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Jourdanton Little League Minutes
February 3, 2004
The meeting was called to order at approximately 6:40 p.m.
Fifteen Board Members were present to include: Lee Roy Escobar, Jill Foster, Liesl Hons, Tricia Taylor, Karen Pesek, David Alviso, Sr., Rebecca Alviso, Curtis Vickers, Rita Munoz, Joseph Meyer, Gerald Zuhlke, Mark Gawlik, David Soward, Sylvia Campos, Grady Schorsch, and Tammy Blalock.
Three General Members were present to include: Pauline Brooks, Rosie Alviso and Rebecca Alviso.
Four guests were present to include: Armando Calvillo, Trinidad Santos with Precious Moments, Susan Brewer with Portraits by Susan and Claire Townsend with Texas Exposures.
Curtis Motioned to accept the minutes from the January 6, 2004 meeting as presented. Karen 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Jill presented a Treasurer’s Report as follows: Bank account stands at $13,185.87; Jill provided a profit and loss statement for the books. CD totals were $10,947.26 and $2,537.70 respectively and advised that the latter would mature in March. Lee Roy Motioned to accept the treasurer’s report. Karen 2nd. Motion carries unanimously. Jill also advised that as of the meeting, we had 198 registered players.
Tricia provided an update of the last Inter-League meeting. Advised that she had not received the proposed rules as promised by Tammy Shannon of Pleasanton, but did advise that there were no major differences between the leagues, except a disagreement about both teams being able to approve/disapprove of a “replacement” umpire in the event that the regularly scheduled umpire did not show up. She advised that in the Coach Pitch divisions, mandatory play would be in effect. She added that Minor through Juniors, one change from last year would be that any 6:00p games to be followed by an 8:00p game, would have a time limit of one hour and 45 minutes and the 10:00p curfew would apply to all other games not followed by a subsequent game. Last year, this time limit was one hour and 30 minutes.
Tammy discussed the changes proposed by the Review Committee to the Constitution and By-Laws and advised that the only changes were typos being corrected and the addition of an “Honorary Member” status with the League – per the 2004 Operating Manual. Curtis Motioned to approve all of the changes proposed by the Review Committee. Tricia 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Tammy discussed the changes proposed by the Review Committee to the Local Rules. Advised that most of the changes was just a reorganization of the rules for easier reference. Curtis Motioned to accept the changes to the Local Rules proposed by the Review Committee and the additional changes made at this meeting. Rebecca A. 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
The opening of bids for League photographs began. It was discovered that 2 of the 3 persons present for presentations purposes had misunderstood the bidding procedures and not turned in a bid on or before February 2. Tricia Motioned to accept the bid proposals based on their presence at tonight’s meeting. Lee Roy 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
In order, Texas Exposures, Portraits by Susan and Precious Moments made presentations to the Board for photographs. The Board then reviewed the only two bids submitted for uniforms: Wall’s and Winning Edge. No banner bids were received.
After some discussion, Tricia Motioned to accept Wall’s bid for uniforms. Rita 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
After some discussion, David A. Motioned to accept Texas Exposures’ bid for photographs. David S. 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Since no bids for submitted for the sponsor banners, Joseph Motioned to allow Karen and Jill to use their best judgments in getting new banners for this season. Tricia 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Joseph Motioned to allow a $400.00 budget for Tammy to secure a copier for the League. Tricia 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Karen briefed the Board on this year’s fundraising activities. She proposed that we sell window decals as the players’ participation fundraiser, to have an “extended” concession stand on Opening Day, and to allow someone from Atascosa Dodge to sell oil and lube discount cards at Opening Day from which the League would receive a portion of the proceeds and, finally, the Strawberry Festival. Karen advised that we would not be doing a bar-b-q fundraiser this year.
Lee Roy Motioned to allow Atascosa Dodge to set up a booth at Opening Day and to be manned by Atascosa Doge. Curtis 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Curtis Motioned to allow the window decal fundraiser as the players’ participation fundraiser. Tricia 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Karen advised that she needed a new sign for the Strawberry Festival booth. Tricia Motioned to allow a $150.00 budget for the new sign and to let Curtis and Joseph handle this item. Rebecca 2nd. Motion carries unanimously. Karen also advised that she needed an additional check to secure the insurance required by the Strawberry Festival Organization. Grady advised to check if the Little League insurance would cover a fundraising event such as this. Liesl advised that she would check into it.
Rita advised the Board that the Coca-Cola contract had finally been found and that it had expired in July, 2003. Rita suggested securing a new contract with the added provision of a new scoreboard. Grady advised to really pay attention to the contract prices. Joseph advised that he had found a plain scoreboard with Nevco, for about $1750.00. Rita will continue to look into a Coca-Cola or Pepsi contract.
The following managers were recommended by the President and approved by a majority vote of the Board of Directors:
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Baseball Divisions
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Junior..... ....
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Bob Orr
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Major..... ....
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Timmy Taylor, Lupe Campos and Mike Hurt
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Upr. Minor...
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Keith Burris, Gerald Holgraves and Danny Higginbotham
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Lwr. Minor....
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Keith Higginbotham, Curtis Vickers and Junior Loza
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Tee-Ball.. ....
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Michelle Higginbotham, Pete Herrera, James Rodriguez and Jill Foster
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Softball Divisions
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Junior..... ....
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Lee Segura (and Michelle Forrest in the event there are 2 teams)
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Major..... ....
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Armando Calvillo and Tammy Blalock
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Upr. Minor...
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Santos Aguero and Yolanda Benavides
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Lwr. Minor...
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Adrian Caloss and Brennan Klumb
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Rita presented the board with players who needed to be released from teams as follows: Cheyenne Berry needed to be released from the Major softball team she played with last year because she wanted to be drafted in the baseball division. Tammy Motioned to release Cheyenne Berry from last year’s team. Curtis 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Tricia suggested giving the players from Tommy Romero’s team last year some sort of discount because their season was cut short (more-or-less in half) due to injuries and players quitting and the team consequently being unable to replenish its roster. Sylvia Motioned to set those returning players registration fees at $20.00 per player as some sort of compensation. Sylvia amended her Motioned to set the fees at $10.00 for these players. Tammy 2nd. Motion carries unanimously.
Tricia reminded the Board that there were some players who were placed on probation last year, terminated from All-Star eligibility and were to remain on probation this year for disciplinary action. She also advised that if these players returned, that their managers should be briefed on their probation status. The players were: Clayton Henicke, Christopher Lopez, Jo Thomas Martinez, George Vega and Joey Luera.
Tricia reminded the Board that we will need to order Operating Manuals for all managers, rule books for all managers and coaches and patches for all players. Liesl advised that she would place the order.
Liesl called to suspend this meeting and called for a Special Meeting on February 17, 2004 to continue the items on the agenda.
Liesl advised the Board that all members not involved with try-outs on Sunday, February 8, 2004, should be present for a mandatory workday on the South Field beginning at 1:00 p.m.
The next meeting was set for February 17, 2004.
Karen Motioned to adjourn the meeting. Tricia 2nd. Motion carried unanimously. Meeting was adjourned at approximately 10:55 p.m.
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