North Harford Recreation Council

Meeting Minutes - 3/21/07

In Attendance: Don Hoopes, Bob Astarita, Russ Yurek, Dianna Skrocki, Rob Bailey, Tim Rickey, Mike Haslup, Karen Sturtevant, Charlie Dawson, Karen Dawson, and Tom Hebert.

President’s Report: Don Hoopes

* A count of those attending the annual dinner needs to be given to Russ Yurek by the

end of the month.

* Just a reminder to make sure all facilities used for practices/games, especially

Saturdays, are cleaned up and left as they were found or better.

Treasurers Report: Russell Yurek

* Current net worth of $101,962.23.

* All programs are in good shape.

Vice Presidents Report: Bob Astarita

* Opening day for Baseball, Softball and Girls Lacrosse is April 21^st at 9am. A good

group of volunteers has been working hard on the details of the day. Karen Dawson

presented a rough draft of the agenda which included the details of the parade, basket

raffle, food concessions, team announcements and other activities. Bob has already

contacted the State Police for the road closure and is still looking to set up a canine

demonstration. Tammy Yurek will be handling the basket raffle. Hickory Dicks will

be handling the food and will donate close to 100% of the profits to be split between

the programs. They are currently looking for an alternative to using the Highland

Field for Softball in order to keep all the games at the North Harford School fields.

* Bob has volunteered to take over as the field coordinator.

Old Business

* The minutes from the February meeting were accepted.

* The Land Acquisition Committee has nothing definite to report at this time, but more

conversations are currently going on. More will be reported at the next meeting.

Program Reports

Girl‘s Lax (Tim Rickey) - program is now under way. Games will begin March 31^st. Schedules should be out on Friday. Each age group has a team and the clinic has a total of 15 girls. Will be trying to recruit more 9 year olds for the program. The York Travel Team has purchased new uniforms.

Soccer (Bob Astarita) - registration will be in May.

Softball (Bob Astarita) - currently still looking for a chairperson, the teams are in place.

Baseball (Bob Astarita) - just getting started. Uniforms and equipment have been ordered.

Adult Basketball (Tom Hebert) - doing well with 12-13 on each day, two days a week.

Karate (Don Hoopes) - currently have 15-20 students. Four purple belts have advanced to blue belts and 2 white belts have advanced to yellow belts.

Afternoon Fitness Swim (Karen Sturtevant) - has a total of 25 swimmers. Looking to possibly go from 2 days a week to 3 days a week starting in the fall. Looking at Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Rob advised Karen to fill out the Northern District Facility Request form to follow up on this request.

Football (Charlie Dawson) - will add another 2 registration dates due to the snow from the first registration. Currently have 57 signed up. (17 for clinic ages 5-7, 13 for ages 7-8, 13 for ages 9-11 and 14 for ages 10-12) Charlie will put in a request to use the practice field behind the High School for use for games. At this time the lighting may be borrowed from Comer or Dixie Construction. If need be they can also rent the lights from Bay Country Rentals. The program is looking to get affiliated with the Maryland Sting semi-pro team out of Rising Sun. They will have their final approval for the program from HB Football by April 23^rd.

Rob Bailey (Parks & Rec) -

* Any 2007/08 facility requests need to be in by the May meeting.

* A Port-A-Pot will be placed at the Highland School from this Friday or Monday for 3 months. The charge is $80/mo. And $45 for any extra services needed. (i.e. tipping)

* Mike Getz and Rob Bailey will both be attending the April meeting and then only Mike Getz going forward. Please make sure that all requests go through Mike beginning with the April meeting. He can be reached at 410-692-7820.

* The pool at the Middle School will be going through maintenance during the summer and therefore will not be available for use. This will begin approx. June 18^th.

New Business

* According the the NH Rec. bylaws, the council has asked for volunteers for the Nominating Committee for next year’s officers. Tim Rickey and Charlie Dawson have volunteered to actively search for members of the community that are involved with the Recreation Programs that may want to run for any of the officer positions. Nominations will be made at the April meeting and a vote will be taken during the May meeting.

THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY, April18^th, at 7:15PM.