UNAPPROVED DRAFT MINUTES

UTAH YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Board of Directors Business Planning Meeting
April 17, 2008

TOPIC-X-LEAGUE

Definition of a developmental player
*Placed on teams through tryouts
*U9 and U10 age group
*Boys and Girls (Girls can register on boys team, but boys can not register on girls team).

X-LEAGE GUIDELINES

*no girl's teams can crossover to play boys teams.
*U9 will be open play
*U10 will have alignment. Win/loss and tournament record. Must fill out alignment form.

X-League Committee-elected or appointed?

North-Director
Metro-Director
South--Director
Divide X-League into North, Metro and South areas, then have a qualifier tournament for State U11 alignment.

UTAH YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
Minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors
April 17, 2008

CALL TO ORDER

The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Utah Youth Soccer Association was called to order by President Scott Maxfield at 9:00 p.m. at the State Office of Utah Youth Soccer Association in Salt Lake City, Utah. The following Board members were present during the meeting:

Scott Maxfield, President
Cindy Baron, Vice President
Jodi Wells, Secretary
Eric Blommer, Competition Director
Orden Yost, District 1 Chairperson
Trish Roberts, District 2 Chairperson
John Gygi, District 3 Chairperson
Eric Landon, Proxy District 6 Chairperson
Delon Brower, District 7 Chairperson

Also present were Bruce Cuppett, (State Cup Chairperson), Debbie Haycock (Risk Management), Jodene Smith (State Registrar) Bobby Ginn, (State Executive Director), Greg Maas, (State Technical Director), Mindy Wankier (State Tournament Director), Norm Williamson (SYRA).

WELCOME

President Scott Maxfield welcomed our board members and visitors in attendance and thanked everyone for coming.

NEW BUSIENSS

COMPETITION COMMITTEE SECTION 6 RE-WRITE

Competition Committee Chairperson Eric Blommer reported that the committee has been re-working section 6 to make it consistent with how we are working. We will have the re-worked section 6 policy changes posted on the website for everyone to review, since we are having trouble with everyone receiving e-mails.

REVIEW SOUTHERN UTAH REQUEST

President Scott Maxfield reported that Danny Ortiz is the new Head Coach for Dixie State; He will also be the Youth DOC for Southern Utah Soccer.

Utah Youth Soccer has sent down $5,000 to Southern Utah Soccer to go towards coaching and player development. By doing this, The State Association will save money by not having to send Instructors down to run clinics and such.

REGISTRARS PROPOSALS

Registrar Jodene Smith presented the following proposals changes.

Proposal #1
Policy: Passes

Remove line item #10 Signature of player (Written in CURSIVE and as it appears on the birth certificate-no nicknames)

Call for question. Motion passed.

This new policy will become effective for the fall 2008-2009 playing season.

Proposal #2
3:07 Multiple Rostering

Motion to add letter "E" to the policy to read-No team shall be made up with less than 7 "Non-multi-rostered" players.

Amend the motion to read-U-11 and U-12 age group teams shall be made up with less than 7 "Non-multi-rostered players, and U-13 and older age group teams shall be made up with less than 9 "Non-multi-rostered" players.

Amended proposal passed.

Motion as amended passed.

Effective 2008-2009 playing season

Proposal #3

All players need to be inputted into the Affinity program

Withdrawal and resubmit in May

APPOINTED POSITIONS

President Scott Maxfield presented the following people for ratification in their appointed positions:

State Youth Referee Administrator-Norm Williamson
State Cup Director-Bruce Cuppett
Protest and Appeals-Kim Smith
Disciplinary Chairperson-John Johnson
Judicial Officer-Mike Blackburn
ODP Administrator-Judy Martin
Risk Management-Debbie Haycock
Rules and Revisions-Paul Burke
Tournament Chairperson-Mindy Wankier
Top Soccer Chairperson-Sara Smith

Motion was made and seconded to accept all appointees.

FORD SPONSORSHIP

Executive Director Bobby Ginn went over the Ford Sponsorship proposal with the Board; everyone had received it prior to the meeting.

It was decided that we would take it into Executive Session to finalize it.

HAWAII REFEREES

SYRA, Norm Williamson presented to the Board of Directors a cost breakdown to send 8 Referees and 2 Assessors to Far West Regionals.

Motion was made and seconded to help pay for the referees to attend Far West Regionals.

STATE CUP RULES

State Cup Chairperson, Bruce Cuppett stated that he would have the Proposed State Cup rules for 2008-2009 competition ready for ratification by the July Board of Directors meeting. He will be sending them out via e-mail and have them posted on the website prior to the July Board of Directors meeting.

EXECUTIVE SESSION

The following items were discussed during Executive Session:
*Ford Sponsorship
*Contract for Executive Director

Motion made and seconded to exit Executive Session.

ADJOURNMENT

Motion was made, seconded and approved to adjourn at 11:15 p.m. The next meeting of the Board of Directors of the Utah Youth Soccer Association is scheduled for Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 8 p.m. at the State Office of Utah Youth Soccer Association.

These draft minutes were prepared by Secretary Jodi Wells. Please direct any corrections or clarifications to ewells@networld.com or uysajodi@yahoo.com