Minutes of the Meeting December 3, 2007 held at the State Office.

Present: John Sullivan; Brian Talarico,Bill Fuller; Kevin Heayn,Wim Roset; Joe Marsden; Dave Edgecombe;Susan Shanaman; Jerry McDonald, Damon Nolan; Joe Dizio; Dallas DiFiore; Frank Olszewski; Bob McDade; Jim Kuntz; Cindy Field; Donna Outt; Kim DiFiore; Tom Dougherty; Charlotte Moran. Guest Angela Edwards District 4

Motion made to accept meeting minutes from November with corrections. All approved.

Reports
Executive Vice-President: Frank presented a proclamation he received from

Vice President Travel: No report

Vice President Recreation: No report.

Treasurer: Not present.

Registrar: No report.

SYRA: Clinics scheduled in 2008. Feb 9th Twin Valley, Feb 10th Dickinson College, March 8th Conestoga High School, March 9th Lehigh Valley, Nov. 1 Hazelton, Nov 2nd Danville. Advanced clinic in June will be held at Twin Valley.

Exec. Director’s Report: The free crime insurance for all EPYS affiliets
Is coming from the policy that we purchased from Bollinger Insurance.

President’s Report: See report below.

District Report:
1. Not present.
2. Not present.
3. Not present.
4. Hulmeville Soccer Club ran their John Hess Memorial Tournament with 100 teams.
5. Deep Run Soccer Club held their tournament Thanksgiving weekend and they were maxed out on teams.
6. Lehigh Valley Soccer League signing an alliance with Upper Bucks. Referee course scheduled for Dec 6th.
7. No report.
8. Hempfield Tourn. was a success they used 75 fields. Lanco Soccer League running a snowflake league.
9. No report
10. Not present.
11. No report.
12. No district.
13. Not present.
14. Delco Soccer League kicked off their winter league with 27 teams U-15 to U-18.
15. Not present.
16. Not present.
17. 4 major clubs in York, merging to form one travel club.

New Business: Information delivered to us by Tom Daugherty.

Good of the Game: None

Motion to adjourn. Seconded

Respectfully submitted,

Kim DiFiore

We want to downsize the numbers of board members. There will be 6 exec voting board members and 6 district reps. and 2 at large members one travel and 1 rec. REFER TO MINUTES ON BRANCH OFFICES, WE ARE HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING VOLUNTEERS, SO WE FEEL THE NEED TO HIRE PEOPLE IN SATTELITE OFFICES. FOR THE STATE THE SIZE OF PA WE NEED TO HAVE A FULL TIME D.O.C.
Why we need to do this, we are very financially sound at this time. We need to become more efficient. We have not asked for money in years but we cannot sustain. Membership is growing but slowly.
This all has to go before the AGM we cannot do this without by-law changes that is why we are bringing this to you now. Would take effect in 08. Hasn’t been a rate increase to this office in at l least nine years. The two rate increases we had in the last several years came from the National Office.
Dave made his presentation as set by voting strength, 6,10 & 11 22k, 2& 14 20k, 9,13 &16 16k, 1&3 11k, 4&15 17k, 5&7 18k
We are getting numbers from the region on what the other states charge for registration fee of their players.
We did the re-districting by population of players.
We need to downsize the number of board members.