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1999 FC Santa Barbara Board MinutesJANUARY, 1999
The meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the McKinnon’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Blair Spaulding, Nelson Trichler, Bill McKinnon, Jeff Ino, Brynn Crowe, Judy Hug, Rhonda Lee; absent Fred Guillermo, Ron Ely, Karen Ribbens, Jim Blascovich, Jon Hess, Carolyn Binkley, Brian Hersh. League Trophies to be Available Soon. Teams which finished in 1st or 2nd place in their ECRSL Fall league season won trophies. The trophies are now ready to be picked up from the dealer in North Hollywood. Richard Hug has kindly offered to pick up all of the trophies for our Club and bring them to Santa Barbara. (Thank you Richard!) Balance Bar Sponsorship Update. At the December Executive Board Meeting, a proposal from Balance Bar to sponsor FCSB was formally reviewed and discussed. (This is separate from Balance Bar’s tournament sponsorship and came about through the initiative of Peggy Lamb. Thanks Peggy!) The basic idea is to receive a sponsorship donation in exchange for providing specific advertising of their products (e.g., their name on jersey’s and donated T-shirts, banners at home games, product samples). Following the discussion Nelson Trichler was directed to contact Balance Bar to clarify several points and suggest revisions to others. Nelson reported back at this evening’s board meeting that the Balance Bar marketing individuals who kindly made the offer are unfortunately very busy with national advertising campaigns and had to leave the offer unchanged as a take it or leave it deal. After further discussion tonight, the general consensus was that the timing (midway through our seasonal year) and the benefits to FCSB (amount of the sponsorship) were probably not in the best interests of either entity. Nelson was asked to convey our appreciation of the Balance Bar offer and focus our mutual attention on their sponsorship of our tournament for this year. FCSB Summer Cup will be held Saturday/Sunday July 31-August 1. The tournament WEB site is hot linked to the CYSA-South tournament list. Hard copy applications will be ready next week. Status of FCSB.org as our official WEB Site. Although we have had a number of problems getting this going (our first WEB site sponsor backed out) Nelson reports that we should be up and running as www.FCSB.org within a week or so thanks to kind help of Westmont College. If you have information about your team/players or pictures that you would like on the WEB site contact Nelson Trichler at nbt@west.net or 967-4430. Also be sure to notify Nelson if you change your regular practice schedule so that he can update this information on our WEB site. FCSB Annual Tryouts are Scheduled for Saturday morning, March 20. Blair Spaulding will locate the site for holding the tryouts (probably Bishop Diego High or La Colina Jr. High). Dan Ribbens is working on identifying coaches for next year’s (1999/2000 playing year) U11 boys and girls teams and the U12 boys team. Please contact Dan at 964-4843 if you know of potential coaches and/or managers for these new teams to be formed starting from the tryouts. We want to have the coaches in place when we hold the tryouts. Brynn Crowe offered to meet with Nelson to see if she might be able to help with distributing tryout flyers and/or organizing tryout morning registration. Spring Break Training Camp aimed primarily at Recreational Players the week starting Monday, March 29. At our November general board meeting, Andrew Ziemer (who runs the Ziemer Brothers’ Soccer Camps all over California) made a presentation about how FCSB could work together with them to develop and enhance soccer training programs in this area. The first concrete result of that is the camp mentioned above which will be aimed primarily at young recreational players. The camp would run from Monday to Friday of the Spring break week from 9 am to 3 pm at a cost of $150 per player. FCSB will arrange for fields, publicity and insurance. Ziemer Brothers will handle registration and run the camp. Jeff Ino has graciously volunteered to coordinate FCSB’s part of this arrangement just to get this first camp off the ground. UCSB Storke Field Development. Nelson Trichler reported that the major proposal he made to the University to expand Storke Field by the equivalent of two soccer fields has been very well received. The motivation behind this proposal is not just for the tournament but also to get access to some space at UCSB for practices and/or games. FCSB gained a lot of credibility with UCSB with our first project at Storke Field last spring. Stay tuned to hear what happens. Xara Uniform Contract Expires this Spring – Uniform Coordinator(s) Needed. Our three year contract with Xara for uniforms, etc. expires the end of May. FCSB needs to explore what we want to do for next year(s). We need at least one uniform coordinator to gather ideas and thoughts from all of the teams. Anyone who is interested should contact Blair Spaulding at 967-8875. If you do not get involved then please do not complain about the decisions that are made. A few key concerns are the following: Availability of uniforms for several years
New E-Mail addresses: The following people have changed their e-mail addresses. Blair Spaulding is now bkspauld@dospueblos.sbceo.k12.ca.us Nelson Trichler is now nbt@west.net Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next General Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled general board meeting will be Thursday, February 4, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home located at 636 Edgewood. Board meetings are open to all members of the Club. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 p.m.
The meeting was called to order by Blair
Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the Spaulding's home. Present Dan Ribbens, Blair
Spaulding, Nelson Trichler, Bill McKinnon, Jeff Ino, Judy Hug, Freed Guillermo,
Jim Blascovich, Fred Fred Velez of Kelme USA presented his company's product line of uniforms, warmups, jackets, coats, shoes, etc. Armando VillaGomez of Aggressive Soccer was also present as the local distributor of Kelme products. Fred wanted to make a presentation because he knew that our contract with Xara expires this year and FCSB has not yet made any decisions about what we will be doing in the future for uniforms. Kelme is catering to clubs (as Xara does) and provides the same sort of arrangements for ordering single replacement jerseys at the team price from a stock they keep on hand. Unlike Xara, Kelme also carries a complete line of other soccer accessories from boots to a unique "backpack" bag. Jersey samples were left with Blair for a couple of weeks. One item which Kelme does not carry is a girls tank top made out of uniform material. Fred Velez's answer here was that he was willing to work with us to come up with something that would satisfy the girl's teams. He said that he has done this in the past. Apparently a couple of the larger US companies came out with a sleeveless jersey for girls and lost a lot of money on them. Fred suggested that those companies may have been ahead of their time. FCSB Annual Tryouts will be held Saturday, March 20th, at Bishop High School from 8:30 to 11:30 am. The flyers have been prepared and are being distributed to local schools, stores, etc. Spring Break Training Camp aimed primarily at Recreational Players the week starting Monday, March 29. This camp will be put on by the Ziemer Brothers with promotion done by FCSB. The camp runs from Monday to Friday of the Spring break week from 9 am to 3 pm at a cost of $150 per player. The back of our tryout flyer contains a flyer for the camp. Contact Jeff Ino (687-5634) for more information. USSF Coaching Symposium to be held April
24th in Santa Barbara! Jan Smisek (the U-14 National Coordinator), Steve
Sampson and Bobby Howe are among those who will be putting on this coaching
symposium which no youth club coach will want to miss. Coaches from all
over Southern California will be coming to this event and all of our coaches
should plan to attend. More details will be published as they become available
or you can contact Penny Time ran short so here are just some short notes: Summer Cup will be held Saturday/Sunday July
31-August 1. The tournament UCSB Storke Field Development. Our proposal to the University (which includes use of some of the field space for practices and/or games) is getting a favorable reception but is still being evaluated Draft Copy of Manager's Handbook. Nelson Trichler has been working on putting together an FCSB Manager's Handbook. A draft copy is available from Nelson who can e-mail it to you if you send him a request at nbt@west.net. He is looking for additional input with the goal being to evolve this into a "how to" manual for all managers but especially new ones. Upcoming Coach Licensing Clinic Dates for
