Capital Area Minor Football Association

    Minutes

Monday, December 6, 2010

 7:00 P.M.
139 Douglas Ave.

Fredericton , NB

Attendance: Andrew Allaby, Michele Coleman, Vince Sturgeon, Terry McIntyre, Shawn Kitchen, Ryan Ward

 

Absent: Tanya Kitchen, Steve Spear, Jodi Steeves, David Davis, Curtis Hiscock, Norm Sequin, Steve Drisdelle, Lisa Fagan, Barry Hatt, Justin DeMerchant, John Jurcina,

 

Meeting called to order 7.55.

President

No report.

 

Equipment Manager

Report by Shawn Kitchen.

Has a draft order for gear with cost estimates.  Detailed audit conducted on all gear for required/missing/replacement items. Cost estimate just below $25000 for this coming year.  Gear budget may be increased in the following year by $5000 to accommodate the volume that will have to be ordered for additional equipment including female shoulder pads and gear for possible Bantam expansion.

 

Fundraising

Email report by Jodi Steeves.

FSI dinner was Dec 4. A CAMFA mom won the $1000 cash door prize! The president estimates that CAMFA will net approximately $3000 by the time all the funds are in.

 

Registrar

Report by Terry McIntyre.

Actual this year was 601 players (budget was 565) for fall players, spring and fall was 327 players (285 budgeted) for a total of 928 players (budget 850) the largest registration in CAMFA history.  Spring and summer registrations were down from last year due to the lack of a 17 and under group. Middle school, girl’s flag and mite contributed to the increased fall registrations.

 

R. Ward suggested that we have a summer flag league but also have one of the teams for 14 and up that could include adults.  Some variations were discussed.  Shorter and narrower field was recommended. Potential old timer’s team will be on agenda for next summer.  Note – this could be done in conjunction with the touch league so there were no timing issues.

 

Treasurer

Report by T.McIntyre.  

Revenue from registrations $125,830 (budget $113,205); total revenue $161,418 (budget $146,772). Other major revenue sources were sponsors and donations at $9532 and $8000 from the football camp.  FSI revenues from this year are not included in these numbers.

 

Expenditures $157,466 ($156,954); major expenditures were tackle equipment ($25k), field and facilities user fees ($25K). The excess for the year was $3952 (budget was ($10k).  With a bank balance of $14,854 at the beginning of the year, the year end actual is now $18806 (budget $4672).This is expected to be approximately $20K, once the FSI revenue is included.

 

Registration revenue as a percentage of total revenue was 78%; in recent past years, the range was 72-80%.

 

Coaching Coordinator

Report by V. Sturgeon.  Coaching clinics will be scheduled for this winter.

 

Other Items

Ewart Kenny emailed -I would like to suggest for league and team awards that we add: MVP Linebacker and Most Improved. MVP special teams and Unsung hero could go.

 

Discussion: Teams can label their own awards depending on players that season.  The awards will not be changed at the league level. 

 

Punting at the PeeWee level- will be discussed at a future meeting.  To develop punting talent in the future; a rule to force a punt if there is more than 5 yards to go on the 4th down will be discussed.

 

Next Meeting  January 10, 2011

7pm at Hazen Center

 

AGM date February 9th, 2011 at the Willie O’Ree Center
    

Meeting adjourned at 9:43.