MINUTES OF THE Ygnacio
Valley HS Athletic
Boosters, Inc
Meeting OF January 7, 2004
a California nonprofit PUBLIC BENEFIT corporation
A general
meeting of the YVHS Athletic Boosters, Inc was held on January 7, 2004 at 7:08
p.m. at Concord, California
for the purpose of a monthly meeting. The
meeting was called to order by Cathy Wayne (President Stan Wilson
arrived at 7:15 to continue chairing
the rest of the meeting). Written
notice of this meeting was sent via email and announced on the web site
to all general members of record on the books of the corporation at
such time and with such contents as required by the Bylaws of the corporation.
Attending
the meeting were:
Stan Wilson Cathy
McCaughey Jenny Depper
Judi Cranmer Mark
Rittenour Jim
Grace
Joe Bergman Linda
Wiley Cathy
Wayne
Daniel Nousse Debbie
Vaticano
Seven out of ten board members were present, which constitutes a quorum
of the full board.
The order of the meeting was amended as followed until the arrival of
the president
OLD
BUSINESS
Field Improvement/Track Grant. Cathy Wayne passed out a report sheet listing
the grant application submitted by the Boosters which included: Give Something
Back, Active Living, San Jose Impact Grant, The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta
Gellert Foundation, CIBC Miracle Day, SH Cowell, and Cal EPA Waste Tire
Grant. Of the seven grants submitted
three were denied for not meeting the economic criteria with our demographic
population in the school boundaries. The
other grants are pending and Cathy will follow up on the results. She and Linda Wiley will continue to look at
what other grants are available that the Boosters can apply for.
Jim Grace announced on the same topic that on January 8th,
the district would consider if additional monies from Measure A will be
available for the YVHS track improvement.
The regular order was then resumed.
WELCOME
AND INTRODUCTIONS
Members were introduced and included guests Joe Bergman and Daniel
Nousse representing Walnut Creek Warrior/Lacrosse.
APPROVAL
OF PAST MINUTES
The minutes of the December board meeting were passed out to all
members. The motion was made, seconded and the vote approved the minutes of December 3, 2003 as submitted.
TREASURER’S
REPORT
Linda Wiley passed out the Treasurer’s Report. Expenses for the past
month included: $1800 for the purchase of Warrior tickets for a fundraiser,
$1344.30 to Sports 4 All for pullovers, and $2300 to the Boys Basketball
program. Income included two escrip
deposits of $304.40 and $327.23 plus some miscellaneous income from the sale of
spirit wear. The current balance is
$25,466.
OLD
BUSINESS
- SITE COUNCIL Judi reported that the last meeting was
routine. She passed out a copy of
the Single Plan for Student Achievement Goals and Objectives for
members to look at.
- SPIRIT WEAR SALES Cathy Wayne
brought a sample of the new pullovers available for sale. She reported that there was still a lot
of inventory. If a team has a home
game and contacts Cathy Wayne or Stan Wilson, they will be happy to bring spirit
wear to the event to sell. The
question was asked on why the new pullovers only say Warriors and does not
include YVHS. Cathy explained that
different styles of merchandise had different logos and the sweatshirts
did have YV on them.
- FIELD IMPROVEMENT/TRACK This was
covered at the beginning of the meeting.
- MEMBERSHIP –Debbie reported she
received two applications, which brings the current membership up to 158.
- ESCRIP – There was no one to
report on escrip (see Treasurer’s
report) except that income is still being received.
- CRAB FEED Stan Wilson reported that the committee
met on January 5th with a better turnout. Donations are trickling in but more are
needed. Anyone who is interested is
asked to solicit donations from businesses they support for the crab
feed. We still need volunteers to
canvas shopping centers. The entire
restaurant has been booked. Members
are encouraged to push ticket sales. Jim Grace reported that he has a
donation from the Sonoma Wine Storage.
Cathy McCaughey reported that she placed reminder letters in all
the coaches’ boxes today asking for team donations. Currently team donations pledged or
given are: Girls Water Polo (gift basket), Boys Basketball Program (Girls
Senior Ball Basket), Girls Basketball, Cross Country (gift basket),
Football (coaching certificates) and golf (49er shirts). The security issue has been addressed
(with the theft of a picture last year).
There will be a DJ ($400) and a Karaoke room.
- WEB SITE Cathy Wayne reported that
Roberta Kravitz can no longer do the website so that board position is
vacant. In the discussion that
followed there were suggestions to ask Mr. Moore if there was a student
who would volunteer to be webmaster.
Jim Grace will contact him this week. A second suggestion was to pay someone
to be webmaster.
- ATHLETIC DIRECTOR/TEAMS IN PROGRESS Jim
Grace reported that he met with the School Superintendent about YV moving
from the BVAL to the DFAL. The option to pursue the move from a legal
approach was mentioned. This topic
will definitely by an item for the next realignment discussion for NCS. He
also reported that Winter Sports are all underway and it looks like all
coaching positions will be filled for Spring Sports.
- UPDATE ON GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS
FUNDRAISING. Stan purchased 100 tickets for the Warriors game against Memphis
for Sunday March 7th at 6pm. The tickets were purchased at $18 each
and will go on sale for $25 each as a fundraiser. Normally these tickets would cost fans
$28 The Coliseum will not be available for team practice due to a request
from Memphis for practice time before the game but a group of 50 from the
school will be allowed to go courtside before the game to watch warm-ups.
Members were encouraged to buy and sell tickets to the game.
NEW BUSINESS
- ATHLETIC COMMISIONER REPORT. Jenny
Depper reported that she and Kevin McCaughey are Athletic Commissioners
this year. They are working with
the student body to encourage participation and attendance at athletic
events. They had a Warrior Jam with
about 80 students participating. She thanked the Athletic Boosters for
donation of prizes. They are
continuing to showcase an athlete of the month. There is a 6th
man Club for Men’s basketball and the club asked for the Boosters
support. They are also incorporating
athletics in all school assemblies.
- FUNDING REQUESTS Jim Grace
reported the following funding requests that are not being submitted right
now but will be as soon as actual costs are obtained:
-
Scholarship
NCS patches. The school would recognize its athlete scholars with a
patch. This is something the Boosters
may want to consider supporting. Costs for the patches are pending.
-
Water
Polo parkas. More parkas are needed
-
Sports
Awards Currently there is an
outstanding bill for $1800 for sports awards.
The cost was not budgeted by student govt./leadership. After this year it will be included as a
yearly budgeted item. Boosters may be
asked to consider covering the cost this year.
ROUND TABLE
Daniel Nousse and Joe
Bergman gave an informative, brief presentation about the Walnut Creek Warrior
Lacrosse program. It currently includes
3rd through 8th grade.
They would like to help develop a Boys & Girls high school team at
YV. They would need a field of 110 x
60yds (football size). Gear for each
player would be approximately $300 for boys and $140 for girls. It would be a
spring sport from February to early May.
Currently their organization draws participants from Walnut
Creek, Pleasant Hill,
Clayton & Martinez. Teams play with
10 players on the field for boys and 12 for girls. It is an upcoming sport with pro teams (San
Jose Stealth) that is also a college and life sport. Jim Grace will continue to
be in contact with them. Joe & Daniel were thanked for coming to the
meeting and for their presentation. Their
website is WCWARRIORLax.com
.
The next Booster meeting
is January 4 2004 in the
school library.
.There was no further
business and the meeting was adjourned at 8:20m.
Submitted by:
____________________
Cathy McCaughey,
Secretary
January 10. 2004