levels "E" and "F". "F" License Sunday,
Feb 21 9:00am - 6:00pm Ventura College Contact (805) 487-1719 "E"
License Sat/Sun, Feb27-28 9:00am - 6:00pm Ventura College Contact (805)
487-1719 "F" License Sunday, March 7 9:00am - 6:00pm Moorpark
College Contact CYSA Registration fees will be increasing
for the 1999-2000 Season: Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by
E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to
wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form
are present, the minutes will still be Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get
an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon's work phone
number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave
a message (or send E-mail to Next Executive Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be an "executive" one on Thursday, March 4, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. at the McKinnon's home located at 670 Alto Drive. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 p.m. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the McKinnons’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Blair Spaulding, Nelson Trichler, Bill McKinnon, Jeff Ino, Gary Etherington; absent none (note: since this month’s meeting was an executive board meeting, the many other dedicated members of our board were not present). Gary Etherington of Xara presented his company’s product line of uniforms. Since our current contract with Xara is up in May, we had an open discussion of both the successes and problems which we have experienced over the past three years. We also discussed the possibility of a one year extension to our current contract to "tide us over" until our Club is ready to choose a new Club wide uniform. This approach (regardless of what company we end up choosing) would allow all of our teams to be financially prepared for a switch. No decisions on uniforms were made. Annual Tryouts for will be held Saturday, March 20th, at Bishop High School from 8:30 to 11:30 am. Contact Blair Spaulding (967-8875) if you have questions. Spring Break Training Camp aimed primarily at Recreational Players the week starting Monday, March 29 at Las Positas Park. This camp will be put on by the Ziemer Brothers with promotion done by FCSB. The camp runs from Monday to Friday of the Spring break week from 9 am to 3 pm at a cost of $150 per player. The back of our tryout flyer contains a flyer for the camp. Contact Jeff Ino (687-5634) for more information. USSF Coaching Symposium to be held April 24th at UCSB! Jan Smisek (the U-14 National Coordinator) and Bobby Howe are among those who will be putting on this coaching symposium which no youth club coach will want to miss. Coaches from all over Southern California will be coming to this event and all of our coaches should plan to attend. The cost will be $15 per person if paid in advance (or $25 at the event). Save money and sign up ahead. Lunch is included in the fee. One third of the time will be spent in the classroom and two thirds on the field. Penny Cortright (963-2316) can be contacted for further details. There will also be updates on the fcsb.org web site as well (see below). FCSB’s official web site is UP and RUNNING!! The much anticipated (and often announced) FCSB web site is officially up and running. Check it out at www.fcsb.org Summer Cup will be held Saturday/Sunday July 31-August 1. The tournament WEB site is hot linked to the CYSA-South tournament list. A U-17 or U-18 team from Denmark is planning to come. Advertisements are being run both inside and outside of CYSA-South. Big Dog will definitely be one of our sponsors. La Colina’s Soccer Fields are looking very good but will not be officially opened until after April 1. Between now and then the detailed scheduling process for all entities is being worked out. Blair Spaulding is the representative for FCSB. UCSB Storke Field Development. Our proposal to the University (which includes use of some of the field space for practices and/or games) is getting a favorable reception but is still being evaluated. An Initial Meeting on Unification of All Santa Barbara Youth Clubs into a single club affiliated with the University of California at Santa Barbara was held at the University on Wednesday evening, February 24 at the request of Tim Von Steeg (UCSB’s new head coach for men’s soccer). This well attended meeting was an open discussion of both the pros and cons of such an approach from the point of view of each of the current local soccer clubs and the University’s soccer program. Some of the benefits for the university would be increased visibility for their soccer program both locally (benefit: increased attendance at UCSB soccer matches) as well as regionally and nationally through club sponsored tournaments and camps (benefit: recruiting for University soccer improved and simplified). Support for improved soccer facilities would go hand in hand with this. Some immediate benefits for club soccer of affiliation with the University could include access to some fields for practices/games, increased ability to attract corporate sponsors and a new group of referees. The big benefits for local club soccer, however, of both unification and affiliation with the University would be: the ability to put together a more professional
coaching staff including a full time head coach Another way to evaluate the benefits of affiliating FCSB with UCSB is to look at the key assets which FCSB has developed over the years that are needed by an "ideal" Santa Barbara club, what assets UCSB might provide, and what assets must still be found or developed. The lists below provide a starting point. The assets listed are NOT in any particular priority order. Currently Provided by FCSB Separate Tournament Organization Practice/game fields Head Coach The board decided that we should contact Tim Von Steeg and pursue his proposal. A Follow up Meeting with Tim Von Steeg was held Wednesday evening 3/10/99. All of the local clubs were represented by their executive board members. The concrete decisions which came out of this meeting were as follows: The unified club should be a greater Santa
Barbara area club rather than an arm of a newly forming club based in
the Las Virgines area. Draft Copy of Manager’s Handbook. Nelson Trichler has been working on putting together an FCSB Manager’s Handbook. A draft copy is available from Nelson who can e-mail it to you if you send him a request at nbt@west.net. He is looking for additional input with the goal being to evolve this into a "how to" manual for all managers but especially new ones. CYSA Registration fees will be increasing for the 1999-2000 Season: Competitive U-12 and younger players: $12.75 per player Competitive U-13 and older players $18.25 per player The $2.00 increase is the first in five years and reflects the increase in medical insurance claims last year. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next General Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be a "general" one on Thursday, April 8, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home located at 636 Edgewood Drive. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 p.m. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Blair Spaulding, Nelson Trichler, Bill McKinnon, Jeff Ino, Fred Guillermo, Francisco Ibarra, Mickey Cornish, Donny Rippberger Jr, Paul Stumpf, Jeff Mack. Paul Stumpf (head coach of the UCSB Women’s Soccer Team) and his new assistant coach Jeff Mack came to introduce themselves and to offer their help to our Club (particularly the girls teams). Paul is very interested in getting involved in the Santa Barbara community both to increase attendance at the UCSB women’s games and to develop local players who would be able to play for him. Both he and Jeff would like to assist our coaches and teams in whatever way the coaches would find helpful. He also offered the help of his player’s both for training and possibly for refereeing. FCSB Teams/Players wanted for exhibition games at grand opening of El Camino Real Park at Storke, Sunday, May 23, 1-5 pm. The new soccer field at the new shopping center is being officially opened. FCSB has been asked to organize some exhibition games. Therefore, we are planning to have a Club wide get together there on this day. Dan Ribbens has kindly volunteered to organize the games. Whole teams or individual players who want to play in one of the games should contact Dan (964-4843). Use of Las Positas Fields for Fall League Games was discussed again. A decision had to be made to either contract to use (and pay for) the fields for Saturday games or let them be used by one of the adult leagues. The basic problem is cost. Since we are co-sponsored by the City of Santa Barbara we pay a reduced rate to use Dwight Murphy on Saturdays and Bishop on Saturdays/Sundays. Playing all our games at Las Positas on Saturday would more than double