1999-2000 Season Meeting Minutes

1999-2000 LEAGUE ASSOCIATIONS:
Auburn, Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Cortland, Elmira, Fulton, Geneva, Hamilton, Ithaca, Lysander, Midstate, Oswego, Salmon River, Skaneateles, Valley, Watertown, Whitestown

1999-2000 Season Secretary: Kathy Clark (Oswego)

• September 1999
• October 1999
• November 1999
• December 1999
• January 2000
• February 2000
• March 2000

Minutes for September 16,1999

Next regular meeting October 21, 1999 at 7:30 pm   V F W

Schedulers Meeting October 17, 1999 at 1:00 pm V F W

Meeting called to order at 7:40 pm by President  Susan Palmer - Everly.

Motion made to approve minutes from May 20,1999, Seconded and approved.

Treasures Report:
Savings Account Has a balance of $8755.12
Checking Account has a balance of 2507.81
NO outstanding bills
A motion was made, and seconded, approved the treasurer report

Old Business

Cortland never received their letter after the May meeting letting them know about their fine for missed meetings.  Walt Platt ( V P )will make sure that this happens.

Jim Reid (Geneva) was asked if he would look into incorporating Snowbelt. Jim agreed to look into this matter.

It is felt that level directors are needed to keep a better eye on problem areas for the 99-00 season.  Listed are the people who volunteered for these positions.

Squirts- Jim Craig
Pee Wees - Mike Esposito (Salmon River)
Bantams - Jim Reid (Geneva)
Midgets - Lee Baker (Ithaca)

Drawing slots for tournament positions or keeping standings was tabled till the October meeting.

New Business

Walt Platt (Camillus) made a motion to elect Susan Palmer Everly president of Snowbelt.  Jim Craig Seconded.  Being no other nomination the secretary casts one vote in favor.. Susan Palmer Everly will be the Snowbelt president for the 1999-2000 season.

Jerry Rushak does not wish to be treasurer any longer. No one volunteered, we will revisit this at the end of the meeting.

Hamilton Youth Hocking would like to rejoin the snowbelt league for the 99-00 season.  Meeting attendance was addressed.  Motion was made and seconded--approved. WELCOME.

Scheduler will be Tanya Onori. She will need to know numbers by OCTOBER 10. The schedulers meeting will be held at the VFW in Valley at 1:00 pm on October 17. Tanya's phone is 315-252-3839 or e-mail etefornori@aol.com

Remember associations will have to pay a $30.00 fee per team that is added or withdrawn from snowbelt less than seven days before the schedulers meeting.

The J A M Tournament will be held March 3-5, 00.  Regular scheduled games need to finish by the weekend of February 19 and 20.  This will give time to prepare for Tournaments if standings are used.

Possible tournament sites: Cortland, Elmira, Whitestown, Salmon River, Camillus.

Associations are paid $100.00 per team that are in their hosted tournament.

All ice and referee costs are paid and Penalty boxes are to be manned by the teams playing. Trophies and banners are also supplied by Snowbelt.

Discipline committee will be:
Lee Baker (Ithaca)
Mike Lane (Lysander)
Tom Duffy (Midstate)
Tom Dudman (Valley)
Walt Platt  (Camillus) Chairman

The discipline committee will meet one hour prior to the regular schedule meeting when if needed.

Snowbelt Representative forms were passed out (and filled out) so we can have a rep. list for next meeting.

Discussion was held on the snowbelt directory.  Everyone agrees it is a much needed tool.  It will be imperative to have forms filled out and back to Walt Platt as soon as you know your coaches.  We would like at least two contacts per team.  These can be faxed to Walt at 488-0910

Motion was made to abolished rule #4.06 of the by-laws.  This pertains to the 1 1/2 hour teams would travel or not travel for a game - seconded and passed.  Rule #4.06 is stricken from the by-laws.

Snowbelt requires all organizations to submit rosters for each team.  High school players must be noted on midget rosters.  Also game sheets must be marked to signify these high school players took part in the game.  If a high school player happens to injured this must be noted also.

Discussion was held on by-law #2.07 it does not mention anything about tournament bound players being on snowbelt teams.  Rich Hart (Elmira) will work on a by-law change for the October meeting.

