CP Rebels Boys Hoops Booster Club

Meeting Minutes

February 5, 2007

Attendance:

Denise and Al Dittrich, Jane Hager, Tom Costello, Ron Reibling, Carla Starck, Curt Zimmermann, Julie and Jeff Munneke,

Meeting Initiation: Denise Dittrich

Meeting was called to order at 7:05

The next Booster Club Meeting will be held Monday, March 5, 2007 at CPHS in the South Lecture Hall at 7:00 PM.

Meeting Minutes will be posted via a link from the Champlin Park website - Boys Basketball.

Secretary Report: In Cindy Noltes absence: Denise Dittrich

• Januarys Minutes-Approved

Treasurer Report: In Kim Dudgeons absence: Denise Dittrich

• Spreadsheet was provided to the attendees. Denise walked through the spreadsheet.

• Jeff will check with the school regarding the T-Wolves money to clarify where the money was spent to our budgeting purposes.

• Jeff made a clarification on the Timberwolves event proceeds: the Timberwolves wanted the event to be a thank you to the community for their support. A charge for the event was the direction of the high school. The money would pay for the security & maintenance in the school. Any extra money was to go into the general basketball fund.

• Curt will follow up at our next meeting on getting a Federal ID #is working on getting more information on the booster club being tax exempt. We need to pursue for tax paying purposes. A 401C3 must be completed and there is a filing fee.

• Treasures report approved

Coach Mark Tuchscherer

• Denise informed everyone that Coach Tuch told her that he would not be able to make it to this meeting.

Boys & Girls Basketball Booster Club Merge

•Al Hager will talk to Coach Pearson regarding his thoughts on a merge of the two basketball clubs. He will also personally invite him to our next meeting.

•Jane will give Cindy Coach Pearson’s email address to add to our addresses list.

•We will also add any girls parents email address to our list as we attain them.

•In some cases will need to have separate meeting at times as per agenda.

•The By-Laws would have to be rewritten if a merge does take place, along with a number of other changes we learned this past year.

•Change the day of our monthly meetings from second Wednesday to the Second Monday of the month

•All check drafts to be approved over a certain dollar amount along with two signatures

•Simplify the name of the club

•Define the by-laws as to the definition of “quorum” for voting purpose

Game Schedule - Special Activities

•Feb. 9^th: Snow Days Royalty during half-time, we will not plan on any Booster Club Sponsored Activity it will remain CDAA Night, and the pep band is scheduled to be there. All CDAA kids will receive a free program and we would like players to stay on the court at the end of the game to sign the programs. Lori will supply pens for players.

•Feb. 13^th: Comp Squad - Steve Walker will provide music for the remaining games.

•Feb. 20^th: Lori will coordinate a game during half-time and we will announce all the remaining businesses that advertised in the program. We will also honor Sam for singing the National Anthem for most of the games.

•Feb. 22^nd: scheduled as "Senior Night" we would like to change it to "Parents Night". It is the 9th graders last game and we would like them to participate in Parents Night. Thoughts: Before the game JV and Varsity honor their parents and during half-time, the 9th and 10th graders will honor their parents. We will get these changes approved by the activity office & Coach Tuch

•Denise will talk to Coach Tuch regarding his plans to recognize the JV & Varsity players

•Ron will create a flyer and we will email it to all the parents we have on our email list.

•We will leave it up to the coaches to handle the basketball banquet the way they feel appropriate.

•Feb. 27th would then be "Senior Night". It was mentioned to purchase something special for seniors, Jeff suggested a basketball and have the name imprinted on the ball. Jeff will look into the cost.

•Discussion was had regarding the evaluations that were sent out

•Please send in your evaluations if you haven’t already to Cindy Nolte or Denise Dittrich (Evaluation below)

•Denise will talk to Coach Tuch regarding having himself & his coaches to fill out the evaluation form

•Discussion was had on what we could do to better our program

Board Nominations

The Champlin Park Boys Rebels Hoops Club will be taking nominations for board positions at our next meeting. It will be one year with our present board positions in April.

If anyone is interested or know of someone that is, please invite them to our meeting to be nominated.

Meeting Adjourned:

Meeting was adjourned at 9:00

* Evaluation Form Below

2006-07 CP Boys Booster Club Evaluation

Please evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each area:

Basketball Warm-ups (timing, coordination, value, effectiveness, access)

Strengths: