Wednesday, December 20 2023 · 6:00 – 7:30pm EST
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1. Sign in 6:07pm EST
2. Call for additions to the agenda : NOASA website was currently unavailable.
3. Approval of last meeting Minutes Unable to view at this time, website down. Alex made motion to wave the reading, Lorisa second, All in favor-unanimous, So moved.
4. Approval of the Treasurer’s report:
Beginning balance to Current balance, largest expenses Read, Michele motion to approve, Lou D second, , All in favor-unanimous response, Approved
5. Officer’s report:
a. President: We are focusing on making the league more membership centric. NOASA wants to focus on what best serves our members for growth and continued enjoyment of adult soccer.
b. VP Report:None
c. VP men: None
d. VP women: Looking to grow the Women’s Open by potentially playing on 2 different days(Competitive vs Rec) and/or offering a competitive summer league for players who are home from college. Discussion
e. Treasurer: Lorisa discussed she was able to institute electronic referee payments through our assigning platform, Arbiter, mid September. This has made paying the referees streamlined able to pay more frequently, as well as generate tax forms starting in 2024. We can’t generate this year, due to manually paying for ¾ of the year.
f. Secretary:
g. Registrar: Update on Fall numbers and first season using new platform. The new platform was forced upon us in a very short window, about 10 days. That left less than 2 weeks to learn a new system, develop, implement and teach our 600+ members to use the new system. I appreciate everyone’s patience while we worked through things and feel it streamlined the process. We are working on some of the shortcomings, ie: lack of roster generation, but found reporting referee no-shows and game reports were much easier. We will continue to learn how to navigate and best use Sports Connect to meet our needs.. Fall numbers were consistent with prior Fall numbers. I might add we have less and less referees available with in the state and fall is high school soccer season. Please be kind and respectful to the ones who accept our games.
6. Special Reports:
7. Old Business
8. New Business:
· Proposing 8 game Spring Season- Lack of fields available and weather impact our Spring season, unpredictably. Survey will be sent out to membership after first of the year.
· Discussion of potential Members becoming certified to referee with NOASA and paid by NOASA. Reimbursement for background check, referee certification and referee gear, once complete and committing to referee at least one game. Discussions about various options to either get more referees, or help NOASA members become licensed to be able to referee our own games. The USSF referee license allows you to referee adult and youth games, as well as other leagues. Continue discussion with Referee Assoc for more options.
· Discussion on a day/location to offer Women 50+ league- Survey will be sent closer to Spring season
· Working on Player and Roster procedure for spring season, Managers will become responsible for checking in opposing team. Managers are also responsible for only allowing properly registered, proper age, players on ONE and only 1 team per AGE division, to play on their team. Currently there are NO UNDERAGE players allowed in ANY league. It's not the opposing manager's fault that you brought people that were not on your roster and it's also not the referee's fault we have to be accountable for ourselves and we spent a lot of time and energy this past spring. trying to track down problems that really could have been prevented if we were just following the rules like we know that we need to do and I just think we need to all take that accountability and make sure we're taking care of ourselves and what we're supposed to be doing.
· Executive Board elections Alex open nominations, request for nominations for President, None, unopposed, Vince to continue.
Request for nominations for Vice President, all in favor, Alex agreed to continue.
Request for nominations for VP of Men, Lou D nominated Adam Matisz, Scott E nominated Vohn Murphy. Vote taken, Adam Matisz will accept the Men;s VP for 2024. Vince thanked Vohn for his time as Men’s VP.
Alex nominated Vohn Murphy for VP of Men’s Open- current vacant spot on the board, second by Scott E, , all in favor, Vohn agreed to take the spot of VP Open.
Michele nominated Alexa for VP of women, Lorisa second. Vote all in favor, Alexa agreed to continue.
Lorisa nominated Warner for Secretary, Alex second. Vote, all in favor, Alexa agreed to continue.
Vince nominated Lorisa to continue as Treasurer, Alex second. Vote, all in favor, Lorisa agreed to continue.
9. Motion to adjourn: Motion to adjourn by Walid, second Nancy. Adjourned 8:17pm