Treasurers position was tabled until the October meeting as no one volunteered.

Standing Reports

Discipline --  No report - any discipline problems should go to the level director first. Level directory will take it to Walt Platt ,who will in turn take it to the discipline committee.

Hardship Cases--Anthony Wadams plays split season with the Stars tournament bound Midget team.  When the team splits for high school Steve as nowhere to play as his school does not field a team.   He would like to be able to play for the Geneva Midget team. A motion was made to accept this-seconded and passed.

Bantam Chris Resti from Corcoran High School asked if he could play with the bantam team from Valley.  A motion was made and seconded and passed with 2 opposed.

Motion was made to allow Oswego to have all their midget teams in snowbelt as they do not have boys at midget age interested in playing travel team hockey.  Seconded and passed  3 opposed.

Round Table -

Elmira reported that by the year 2001 they will have a new twin rink complex.  They are looking forward to hosting a snowbelt tournament when the building is complete.

Skaneatles mentioned they will be running a curfew clock this season.  See attached.

Present:  Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Cortland, Elmira, Fulton,  Geneva, Hamilton,Ithaca, Lysander,  Midstate, Oswego, Salmon River, Skaneateles, Valley, Whitestown

Excused:
Absent: Auburn

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Minutes for October 21,1999

Next regular meeting Thursday, November 18, 1999 at 7:30 pm  VFW

Meeting called to order at 7:30pm by President Susan Palmer-Everly.

Motion made to approve minutes from Sept. 16, 1999, with correction. Presidents term ends 2001 not 2000. Seconded and approved.

Treasurers Report 
Savings Account has a balance or $4314.23
Checking Account has a balance of $2137.81
NO Outstanding bills.
A motion was made, and seconded, approved the treasurers report.

Old Business
Scheduling is finished as of Sunday 10/17/99. Scheduling was done by phone this year. All approved of it being done this way. The master schedule and standings will be on line at the web site www.auburnicehawks.com

Hardship for Geneva at Bantam level team was taken care of via phone vote after our last meeting. It was approved and the list of votes is attached.

Hardship for Salmon River Peewee team was also done by phone vote. Approved and vote list attached.

Jim Reid (Geneva) has taken care of the incorporation of Snowbelt. Papers should be filed by next week and incorporation should be in place by the first week of November.

Motion was made to purchase USA Insurance to protect the Snowbelt board against lawsuits, 2nd and passed. Jim Reid will look into the purchase.

Discussion was held on whether to draw letters for the tournament or use standings. A motion was made to use the letters for the tournament placement, but to also keep standings so there will be a league champion, seconded and approved.

Letters were drawn for position in tournaments. See attached. Because there are 17 teams at the Peewee level, we will be looking at standings in January to see who will be in the upper and lower division.

Walt Platt (VP-Camillus) brought up that we neglected to take care of a by-law change #8.01, that we spoke about at the December 17,1998 meeting. This was never taken care of at the time. Mike Lane (Lysander) will work on the new by-law change for this.

The John Abbott Memorial Tournament will be held 3/3-5/2000. These associations have volunteered the time and rinks to host level tournaments.
Camillus - Squirt tournament
Cortland - 1/2 Peewee tournament
Salmon River - 1/2 Peewee tournament
Auburn - Bantam tournament
Oswego - Midget tournament (if they can hold it the weekend of 3/25-27/00 and can get the ice and referees)

New Business

It was brought to the boards attention that Walt Platt (VP) would be resigning as of 1/00 because of conflicts on Thursday evening. The board felt if Walt wanted to stay in his current position we should change the day of the meeting. The third Wednesday of the month is a possibility. More information to come later.

Jerry Rushak has decided to stay on as the Snowbelt Treasurer. He will be in the process of setting up the budget, associations will need to get their tournament costs to him by November 4, 1999. This should include ice and referee costs, plus $100.00 per team in the tournament.

Laurie Vezendy (Salmon River) has offered to make the Snowbelt Tournament Champion banners again this season, as long as she can have use of the sewing machines that she has used in the past. Susan Palmer-Everly (pres) will keep check on this and if it falls through will check with McKies to see if they can do it.

