North Harford Recreation Council

Meeting Minutes - 11/19/08

 

In Attendance:  Don Hoopes, Dianna Skrocki, Russ Yurek, Bob Astarita, Linda Heaps, Charlie Dawson, Steve Jones, Karen Sturdevant, Joyce Goslee, and Brian Briggs.

 

President’s Report: Don Hoopes

*  Cedar Lane is now open

*  Passed around the P&R project list

*  Each council needs to have a resident agent to be a recipient of legal documents.  Bob

    will check into this further.

*  The legal start date for girl’s lax tryouts has been moved to Jan. 15^th.

 

Treasurers Report: Russell Yurek 

*  Current net worth of $135,047.

*  A suggestion was made to increase the head tax to $6. ($5 would be the original head

    tax and $1 would go into a future enhancement fund).  A motion was made and passed

    to begin this starting Jan. 1, 2009.

 

Vice Presidents Report: Bob Astarita

*  Bob handed out an updated contact list

*  A reminder was made for all chairpersons to follow up on returned checks.

 

Old Business/Committee Updates

*  Meeting minutes from the October meeting were accepted.

*  Looking for a Boy’s Basketball Chairperson

 

Program Reports    

Dance (Joyce Goslee)  - looking into donating to the high school auditorium in order to purchase a white curtain.  Otherwise, may pay the money to go back to Kennard Dale because of the lighting, curtain and video issues.

Karate (Don Hoopes) - currently has 10 returning students and 10 beginners.  Has 3 brown belts trying to move up in rank closer to black belt.

Football (Charlie Dawson) - 2^nd year is coming to a close and went very well.  Two of our teams are going to the championships this weekend (10-12 and 11-13)

Girl‘s Basketball (Linda Heaps/Steve Jones) - Linda introduced Steve Jones as the new chairperson.  Currently have 5 teams, same as last year.

Soccer (Bob Astarita) - Regular season is finished, with travel teams having one more weekend.  Three teams (U9-boys, U10-girls and U15-girls) won the Northern Region Soccer Tournament.

Afternoon Fitness Swim (Karen Sturtevant) - Sign ups did not do as well as previous sessions.  Only had 10.  This was due to the limited time of 4 weeks because of pool work being done.

Mike Getz (Parks & Rec) -  Mike was unable to attend the meeting, but left the list of dates that no activities may be held.  There will be no activities held Dec.24^th through Jan. 2^nd in order to conserve energy in the buildings.   There will be no December council meeting.

 

New Business

*  All travel teams must deposit all revenues through Russ.  If not, they will not be affiliated with the rec. or covered by the rec. for any liabilities, etc..  Bob will send out an email to all his travel coaches to inform them of this.

*  The custodial fund will need to be put back in place.  This will pay for overtime custodial hours, mostly on weekends. (indoor soccer, basketball, fitness swim, etc…)  We will also need to talk to Jarrettsville, Norrisville and Dublin about contributing as well for their use of our gym.  Russ will assign Dept. 09 for this fund.

*  Winter Weekend Swim has been added as a new program to the rec.  It will be Sundays from 2:30 - 4:30 and will be $35/person.

 

THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21^st, at 7:00PM at the NHES Parks & Rec. Office.