DISTRICT-10 MAHA
GENERAL MEETING MINUTES
January 7, 2002

Tim Timm, President, called the meeting to order.

D-10 Board Members Not Present: Kim Hauger

Associations Not Present: Becker, Chisago Lakes, Pine City, and St. Francis

Minutes passed from last general meeting.

President's Report

  • Associations need to determine where problems lie within their Association.
  • There is a major turnover of Association Boards, which prevents information from being passed on.
  • Duties/responsibilities should be amended as they are completed.
  • Recommendation to try and keep the turnover down - get Board commitments of 3-4 years (longevity).
  • Tournaments: Must be in Tim Timm’s hands by 1/15/02,
  • February 9, 2002 there is a breakfast meeting at 9:00 am, Broadway Pizza in Elk River for all Association Presidents and/or one supervisor (someone helping with the District Tournament). Call or e-mail Tim and let him know who and how many will be attending. This meeting will have pertinent information regarding Districts.
  • Board Elections: Get a copy of your new board members to Tim Timm as early as possible. This information needs to be turned into the State and MN Hockey.

Treasurers Report

  • Balance in checking/savings account was $67,269.82; Expenses incurred were $41,006.05; Balance as of January 7, 2002is $26,263.77 (A detailed report was distributed).
  • Checks have not been received from Elk River, Princeton, Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud or Spring Lake Park for the first half billings, which were mailed the first week in December.
  • Second half of the billings will be mailed the first week in February. These billings will include the teams participating in the District 10 Tournaments.
  • Leagues with more than 8 teams need to call Dave as soon as possible when you know which teams will be advancing to the District Tournament.
  • Motion to approve the Treasurer’s report. Seconded. Passed. Treasurer’s report approved.

District Director Report

  • Age Change at USA Hockey: USA Hockey has voted to move the age change date back to January 1st. Minnesota Hockey strongly opposed this change. The age change will become effective for the 2002-2003 season. We need input from parents and associations. Please contact Phil with any input that you or your association may have. Input to date has been to stay the way we are.
  • Ace Coaching Coordinator: MN Hockey has requested that every association have an Association Coaching Education coordinator. Please fill out the forms and return them to Barry Ford. There is an order form and list of coaching material you may want to obtain from USA Hockey at a very reasonable cost. Barry Ford has been named the head of the Ace Program for the Minnkota District.
  • Electronic Directory: MN Hockey has decided to use an Electronic Directory this year rather than a print directory. If your Association would like to be in the directory, you will have to fill out the directory form and return it to the MN Hockey office, Att: Mark Jorgensesn. Mark’s e-mail is MarkJ@minnesotahockey.org or his fax is 651-222-1055. Please fill these out and send them in. Five out of 20 Associations to date have submitted their information.
  • Stop Patches: MN Hockey has mandated that all Squirt, Girls and Jr. Gold teams must have the STOP patch on their jersey. This is a State Rule. If a player does not have a STOP patch on their jersey, the ref will send them off the ice.
  • Regional and State Playoffs District 10 will host the JR Gold A & B Regional Tournament and the A Bantam State Tournament. We know money is tight this year, but if anyone would like to help sponsor our State Bantam A tournament this year, please contact Barry Ford or any other board member. We will also need workers for these events.
  • Rostering: Things went well, although there were some problems. Recommendation that at the end of tryouts, the President gets a back-up disk. Also, regular backups are encouraged.
  • Associations need to take control of their coaches; coaches need to take control of their benches. Coaches are responsible for their benches and their parents.

Assistant District Director/CEP Coordinator

  • Article presented on former players and where they are now.
  • ACE Program is mandatory. It is designed to help make programs even stronger.
  • Clinics are completed for this season, but will start up again in the fall.
  • Recognition to Doug Messerli. Doug has put 30 years into hockey. He coached for 18 years and has been active ever since.
  • If your Association is interested in a clinic, contact Barry by April.

Vice President's Report

  • Web Site: The handbook has been updated. For any coaching changes, contact Tom Evans.
  • Squirt Standings: See Page 25, Paragraph F of the MN Hockey Manual.

Supervisor of Officials

  • A game misconduct report, by Associations, was distributed. The report was current as of 1/2/02.
  • To date, there has been 6 abuse of officials by coaches incidents. D-10 started with 121 officials at the beginning of the season and as of today, there are only 114.
  • Coaches certifications can be pulled.

Youth Director

  • B2 Squirt teams need to get their calendars turned in.
  • In the event of submitting your scores, your League Coordinator should have set up with the coaches where to turn in their scores.
  • Tournament Schedules: Let John know if there are any days that cannot be covered.

Girls Coordinator

  • A handout of the girls’ standings was distributed.
  • Girls 12U-A will participate in the District 3 Tournament. $400 needs to be paid directly to the tournament coordinator.
  • There have been Association complaints regarding girls practice hours. Girls are entitled to the same as boys.
  • One 10U calendar is still outstanding.

Jr. Gold Coordinator

  • There has been 8 fighting penalties in 2 games.
  • Wedensday, March 3, 2002, 7 PM at Wakuta Arena is the Jr. Gold All Star Game.

Coordinators Reports

  • A-Squirts: Scrimmages are being played without any instructional training. These need to be counted as games.
  • B1-Squirts: 2 teams are undefeated; 2 teams are non-winning; and there are 24 ties.
  • A-Peewees: 1 match and 4 game misconduct penalties have been assessed.
  • B1-Peewees: Coordinator was asked to come talk to 2 different teams. Best group of coaches come from this league, in which they have been coaching 4-5 years. Associations need to find good coaches and then work hard to keep them.
  • A-Bantams: Centennial is undefeated.
  • B1-Bantams: League is fairly even this year. Coaches, overall, are doing well.
  • B2-Bantams: There have been problems with the coaches. Injury report forms need to be filled out for any injury during a practice, league game or tournament game and sent into Jeanette.
  • Girls 12U-A: There are problems with the combined leagues. District 10 rules apply to all games on District 10 ice.
  • Girls 15U: One game misconduct has been assessed. Overall, things are going well.
  • Things are going well for all other leagues not individually listed.

Items from the Floor

  • Blaine has ice for sale.
  • Colleen Donavan, President of St. Cloud Association, is featured I the Hockey Mom’s Magazine.
  • Mora worked at the Wild Game for the program sales fundraiser. It was fun and a positive experience.
  • Fundraising: December 31, 2001 ended the Dodge – Drive Our Vehicles fundraiser. If you have any uncollected vouchers, turn them into Mark Jorgenson so he can issue checks.

District 10 Tournaments

  • Rick Wesp will notify Presidents as to who is working at the region tournament in Anoka and Champlin.

Scheduling

  • Thank you to those who have submitted their rosters.
  • Rosters need to be turned in by 1/15/02 or names will not appear in the District 10 Tournament program.

Next Meeting: Monday, February 4, 2002
7:00 PM at the Champlin Forum Ice Arena

Meeting Adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted by:

Rhonda J. Madsen
Secretary
District-10


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