Susan will also check with Pen and Trophy for the trophies.

Interim rosters are due by 12/1/99 and a copy of the official USA roster is due by 12/15/99.

Rich Hart (Elmira) took care of the by-laws change to 2.07, see attached. A motion was made to accept, seconded and approved.

Standing Reports

Discipline - No report - any discipline problems should go to the level director first. Level director will take it to Walt Platt, who will in turn take it to the discipline committee.

Level Directors:
Squirts: Jim Craig
Peewees: Mike Esposito
Bantams: Jim Reid
Midgets: Lee Baker

Hardship Cases:

The Wadam's (Geneva) hardship case was discussed again because it was felt there was not a full understanding of what the player thought he was going to be able to do. It is felt that because the by-law change in 2.07 he will not be eligible to play in the year end tournament. Walt Platt will contact him to find out where he stands and have him come back to the board if there is any confusion and reapply if need be.

Midstate bantam's request a hardship for Pete Callahan, Zeb Weigand, Justing Gillette, and Matt Consella. Motion was made to accept these players even though they will probably play for their high school teams because they have no cuts, seconded and approved with 1 opposed.

Valley requested the same for Chris Dudman motion was made, seconded and approved with 1 opposed.

Auburn requested a hardship for Ashley Petrisino, her birthday falls two weeks into the midget level, she would like to stay at bantams. A motion was made to let Ashley play at bantams as long as she has a waiver from USA hockey saying she can, seconded and approved with 1 abstention.

Auburn also asked to use their two bantam travel goalies on an alternating basis, because they only have those two goalies. They do not have a goalie at peewee level to move up either. Motion was made, seconded and approved with 2 opposed and 1 abstention.

Cortland is asking that their peewee team be allowed to play snowbelt even though they do not have a peewee level travel team. They have only 11 skaters. Motion made, seconded and approved.

Hamilton squirt level asked for the same thing. Motion made, seconded and approved.

Motion made to close the meeting at 10:15pm

Round Table:

Present: Auburn, Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Cortland, Elmira, Fulton, Geneva, Hamilton, Ithaca, Lysander, Midstate, Oswego, Salmon River, Skaneateles, Valley, Watertown, Whitestown

Excused:
Absent:

LETTERS DRAWN FOR '99-'00 SNOWBELT JAM TOURNAMENTS

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Minutes for November 18,1999

Next regular meeting Wednesday, December15, 1999 @ 7:30pm VFW

Meeting called to order at 7:30pm by President Susan Palmer-Everly.

Motion made to approve minutes from October 21, 1999, with correction, Jerry Rushak will only stay on as treasurer until incorporation is in place. Seconded and approved.

Treasurers Report:
Savings Account has a balance or $4314.23
Checking Account has a balance of $2087.81
Expenses were $250.0 Office expenses, $250.00 1/2 pay for scheduler.
Deposit of $200.00 from penalties assessed from last season.
A motion was made, and seconded, approved the treasurers report.

Old Business:

Season budget was presented (see attached). A motion was made, and seconded, approved.

Tournament budget was presented (see attached). A motion was made, and seconded, approved.

Incorporation - papers filed to Albany waiting for signed stamped copy. Due back any day.

Insurance - (see attached) Fee is $315.00 per year, to cover Officers and Board of Directors. Motion was made to purchase insurance for three years from USA hockey with annual installments of $315.00. Seconded and passed.

Anthony Wadhma's hardship case was brought up again, still some confusion. Anthony's request proceeded the by-law change, so it is felt that he should be allowed to play through this season. He will be allowed to play both his split season team and for the Geneva midget team.

The VFW Hall will be available to use on Wednesday evenings for our meetings. The bill is paid for this season, we will continue to meet here for the rest of this season and decide what we will do next season at a later date.

Snowbelt directory was handed out.

New Business:

Two Watertown players received match penalties at a Whitestown game. The referee did not take care of the paperwork that needed to be filed. Much discussion was held. The board feels that this matter needs further review. Motion was made to require both Patrick and Robert Dunleavy to come before the Snowbelt discipline committee. Motion seconded and passed with one opposed.

