DRAFT MINUTES - March 5, 2009 NCIHRA BOARD & MEMBER MEETING

7:05 - 9:21pm at No Co Ice Center, Windsor

  1. In Attendance: Marshall Flug, Mark Gembarowski, John Yunker, Justin McLarnon, Dan Van Arsdall, Bryan Irey, Luke Cyphers, Brian Snyder, Jackson Giro, Alex Egan, Nate Williams, John Ritter, Jess Steffen
  2. Board Quorum: Yes
  3. Seminars: We hope to have our seminar dates established sooner than later so the rest of the state can plan around us.  Dan Van Arsdall will be attending the instructors camp @ USA hockey this spring. 
  4. State wide referee association: Bryan Irey commented that a committee is being developed by CAHA in cooperation with CIHRA and other referee associations around the state to work towards a single state referee board that will guide the one day state referee association.  Justin McLarnon has been appointed by our board / membership to represent NCIHRA on said committee.
  5. Future of NCIHRA:  We’ll move ahead through 2009 as if we’ll still be operating independently until we obtain additional information about the single statewide association.  Justin will report back after the first meeting of the committee mentioned earlier.
  6. Board members for ‘09-‘10 season: 

Ø      Justin McLarnon made a motion to permit membership to nominate & elect board members.  Seconded by Bryan Irey, discussed and approved by current board & members present.

Ø      Dan Van Arsdall made a motion to establish some sort of voting process similar to CIHRA’s process for online voting prior to the August vote.  Seconded by Alex Egan, discussed and approved by board & members present.

  1. Evaluation / Mentoring coordinator board position:

Ø      Justin McLarnon made a motion to add a board position and appoint Luke Cyphers as the NCIHRA Eval / Mentor coordinator for the 09-10 season. Seconded by John Ritter, discussed and approved by board and members present.  Luke should start to work others in similar positions so that he doesn’t have to “reinvent the wheel”!

  1. Score keepers:

After frustrations, confusion & hassle of training, coordinating, scheduling, etc…. of score keepers this season NCIHRA will ask NCYH to take over all of the score keeping responsibilities from training, coordinating, scheduling, paying, etc……  Bryan Irey will talk to Christina Cooley about this when he meets with her on an unrelated topic next week.

  1. Schedulers:

Ø      Dan Van Arsdall made a motion to go back to a single scheduler for the Greeley rinks and a different / single scheduler for NoCo & EPIC.  Seconded by Nate Williams, discussed and approved.  DV to inquire with John Eddy & CIHRA about piggy backing their Assign by Web software to see if we can utilize the same software. 

  1. Extra pay for last minute fill-in by officials:  Decision was discussed and over turned last months decision upon further discussion. 

Ø      Justin made a motion to pay 50% of the game fee or a minimum of $10 (whichever is greater) to the official who shows up on short notice.  This “bonus” will only be applied for a single game (ie…. Two game set, only get bonus for 1st game worked in the set).  Seconded by Brian Snyder, unanimously approved by board & members present.   

  1. Next Meeting – Tentatively Thursday May 7, 2009, 7:00pm at NoCo, Windsor
  2. Adjourned:  9:21pm