Attendance: Jonah Mytro, Chuck, Jay Flynn, Daniel Chen, Mark Archibald, Lynn Kerr (left at 8), Jeff Sinnamon
Confirmed No: Tom Sweeny
Guests: Bruno Tramontozzi, Chet Oberhelman
Start time: 7:00pm
End time: 9:30pm
LOCATION:
Reports
- Treasurer Report
- No update from Dori
- Reg
- No update from Judy
- Jonah received batch of email addresses for mailing list
- NERVA Report
- Board of Directors meeting 3/11/08
- Jonah and Jay attended
- JO’s having issues with theft
- Reviewed stipends and last year’s budgets
- 2010 USAV Open Championships
- Membership fees
- Need to increase; paper sign-up more expensive than online sign up; extra monies passed on to registrar
- Costs have increased and membership fees have not in the past 5 or so years
- NERVA (Dave Castanon) would like our decision by end of May
- Yankee Board Discussion
- Credit Card fees are a factor
- No financial reason to update one-day fee
- Jay Flynn motions to raise the membership fee to $35 (online)/40 (paper) effective Sep 1, 2008
- Chuck seconds
- For: Unanimous
- Mark Archibald will email the registrar to find out more details before the board decides how the extra fees might be appropriated
- Ratings Report
- Nothing to report; nobody moved since the freeze
- Blog Report
- Jonah has stats available for anybody that would like to review them
- Newsletter Update
- 1700
- Promoting championships and nationals
- Coming soon for picnic, nationals, summer volleyball
- Web Editor Report
- The ISP that supports NVC and the Yankee Tournament Roster/Reg
- Was down for a weekend; but the move went smoothly.
- Procedures for doing automated nightly backups of the Yankee Tournament Roster/Reg
- So worse case going forward:
- Lose 24 hours worth of updates
- Back up and running within a few hours after any future hardware
- Yankee Accreditation tests for Second Referees and Scorekeepers were put online Friday 4/4
- Announced on Saturday (Many thanks to Steve Webster and Carly Par
- Due to a motherboard
- Hope to wrap those up by the end of next weekend.
- GRC Report
- Last scramble at Regis was full
- Next weekend is a scramble at WNA
- Taking a $500-800 loss at each scramble
- That’s about a $4000 loss per year
- We cover one-day membership
- Next year we may need to ra
- Bylaws Committee Report
- None this week
- Goal of December ’08 to have bylaws re-worked
- Sam is working on updating the Yankee Rules Document
Old Business:
- Approval of past minutes
- Jonah motions to accept
- Daniel Seconds
- Accepts: Jeff S, Lynn, Mark, Daniel, Chuck, Jonah, Sam
- Abstain: Jay
- NERVA BOD Meeting
- See above notes
- NERVA would like us to elect/appoint the position or board member from Yankee to be a voting member on the NERVA board. The President
- Will table until a later date
- Meeting Dates
- Choose meeting dates through August
- May 12, 7 pm
- Will decide the August draft
- June 7 (at Yankee Picnic) 1:30
- Bylaws Committee will meet in July
- TNT Vacations
- Will invite to next meeting for 10 minute presentation
- Beanpot
- Jonah wanted start times and teams by Thursday 5pm
- It was done online
- No email was sent promoting the updates
- Al thinks people were registering late
- 3-four team pools in the men’s tourney Saturday
- This tournament did not meet the point minimum
- Minimum Points per Team
- Board cannot find th
- If the rule was not published, its not enforceable
- Jeff motions that the minimum amount of play is 168 points for a regular day tournament
- Jonah seconds
- For: Unanimous
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New Business:
- JO Ratings
- JO membership versus adult membership with rating
- Jonah motions that anybody that plays Yankee should have a Published Yankee Rating and are subject to all standard Yankee rules and regulations
- Sam seconds
- For: Unanimous
- Discussion of instant re-rates regarding men rating women and women rating men
- Jeff motions to amend the rules so that the decision to instantly re-rate a player must not need to be a joint decision by TD and rater; sole discretion is at the hands of the rater
- Jonah Seconds
- For: Chuck, Jay, Dan, Jonah, Jeff
- Against: Sam
- Abstain: Mark
- Motion passes
- Yankee Tournament Skeleton Modification
- Daniel Chen/Bruno
- Have more high level tournaments on Saturdays
- Is it possible to adjust skeleton to incorporate the day of the weekend as a factor?
- Jeff recommends that it be announced pre-draft that TDs should keep in mind that many high level players coach JOs which have tournaments on Sunday
- Judy’s thoughts (via email)
- Find an equation for the draft that benefits the legit longtime tournament directors.
- Per Jonah, new TDs are on a probationary period for the first draft period they are in
- Perhaps allowing TDs that have been successfully running tournament for 5+ years the opportunity to draft 100 team spots, 3+ years running 60 team spots, newbies only 30....or something like this OR get rid of the draft completely like we used to.
- The draft was started to get more TDs; maybe it's time for free enterprise.
- Per Jonah – should not be free enterprise or give long term TDs any more benefits
- Jeff is examining options to include a geographical factor into the skeleton system
- Will continue to discuss at future meetings
- Uniforms
- Bruno is concerned about referee consistency regarding libero uniforms
- Chet has requested Steve Webster get the information out to BAVP again regarding the rules and the interpretation
- The tournament head referee has the final decision on all uniforms
- Nationals Mappings
- Per David Castanon (email)
- The minimum for regional BB should be right after the maximum for regional B. In the past, we never worried about minimums for National ratings; minimums were introduced only for Yankee-championships, when you had 9 levels of championships. Th
- Somehow, we seem to have extended those to the USAV regionals.
- Jay motions that the minimums be lowered so that the ranges are contiguous, effective immediately
- Sam seconds
- For: Mark, Jeff, Chuck, Daniel, Jay, Sam
- Against: Jonah
- Motion Passes
- Per Kr
- I think it should be brought to the board attentions they keep an eye out on the different levels at Nationals and think about the current mappings especially the B and BB. I think the B level should be allowed 3 B women as the competition seems to be getting stronger. Same with the BB
- Per Jonah: Women’s B mapping should be adjusted for next year and will work with Dave for next year to adjust.
- Ratings (per Don Cohen via email)
- Why can you only have 4 Bs if you’re going to B nationals. Is it time to try again to address the nomenclature of ratings?
- First change
- D becomes D
- C- become DD
- C becomes C
- C+ become CC
- B- becomes B
- B becomes BB
- B+ becomes A
- becomes AA
- A/A+ become AAA or Open
- Second Step
- Change tournament mappings to match nationals mappings CC and below stay the same old +3. That way, teams can play all year together and prepare for nationals.
- Discussion ensues
- Our largest membership rating is C+ and so the Yankee ratings system works for the majority of our members
- Nationals
- 55 down from 67 last year
- Only 1 UVolley
- Coed is down
- Using championship results to rank teams
- Need an OPEN 2010 update at next meeting
- Championships
- Chet needs help getting teams for championships at some of the lower level
- Requests GRC gets scramble players involved with championships
- Chet wants to then have GRC push on different levels to get teams organized
- Picnic
- June 7
- Same food as last year
- DJ – taking recommendations - $500 stipend; 9-4; including emcee responsibilities
- Chet getting shirts for picnic staff/volunteers to wear
- Chet will work with Tom Sweeney to create online picnic registration
- Will contact BSSC
- Mileage reimbursement
- Board has not received this yet
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