Yankee Board Meeting

Wednesday November 18, 2009

Attendees: Samantha Lampert, Judy Katalina, Lynn Kerr, Mark Archibald, Chet Oberhelman, Krissy Norrman, Sander Gates

Confirmed No: Jeffry Powell, Dan Chen

Guests: Chuck Blake

Start time: 7:30 pm

End time: 9:15 pm

LOCATION: LSHS

Approval of October Minutes

Motion to Approve: Jeffrey Powell

Second: Lynn Kerr

For: Judy Katalina, Sander Gates, Lynn Kerr, Mark Archibald, Jeffry Powell, Samantha Lampert, Chet Oberhelman, Krissy Norrman

Against: None

Minutes approved.

Reports

· Treasurer Report

• New bookkeeper in place

· Registrar’s Report

• Ahead of last year’s End of November numbers
• TDs are doing great getting everything in and in order

· NERVA Report

• None

· Ratings Report

• Cherryl Jakielo is a the new upper level rater
• Women’s went out yesterday
• No men’s updates

· Newsletter Update

• No November Newsletter
• Likely see a newsletter in Early December/Mid-January

· Web Editor Report

· GRC Report

• A lot of positive feedback from the last Scramble

Online Business (Discussed via Email):

· Reminder, TDs must be Yankee members

· The USAV rule for the use of adjustable ref stands has officially been waived for all NERVA/Yankee tournaments.

· Next year’s USAV membership fee increase of $10

o Exploration of different options for dealing with this

o Need to keep brainstorming all the little details

Old Business:

· Tournament Site Conditions (Chuck Blake)

o Puddles on courts is creating liability

§ TDs will be made aware

o Sites that have ‘drips’ will not be eligible to host championships

· Juniors ratings (Chuck Blake)

o Whenever a junior (over 2000 of them) plays in Yankee they get a rating if the registrar is notified

· Ratings Freeze

o Some discussion

o Judy motions That Yankee does not have a ratings freeze.

§ Krissy seconds the motion.

· For:Chet, Krissy, Lynn, Judy, Jeffry

· Against:Sander

· Abstain: Sam, Mark

· NEWVA Senior Classic Update

o Under 25 Scramble brain storm

· Winterfest updates

o Judy will run Saturday

o Jason Phillips will run Sunday’s coeds

o Sander will get it into the newsletter

· TD/Player issues

o Discussion

· Member complaint that Yankee takes too long to process membership checks

o Have processed checks on a monthly basis in the past

o Will likely move to every 10 days

· Beanpot

o Discussion

· Pending Legal Issue

o Discussion

New Business:

For Next Meeting:

· Scrambles – Expense vs. Membership

Next meeting date and location:

Tentative: Monday December 21 Acapulco’s -Sudbury 7:00-7:30ish (No Lynn)

Tentative: Tuesday January 26^{th Cambridge}

Tentative: Monday, February 22^nd