July 2008

Present: Neil Giarratana, Chris Stroshine, Donna Chase, Fred Haas, Scott Langevin, Joe Stone, Larry Kane

• Accept Minutes from June Meeting: w/o objection
• Expo center update: moving forward
• 5 Hole Hockey store: planned opening for August, will be Mite Travel team sponsor, has proposed letter to be sent Club-wide. Approved w/o objection. Suggested edits by Friday to Neil.

Treasurers Report:  Previously emailed to Board Members and is on base camp website. Motion to Accept by Larry second by Scott. Accepted

• USA Hockey sent updated registration packet to Donna to assist with paperwork processing. AFTER DONNA USES NEW SYSTEM TO COMPLETE UPDATED CLUB REGISTRATION THROUGH USA HOCKEY, PLAYERS MUST REGISTER ONLINE W/USA HOCKEY. Then, information will be synchronized by bar-code scanner, at later date by Donna. For this season, players born 2002 and later do not have to pay USA Hockey for annual registration.
• Payment reminders will be sent by email to remind players of monthly payments that are due.
• Breakdown of players by year of birth. 76 kids registered are those that went through evaluations. Very few house-only players on this list. No SDP players. So, member registration list is expected to grow greatly.

• Raised approximately $14,000.00 from poker tournament.
• Hutch arranged annual golf tournament set for Friday August 22, 2008 at Bretwood Golf Course, starting 1pm. Details on web site.
• FR credit issue to be discussed at a later date, when Hutch is available for input.
             

• Ice buy and schedule presentations planned for next meeting.

• Leah can post to new web site.
• Old member handbook, forwarded in electronic format from Bobby Rodrique, being updated.

            Absent.

·         Coaches background checks to be completed and given to Fred by August 15^th. He will do follow up.

·         Absent

·         Absent

Level Representatives
     •Mite: Absent
     •Squirt: no report
     •PeeWee: no report
     •Bantam: Still working on options. Plan to have bantam ice, regardless if a travel team is formed. Also considering practice ice, at Cheshire, for players that will be on the roster of other clubs.
     •Girls: Absent. For informational purposes, we have 8 girls currently placed on Upper House Select. Two others placed on travel teams.

Fred motion to form U12 Girls team within the Granite State League. Second by Larry. Approved. Chris will include this in his scheduling talks with other clubs.

Equipment Manager Report

• Game Nets. Kingsbury will handle the painting of the nets in exchange for recognition in handbook and/or web site, which Leah will handle. 
• Zamboni. Deb and Steve W. doing follow up.

• Kickoff weekend: Motion to accept schedule set as Option #1, by Joe S. Second by Larry. Passed. Schedule to be sent Club wide and posted on web site as soon as hours are confirmed with Tony at Cushing Academy.
  
  

New Business
      Midget tournament awarded to our club. We need to consider our plans for this.

• Next mtg: Planned for August 12^th. Some board members unavailable. Input to be obtained from other board members to see if we can make quorum.