April 30, 2007 A finance meeting was held at Ric Brown’s for the purpose of drawing up a budget.

May 3, 2007 The board met at 7pm at the library. (Did anyone take the minutes? )

May 17, 2007 Meeting cancelled

June 7, 2007 Board Meeting
The RAYS board met at 7pm June 7, 2007 at the town library. Vice-President, Kirk Saylor called the meeting to order with the following members present: Jeff Quinton, Ric Brown, John Isenberg, and Allison Holden. The minutes from the 4-19-07 meeting were read and approved.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

TRAVEL: No report
COACHES: No report

REC: Fall registration forms are available online and were sent home from school with the elementary children. They will also be available at the Rossville library, Rainbow Connection, and local businesses. Registration will be held June 19 at the park in conjunction with the Challenger Camp and Coaches Clinic.
Kirk will be using coordinators to organize teams and will have coaches meetings to go over the required background checks and IYSA module. The season will start at the end of August.

FINANCE: Current balance is around $2700. Need to collect outstanding travel fees from the coaches.

FACILITIES: Since we don’t know when the equipment will be used at the school, and then the park, it would be prudent to have a workday to improve the large field at the park. The ground is too dry to work now-would need to wait until after it rains.

REFEREES: 2 games left (U18 and U14 vs Remington)

MARKETING: With the rec league registration and other information that needs to get out, Ric would like to sent out another newsletter. It will be shorter than the first one and would cost around $314 to publish. Kirk made a motion to do a newsletter, seconded by Ric, and it carried. June 30 is the early registration deadline. Need everyone to submit his or her articles in a timely manner!
Kirk will send the rec master schedule to Ric to include on the calendar. In an attempt to improve communication, we will post as much info as we know concerning upcoming events and deadlines. It would also be good if we included what parents can expect in the next season-smaller teams with more touches per player. Also, the need for more coaches.
Ric would like to emphasize fundraising. He has crunched the numbers and has determined that it costs around $200 to sponsor a team. (this would be an increase from the $150) {avg cost per player is $78. Fundraising generates $17 and registration generates $40-this leaves $21 per player to be covered by sponsors} Kirk and Ric will get together to come up with a proposal.
Backstops: Jeff Quinton said with our field at the town park, it would be ok to have sponsor listed for the high school games.
Website: Ric made the motion that if information is put on the website, it needs to be left (unless it contains errors). Otherwise, deleting info leads to broken links. Old news will be archived as new is posted. Allison seconded and it carried.

OLD BUSINESS
Ric will follow up with Jeff concerning the concession stand.
The school preferred we purchase the new goals rather then manufacture them. The cost was $2599.99

NEW BUSINESS
We need an evaluation at the end of each season.
Parents need to be educated concerning the game of soccer!
Coaches need to be recruited now!
Jeff will be offering ref classes
Kirk proposed we have a roundtable discussion for the travel parents after the next board meeting on June 21. Concerns and complaints have been expressed that we need to address.

The meeting was adjourned at 8pm

Respectfully submitted,
Allison Holden