February Board Meeting - 2005
Meeting was held at Tye Sager’s house.

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

Guests: Steve Clein and Alan Zeff

Damien Huttenhoff reimbursed Roy $1,700.

The Power-Point projector (after all the wheeling-and-dealing by Vince) cost around $850.

Alan Zeff, president of Broward County’s Baseball Association, said that he had negotiated with Damien a $250 payment to an umpire who gets injured in the line of duty. The BCAA also agreed to supply dressing facilities, bathroom facilities reasonably near the baseball field, and security from arrival at game site till departure.

Steve Clein, after explaining the positive and negative aspects of various insurance coverages, said that he thinks that our present association insurance will meet our needs.

Larry brought a "Kicking Caddy’ and demonstrated how it holds the football. The Board’s conclusion was that the caddy is legal. Also, the FSHAA had previously sanctioned its use.

Steve said that there will be an Alliance meeting on February 19 among five or six associations to discuss various issues.

Tommy went over the 2005 Recent Changes in the football rules.

Steve said the Dolphins will allow us to use their training site in Davie on June 13, 2005.  This will be a good location to kick off our ACCOUNTABILITY theme.

Bryan said that after receiving $1,700 from Damien and after paying the 2004 evaluators, we have $2,709.00 left.

Tom has spoken with ten people who have indicated that they’re interested in becoming officials.

If appointed to another term as commissioner by the BCAA this year, Vince will appoint an assistant to split his duties and act as the JV Commissioner who will handle all the JV assignments.  Tom has not yet chosen an apprentice for the Rules Interpreter slot.

Vince said that Derrick Harris was the only official who responded about their availability situation for 2005 season.  Derrick has opted to work as a varsity alternate this year.

Jeremy Shamash has declined being the Chairman of the Banquet Committee.

In order to get the $3.00 increase in game fees from the State, we must have a training committee, therefore Bryan Baker has been chosen as the TRAINING Committee liaison for the 2005 season.

Todd Wilpon’s has provided John Craven with evaluation data that John Craven will enter into a spreadsheet and tabulating before publishing the results.

The State has not (as of this writing) decided the venues where the State Football Finals will be held.

The meeting ended at 9:30 P.M.