Outdoor 2021 Semi-Annual General Meeting
September 18, 2021*
(*Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sept. 2020 and March 2021 SAGMs were cancelled.)
Blackburn Arms Pub-Terrace, 12:34 p.m.
Minutes of the SAGM (recording secretary: Doug Spencer)
- Adoption of agenda
- Amendments/Additions:
- Addition to agenda: proposal from Ron Palaczka to use new German Club facility
- Motion to adopt agenda: Denis Levesque. Seconder: Ed Duncan
- Agenda accepted
- Business arising from the minutes of 2020 March SAGM (See file sent with BA Update)
- Any questions? Corrections? None
- Motion to accept the 2020 March SAGM minutes
- James Cuthill motioned, seconded by Noel Gascon. Accepted
- President’s report (Ray Martel)
- COVID chaos and fallout
- Last day of play / Season-end party on Oct. 2
- New dome at Garneau in 2021: update
- Succession planning
Notes:
- A) No first-place trophy or cup in summer 2021
- Top three teams will donate at least $150 to a charity of their choice via BA Exec
- Fourth through sixth will also donate to a charity via BA Exec
- Trophies will be engraved with “2021 COVID Memorial Season”
- B) Pub cannot commit to hosting a year-end banquet
- Cannot have an indoor celebration due to COVID
- Potential for terrace at the Arms, but space is an issue
- Tim Tierney’s office has been helping us get a tent at Potvin in conjunction with Dominion City; they have tents too—but space an issue as well, with restrictions for consuming beer (must be seated)
- Frank: Big concern is food. How do we proceed?
- Bring your own food?
- James comment: Whitewater brewing will donate kegs if needed
- Social on field seven (SW) on October 2-final day? Only field open after noon
- Consensus is that if things remain too complicated, it will be BYOB and sandwich on field 7 after the last games. Details will come through manager or league update.
- C) Garneau Dome has been approved
- Potentially coming in 2022
- State of the art, like Louis-Riel
- Have already requested times with school board, but no formal commitment yet
- Further discussions to take place at Spring AGM (March)
- Potential for slight increase in fees ($5-10 per player)
- D) Things are spread out more, roughly 20 players involved
- Courting people to take over the league
- Ray is planning to end his tenure in March 2022
- Wants to finish three special projects: Bylaws, website, critical path
- Denis applauds volunteers
- Motion to accept president’s report by: Ed Duncan, Seconder: Frank Lamontagne. Accepted.
- Financial update and statements (Brian Garson)
- Assets before Outdoor 2021
- Outdoor 2021 summary
- Indoor 2021-22 forecast
- Motion to approve financial statements
Notes:
- Have about $8k left in bank after summer season
- Added two extra games to winter season (projected $5k deficit)
- Should have a balance of $3-6k at end of winter
- Keepers are needed for winter
- Brian will post financial statement on website under Info
- Motion to accept financial update by: Paul Gibbard Seconder: Glen Borbeley. Accepted.
- Other reports/updates
- Discipline 2021, including update on carding per team (Jared Kitcher)
- Uniforms for outdoor 2021 (Yanic Giroux)
- Uniforms for indoor 2021-22 (Mark Meng)
- Spares update and review (Frank Lamontagne/David Willey)
Notes:
- A) Not much to report for discipline, only one card so far
- B) New kits coming for indoor
- Mark Meng: At end of outdoor season, any kind of BA kit is welcomed back
- Especially the Adidas ones
- Wanting to switch indoor kits from Sportsphere to Adidas
- Frank: Advise players to drop off kits ahead of time if they are away Oct. 2nd
- Outdoor shirts go to Yanic Giroux via managers
- Mark Meng: At end of outdoor season, any kind of BA kit is welcomed back
- D) Spares have been tough to come by this year
- More spares needed for winter
- Should be slightly easier with earlier games.
- Elections/Recruitment (see Exec-coordinator terms sent with BA Update)
- Nominations-election for Exec at large #1
- Nominations-election for Exec at large #2
- Nominations-election for Exec at large #3
- Nominations-election for Finance Cttee member
Notes:
- a) Marc-André Daoust self-nominates; Paul Stanisci seconds.
- Vote passed
- b) Rhys Williams self-nominates; James Cuthill seconds.
