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Falmouth Football Boosters
Meeting Minutes
June 8, 2009
Present: Zareh Derhagopian, Tricia Tetreau, Don Geary, Dave Ciraulo John Fitzsimmons, Anna Geary, Melissa Kane, Beth Goodrich, Bill Covens, Mark Soule, Tim Wissemann
Meeting Called to order at 7:00.
Financials (as of 3/9/2009) Zareh
Ø Current cash balance $ 43,100. This includes registration fees received to date
Registration Update
Ø Anna will get additional announcements out re: Registration
Elementary School Construction
Ø The existing stadium field will be intact for the 09 fall season.
Ø Per Dan O’Shea; we have not sent out a bid package yet and it will likely not go out until July. Needs to be blessed by the state. Takes 60 or so days for bids to come in then time to evaluate. Looks like nothing will start until Sept at the earliest based on this timeline. This slows down the impact to fall sports.
Ø We are now looking to rent an office trailer as locker space, would look to get for mid August and place it next to the existing locker room. When they start construction we lose the existing locker space. There was some concern that these would not meet fire code. Zareh clarified with the Fire Department that these were up to standards
Ø We’ll ask for 1 trailer by the space now and when they decide to break ground we will ask for another one and determine location at that time.
Ø Concessions – if building stays no issue…if it comes down we have questions about what to do…we will not know what will be fenced off and where…football only has four home games so we will be less impacted by the construction than other sports such as soccer.
Ø Exhibition game not normally treated as a home game…up for discussion if we treat as a regular game.
Ø The existing containers will stay where they are until we know more, we would like to keep close to the fields.
Fundraising
Ø The Spring Dance brought in $ 4,300. which was $ 2,300 over budget
Ø The Plant sale brought in $ 1,228. Great first year success! Will be repeating next year, and expect to build on 1st year success.
Ø Patriots Raffle Tickets on schedule for this year. Anna proposed we sell earlier in the season. We can usually get the tickets printed and delivered in 10 days. We need to be more structured with the sales. It was also suggested that it is not so much when you sell, but the structure you have when in place to surround the sales. Could we incent the players for their sales?
Ø A recommendation was made to have prizes across the full program of 1st, 2nd , 3rd. $ 100, 75, 50. across the full program. Motion made and approved to adopt 1st, 2nd, 3rd incentive plan across all levels of the program.
Golf Tournament
Ø Falmouth Country Club gave a date August 10th. Which is being reserved right now. The date could be an issue. The biggest challenge is getting people committed to play. Last year we had 80 players. We don’t want to raise the price over $ 100..
Ø A question was raised about whether or not we had considered a 9 hole evening event? Beth will price this out.
Ø A large portion of our income is from registrations. Cut back from $31,500 to $28,500
HS Game Program
Ø Some folks have already signed up for the program
Ø Selling videos will still happen
Ø No 50 / 50 last year, but the Lions are willing to do it again this year. Zareh will coordinate.
HS Update
Ø Homecoming spirit committee items still outstanding
Ø The 1st game is on Saturday of Labor Day has been moved from to a 7:00 start.
Ø New coach Leon Smith on board. Has a great background. Will be a line coach. Very pleased so far.
MS
Ø 7th grade coach still outstanding. Pending decision by AD
Youth
Ø All coaching set up
Ø Working through reservations at community park,
Ø SMYFL needs another back up in addition to Dave. It was suggested that we consider making this a requirement for the Youth coach. The Varsity coach of Youth may be best positioned to represent the needs of the program. Tim and Mark both volunteered to support this, but do we want to go back to see if someone would be interested who is currently in a Youth Coaching role. Maybe we could look at someone who is currently in Youth/Pee Wee who will be there for awhile. Dave is willing to make phone calls to see if there is interest. Next year we will make it part of the application process. Dave will let us know if he comes up without a volunteer.
Ø Dave sent a proposed schedule to Matt for practices and games.
Open Discussion
Ø Are we going to charge for the exhibition game? Agreed that we will charge $ 4.00 and no charge for students.
Ø Do we want to meet in July? No meeting
Ø Beth can communicate via e-mail re anything that comes up regarding the Golf Tournament in the meantime.
Next Meeting – TBD sometime in August – we’ll await details from Zareh.
Adjourn at 8:10 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Tricia Tetreau
Secretary
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