Minutes from LISC Board Meeting
April 6, 2004
7:30 pm
Present: Mike Wingo, Amy Hall, Robert Baird, Gary Sullan, Judith Martinez, and Rick Hazlewood
1) Minutes were accepted as written.
2) The plans for the upcoming spring tournament were read and approved.
3) Reviewed the agenda for the LISC’s Board of Directors’ meeting.
a) It is scheduled to be held at the Urbana Civic Center and will begin at 7:30 pm.
b) Every parent is invited to attend. However, each team has only two votes. Only the Parent Rep or his designated proxie and the team’s coach can vote.
c) Proposed change of the by-laws. All positions on the board will be two years in length. The treasurer, vice-president for land acquisition, parent representative, and the secretary will run for two year terms starting this year. The president, vice-president for soccer affairs, coaches’ rep, and league rep will run for one year terms this year and run for two year terms starting in 2005. This will ensure some continuity of knowledge and experience in the board at all times.
d) The proposed budget for 2004-2005 will be voted on at the meeting too.
4) The current balances in the club’s accounts are
a) Tournament/Capital Development Fund Balance 85,523
b) General Operations Balance 18,059
(with a few outstanding dues remaining to be collected)
5) Trey reported on the coaches’ work with the Champaign Park District’s Micro-Soccer Program. He informed the board that the club could sponsor the program next year for a nominal fee for the shirts on which would be the club’s name, logo, and website if we desired. The board agreed to do so.
6) We reviewed what Trey and others felt the goals of the club should be and boiled down they are:
i) Be recognized as the top downstate club.
ii) Win State Cups
iii) Develop Olympic Development Program caliber players
It is understood that to reach these, the following needs to be attained:
b) The club needs to develop a site where it can regularly train and develop the players and teams. To reach that, the proposed Land Acquisition Committee was discussed in terms of the different skills that will be needed during the process. It will be organized and led by the vice-president of land acquisition.
c) In addition we will need better training of our coaches and players.
d) The teams need to play at a higher level of competition.
i) There is some question as to whether being in the U.S. Club Soccer Association is better than U.S. Youth Soccer.
ii) Establish European tours for each player as they pass through the U-14 age level.
iii) Increased membership and field more team.
Tryouts will be on June 21st through June 25th. High School girls will try out on July 17th and July 24th.
Registration will be held on two different dates.
July 13th – Urbana Civic Center
July 27th – Champaign Park District Administration Building
4 v 4 tournament will be held on Julyt 24th and July 25th and is sponsored by the Champaign Park District. Our club has offered resources to help run it.