- Vote passed
- c) To replace Mark D’Agostino (exec at large)
- James Cuthill self-nominates, Tom Borbely seconds.
- Vote passed
- d) Term is up on the Finance committee
- To help Brian oversee their statements; three-member committee
- Paul Stanisci self-nominates, Marc-André Daoust seconds.
- Vote passed
- Other business
- Special motions received by email before the SAGM—None received
- Special motions tabled at SAGM, if majority of members agree to consider—None received
Notes:
- Sponsorship/Affiliation concerns
- Dave Boeyen: Arms not doing much to improve support, do we consider moving?
- Ray Martel: We have some very interested parties for the indoor season.
- Denis Levesque: We want to do things right, however.
- No local tap at all despite requests /No door prizes anymore.
- Update coming in mid-October.
- Other motion: Colin Knight moves that Doug Spencer step into some type of role next year
- Motion to be revisited
- Field of Dreams proposal at German Club (M-A Daoust reminded chair of the need to discuss)
- From Ron Palaczka & Jon Paradis (are sponsoring special initiative later this season)
- Field opens spring 2022
- First right of refusal to move there in summer 2022
- Implications:
- Staggered times (only two pitches)
- German Club would run the pub
- Farther away for some players
- Some are unsure about playing on turf (heat, harder surface)
- Cost would be roughly the same
- We could have games start earlier (9:30 a.m.)
- Could we have two games on the grass, one on the turf?
- Do not need to decide today
- Mark Skinner: Having only playoffs/Cup there?
- Doing tournament on one day?
- Could we use it for our alternate fields too?
- Execs are sheepish about moving the whole season there
- Colin Knight: When do we need to decide by?
- A few weeks out
- Use Survey Monkey to poll the lads: have a referendum online for this
- Has not been easy this year and others to organize our fields; frequent turnover at Hornets’ office
- Denis Levesque: If we go for next year, do we lose Potvin fields?
- Probably; we could ask for a year off and rebook if needed (see Bill Coleman)
- Mark White: Could we ask German Club/Ron and Jon to put a proposal together?
- Ray will send something more detailed from Ron and Jon within roughly a month, we will get a few specifics and go from there
- Motion to officially entertain Ron and Jon’s proposal to move the BA either fully or partially to the German Club for summer 2022; report to full membership with full detailed offer as soon as possible and hold a league-wide vote if the idea is retained: Motion by: Ray Martel Seconder: Howard Weingarden. Accepted.
- Dave Boeyen: Arms not doing much to improve support, do we consider moving?
- Adjournment at 1:38 p.m.
- Ray Martel moves to adjourn. Accepted.
Indoor 2019-20 Semi-Annual General Meeting
March 12,2020
Hornets Nest Clubhouse, 9:45 p.m.
Minutes
- Adoption of agenda
- Amendments/Additions: 1)_________________________ 2) _______________________
- Motion to adopt agenda:
- Jared moves, Bodo seconds. Motion carried.
- Business arising from the minutes of 2019 September SAGM
- Vote to allow GKs from other teams to spare in Outdoor Cup Final: motion was passed without the proper majority (2/3), so is invalidated.
- Motion to accept the 2019 Sept. SAGM minutes: Bill moves, Brad seconds. Motion carried.
- President’s report (Ray Martel)
- Logo update /MailChimp vote
- Mark Skinner is updating the logo pro-bono
- Everyone who wants will get to vote on logo via SurveyMonkey in the future
- Logo update /MailChimp vote
- Nine logos were presented, three will be used for the vote
- Website makeover
- Nick and Mark S. are working on revamping the website
- Members in attendance like the concept of having their businesses spotlighted in newsletter and on website
- If members want to have their business featured, they are to e-mail a picture to Ray along with the description of their business
- New dome at Garneau in 2021
- Have already submitted their paperwork to the city, hoping for completion by 2021/2022 season
- BASL sent a letter of interest to them, with conditions, including: same night and time as current indoor league at Hornet’s Nest.
- Issues with current dome arise from its maintenance or lack thereof. Numerous attempts to discuss this with TMSI have proved futile to date.
- Potential wrench in relocation is the Pub; do we look at a new establishment for indoor season?
- Denis will lead a group consisting of James and Askar to discuss incentives with Brennan at the Arms; members are concerned there are no real incentives to go to the BA following indoor games, save the odd plate of nachos.