Motion was made to suspend both players from snowbelt until a hearing by the Snowbelt Discipline committee. This is based on the score sheet that was presented to the Snowbelt board on this date 11/18/99, seconded and passed with one opposed.

Motion was made to amend the first motion to include the coach to be at the Snowbelt Discipline meeting. Also to have the Referee present or at least a letter for the meeting. Seconded and passed.

We will wait until the Discipline committee's decision to figure out what to do about the game the players took part in when they should have sat.

Lori Vezendy will do the banners for the league champions, four will be ordered at a cost of $70.00 each.

Tanya Onori would like rosters from each team ASAP. The final USA rosters with any changes are due by DECEMBER 15, 1999.

It was brought to Snowbelt's attention that Cameron Kennedy and Michael Race are rostered on both snowbelt and travel teams with the Cazenovia Peewee teams. This was brought up to find out how the division directors are to go about reporting incidents like this. It was decided that the directors will need to report to VP Walt Platt. The above complaint will be sent to Walt.

Salmon River asked about moving players from Squirts to Peewee. They were told that the players can be moved up but they have to stay there, they can not be moved back down again, this is from USA hockey.

Elmira asked about non-Snowbelt games where associations may put teams together to play non-league, this is not a problem as long as they do not play Snowbelt that way.

Mike Lane (Lysander) submitted a change to by-law #8.01(see attached), it was discussed at great length. Motion was made to accept, seconded passed with 2 opposed.

Lysander, Salmon River, Valley and Oswego wil form a committee to organize rules for the JAM tournament.

Standing Reports:

Discipline - No report - any discipline problems should go to the level director first. Level director will take it to Walt Platt, who will in turn take it to the discipline committee. Squirts - Jim Craig, Peewees - Mike Esposito, Bantams - Jim Reid, Midgets - Lee Baker.

Hardship Cases:

Skaneateles asked to hardship two goalies. At squirt level they would like to play  Ryan Evert on both Snowbelt and travel, at peewee Jeremy Murphy would be rostered both at Snowbelt and UNYHL.
Motion was made to let Ryan Evert be rostered as Snowbelt and Travel in case of sickness or injury, seconded - Failed 3 in favor, 8 opposed
Motion was made to allow Jeremy Murphy to be rostered on Snowbelt and UNYHL in case of sickness or injury, seconded - Failed 4 in favor 7 opposed

Midstate wants to be able to roster one goalie on two Bantam teams. This was unanimously turned down.

Next meeting DECEMBER 15, 1999

Round Table:

Present: Auburn, Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Elmira, Fulton, Geneva, Hamilton, Ithaca, Lysander, Midstate, Oswego, Salmon River, Skaneateles, Valley, Whitestown.

Excused:
Absent: Watertown

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Minutes for December 15,1999

Next regular meeting Wednesday January 19.2000 at 7:30 pm VFW

Meeting called to order at 7:30pm by President Susan Palmer-Everly

Motion made to approve minutes from November 18,1999. Seconded and approved.

Treasurers Report:
Savings Account has a balance of $4314.23
Checking Account has a balance of $1772.81
Expenses were $315.00 insurance.
A motion was made, and seconded, approved the treasurer's report.

Old Business:

Final Rosters were due this evening.

Jim Reid submitted the stamped copy of the incorporation papers to Susan Palmer-Everly. (see copy attached)

Lori Vezendy will have banners done by the end of January. Susan will pick out trophies at Pen and Trophy in January.

Corrections made to directory

Reminder - Midget tournament will be held February 25-27, 2000. All other levels will be held March 3-5, 2000.

Mike Lane is coordinating tournament rules.

New Business:

Midget level coaches must indicate on score sheets which players play for their high school team also. If these players are not present, they must be crossed off the score sheet.

Motion was made to have players, that rule #2.07 pertains to, that are injured but present at the game listed as such on the score sheet, the player must also sign the score sheet. This game will then count toward the players eligibility to participate in the playoff games. Seconded and passed.