our costs. Our biggest problem is field space on Sundays. After a thorough discussion, we decided to ask Blair Spaulding to try to arrange with Las Positas to contract for one field on Saturdays if Las Positas Park would be willing to do that. That approach will raise our costs some but will keep our options open for our future expansion. Don’t Forget the USSF Coaching Symposium to be held April 24th at UCSB! Jan Smisek (the U-14 National Coordinator) and Bobby Howe are among those who will be putting on this coaching symposium which no youth club coach will want to miss. Coaches from all over Southern California will be coming to this event and all of our coaches should plan to attend. The cost will be $15 per person if paid in advance (or $25 at the event). Save money and sign up ahead. Lunch is included in the fee. One third of the time will be spent in the classroom and two thirds on the field. Penny Cortright (963-2316) can be contacted for further details. There are additional details on our www.fcsb.org web site. The Tryouts held Saturday, March 20th and 27th at Bishop High School went very well. There was a very good turn out for the new younger teams. These teams will be forming over the next month or so. Dan Ribbens (964-4843) should be contacted with any questions. Lets all give a big thanks to Brynn Crowe and the group she organized to do the publicity for this event. The Ziemer Brothers Spring Break Training Camp co-sponsored by FCSB over the recent Spring break went well for our first effort. There were over 20 young players who attended and had a great time. Jeff Ino did a great job of heading up our efforts to pull this together for our first annual spring camp. Summer Cup will be held Saturday/Sunday July 31-August 1. The tournament WEB site is hot linked to the CYSA-South tournament list. An older boys team from Denmark and another from Sweden are comming. Big Dog has designed a great tournament T-shirt. Nelson Trichler is going to be calling formal meetings of the tournament committee in the near future. Those interested in helping on the committee should contact Nelson at 967-4430. La Colina’s Soccer Fields formal scheduling procedure has frustratingly not been finalized. Blair Spaulding is continuing to push to have the process finalized. In the mean time use of the fields is not being formally controlled. FCSB is going to Continue with Current Xara Uniforms for One More Year and then Switch to a new uniform. We formally decided to remain with our current Club uniform and begin planning now for a Club wide switch for the Summer/Fall of 2000. On the Unification of All Santa Barbara Youth Clubs into a single club (see last months minutes for an in depth discussion) there have not been any additional meetings of the coordinating board although one is planned soon. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next Executive Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be an "executive" one on Thursday, May 6, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. at the McKinnon’s home located at 670 Alto Drive. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 p.m. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The executive meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the McKinnon’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Blair Spaulding, Nelson Trichler, Bill McKinnon, Jeff Ino. FCSB Teams/Players wanted for exhibition games at grand opening of El Camino Real Park at Storke, Sunday, May 23, 1-4:30 pm. The new soccer field at the new shopping center is being officially opened. FCSB has been asked to organize some exhibition games. Therefore, we are planning to have a Club wide get together there on this day. Whole FCSB teams or individual players who want to play in one of the games should contact Dan Ribbens (964-4843). Las Positas Fields will be closing starting May 14 for about 6 weeks to rest the fields. The La Colina Fields official scheduling system is still being organized by the City. There will be a meeting on that process in the coming week. USSF Coaching Symposium held April 24th at UCSB was a solid success. Jan Smisek (the U-14 National Coordinator) organized the program. Thirty coaches from as far away as San Diego attended. About 1 ½ hours were spent in the classroom and the remainder of the day was spent in field sessions. Jan is hoping to make this an annual event. Thanks goes to Penny Cortright for initiating and coordinating FCSB’s efforts for this program. FCSB International Summer Cup Update (Saturday/Sunday July 31-August 1). The first Tournament Committee Staff Meeting
will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18th, at the Trichler’s
house. Karen is arranging for one or two group evening barbecues but is looking for help with and ideas for other activities that these teams might enjoy. So give her a call, get involved, and have a great time! You will remember the experience forever and how many things can you say that about. Coaching Certification Clinics: See the attached list of coaching clinics to be held this summer (or look in the current issue of Goal Internationsl). Each team should have at least two adults with a coaching license. The F lisence can be obtained with a single day of instruction and can be earned by anyone. So get some of your parents out to one of the F license clinics (just in case your coach is unavailable for a particular game). No licensed coach present throughout a match and there is no match. FCSB is going to Continue with Current Xara Uniforms for One More Year and then Switch to a new uniform. However, the distributor is now Aggressive Soccer on Milpas Street and not Soccer Action. Armando at Aggressive Soccer has already starting handling Xara orders. Requests for Financial Assistance must be in by July 1. Player financial aid request forms for the 1999-2000 season starting in August must be turned in to one of the executive board members (see list at top of minutes) by July 1 because they are all evaluated together in order to determine how to allocate the limited funds available. Forms were handed out at the manager’s meeting and are also available from Bill McKinnon (964-5095 or see work number below). Extra work at the tournament above and beyond what is normally asked of everyone else will be required of those receiving financial aid. A Managers Handbook has been put together by Nelson Trichler with help and ideas from many others. This is a large three ring binder containing everything that could be thought of that would be useful especially for a new manager. At the moment we only have one which can be borrowed from Nelson (967-4530 or nbt@west.net). Our goal is to have several of these available. Club Treasurer Desperately Needed: We have not had this position filled for some time and as we grow our need is becoming critical. If you know of someone in our Club who would be willing to help out please contact one of the board members. Annual FCSB Manager’s Meeting was held Tuesday, May 11 at the McKinnon’s home. Karen Ribbens again did a wonderful job of organizing this event. Registration material for the fall season was handed out. Karen also wanted to strongly encourage teams to travel as much and as far as possible. Over the 8 years Karen has been the manager of the current U-18 boys team, they have traveled extensively (including a trip to Europe) and Karen says that the bonds that were formed during these trips and the memories that were brought back will last a lifetime for all the players and parents involved. The ECRSL Annual General Meeting was held April 21. Blair Spaulding represented us at this mandatory meeting where new ECRSL board members were elected to serve two year terms. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next Executive Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be an "executive" one on Thursday, June 10, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home located at 636 Edgewood Drive. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:05 p.m. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