- By-law adoption process: speak up or hop on
- Need to be officially approved by membership before they come in to effect
- By-laws will be posted for a specified period on the website for all members to review
- Process will be “negative billing”: if you have issues with the by-laws speak up or hold your peace.
- Stepping down in Sept. 2020
- Ray would like to step down as of March 2021.
- Financial update and statements (Brian Garson)
- Summary for indoor 2019-20
- $9k in a slush fund currently
- $5k has been allocated for a future equipment refresh
- Idea brought forward to use a portion of this to get goalie equipment (gloves, shirts etc.)
- Indoor 2019/2020 field fees were raised, but no increase to registration. Deficit offset by summer 2019 surplus
- TeamSnap: can we explore adding scores via the app to make things easier? What would the cost of adding this function be?
- Motion: goalies to play for free, spares have their registration waved (both seasons)
- Frank moved, James seconded.
- Spares for free, maybe full timers pay
- Would this increase a deficit?
- Bodo doesn’t mind paying the keeper fee, appreciates that spares could play for free
- Modified motion: pay EODSA fee for spare keepers
- Spare keepers do not pay/play free for one year.
- Frank Lamontagne motioned. James Cuthill seconded. Motion carried.
- Spare keepers do not pay/play free for one year.
- Budget forecast for Outdoor 2020
- Motion to approve financial statements
- Finance report adopted; motion carried unanimously.
- Other reports
- Discipline Indoor 2019-2020, including update on carding per team (Jared Kitcher)
- One suspension this indoor season, cards are at 8-9, usual levels.
- Cards are distributed evenly amongst the teams
- Uniforms Outdoor 2020 (Steve Cock)
- Mark Meng will take over the job of gathering all the shirts. Will consult with Steve to order new indoor shirts for 2021-2022. Mark will be winter coordinator.
- Last summer (2019) was a poor year for shirt returns
- Looking for someone to take over summer management (see below)
- Steve will ensure we have enough to handout for the summer
- Light blue from last summer is no longer being made by Adidas
- Yanick Giroux will step up and be new kit coordinator for the summer
- Spares update (Frank Lamontagne/David Willey)
- Players not putting in their TeamSnap availabilities
- Unsure if people are not using TeamSnap
- Spares are unresponsive
- Exec and spares managers are mandated to look at ways to tweak the spares bylaw so that spares get the maximum bang for their buck, specifically:
- Motion: Bylaw should be rewritten to allow the spares manager to invite a spare to attend, and then the spares manager would assign them to a team based on their discretion.
- Steve Cock motioned; Brian seconded. Motion carried (2/3rd received).
- Elections/Recruitment
- BA Exec and coordinator terms of office file sent to all on March 5-6
- ELECTION RESULTS
- Frank Lamontagne elected as an executive at large (well, Frank is 6’4’ and has worked as a bouncer, so maybe it should be “executive at very large”).
- Jared Kitcher re-elected as chair/lounger of the Discipline Committee (DC); no cards or fouls involved.
- Mike Tourond re-elected as discipline officer on the DC, but only for on-field matters, not behaviour at the pub.
- Brian Garson re-elected as treasurer/registrar/refund regurgitator.
- Ray Martel re-elected for one-year term as president and chief obfuscating officer.
- RECRUITMENT: Mark Meng and Yanic Giroux appointed as uniform fashionistas for the indoor and outdoor seasons, respectively and with respect; Yan is proposing something with frills for 2021; Mark is suggesting armpit holes for better breathability. Fun times ahead.
- Other business
- Special motions received by email before the SAGM
- Special motions tabled at the SAGM, if majority of members present agree to consider them
- Motion: Allowing spare keeper from another team to fill in during the outdoor Cup final should a team be in need due to injury, work, or family duties, as long as there are no spare keepers available. Frank Lamontagne motioned.
- Could we have a spare keeper already lined up if they needed one?
- Modified Motion: emergency goalie for Founder’s Cup (outdoor tournament) final to be named by executives – Matt DaSouza moved, seconded by Bill Coleman. Vote: Passed by 2/3rds
- Adjournment at 11:40 p.m.
- Motion to adjourn: Frank Lamontagne, seconded by Jared Kitcher. Motion carried.