Motion was made to charge an association $400.00 if a team drops out of the snowbelt association after the season has started. All games that team has played or will play become null and void. If the association refuses to pay the fine within thirty days all teams from that association will be suspended from the snowbelt league, those games will also become null and void. Each team suspended will also be charged the $400.00 fine. Seconded and passed with 2 opposed.

Discussion was held on article #4.05, cancellation of games.

Midstate bantams traveled to Elmira - game started twenty minutes late because the referees were not on time. Discussion was held on what to do because the referees called the game with four minutes to go, because they ran over allotted time. (Elmira does not use a curfew clock) Midstate believes they should be able to play the last three minutes of the game over. Motion was made to replay this game #B8A on February 5,2000. Seconded and passed with 3 opposed.

Standing Reports:

Discipline - Walt discussed the Dunleavy case from last meeting. He talked at length with the referees of the game and found the entire problem to be a mistake on the part of the referees. The coach from the Watertown team stated that both players served a four game suspension each when they should have only served one. Members of the discipline committee felt this was more than enough of a penalty. Watertown did hold it's own discipline meeting with the players.

Cazenovia players that were reported on at the last meeting, for being on two rosters will be looked at under hardships.

Hardship Cases:

Motion made to let Cazenovia roster two peewee players (Cameron Kennedy and Michael Race) on both their travel and snowbelt rosters. Seconded - motion failed 1 in favor 10 opposed.

Motion made to let Salmon River roster seven of their travel team squirt players to their peewee snowbelt team. When their schedules allow they would play for the peewee snowbelt team. Seconded - motion faiiled 1 in favor 10 opposed.

Motion made for Elmira to roster a player late, because he will be moving to their area from out of state after January 1.(This is after the rosters are due). Seconded and passed.

Motion made to let Lysander roster two snowbelt Bantams on their travel roster also. The goalie would play only when the travel team had an injured player. Seconded - motion failed 3 in favor 7 opposed.

Motion made to let Auburn roster a peewee snowbelt goalie to peewee travel also. They would play only when the travel team had injured players. Seconded - motion failed 3 in favor 7 opposed.

Skaneateles asked to hardship two goalies. At squirt level they would like Ryan Evert on both Snowbelt and Travel, at peewee Jeremy Murphy would be rostered both at Snowbelt and UNYHL.
Motion was made to let Ryan Evert be rostered as Snowbelt and travel in case of sickness or injury, seconded - failed 3 in favor 7 opposed.
Motion was made to allow Jeremy Murphy to be rostered on Snowbelt and UNYHL in case of sickness or injury, seconded - failed 3 in favor 7 opposed.

Round Table:

Watertown snowbelt bantams played at Clinton. There was a Clinton player not dressed for the game on the Clinton bench. With 2 seconds left in the game this player went on the ice to celebrate with his team. When shaking hands he put a shoulder into one of the Watertown players and knocked him back. Watertown coach spoke to the referee, and was told that he (the referee) spoke with the player. Watertown is requesting that the discipline committee look into this incident.

Cortland missed this evening's meeting. As per letter sent to the association at the end of last season, they were put on probation for missed meetings last year. The letter stated that they could only miss one meeting this season, this is their one meeting. Susan will call Cortland's representative.

Next meeting January 19,2000

Present: Auburn, Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Elmira, Fulton, Geneva, Ithaca, Lysander, Midstate, Oswego, Salmon River, Skaneateles, Valley, Whitestown, Watertown

Excused: Hamilton
Absent: Cortland

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Minutes for January 19,2000

Next regular meeting Wednesday February 16,2000 at 7:30 pm VFW

Meeting called to order at 7:35 pm by President Susan Palmer-Everly

Motion made to approve minutes from December 15, 1999. Seconded and approved

Treasurers Report:
Savings $18.92 interest to savings
Tournament Deposits $9120.00 Balance $13,453.15
Association Fees Deposit $1480.00 Balance $3250.81
A motion was made, and seconded, approved the treasurer's report

Old Business:

Banners are ready - Will be at next meeting for host associations to pick up.

Trophies are ordered.

Mike Lane gave the other tournament committee members a rough draft of the tournament rules to go over and finalize for next meeting.

New Business:

Tournament issues were discussed.