F.C. Santa Barbara United The general board meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the McKinnon’s home. Present Jim Acos, Lucy Archotek, Peter Claydon, Bruce Fisher, Brent Gonsalves, John Hadidian, Todd Heil, John Hess, Jeff Ino. Rhonda Lee, Gunner Lonson Bill McKinnon, Stevie McGowan, Neil Powell, Dan Ribbens, Donny Rippberger Jr., Federico Ruiz, Bill Spiewak, Linda Spiewak, Blair Spaulding, Nelson Trichler, Roger Wilde, Rudy Ybarra, Merger of FCSB and Empire Clubs: Attached is a revision of the list of "frequently asked questions and answers" that was initially presented as a focal point for discussions at this meeting. The input from this board meeting was incorporated into the list presented here. Please contact the individuals mentioned in this list if you have any additional questions or clarifications. We plan to continue to maintain this list in its most up-to-date form on our web site (www.fcsb.org). There was a thorough discussion of the merger. Rudy Ybarra expressed his plans to create a world class training environment. He has already started and is getting the cooperation of all area coaches (mens/womens; colleges/high schools/youth programs). They have all offered to join in and help. Dan Ribbens made a formal motion (seconded by Jeff Ino) that FCSB approve the merger with the Empire Club. The general FCSB board passed the motion unanimously. Bill Spiewak made a formal motion (seconded by Roger Wilde) that the Empire Club approve the merger with FCSB. The general Empire board passed the motion unanimously. We are now one Club in Santa Barbara!!! Many long hours were put in prior to this historic board meeting and many sacrifices were made by numerous people in both of the formerly separate organizations in order to bring about a unification of club soccer in the greater Santa Barbara area. But now you can feel the excitement and momentum that are growing throughout the community to move competitive soccer in our area to the next level. Unification significantly improves our ability to develop and provide the best facilities and training possible. Think of the opportunities, catch the excitement and get involved with your united club to help make competitive soccer in our area the best it can be. Election of Executive Board of Directors and Officers: A proposed slate for the Executive Board of our merged Club was presented and thoroughly discussed. The goal was to achieve a true merger of two organizations and provide a formal mechanism for an orderly turnover of board positions in future years. In order to facilitate the first year of transition, Rudy Ybarra made a formal motion that the voting Executive Board be expanded temporarily for one year from five to six members with any tie votes being broken by the secretary (who does not normally have a vote). Dan Ribbens seconded the motion and it was passed unanimously by the new combined general board. Blair Spaulding made a motion that the slate for the Executive Board and officers (see list at end of "Board of Directors Structure" attachment) be approved. Roger Wilde seconded the motion and it was approved unanimously. All Club Meeting Planned to Spread the Word: An all-club meeting was scheduled for Monday night, June 14 at Bishop High School. Although this was not enough lead time and is at a very busy time of the year, the decision was made to go ahead anyway to start getting the word out as soon as possible. An additional meeting can be scheduled at a later date. (A summary of this meeting which has since been held is at the end of these meetings.) FC Santa Barbara United International Summer Cup Tournament Update (Saturday/Sunday July 31-August 1): The Tournament Committee Staff will be meeting
7:00 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, June 24th, at the Trichler’s house. Karen is arranging for one or two group evening barbecues but is looking for help with and ideas for other activities that these teams might enjoy. So give her a call, get involved, and have a great time! You will remember the experience forever and how many things can you say that about. Coaching Certification Clinics (repeated from last month): See the attached list of coaching clinics to be held this summer (or look in the current issue of Goal Internationsl). Each team should have at least two adults with a coaching license. The F license can be obtained with a single day of instruction and can be earned by anyone. So get some of your parents out to one of the F license clinics (just in case your coach is unavailable for a particular game). No licensed coach present throughout a match and there is no match. Referee Training and Certification Clinic July 10-11 in Santa Barbara: We desperately need more referees to ensure that we have referees at all our games. We have all experienced not having enough (or not having any) referees at some of our games. What we have not done is decide that this is our problem to solve. With the phenomenal growth of soccer, the demand for referees has far outstripped the supply. Complaining about the lack of referees or the quality in the Fall does not help and is, in fact, counter productive because it tends to drive away those referees that we do have. What is needed is to find those who would be willing to referee, get them trained and certified as USSF referees (AYSO certification is not sufficient), and provide them with encouragement and support. Now is the time to sign people up to attend the two day training and certification clinic to be held July 10-11 here in Santa Barbara (location to be announced). Coaches, older players, AYSO referees, college students, anyone somewhat knowledgeable about soccer with a desire to see well run matches be played is a prime candidate. Its a great way to earn some extra money as well (e.g., $16 per referee for a 60 minute game, $24 per referee for a 90 minute game). Contact Ron Millender (564-6257 ext 3897 or rmillender@aol.com) for further details. We much each start being part of the solution! COACHES and PLAYERS READ THIS: Hans Westerhof, Director of Youth Development for AFC AJAX Amsterdam will be holding Regional Training Days July 12-15 (Monday - Thursday), 3:30 - 8:30 P.M. Hans Westerhof is the director of the best youth development program in the world (no exaggeration)! This is a very rare opportunity that should not be missed. This training will only be available to FCSB United players and coaches). Players would only attend part of each session. Contact Jeff Ino (687-5634 or jino@worldnet.att.net) for more information. This is exciting! Get your coach and team involved! Do it now! Jeff also has information on all the full week summer camps that are happening this summer. A Managers Handbook (repeated from last month) has been put together by Nelson Trichler with help and ideas from many others. This is a large three ring binder containing everything that could be thought of that would be useful especially for a new manager. At the moment we only have one which can be borrowed from Nelson (967-4530 or nbt@west.net). Our goal is to have several of these available. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next Executive Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be an "executive" one on Thursday, July 1, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home located at 636 Edgewood Drive. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 p.m. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon Summary of the All-Club Meeting refereed to in the above minutes: The meeting was held on Monday evening, June 14 at Bishop High School from 7:30 to 9:00. Considering the very short notice, there was a good turnout of about 110 Club members. Blair Spaulding (president) introduced the members of the new FC Santa Barbara United executive board of directors (see attached list). Rudy Ybarra (head coach) spoke on his plans to standardize and enhance our training program to ensure that our players become both the best players and people that they can be. The more you hear Rudy talk or see the results of what he has already done with youth players, the more excited you become about the bright future of our Club. Nelson Trichler (tournament director) spoke about this summer’s tournament (see minutes above for details). He also described the many fund raising opportunities that are available to our teams through the tournament. Dan Ribbens (assistant head coach) described his experience in getting his just graduating high school players into college soccer programs. Over half of his team will actually be playing soccer in college next year. This is a fantastic accomplishment! So contact Dan if you want to know how to get the attention of college coaches and how the system actually works. He has just been there, he knows. Most of the time, however, was spent answering questions from our members. Roger Wilde (treasurer) described how the teams will be channeling their payments to coaches through the Club so that we can maintain central records and see that 1099 are properly issued. The plan is to have teams collect from their players and get the funds to Roger by the 15th of the month so that he can pay the coaches on the 1st. Bill Spiewak (member at large) described how the interests of the girls’s teams were being fully represented in the Club. The charter of the Club is to develop competitive youth soccer in the greater Santa Barbara area. This includes girls, boys and all ages equally. As one listened and watched, you had to come away with the clear picture that this United organization has a clear vision, is well organized and has significantly increased its ability to make its vision a reality. You can taste the excitement and feel the movement. Let’s get involved and make it happen!
