January Board Meeting - 2005
The meeting was held at Tommy James’s house.

Members present: John Craven, Brian Baker, Steve Epstein, Roy Getzoff, Tommy James, Vince Mundo, Larry Simpson, Tye Sager, and Tom Winston.

John presented the tentative meeting schedule for our association.

The Feb. 9 Board meeting will be held at Tye Sager’s house. The Mar. 9 Board meeting will be held at Roy Getzoff’s house.

Tom has scheduled training sessions for newer officials on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning on April 19 for five weeks.

Since our football grease board (which costs $350) was trashed by the custodians at South Plantation, we are going to invest in a power-point machine. Roy will ask Damian if he will help to defray the cost.

Twenty people (half of whom were guests) who said they were going to attend our last November banquet, did not attend. That cost our association $600 ($30x20). Roy said that he would admonish them and possibly make them prepay if they want to attend the 2005 banquet.

Insurance for officials was discussed, but nothing was set in stone.

The BFOA is a subset of the BCAA. The BFOA is not sanctioned by the FHSAA. We do not qualify as a non-profit organization with the state.

The BFOA theme for 2005 will be ACCOUNTABILITY.

Tom disclosed to us that he will be undergoing an operation on both of his hips, and his status as a referee for the 2005 season is questionable.

Various methods of recruiting new officials were discussed.

Roy wants Tom and Vince to get apprentices who will be ready to take over their jobs.

There were only eleven officials out of all our officials who scored less than 70 on the 2004 football exam.

The Board decided (unanimously) that for the 2005 Pick Meeting, white hats will NOT be able to keep (i.e. freeze) any official who was on their 2004 crew.

The following will be the Board liaisons of the following:

The fees (as of this writing) for a 2005 varsity game will be $66.00 ($60 for working game + $6 for travel).

There was discussion about the security we receive at the various venues we work.

The high school football schedules will be issued by the BCAA by March 31, 2005. Hopefully, the schools will schedule more Thursday night games, which will help us to service the games.