Motion was made to let the host associations of the Peewee, Bantam and Midget tournaments decide between 12 and 15 minute periods depending on the availability of ice. 10 in favor 3 opposed motion passed.

Motion was made to let the tournament host association decide if they wanted to charge an admission up to $1.00/day/adult, kids under 16 free as long as it is advertised. 1 in favor 12 opposed.

Deadline for tourney schedule is January 31. All schedules must be to Tanya Onori by January 31 so she can post them on the internet and mail them to the Snowbelt reps.

Valley Midgets traveled to Elmira for a 1:00pm game. The game was originally scheduled for 1:45 pm. Valley was prepared to start at 1:00pm, the officials were also there. But Elmira did not show up on time. Therefore the first period was 12 minute running time and then the game ended. After the game there were reports of confrontations in the parking lot. Walt Platt will look into the incident in the parking lot, to make sure that each association has taken care of any discipline actions that may have been warranted.
A motion was made to make this game a forfeit on the part of Elmira as per by-law #8.01, three periods were not played. 11 in favor 1 opposed.

Standing Reports:

Discipline - Watertown snowbelt bantams played at Clinton. There was a Clinton player not dressed for the game on the Clinton bench. With 2 seconds left in the game this player went on the ice to celebrate with his team. When shaking hands he put a shoulder into one of the Watertown players and knocked him back. Watertown coach spoke to the referee, and was told that he (the referee) spoke with the player. Watertown is requesting that the discipline committee look into this incident.
Walt Platt looked into this request from Watertown. The discipline committee feels that the referee made his call and that call will stand.

Hardship Cases:

Round Table:

Next meeting February 16, 2000

Present: Auburn, Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Cortland, Elmira, Hamilton, Ithaca, Lysander, Midstate, Oswego, Salmon River, Valley, Whitestown, Watertown

Excused: Geneva
Absent: Fulton, Skaneateles

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Minutes for February 16,2000

Next regular meeting Wednesday March 15, 2000 at 7:30pm at VFW

Meeting called to order at 7:35pm by President Susan Palmer-Everly

Motion made to approve minutes from January 19, 2000. Seconded and approved.

Treasurer's Report:
Checking Account Balance $2091.21
Savings Account Balance $13,453.15
To be deposited $6930.00
Cazenovia, Hamilton, Oswego and Valley have not paid their associations and tournament fees
A motion was made, and seconded, approved the treasurer's report

Old Business

Cazenovia is having trouble getting their bill paid, because of the fee we charged their peewee team for leaving the Snowbelt league. They have paid for 2 teams @ $40.00 each and their association fee of $50.00 for a total of $140.00. The squirt team has now backed out of the JAM tournament. Because the squirt team has now withdrawn Cazenovia will not be able to come back into Snowbelt until they pay the $800.00 fine.

It is remembered by the snowbelt board that the peewee team withdrew from snowbelt because they could not have two travel players on the snowbelt team. They could have stayed with Snowbelt with out these two players.

All outstanding score sheets are due by February 21, 2000.

Motion was made to fine any association that does not pay their fee by the 25th. They will be fined $50.00 per team in the current season.

Motion was made not to let any association with an outstanding bill before the 2000-2001 season will not be allowed in Snowbelt until bill is paid. Unanimous

Elmira brought up again the game between Elmira and Valley Midgets. The people from Elmira believe the game started no later than 1:10pm (was supposed to start at 1:oopm). Elmira believes the game took so long because of the penalties in the first period. They are saying the first period took over an hour to play. The first period was a 12 minute stop time period. the 2nd was a 12 minute running time and there was no third period. Motion was made to make this game null because of rule #8.01 seconded 5 in favor, 9 opposed. This game stands as a forfeit.

Tournament Compliments and Complaints

1) Ithaca made a motion to change the squirt tournament times to accommodate the Squirt #2 coach. 0 in favor 17 opposed. Motion failed

2) Squirt Ithaca #2 does not think we should have drawn letters. Snowbelt will look at the drawing of letters again at the September meeting.

3) Bantam level Valley and Midstate #1 are asking that they be allowed to play their 7:30am game at another site at another time. This is addressed in the motion below.