The executive board meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Richard Ross, Blair Spaulding, Jeff Ino, Roger Wilde, Bill McKinnon; Absent: Rudy Ybarra, Bill Spiewak ECRSL President’s Meeting: Blair reported that he attended annual ECRSL President’s meeting in Westlake on Wednesday, June 23. The following two issues were emphasized. Starting September 1, 1999, all coaches and managers must wear the new CYSA-South photo ID badge around their necks during all games. Only players and adults with badges will be allowed in the coaches box during a game. CYSA-South has agreed to set up a booth on Saturday, July 31, at our tournament where you should arrange to get your photo ID badge if you are a licensed coach or an administrator. If you are both then get the coaches badge, because a coach with a badge must be present in the coaches box at all games starting September 1 or the game is over. "Field invasion" (i.e., players, coaches or spectators entering the soccer field without the referees permission) will result in severe penalties. Cards for offending individuals will be sent directly to the CYSA-State office where cases will be handled as time permits. You can expect to miss a month of play if this happens. Although this has not been a problem for out Club, it was a problem in CYSA-South last year and it will no longer be tolerated. So please instruct your players and parents that only the 11 players that are currently playing are allowed on the field no matter what happens unless the referee explicitly signals for a particular person to come on. Referee Training and Certification Clinic July 10-11 in Santa Barbara: (Repeated from last month’s minutes.) We desperately need more referees to ensure that we have referees at all our games. We have all experienced not having enough (or not having any) referees at some of our games. What we have not done is decide that this is our problem to solve. With the phenomenal growth of soccer, the demand for referees has far outstripped the supply. Complaining about the lack of referees or the quality in the Fall does not help and is, in fact, counter productive because it tends to drive away those referees that we do have. What is needed is to find those who would be willing to referee, get them trained and certified as USSF referees (AYSO certification is not sufficient), and provide them with encouragement and support. Now is the time to sign people up to attend the two day training and certification clinic to be held July 10-11 here in Santa Barbara (location to be announced). Coaches, older players, AYSO referees, college students, anyone somewhat knowledgeable about soccer with a desire to see well run matches be played is a prime candidate. Its a great way to earn some extra money as well (e.g., $16 per referee for a 60 minute game, $24 per referee for a 90 minute game). Contact Ron Millender (564-6257 ext 3897 or rmillender@aol.com) for further details. We much each start being part of the solution! FC Santa Barbara United International Summer Cup Tournament Update (Saturday/Sunday July 31-August 1): There are 130 teams accepted with 12 teams on the waiting list for our tournament (teams are posted on the internet at fcsb.org). They come from several states as well as two teams from Europe. Although more teams would like to come, the tournament had to be capped because of lack of sufficient fields to accommodate more teams. We have contracted for all UCSB fields plus two each at Costco, La Colina and Las Positas Park. Hotel space is also a big problem with some teams having to get lodging in Ventura. Nelson Trichler has the tournament committee hard at work making sure that this tournament will run as smoothly as the last ones even though this one will be 30% larger. Help Host our Visiting Teams From Europe (repeated from last month): The U-17 and U-18 boys teams from Sweden and Denmark will be here from July 28 to August 2. Karen Ribbens has arranged places for the older players to stay but is looking for volunteers to provide places to stay for the 16 year old players. The players are broken into groups of two players. So give Karen a call at 964-4843 if you or someone you know can help out. Providing places to stay for visiting teams is not only a lot of fun but provides contacts and reciprocal housing for when your team travels to their countries. Karen is arranging for one or two group evening barbecues but is looking for help with and ideas for other activities that these teams might enjoy. So give her a call, get involved, and have a great time! You will remember the experience forever and how many things can you say that about. COACHES and PLAYERS READ THIS: Hans Westerhof, Director of Youth Development for AFC AJAX Amsterdam will be holding Regional Training Days July 12-15 (Monday - Thursday), 3:30 - 8:30 P.M. Hans Westerhof is the director of the best youth development program in the world (no exaggeration)! This is a very rare opportunity that should not be missed. This training will only be available to FCSB United players and coaches. The cost is $30 per player for the two evenings of training. The schedule is as follows: Boys will go Mon & Wed, July 12 & 14 3:00 - 5:00 B U11 - U12 4:30 - 6:30 B U13 - U15 6:00 - 8:00 B U16 - U19 Girls will go Tue & Thur, July 13 & 15 3:00 - 5:00 G U11 - U12 4:30 - 6:30 G U13 - U15 6:00 - 8:00 G U16 - U18 For each group first day of training is technical, second day is tactical. On Sunday, July 11, Hans Westerhof will give a lecture that is open to everybody including AYSO. The cost is $20 per person. This will be held at "The Field House" adjacent to Peabody Stadium at Santa Barbara High School. Topics available are: The Ajax Model & Structure, Youth Training, Roles of Coaches, Managers, Players, Parents. Contact Jeff Ino (687-5634 or jino@worldnet.att.net) for more information. Hans Westerhof’s training is exciting! Get your coach and team involved! Summer Practice Field: Through August 30 we have La Colina on Monday-Thursday from 4-8 PM. We will not be using Las Positas for practice until September 1. "Club Night" at UCSB’s opening game on Wednesday evening, September 1. Tim Von Steeg is planning to have a "Club Night" featuring our new merged Club. The university will promote this night through radio and print mentioning our Club. We would like to have every team there to be introduced during half time. All players and coaches will get in free. The board decided that instead of holding our annual Club picnic at Tucker’s Grove the Friday before league starts that wi have a tailgater party for the entire Club on Storke prior to the game on the evening of September 1. We could take the Club picture either before the game or during half time. Tim would like to have someone at FCSB appointed to organize it and work with him to promote it. The board decided to ask Bill Spiewak if he would be willing to take this on since everyone acknowledged that he would do a great job. Fall Game Fields Summary: This fall we have Dwight Murphy on Saturdays, Bishop on Saturdays & Sundays (3 games each day), one field at Las Positas Park on Saturdays, the field at Carpinteria State Beach on Saturdays and Sundays. The Costco field(s) are also available for practices and games if we decide to contract for them ($15/hr/field practice; $165/field/day for games). This needs to be determined as soon as possible. No decision was made at this meeting. New Club Logo: A selection of new logos for our Club were presented by Jeff Ino. The board chose one of these and voted 4 - 0 to adopt it as our new logo. Team First Aide Kits: There was a discussion of what our Club’s policy should be in regards to team first aide kits. Currently we have no policy and each team does what it thinks best. Richard Ross was appointed to look into this, consult with Rudy, and come back with a concrete recommendation for our next board meeting. Financial Aide Procedure Revised: July 1 had been the deadline for player financial aide applications to be submitted. However, the board decided to revise the financial aide application (see attachment) and extend the date for submitting applications to August 1. Last year the total amount of money available for financial aide was $2500 (500 from player registration fees and 2000 from the tournament). This is not very much money when it is spread out among the various players who apply for some of it, but it is a start and that is what we have to work with initially. Roger Wilde pointed out that there may be other sources of funds such as grants for "at risk" players that the Club could apply for at some point in the future when we find someone to take this on. A Managers Handbook (repeated from last month) has been put together by Nelson Trichler with help and ideas from many others. This is a large three ring binder containing everything that could be thought of that would be useful especially for a new manager. At the moment we only have one which can be borrowed from Nelson (967-4530 or nbt@west.net). Our goal is to have several of these available. Club’s Fiscal Year Changed to July 1 - June 31. A formal motion was made and passed 4-0 to set the change our merged Club’s Fiscal year to start on July 1 rather than May 1. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed. Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next General Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be a "general" one on Thursday, August 12, 1999 (one week later than usual) at 7:30 PM at the McKinnon’s home located at 670 Alto Drive. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:50 PM. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The executive board meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the McKinnon’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Rudy Ybarra, Bill Spiewak, Blair Spaulding, Jeff Ino, Roger Wilde, Bill McKinnon, Nelson Trichler, Donny Rippberger, Jim Acos, Rhonda Lee, Karen Ribbens, Randy Chapman, Chris Jones, John Hadidian, Fred Guillermo, Peter Claydon, ; Absent: Richard Ross. Update on Club’s "Team Financial Process": Karen Ribbens handed out a "team financial form" which much be filled out and returned by each team manager as soon as possible (preferably at the coaches/managers meeting on Monday, Aug. 16, at Santa Barbara high field house (see below)). Contact Karen (964-4843) if you have questions on this. Roger Wilde has arranged with Jennifer Kizziah (a staff accountant at Mokros & Associates) to handle paying coaches and trainers. Roger will describe this in specific detail at the Monday coaches/managers meeting (see below). This should begin immediately if possible with teams sending payments to Jennifer Kizziah by August 15 so that payments to coaches and trainers can be made on September 1. Note: FC Santa Barbara United has a new non-profit tax id number (77-0489233). Coaches/Managers Meeting on Monday, August 16, at Santa Barbara High Field House at 7:30 PM: Rudy Ybarra has called this very important meeting to explain his training schedule for our teams; work out any scheduling issues; and cover the mechanics of Club payment of coaches and trainers. Also covered will be the allocation of and payment for practice fields. The goal is that all teams will pay the same rate per hour for practice field time. Manager’s Handbook update has been completed by Nelson Trichler. Karen Ribbens will be putting together four copies for use by new managers. Parent / Player Manual: Nelson reported that this should be updated and available for distribution to all players by Sept. 1. Chris Jones volunteered Lois Hill to make a Spanish translation. Teams needing some of these manuals in Spanish should notify Nelson Trichler (967-4430) how many Spanish manuals they will need. Club Web Site is available for player profiles of high school players who are applying to colleges to play soccer. Roger Wilde has a form that can be used for preparing these profiles. If anyone has any suggestions on how we could improve our web site please pass them on to Nelson Trichler. Club Phone Book: Roger Wilde received an enthusiastic board endorsement of his idea to create a Club phone book containing the names and phone numbers of all members of our Club. It would be distributed to each of our families. Not only would this provide useful phone numbers but teams could also sell advertising space in it as a fundraiser. Summer Cup Tournament Summary: Nelson Trichler reported that the tournament this year was a great success both in terms of very few complaints as well as financially. Nelson presented a detailed analysis of how revenue increased from last year. It can best be summarized by saying that the total economic benefit to each of our participating Club teams (this includes profit, no entry fee and ad sales) was up 62% from last year (even though we had many more of our teams participating). That is phenomenal!! In order to maintain this level of financial benefit to the Club, volunteer labor is essential. Nelson made a formal proposal to distribute two thirds of the net proceeds from the tournament to the teams based on teams participation in the labor pool as a whole during the tournament weekend as well as participation on the tournament staff which spends countless hours in the months before and weeks after the tournament itself. This proposal was accepted unanimously by the board. The distribution will not occur until the first week of September because it takes that long to be sure all bills are paid and all income has been realized. Any Club member wishing a detailed accounting statement of every dollar brought in and spent by the tournament should contact Bill McKinnon (964-5095). This information was also passed out to everyone present at this board meeting. Karen Ribbens wished to pass on our Club’s big thanks to all the families which provided housing (and much more) for the players and coaches from the Danish and Swedish teams which came to our tournament. They had a great time and would be happy to reciprocate when one of our teams goes over to Europe Proper Lines of Communication: In order to provide the best possible soccer training, we need to work as efficiently as possible. This means that questions from players/parents should first be directed to their coach or manager. If a question cannot be answered at that level, then one of the board members should be asked. If a coaching/training question still cannot be answered (and this should be seldom), then we can contact Rudy Ybarra for a resolution. By following this procedure, no one person will be overly burdened and we can all do our individual jobs more easily. Request for Club contribution to Yvonne Barkley’s fund. Chris Jones made a formal request to the board to make a $250 contribution to a fund which our U-15 tea has been raising to buy a laptop computer for Yvonne who is currently undergoing cancer chemotherapy treatment. The team had already raised $1,750 but needed $2,000. Jeff Ino pointed out that the Club will soon be receiving more than this amount from the Ajax summer camp program which we co-sponsored. The board voted unanimously to allocate these funds for this purpose. Coaches/Managers responsibility for safety: Blair Spaulding wanted to remind all coaches and managers, that it is their responsibility to make sure that they do not leave a practice or game field until all their players have been picked up. Having a different team’s representative around is not sufficient unless that individual has explicitly been asked to make sure that a particular player is picked up. Parents should be reminded to pick up their players promptly so that coaches/managers are not unduly inconvenienced. Annual E.C.R.S.L. Fall Schedule Distribution Meeting - Wednesday, August 25, 7:30 PM: The Fall schedules will be handed out at this meeting to be held at the Clarion Hotel in Simi Valley. Each teams manager or coach should plan to be there. If you cannot attend, please be sure that someone who is attending picks up your Fall league game schedule. Annual Club Family Picnic at Tucker’s Grove’s Kiwana’s Meadows on Friday, September 10th from 4:00 - 7:45. This great annual event is back on schedule with Bill Spiewak organizing it. The Club will provide a large hot barbecue pit and drinks. Each team should organize their own food. th from 4:00 - 7:45. This great annual event is back on schedule with Bill Spiewak organizing it. The Club will provide a large hot barbecue pit and drinks. Each team should organize their own food. An All-Club (players & coaches) picture will be taken at 6:00 PM so players should be sure to be there by then and bring their primary red and black jersey to wear for the picture. This should be quite something this year. Get all your team’s families there. It is a great event and really gives everyone an appreciation for what our Club consists of. UCSB’s Club Night: will be on Wednesday, September 1. There will be a preliminary U-17 boys game at 4:00PM. The UCSB game starts at 7:00PM. Wear your uniform and get in free. Also at half time, Tim Von Steeg plans to have each of the club teams introduced on the field so we want to be sure that all our teams are well represented. Be sure your team participates. Storage Facility Needed: The board formally authorized Nelson Trichler to arrange to purchase (or better yet get donated) an 8 x 8 x 20 steel storage container for storing the mounting Club equipment (e.g., goals, nets, paint machines, tournament supplies). La Colina School would be an ideal location for this if the details can be worked out. Committee to Evaluate Financial Requests: A financial aid sub-committee was formed to evaluate the financial aid requests which have been submitted and the funds currently available. The goal is to come up with a recommendation to the executive board on how to distribute the funds to those who have already submitted requests by the first week in September if possible. Richard Ross, Chris Jones, Donny Rippberger and Roger Wilde will serve on this committee. Official Club PR Representative: Bill Spiewak agreed to explore the possibility of taking on this previously unfilled job for the Club. Bill will report back to the Executive Board next month on what he thinks could be done. Uniform Committee to be formed: Around next April/May, our Club will formally adopt a new uniform for use by all our teams. The committee to choose this uniform will be formed within the next 4 to 8 weeks. Rudy Ybarra will be on this committee. Chris Jones would like to be on this committee. Others who are interested should contact one of the executive board members during the next month so that the committee can be formally created. