AYSO Region 26 Board Meeting  - August 18, 2005
Cubberley A3, 7:30pm

Scott Christenson presiding

Attendees: Marcelo Clerici-Arias, Dave Elward, Mick Jordan, Cindy Jose,
Marco Schuffelen, Rob Schreiber, Margaret Toor


1. July minutes approved.

2. Game schedule. The original schedule will be posted in WebYS and the
   AYSO website. After a week, the html pages will be taken down.
   Schedule changes will only be reflected in WebYS.

3. Practice and game field situation. Field times and assignments to
   divisions are revised.

4. Commissioner comments
- Margaret
- Suggests that next year the coach meeting is scheduled earlier, and
  that the team rosters are released earlier as well.

- Mick
- Suggests that we recruit division commissioners the previous season.
  That is, that toward the end of fall 2005 we recruit division
  commissioners for fall 2006.
- When a team has no adult coaches, an adult who has taken Safe Haven
  should be designated as team parent.

- Marcelo
- 26 youth coaches are active at this point.
- The coach link is only active after the division commissioner approves
  the volunteer as a coach. Unfortunately the coach link also contains
  the volunteer form. Suggestion for next year: either the division
  commissioners approve coaches earlier or WebYS allows volunteers to
  edit and print their volunteer form outside the coach link.

- Marco
- Field lining volunteers are trickling in.
- The City of Palo Alto has not yet sent the list of fields that AYSO
  has to paint.

- Scott
- 190 players in U8B. There will be 19, possibly 20 teams.

- Dave
- Coaches and referees of U16 and U19 need to attend an area meeting.
  Scott McGee, the area U16/U19 coordinator, will send a message with
  details.
- If there are odd teams in U12B and U14B, they will be playing with odd
  teams in Los Altos and Ravenswood, respectively. Mick, Margaret, and
  Marcelo suggest not having an odd team in U12B.

- Rob
- Referee classes are scheduled, and the referee handbook is ready.
- Referee division coordinators are in place.
- Senior referees will be observing referees in U10 games.
- No changes in FIFA laws of the game.

6. Next meeting: September 28. 144 Melville Avenue, 7:30pm.