BETHEL PARK SOCCER ASSOCIATION

Board Meeting – November 8, 2005

Russ Spicuzza, President of the Bethel Park Soccer Association (BPSA), called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm in the Caucus Room of the Bethel Park Municipal Building. Also present were Bruce Barron, Tom Boss, Ed Emmett, Bill Harvey, Jim Huber, Jack Kun, Bob Monte, Jim Rhoades, Russ Spicuzza, Tom Vater, Mark Vescovi, and Bill Wolf.

Secretary’s Report: The October minutes were distributed. Ed motioned that the minutes be approved. Jack seconded. The minutes were approved. They will be posted on the website.

Treasurer’s Report: Our balance is $33,508.19. Outstanding bills include $2640 for PDO (budgeted at $5400, but reduced due to credits from programs/merchandise we bought from MLS); storage shed bill; labor for lining fields and referee scheduler’s fee for fall session. We also discussed the apparel that we are currently selling.

President’s Report: Russ mentioned the Citizen Bank’s program. They donated over 300 balls to the flight program in October.

Russ successful made a donation through United Way to the association through the annual drive at work. We need to let more people know about this next year.

Vice-President’s Report: Mark talked about the Coaches Appreciation Luncheon on November 13, 2005 at the Community Center from 3-6pm. All travel and flight coaches and assistants are invited. About 30 coaches have responded so far. The food is coming from Pasta Too. The cost is about $300. Jack will get beverages, and Tom will order the cake. Mark and Theresa will set-up about 2pm. Any help would be appreciated.

Registration- Registration table Jan 18 is in Council Chambers from 7-8:30pm. Early bird Feb 2, Travel Feb 15, and Flights Mar 9.

Communications- Registration forms will go home in several editions of School Rec News, plus the December issue of BP Chronicle. Also, we may send out a letter about upcoming meeting, and board elections. Tom will email the new registration form to Mark for the website.

PR/Fundraising- Bob reported that we received $780 from Redford Photography for pictures. Russ commended that the pictures were nice. He also thanked Bob again for the good job with Community Day.

Player/Coach Development- The MLS report was distributed. We discussed Simon’s comments.

Fields- Tom talked about the shape of fields, and that we may need to move U-10’s to another field. Also, Russ stated that Millennium would be closing during the year for major improvements. There was discussion about sitting down with the township to find out their actual plans, and give our input about improvements. Russ and Tom will attend that session.

Website- Mark distributed his report about website activity. He also received a request from Bill Marnik about his assistant’s help this fall and writing a letter commenting on his service. Mark will take care of that. Also, Mark discussed getting our logo available to make letterhead. He and Jack will work on that.

Referees- Recertification here in Bethel Park on November 15 at BPHS. Call to register. Tom commented Brian Carbonara on his job as scheduler for the past 4 seasons. Brian is preparing for college, so this was his last season as scheduler. He will be looking for a replacement. Also, he nominated Josh Coulson as our outstanding referee for the year. He will submit his name for referee of the year to PA West. New referee certification will be in February.

New Business- Bill Wolf brought up the topic of Player Appreciation Day, since we are now having Coaches Appreciation. Most people felt that was a good idea during the spring session. Additionally, there was discussion that we have another goal setting meeting for 2006, similar to the one conducted this past year. Player Appreciation Day would be one of the topics. Mark suggested that we do that in conjunction with the January Board meeting. Tom will look into that more.

Nominations- There was discussion about elections. The following people were nominated and accepted: Boss, Emmett, Harvey, Kun, Wolf, Conley, Hammer, Spicuzza, Vater, Vescovi, Huber, Monte, Snyder, Rhoades, and Conway. Nomination forms will be available on the website. They can be mailed or brought to the next meeting on December 13, 2005.