Board Meeting Minutes

February 18, 2004

1. Meeting began at 7:00 P.M. at Roy’s office.
    

2. Board members present were Guy Taglient, Steve Epstein, John Craven, Vince Mundo, Tom Winston, Larry Simpson, Tommy James, Roy Getzoff, and Kelvin Williams.
    

3. Mr. Craven went over the tentative meeting schedule. Monday, July 5, is a holiday; so the meeting was changed to July 6.
    

4. Roy suggested that we require all white hats to evaluate on Thursdays and Saturdays when they are not refereeing a game. Vince recommended that members of the Evaluation Committee not be evaluators. Vince also recommended that other qualified officials (not just white hats) evaluate.
    

5. Roy said that NASO has an evaluation form that we can get ON-LINE.
    

6. Roy assigned the following to head up the following committees:
   Evaluations - - John Craven
   Assignments - - Larry Simpson
   Grievance - - Guy Taglienti
   Banquet - - Vince Mundo
   Training and Mechanics - - Tommy James
   Recruitment - - Steve Epstein
   Budget - - Guy Taglienti
   Recommendations - - Steve Epstein
    

7. Tom said that 35 officials scored under 80 on the 2003 Exam. Tom wants to provide "subject oriented" diagnostic exams to identify areas of rules weaknesses, plus have a series of classes that will emphasize those weak test areas.
    

8. Various methods were mentioned as to how to recruit new officials.
    

9. Tag said that he has sent checks to post-season playoffs crews, evaluators, and hospitality crews.
    

10. Each Hospitality crew was given $30 to buy food for visiting playoff crews to Broward County.
     

11. At the Public Advisory meeting in January, Steve asked Dr. Stewart (who has replaced Ron Allen): (1) If the state could pay for more than one-car travel fee when six to eight officials make up a crew. (2) Steve mentioned to Dr. Stewart that the tri-county (Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach) officials are blocked out from officiating 5A- and 6-A state series games. (3) Steve asked Dr. Stewart if regular season game fees will be increased. (4) Steve requested that a playoff official be allowed to work more than once a team that he has worked during the post season playoffs. (5) Steve asked that all playoff assignments (throughout the state) be publicized . (6) Steve suggested that Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach associations take turns hosting the field clinic, but that representatives from each county participate in the clinic, and (7) Dade reps want a broken white line, two yards off the sideline to serve as a restraining line around the field.
     

12. Roy and Vince had a meeting with Rocky and Damian. The BCAA has promised not to have more than 14 BCAA games on a Friday night. There was a discussion about field equipment at the fields, putting white lines on the playing field, better line-to-gain equipment, having a 5-man crew on certain JV games, increasing travel fee from $6 to $10. Varsity game fee will be $70 for the 2004 season, and JV will pay $60 if travel fees are increased. Finally, security at game sites was discussed.
     

13. Meeting was adjourned at 8:31 P.M.
     

Tommy James, Secretary