Board of Managers
October 15, 2003
Solano County Office of Education
I The meeting was called to order at 8:14 by President Wayne Mills.
Present:
Rick Vaccaro, Jay Dahl Ð Armijo
David Blackwell Ð Davis (8:25)
Barb Franco, Scott Kostecka Ð Napa
Wayne Mills, Fred Jones, Gail McNally Ð Vacaville.
Eric Schneider, Maryanne Christoffersen Ð Vintage
Henrie Newland, Bill Ewing Ð Wood
Items added to the agenda:
Moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as revised. Passed unanimously.
Approval of minutes from 9/10/03. Motion by Wood to accept. Minutes. Second by Napa. Vote unanimous.
II Recommended Actions
Wood moved to accept the financial statement as presented. Second by Armijo. Passed unanimously.
1. Tennis coaches have not had a chance as a group to discuss the schedule.
2. Parents from other Spring sports may complain because their student may still have to play during Spring Break.
3. Once the League allows one sport to vary the schedule, it may open the way for other sports to want a schedule that meets their specialties.
After more discussion, there was a motion by Davis to accept proposal A. Second by Vintage Roll Call vote:
Armijo Yes Napa No Vintage Yes
Davis Yes Vacaville Yes Wood No
Motion fails due to lack of a simple majority.
Napa then made a motion to accept proposal B. Second by Vacaville. Roll Call vote:
Armijo No Napa Yes Vintage Yes
Davis Yes Vacaville Yes Wood Yes
Motion carries 5 Ð 1. Proposal B will be the baseball/tennis schedule for 2004.
b. Swimming
1. David gave a date change from 3/26 to 4/2.
Henrie questioned why swimming had been moved to Friday meet days. The response was basically educational; students not missing classes and would not have to worry about getting homework done for the next day.
Four basic concerns regarding Friday meet days:
i. Wood uses faculty as timers and judges and would find it difficult to get people on Fridays.
ii. Friday traffic is significant and would require students to be out of class earlier.
iii. Is the choice of Friday an academic issue or a strengthening of the sport?
iv. Swimming is not a late night sport because most meets end by 6:30 pm.
2. Armijo motioned to move the meet day to Wednesday. Second by Vacaville. Roll Call vote:
Armijo Yes Napa Yes Vintage No
Davis No Vacaville Yes Wood Yes
Motion carried 4 Ð 2. Meet days will be on Wednesdays.
3. Vacaville motioned to adopt the swim schedule with meet days on Wednesday. Second by Napa. Roll Call vote:
Armijo Yes Napa Yes Vintage Yes
Davis Yes Vacaville Yes Wood Yes
Motion carried 6 Ð 0. Unanimous.
4. David then talked about the possible venues for the League diving/swimming meet.
1st choice UCD Shell Center
2nd choice Napa Valley College
3rd choice One of the high schools
4th choice Solano College
Hopefully by the Jan 15th Board of Managers meeting, we will have a location.
5. The coaches asked the Board of Managers to increase the number of participants per event on MEL swim trials. Each school would designate the 4 athletes that would be scored in each event. Additional entrants would then experience the League Meet competition. This item will appear on the Jan 15th agenda.
c. Copies of schedules for Badminton, Soccer, Boys Golf and Girls Soccer were presented. Vacaville motioned to accept all 4 schedules. Second by Davis. Passed unanimous.
d. Wrestling
1. Fred presented an amended wrestling schedule that included League and Section tournaments. Vacaville Motioned to accept the amended wrestling schedule. Second by Wood. Vote unanimous.
2. The league wrestling tournament will be Feb 14th at Napa High. For following years, the host site will proceed alphabetically with Vacaville next year.
e. Track
Bill Ewing and Mike Papadopoulos are working on the schedule. Both are also working with SCAC to determine some possible non-league dual meets.
f. Election of Vice President.
Previously, Henrie Newland had notified President Wayne Mills that she would like to resign as Vice President of the League. The floor was open for nominations.
Fred Jones nominated Barb Franco for Vice President of MEL. Henrie Newland seconded the nomination.
There was a call for additional nominations. There were none.
Call for a vote for Barb Franco as Vice President of MEL. Unanimous.
III Section Business
1. Maryanne Christoffersen briefly stated why expanding the Section Individual Tennis tournament should be approved. Wayne was instructed to vote ÒYesÓ.
2. A brief discussion was held on By-Law 300.4. Wayne was instructed to vote ÒYesÓ.
3. Covered the basis behind waiving 10 run rule for baseball/softball varsity teams. Wayne was instructed to vote ÒYesÓ.
Mileage rate reimbursement was discussed giving
Pros and Cons of changing rate or keeping it as it currently.
It was moved and seconded to support a reimbursement rate $1.00 per mile. Roll
Call Vote.
Armijo Yes Napa Yes Vintage Yes
Davis abstain Vacaville Yes Wood Yes
Wayne will support the $1.00 reimbursement.
IV Other
1. SCAC reciprocal Ð After a discussion it was decided that the League would accept student body cards for student rate at all games. MEL will also accept SCAC League Pass. Booster passes and special school passes will not be honored.
2. Medical
coverage at football games.
Barb Franco Ð asked that this be an agenda for Jan 15th Board
of Managers meeting.
Background information provided:
a. Section and League by-laws state the school shall ÒendeavorÓ to secure a physician for home games.
b. North Bay Officials Association Ð will not start a game without some type of medical person in attendance.
c. Can MEL look at expanding the medical coverage to include: physicians, nurses, EMT1 paramedics and certified trainers.
d. Barb will contact Section regarding this issue.
Meeting was adjourned at 10:10.
Respectfully submitted,
Joan Mumaugh
M.E.L. Commissioner