MTOA BOARD MEETING I
17 February 2011
Meeting called to order at 6:46 p.m. by president Cathy Kennan. Present were Stephanie Burnam, Nancy Ebersole, Randall Edwards, Cathy Kennan, Nancy King, Myron Krueger, Randy McDonald, Lee Thornburg, Susan Wertenberger, and Roz Tuerk.
The minutes were approved as read.
1- Financial Report -- total income for the past year - $215,763.71 -- total expenses -- $215,348.40 --- Net Income -- $415.31
Randal also provided some interesting general information: During the past year MTOA was paid for 214 events worked. 938 checks were written. 79 officials were paid $600 or more.
Moved to accept the financial report, seconded and passed.
2 - Website -- There was discussion on what to do about the website now that Jim Garcia is no longer with the organization (MTOA).
It was brought out that the website costs (about) $120 a year.
Not many people use it.
Email is about all it is used for.
Randy suggested creating a blog. He also pointed out the blogs are free.
There was discussion.
Motion made to let the website "die a natural death". Seconded and passed.
3 - Randall then brought up for discussion that Angel Martinez goes all out for the MTOA in securing/providing the use of Grapevine High School as the site of our
certification/recertification school. It is a facility that all nation instructors have praised. There should be something that MTOA can do to say thank you. It was mentioned that he has a tournament in the spring and that we (MTOA) could provide officials for it. There was also more discussion on using this as training for new officials.
Randall will follow-up on this.
4 - Myron gave a brief report on what happened at the Texas Sectional Meeting.
There was discussion on the background check. That all referees should make sure that those they wish to hire have passed it.
Myron als pointed out that various forms (for tournaments etc.) that had to be gotten through the TTA are now available on line. These are generic and for local use.
5 - Next item on the agenda was the election of officers for the coming year.
The nominations were: president Nancy King
vice-president Susan Wertenberger
treasurer Randall Edwards
secretary Roz Tuerk
Since there were no nominations from the floor a motion was made to accept this slate. Seconded and passed.
The new Board of Directors for the MTOA:
Those with terms ending 31 December 2011
Stephanie Burnam
Nancy Ebersole
Carol Linden
Susan Wertenberger
Those with terms ending 31 December 2012
Randall Edwards
Myron Krueger
Lee Thornburg (replaced Jim Garcia)
Roz Tuerk
Those with terms ending 31 December 2013
Cathy Kennan
Nancy King
Randy McDonald
Seande Pulley
Call for adjournment. Seconded and passed.
Meeting adjourned.
MTOA BOARD MEETING II (began immediately - same members in attendance)
Meeting called to order by president Nancy King.
Nancy brought up for discussion the training of new officials. Due to Susan Wertenberger's current obligations she has recommended Seande Pulley to take over the training and shadowing. It was felt that some restructuring was in order.
Discussion: Let the trainer evaluate the trainee. Referee recommendations should also be a part of this.
Nancy will talk with Seande about this.
The discussion then moved on to how "roving 101" fit into this. It was recommended that the actual roving need not be (the current) two 6 hour shifts. That one shift would probably be enough. The discussion then moved to communicating with referees regarding the new official. It was also felt that the scheduling of the roving classes be on a "need" basis.
Motion made to adjourn.
Seconded and passed.
Meeting adjourned 7:49 p.m.
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