Capital Area Minor Football Association

    Minutes

Date January 20, 2010

Location Hazen Center , Oromocto

 

Attendance: Andrew Allaby, Terry McIntyre,  David Blanchard, Michele Coleman, Tanya Kitchen, Lisa Fagan, Steve Drisdelle, Steve Spear, Joey Smith

 

Absent: Marion McIntyre, Marvin Nash, Justin DeMerchant, Norm Sequin, Rick Forrest, Shawn Kitchen, Jodi Steeves, Donna Cormier,

 

Meeting called to order 7:24

 

1. Presidents report

AGM January 27, 2010 at the Willie O’Ree Center.

President Andrew Allably reoffering

VP Southside potential Steve Drisdelle, require 2 more

VP Northside Justin Demerchant, Kristen Warner require 1 more

VP Oromocto Lisa Fagan, Steven Spear, 1 more required

VP Officials, Official rep Norm Seguin?

Secretary Michele Coleman reoffering

Fundraising Coordinator Jodi Steeves reoffering

Registrar Tanya Kitchen offering

Fredericton Equipment Manager Shawn Kitchen reoffering

Oromocto Equipment Manager open

Treasurer open

Coaching Coordinator open

 

2. Registrar’s report

Report by Terry McIntrye.

Registration Numbers and Program Number spreadsheets were handed out.

 

Registration Numbers – number of players for 2009; Overall numbers were down to 871 from 908 in 2008 but up from 846 in 2007.  Growth over the past year was -4%, which was a slightly smaller loss than other sport programs in the area. The number of teams and programs was up by 1 from 2008. 

 

3. Fundraising report

Report submitted by Jodi Steeves and read by Andrew Allaby.

 

Sports Investment Dinner

The gross total raised at the event by CAMFA: $2573 Auction, $379 Tickets.  The profit to CAMFA was estimated to be $2500 after expenses.  Andrew has the list of what the auction items were sold for and it will be available for review in preparation for next year.

 

4. Equipment Managers report

Report submitted by Shawn Kitchen to the President.

New helmets arrived on January 18.  Shawn is getting prices at a new source for pants.

 

Tanya contributed that $30000 was spent on gear this year and Terry added that another $30000 was budgeted for 2010.

 

Andrew asked that money be available to deposit the old gear at the Fredericton Landfill.

 

5. Coaching Coordinator’s report:

Report by Dave Blanchard.

 

Courses

Three courses are being organized by the NCC for this spring; the budget is not yet available for the manuals and on-line material.

Introduction to Community Coach (Level 1)

Introduction to Competition (Level 2)

 

Winter JPD program

Football Canada will be offering a Junior Player Development Program on Feb 16 – April 22, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, at the Harold Peterson Middle School , $30, gear provided. Open to boys and girls 10-11, 12-13.  

March Break camp

Receiver/ quarterback camp being organized.


Equipment for the ladies trying out for the National Women’s tackle football team

They need to get into gear soon. Dave is running a training program on Sunday mornings at OHS.  Tryouts are March 22. Helmets, shoulder pads and a practice jersey will be available after practice this Sunday.


Spring flag football program for U15 in CAMFA (provincial winner goes on to play in Ottawa for National Championship)

No information yet.

 

Introduction to Flag football 

On Feb 9th, all physical education teachers in District 17 will get an introduction to flag football.  Dave is working on getting it organized for District 18.  There were several play and coaching playbooks available for the activity.


Spring developmental/elite football

No dates yet.  The Bubble or the Nashwaaksis Field House may be an option for indoor training.  A decision on the program will be postponed until after FNB meeting this coming weekend.

Action Item:  Look into the availability of the Bubble for training.


  - regional/provincial

  - what teams/age groups (16U for Wilson Cup)

FNB is planning on sending a 16U team to Montreal . Exhibition games will be played before and during the tournament.  The Wilson Cup is a 5 day and 10 day tournament series for tackle football.


Future Stars summer football camp

There is money in the 2010 budget to hold this camp.

 

Girls Camp

Lisa Harlow was interested in hosting a one day camp for girls 14-17 this spring in Fredericton .  There may be a problem with getting Chapman Field.

Action Item: Check into Chapman Field availability.

 

Other news of note:

January 30, Team USA will be playing Team World.  There are two NB players on the World team, and a total of 31 Canadians are on the team.

 

6. Official report:

No report.

 

7. Treasurer report:

The Financial Statement for the period January 1, to December 31, 2009 was passed out by Terry.

 

Highlights:

Revenue for registrations was $115,580 and almost $50,000 was raised from fundraising/ grants from government programs for a total revenue of $165,840.  Terry noted that 70% of the revenue was from registration.  The 30% from fundraising has a significant impact on the actual cost of registration.

 

Expenses were $154,566.  These costs included uniforms, gear, field and facilities user fees, bursaries, Officials, awards, bus charter and sound system rentals, Football NB fees and insurance,  MFL fees, MWFL fees, camp expenses   Revenues over expenses were $11,274.  The bank balance at the beginning of the year was $3870; at the end of the year the bank balance was $15,144.

 

8. Other Business:

New Budget

Terry presented the New Budget for 2010

Fees will be kept the same for the upcoming season.

Based on registration numbers being slightly lower than this year, revenue from registration will be approx. $113,000 and fundraising was estimated to be approx. $30,000.

 

Expenditures were estimated to be $149,000.  The predicted deficit was $4100. The registration revenue as a percentage of total revenue was predicted to be 78%.

 

Motion to accept the budget was made by Steve Drisdelle

Seconded by Lisa Fagan

Motion passed

 

Online registration

Tanya made a presentation on how CAMFA could do on-line registration.  It would cost $1900 plus tax ($2147) for Service NB to set up the program. This is a one time set-up cost. There would be a $0.75 charge per transaction that would go to Service NB.   There would also be a 1.813% charge by the credit card company. The money would then get deposited directly into the CAMFA bank account.

During registration, the $50 deposit could be added to the transaction.

There could be several registrants with access to the account for use at the registration.

The one time charge was equivalent to the amount of money people saved through early registration in 2009.

 

Motion to proceed with the on-line registration was made by Lisa Fagan

Seconded by Tanya Kitchen

Action Item - Motion made to table this to the new Executive.

 

FNB Planning Meeting

On Saturday, January 23 in Sussex

 

Next meeting will be (insert date/time) 

February 8, 2010 -  7pm 

 

Location (usually Hazen Centre but could change)

Meeting adjourned at 9:25