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next General Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled board meeting will be an "executive" one on Thursday, September 2, 1999 at 7:30 PM at the Spaulding’s home located at 636 Edgewood Drive.. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 PM. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The executive board meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:50 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Richard Ross, Bill Spiewak, Blair Spaulding, Jeff Ino, Roger Wilde, Bill McKinnon, Nelson Trichler ; Absent: Rudy Ybarra. "Club Night" at UCSB’s opening game on September 1 was very positive. There was a good crowd, a good game and an overall great boost for soccer in Santa Barbara. First Annual Fall Field Work Day was held Saturday, September 11 to get the La Colina fields in shape and initially laid out. The Bishop Diego High School field was also initially lined. This greatly improved the initial day of play on Sunday and will be an annual event. Field Setup/Teardown Responsibilities: The team with the first game of the day is responsible for lining the field they are playing on and putting up nets and corner flags. The team with the last game of the day is responsible for returning the corner flags and nets to the storage container at La Colina Jr. High. If you have the first game of the day you can certainly ask for help from others who are playing later in the day, but you are responsible for making sure that the job is done. If you have never done this before, be sure to get help from someone who has. Newspaper Publicity: Bill Spiewak has agreed to forward all of our weekend scores to the Santa Barbara News Press each week. Managers: To have your scores reported you must either call Bill (682-9401) or e-mail him (btc4trees@sprynet.com) on or before Sunday evening. Just do it at the same time you notify your division director of the scores as you must each week. Summer Cup Tournament Report: Although there are still some bills to be paid and some income to be realized, the total net income projected a month ago has not changed substantially. Therefore, the board decided to proceed with distributing 2/3 of the tournament profits to the individual teams based on the labor figures as had been approved at the last board meeting. This amounted to $15,000 which was paid out (at the All-Club Picnic on Sept. 10) to the participating teams along with an additional $7,300 in advertising money sold by individual teams. Any member of our Club who wants a complete report of all tournament income and expenses should contact Bill McKinnon (964-5095). Next year’s tournament is scheduled for July 29 & 30. Believe it or not, these dates have to be arranged this far in advance. Storage Facility for Club Equipment: The board agreed to rent a large storage container to be placed at La Colina Jr. High School. If the arrangement works out after a few months, then we will look into acquiring a container of our own. Partnership with La Colina School: We are fortunate to be forging a strong ongoing relationship at La Colina School. Our part of the bargain is to make sure that no litter is left on the fields or in the parking lot and that the fields are well maintained. Each team must be responsible both at practices and at games to be sure that litter is picked up. The school benefits by having beautiful fields for their daytime programs. The Club benefits by having a large centralized location for training and games. We should treat the facility with the same care that we would treat our own property. Only in this way can we ensure our continued use of this facility. Need for Additional Club Volunteers: Our Club and its programs are growing by leaps and bounds and the future is bright. However our very success means that we need to significantly expand our pool of volunteers who are helping with Club wide issues and programs if we are to maintain our momentum. We need the people to help develop and pursue the many ideas that are coming up. We will be developing a list of specific jobs that need to be done. One of them has your name on it. Soccer is a great sport and F.C. Santa Barbara United can become a great Club. We just need your help. Financial Assistance: Due to the number of requests received for this year and the very limited amount of funds available to the Club, the board decided to limit the amount of financial aid available from the Club to a player to $85. This will cover Club registration, League registration, USSF registration and a little bit of their field costs. We would like to do much more in future years but we will have to put together a committee to go after financial sources for such a fund. Anyone who would be interested in helping with this should contact one of the executive board members. All Club Annual Picnic on September 10 was a Big Success! This was a great way to kick off the Fall season. Thanks to Bill Spiewak for heading up the organizing of this on short notice and even providing entertainment. Also thanks to Roger Wilde for finding a photographer on very short notice. Uniform Committee: Next year our Club will be standardizing on new uniforms. Anyone interested in being on this committee should contact Nelson Trichler (967-4430). Player/Parent Manual: Richard Ross kindly agreed to proofread this manual which was revised by Nelson to reflect the revised Club organization. It will be distributed as soon as possible. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next General Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled general board meeting will be on Thursday, October 7, 1999 at 7:30 PM at the McKinnon’s home located at 670 Alto Drive.. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 PM. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The executive board meeting was called to order by Dan Ribbens at 7:50 p.m. at the McKinnon’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Richard Ross, Bill Spiewak, Rudy Ybarra, Jeff Ino, Roger Wilde, Bill McKinnon, Rhonda Lee, Nelson Trichler, Donny Rippberger, Fred Guillermo, Joe Kiffe ; Absent: Blair Spaulding. La Colina Concessions: Jane Ryan (965-6190) has been organizing the La Colina concession stand during this Fall season. All team managers were contacted and given an opportunity to have their team participate in running the stand. The concession stand is a real convenience for both visiting and home players and spectators. Our Club’s ability to regularly run a concession stand at our Fall league games is one more sign of the strength we are developing. Team Manager’s Meeting Report: Bill Spiewak organized a very well attended manager’s meeting in mid September at the Goleta Public Library. This meeting provided an excellent forum for bringing all the managers (especially our new ones) up to speed on their duties and responsibilities during the Fall season and beyond. (For example field lining and setup by the first team to play each day and field tear down and trash disposal by the last team to play each day.) In addition, several committees were formed and others identified to focus on specific topics (e.g., financial procedures, fundraising). With our growth we need to develop these committees in order to broaden participation within our Club as well as spread out the work so that we can effectively develop further. Training Program Report: Rudy Ybarra reported that the training program is running better and better each week. He encouraged parents to come out and observe what is being done. Rudy also encouraged coaches to provide him with feedback on what their particular teams need most. Finally Rudy observed that even though we are early in the development of our Club training program, our teams are doing extremely well overall in their Fall league seasons. F.C. Santa Barbara United is taking sign ups for a one day per week training program for boys and girls ages 5-10 who want to fully develop their soccer skills. The idea is to develop our future players, earn money for the Club’s training program and provide publicity for the Club. (As of 10/14, 50 players had signed up). Rudy is very excited about this program. A Coach/Trainer Employment Contract has been developed by Nelson Trichler, Bill Spiewak, Roger