North Harford Recreation Council

Meeting Minutes - 9/20/06

In Attendance: Don Hoopes, Bob Astarita, Dianna Skrocki, Rob Bailey, Linda Heaps, Mike Haslup, Karen Sturdevant, Tim Rickey, Karen Stifler and Chuck Blair.

President’s Report: Don Hoopes

* All presidents from all councils were in attendance at the last presidents meeting.

* Request for money for the 2008 budget to be used for a Rec.Council in the North

Harford district looks very promising. We currently have 4 listings to look at for

property to be purchased.

* As a reminder, please pick up trash after your functions.

* A suggestion was made at the presidents meeting for each council to contribute to a

memorial gift for the Father of David Roddy who was killed in duty.

* Nominations forms were handed out for the Mid Atlantic Sports Alliance

Sportsmanship Award. This honor is for coaches or participants displaying

exemplary behavior. The winner will be recognized in Annapolis in January or

February.

* Guidelines are in the works to prevent Rec. Councils from having travel tryouts too

early and preventing all those interested from attending.

* Money was given to the Rec. Council to obtain a structure to hold goals, mowers, etc…

The School board says it must be a permanent structure. We will continue to discuss

options as this would be more expensive than the money allotted.

Treasurers Report: Russell Yurek

* Current net worth of 74,715.82

Vice Presidents Report: Bob Astarita

* Bob made a suggestion to put a gate up at the Highland fields to prevent kids from

driving down on the fields and damaging them. Motion was made and passed to use

the allotment previously given for the storage building to purchase the gate.

Old Business

Program Reports

Karate (Don Hoopes) - 8 new students attended

Dance (Joyce Goslee & Debbie Hess) - going well with 75 currently registered.

Girls Lax (Tim Rickey) - early registration and equipment/apparel sale will be held

on Oct. 14^th from 9am-12pm in the front lobby of the Middle School. Will be doing snowball lax again in January at Just 4 Kids.

Scuba (Mike Haslup) - A small class of 6 has started. They had a picnic at the Quarries

in early Sept. where 35 people attended. It was a great turnout and a good time was had by all.

Soccer (Bob Astarita) - doing well. The lower field at Highland has been turned into a full size field. Have received lots of emails from parents expressing how happy they are with the soccer website. Currently have approx. 175 rec. and 90 travel.

Girls Basketball (Linda Heaps) - Sign ups will be held October 4^th & 7^th.

Co-ed Valleyball (Chuck Blair) - having a problem with getting enough to play. Currently only have 4 or 5. They will drop back to just Wednesdays for now and may look into joining with Forest Lakes Elem. on Mondays and Wednesdays if they don’t pick up more players.

Rob Bailey (Parks & Rec) -

* Family swim will currently be put on hold until a new chairperson is obtained.

* Reminders - no food or drinks are permitted inside the physical education facilities. This includes the pool area and balcony, all areas must be vacated 15 minutes after the requested time by everyone including instructors, the doors must remained locked and cannot be blocked open, there is to be no parking past the signs at the entrance to the service road.

* Credentials for pool operators, lifeguards and instructors MUST be obtained before they are allowed to work with any program.

New Business

THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY, Oct. 18th at 7:15PM.