Motion was made not to allow any changes to the JAM tournament schedules as they are complete unless there is a clerical error. 16 in favor, 1 opposed, motion passed.

Motion was made to amend the Bantam JAM Tournament schedule so it conforms with Squirt, Peewee and Midget schedules. 1 in favor, 16 opposed, motion failed.

Tournament rules were handed out for review. Motion was made to accept the rules as they were written. 2 in favor 15 opposed

Motion was made to accept the rules with the following changes: Adding tournament ejection for fighting and having the home team supply the scorekeeper, 11 in favor 3 opposed, motion passed.

It was reported that Geneva Coach Vivlamore, who was suspended last season, is coaching again this season This was brought to the attention of the board as information.

New Business:

Trophies will be handed out at the end of the meeting.

Standing Reports:

Discipline

Hardship Cases

Round Table:

It was reported for information only that Elmira and Valley are travel "C" teams and were not hardshipped in at the beginning of the season.

Next meeting March 15, 2000

Present: Auburn, Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Cortland, Elmira, Fulton, Geneva, Hamilton, Ithaca, Lysander, Midstate, Oswego, Salmon River, Skaneateles, Valley, Whitestown, Watertown

Excused:
Absent: 

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Minutes for March 15,2000

Meeting called to order at 7:35pm by President Susan Palmer-Everly

Motion made to approve minutes from February 16, 2000. Seconded and approved.

Treasurer's Report:
Checking Account Balance $3,010.54
Savings Account Balance $16,289.15
To be deposited $6930.00
A motion was made, and seconded, approved the treasurer's report

Old Business

A.) All associations have paid their bills except Cazenovia. They have not taken care of their fines. Motion was made to make certain Cazenovia has paid their $800.00 fine ($400.00 per team), association dues, team dues and tournament fees (total $1690.00) before they will be allowed into the snowbelt association. This needs to be paid whenever they decide to rejoin whether it be the 2000-2001 season or later. Passed unanimously

B.)Tournament Compliments and Complaints
It is felt that next season the tournament should be done with an upper and lower bracket. In a few instances it was observed that ice time was not equal through out the tournament. Snowbelt will look at this in September.

C.) Disagreement with referees - Snowbelt can do nothing about disagreements with referees calls. If a team has a problem they can write a letter or call the referee supervisors. A score sheet should be sent with the letter so the supervisor can check with their officials.

It was brought to the boards attention in a previous meeting that Elmira and Valley Midgets were in the travel bracket also this season. Neither team notified the Snowbelt Association to seek a hardship.
A motion was made to fine each team $200.00 for not coming to Snowbelt to hardship their midget teams as per by-law #2.06. If rule #2.06 is violated in the future the association in violation will be expelled from snowbelt for the remaining of the year. They will be allowed to reapply for the following season, when all fines have been paid. All fines must be paid by the start of the new season. Passed unanimously.

New Business:

Tanya Onori (Auburn) and Walt Platt (Camillus) have been working toward getting Snowbelt their own website. There is about a $350.00 fee to get started. Jim Reid's company is interested in sponsoring the page.
Motion was made to go ahead and set up the website, with Green and Reid sponsoring the page. The page address will be snowbelthockey.org
It is suggested that all snowbelt reps post this address at their rinks.

Motion was made to increase the schedulers fee to $750.00 because she will be doing more work with the new website. Passed 1 opposed.

It was brought to snowbelts attention that Clinton did not play using law #6.05 regarding equal playing time this season with their bantam team.
Motion was made to send Clinton a letter explaining rule #6.05. Passed unanimously.

Lots of gratitude was expressed to Tanya Onori for all her work scheduling and keeping the standings thoughout the season.

Standing Reports:

Discipline -- No report

Hardship Cases -- No report

Round Table -- No report

Next meeting September 20, 2000. Valley Legion Post

Present: Auburn, Camillus, Cazenovia, Clinton, Cortland, Fulton, Geneva, Hamilton, Lysander, Midstate, Oswego, Skaneateles, Whitestown, Watertown

Excused: Elmira, Ithaca
Absent: Salmon River, Valley

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