Board of Directors Meeting

BOD Meeting
March 16, 2014
Called to order at 9:00 by President Mark Thede
Present:
Mark Thede
Rick Kelsey
Doug Stanstedt
Linda Corbett
Liza Merrill
Jim Parsons
John Sterling
Teleconference: Bruce Barnhill
Don Hann
Collier Hill
Absent:
David Robertson
Maira Alonzo
Ted Schmidt
Staff Present:
Leslie Johnson
Austin Daniels
SYRA:
Murray Boess
Burdell, District V Commissioner, tendered his resignation as he has accepted a new job in Southern California.
Motion:
(Parsons/Corbett) Accept Burdell’s resignation with regret.
Motion passed
Rick and Mark gave a recap on the USSF AGM. Sunil Gulati was re-elected as USSF President.
USYouth meeting discussed a governance task force.
Region IV meeting involved an ODP discussion.
Governance Task Force will meet in Dallas on April 11-12, 2014.
Linda Corbett presented the new applicant for membership in AYSA, Copa Grande Rattlers Soccer Club. CGRSC
has met all the requirements for membership and has submitted the appropriate documentation.
Motion:: (Corbett/Sandstedt) Approve Copa Grande Rattlers Soccer Club as a new member within AYSA.
Motion approved unanimously.
Linda will notify the new club.
Linda will be sending impact statements to the surrounding clubs for the Tucson AYSO club and will present that
club during April.
Rick and Leslie presented a new Red Card Policy, standardizing the way red card suspensions will be served.
Motion; (Corbett/Standstedt) Approve the proposed Red Card Policy.
Motion approved unanimously.
Notification will be emailed to every club.
Mark and Leslie presented the tournament list.
Motion: (Corbett/Parsons) Accept the tournament list as approved by the tournament committee.
Motion approved unanimously. BOD also approved Far West SC tournament request.
Motion: (Kelsey/Sandstedt) AYSA to have equal endorsement of all sanctioned AYSA Tournaments. Motion
approved unanimously.
Motion: (Corbett/Parsons) Accept the proposed office lease, with additional requests to update lighting in storage
room, fix electrical outlet in conference room. Motion approved unanimously.
Linda presented a proposal to attend both the TOPSoccer Symposium (Oregon) and the Urban Symposium
(Washington DC)
Motion: (Sandstedt/Parsons) Linda to attend both the TOPSoccer Symposium (Oregon) and the Urban Symposium
(Washington DC) Motion removed.
Motion: (Kelsey/Corbett) Linda to attend the Urban Symposium (Washington DC). Liza, nay. Linda, yes, all others
abstained. Mark Thede as President voted to break the tie. Thede, yes, motion passed.
Mark Thede discussed AYSA’s involvement with Futsal and the possibility of a Futsal franchise/league. More
discussion/research is needed.
Rick discussed the SYRA position. The position will be reviewed every two year s, first review will be next
June/July timeframe. Rick has asked Murray to put together a job description for the position as well as a plan for
training/education of our referees.
Motion to adjourn: (Corbett/Kelsey)

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