill asked that all volunteers monitor the fields for kids throwing rocks and any other safety issues at the LL fields.

· Bill announced the following Local Rule Changes

1. There remains no time limit on Junior games

2. There will be Tie games allowed this season for GHLL since we are only using standings for tourney seeding.

Meeting adjourned 9:15 pm.
Next Meeting June 14^th at Ray Nash Fire Station