February 7, 2005

Present: Sue Hackett; Monica Chrisanthon; Burke;Marty O'Donnell ;Joe Marsden;Wim Roset; Jim Kuntz; Dave Edgecombe;Bob McDade; Victor Engel; Laura Baranko; John Kruger; Charlotte Moran;Rick Tompkins: Tom Dougherty; Frank Olszewski; Donna Outt; Kim DiFiore; Cindy Field.

A motion was made to approve the minutes from January meeting with corrections. Motion to approve minutes. All approved.

Reports

Executive Vice-President: Frank reported on some of his experiences during indoor cups. He also mentioned that the Lehigh Valley area hosted their 21st annual Soccer Scholarship banquet with 300 people attending and 40 high school seniors, and 15 college nominees.

Vice President Travel: Tom updated us on the special elections meeting for Solanco Youth Soccer, which he attended. The elections involved two questions by the arbitration committee, which were resolved at the meeting and the elections will now be held on March 19th.

Vice President Recreation: Not present.

Treasurer: Ned had bypass surgery and is doing great. He is expected to have a full recovery. The budget committee met and approved a temporary budget, which will be available shortly.

Registrar: Donna stated that there would be two meetings for the registrars both rec. and travel at the workshop. She mentioned that when the rec. registrars sign in at the meeting they will be asking them how they categorize their age groups. She said that three people from Youth Leagues with computers would be available to help. She said that this information needs to be input before the RG-1 or Risk Management can be done, because that is the way the system works.

SYRA: Cindy report that they held their all female clinic, and that it went exceptionally well, and they would plan on doing it again in the future. Cindy sent an E-mail out to all the assignor's asking if they had anyone interest in going to the ODP tournament and Regionals so that EPYSA could get some selections. To this date she has had no response. Please encourage them to let her know who in your area would be qualified to go. Please keep Frank and his family in your prayers for the passing of his father.

Exec. Director's Report: Indoor cups are rolling along. Each of the winning teams will be receiving 20 tickets to the KIXX's game and the winners will be notified. We had two teams that did not show up for the cup games, U-12 & U-13 girls' teams F.C. Revolution and they will be fined according to the cup rules. Thank you to everyone who helped out at all the indoor sites. Outdoor cup draws will be Feb. 8th, we have the usual brackets. There are about eight teams that had their applications in late. We will be making no exceptions again this year. The keeper clinic will be this coming weekend and it is open to boys and girls, information and application on the website. Charlotte received to thank you letters from Christina Contact and another one from Allison Martin for the scholarships they received.

Presidents' Report: Rick appointed Wim Roset to the nomination committee. Please call him if you are interested in running. We have an appeal at the national level from Westmont, we have until the 16th of the month to get are paperwork in to them. We got notification of the propose policy and rule amendment for team roster changes and size for ages U-16 and older. This will be voted on at the USSF workshop in Salt Lake City.

District Reports:
1. Nothing
2. Nothing
3. Bob McDade has been invited to make a presentation on their participation in National Youth Soccer Month at the workshop in Salt Lake City.
4. Not here.
5. Not here.
6. No report.
7. Would like to see some consistency on the indoor cup rules. Joe reported that some of his people are still receiving several copies of the Touchline.
8. Nothing.
9. Not here.
10. Not here.
11. Hosted indoor cups this past weekend.
12.
13. No report.
14. Not here.
15. Nothing.
16. Not here.
17. Nothing.

Old Business: Conflict of interest policy needs to be signed by everyone before they leave.

New Business: 1987 Boys ODP team will be going to Nationals in Plano, Texas to represent EPYSA and we want to wish them luck. Charlotte gave us a report on the events and presenters being held at the workshop. Charlotte has no applications for the Rec. festival yet. Everything is on the website.

Good of the Game: We passed our audit with flying colors. The Fox Chase soccer Club raised over $6,000.00 for the American Red Cross for the Tsunami Relief Fund. Soccer America rated the top twenty clubs in the USA, and FC Delco was rated number two on the boys' side.
Sue Hackett asked why a Delaware team that is registered in our State Cups should be playing their games out of state. Motion made by Monica that any out of State team would have to play their cup game in PA. Seconded Sue. All approved.

Motion to adjourn, seconded. Approved.

Respectfully submitted,

Kim DiFiore