Wilde and Rudy Ybarra. They are in the process of reviewing and finalizing this. Newspaper Publicity: Check this out every Friday in the Santa Barbara News Press. Bill Spiewak has done a great job with this. Managers: Win, lose or draw be sure to report your sores to Bill (by e-mail preferably at btc4trees@sprynet.com or call 682-9401). Game summaries via e-mail are encouraged. This is good publicity for each team as well as for our Club as a whole. "Inactive Player" Discussion: There was a discussion about having a special status for players which were not actively playing for over a month so that their fees could be reduced. In the end, the board decided that this would open a "can of worms" and that there needed to be a natural tension between the cost of maintaining a player on a roster and any repercussions from formally dropping the player from a team’s roster. Summary Direct Financial Benefits of Last Summer Cup Tournament:: Add money given directly to teams 7,150 total 38,523 Summer Cup 2000 to be held July 29-30: Mark this on your calendar now so that you do not have any conflicts later. Nelson Trichler was unanimously voted to be the Tournament Director for the coming year. The El Camino Real Soccer League WEB site (www.elcaminorealsoccer.org) contains current standings, league rules, etc. Check it out. Also note that in the rules is a description of a disciplinary point system for red/yellow cards which must be monitored by coaches/managers. A player which reaches 6, 11 and 15 points must sit out a game in addition to missing games for red cards. Each red card is 3 points and each yellow card is one point. For example a player which got a red card in one game followed by one yellow card in three separate games would have to sit out the next game following that third yellow card because he would have 6 points (3 +1+1+1). State Cup Entry Deadline is November 15 for U-10 through U-13 teams: All teams should plan to entry this tournament. Entry forms can be found on the Cal-South web site (callsouth.com). Blair Spaulding’s e-mail address has been shortened to bkspauld@sbceo.org Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next Executive Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled executive board meeting will be on Thursday, November 4, 1999 at 7:30 PM at the Spaulding’s home located at 636 Edgewood Drive.. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 10:10 PM. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The executive board meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the Spaulding’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Richard Ross, Rudy Ybarra, Blair Spaulding, Jeff Ino, Bill McKinnon, Nelson Trichler; absent: Bill Spiewak, Roger Wilde. State Cup Entry Deadline is November 15 for U-10 through U-13 teams: All teams should plan to entry this tournament. Entry forms can be found on the Cal-South web site (callsouth.com). ECRSL President’s Meeting Report: Blair Spaulding attended the ECRSL President’s Meeting held on October 20. The continual problem of not having sufficient referees to cover all of the games was discussed at length. We can all help this situation by treating the referees that we do have with the utmost courtesy at all times (no matter how we feel about the calls being made). If we do not do this, we drive away the few referees that we have and discourage others from becoming new referees. The ECRSL board asked the club presidents to get imput from their clubs on whether or not they would like to spread the season for younger players (through U-13) into December so that there would not be so many weekends with games on both Saturday and Sunday. Our board felt the stretched out format would be preferable. FCSB United Sponsorship of local High School Programs was discussed. Although most agreed that putting a $50 add in each of the local high school’s programs would be a worthwhile show of support, the feeling was that it should either be all the schools (both boys and girls programs) or none. Unfortunately, the $500 necessary to do this is simply not available this year. Our Club’s New Uniform Committee is being headed up by Chris Jones to investigate and recommend to the board a completely new uniform which all of our teams will be wearing for the 2000-2001 season. Anyone interested in working on this committee should contact Chris immediately (965-7090) as work and meetings are beginning within the next week. The executive board decided that the Club colors will remain red, black and white. Development Program for 5-10 Year Old Players: A very positive discussion was held concerning this evolving program. Our Club’s goals with this program are to provide a training program for pre-club age players that would meet Rudy Ybarra’s philosophy for young player development; develop future FCSB United players; and bring money into the Club. At this time, our Club has its hands full digesting our merger and developing our existing team players development program. Greg Morancey and Joey Bilotta are able to start the program for 5-10 year olds now. A list of what FCSB United brings to this program was developed and Rudy Ybarra was directed to combine this list with a list from Greg and Joey of what they bring to the program. The goal is to develop a written description of how the program will be run both on a weekly basis and long term. La Colina Lights Proposal: Nelson Trichler has developed a three phase proposal for upgrading the lights at La Colina School to eventually light the entire fields. The Santa Barbara School District Board of Trustees has a fund set aside for proposals which bring in outside matching funds to improve school facilities. Nelson’s formal proposal hinges on FCSB being able to provide matching "equity" in the form of labor, equipment and cash payments over time. The first phase would be just to replace the existing light fixtures with new fixtures and thereby increase the usable amount of field space by perhaps 25%. The second and third phases involve installing new poles as well and will require a much longer planning period. The board unanimously approved the pursuit of this entire proposal with the school district. La Colina Stairs Proposal: The board authorized Nelson Trichler to pursue a proposal to install permanent stairs in two locations for going up the rise as you enter the fields. If the school district will provide the materials, we would provide the planning and the labor. Our Club’s Training Program is a Going Well: Rudy Ybarra reported that our training program is doing well and already paying dividends in the performance of our teams overall as well as the abilities of the individual players. Rudy detailed some of the problems which have come up and how they have been and are being handled. This is a new program and we have to expect that "opportunities for improvement" will come up as the program is developing. Congratulations to Rudy for the great start! Miscellaneous Item: Wheels have been attached to goals at La Colina so that they are now easy for just two people to move. Best Way to Reach Rudy Ybarra: Rudy has a new fax machine which he checks whenever he comes home. Therefore, he said that the best way to be sure he gets your message is to fax it to him at 965-5054. Player Evaluation Form: Rudy presented a preliminary draft of a player evaluation form which he is planning to have the Club use to provide formal feedback to each of our players. Formal Proposal for Joint FCSB United / Holiday Soccer Camp: Rudy Ybarra presented a proposal from Ryan Sparre and himself to put on four one week soccer camps over the course of a year for both beginning recreational and advanced players. Ryan Sparre has already been running the Holiday Soccer Camps for beginning 5-7 year old players. The detailed proposal seeks to expand these camps in a joint effort with FCSB United. The board endorsed this proposal. Among other benefits, these camps will provide additional income to our Club’s trainers and coaches who work at the camps. Receive your monthly FCSB Board Minutes by E-Mail, sooner and with less cost by E-mailing your E-mail address to wrm@plpt.com. (When attachments which are not in machine readable form are present, the minutes will still be mailed.) Board Meeting Agenda Items: In order to get an item put on the FCSB board agenda, call Bill McKinnon’s work phone number 566-2255 ext.3181(anytime day or night) and talk to Bill or leave a message (or send E-mail to wrm@plpt.com). Agenda items entered 48 hours or more before the meeting will get put on the agenda. Next Executive Board Meeting: The next regularly scheduled executive board meeting will be on Thursday, December 4, 1999 at 7:30 PM at the McKinnon’s home located at 670 Alto Drive.. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:10 PM. Minutes taken by Bill McKinnon
The executive board meeting was called to order by Blair Spaulding at 7:45 p.m. at the McKinnon’s home. Present Dan Ribbens, Blair Spaulding, Bill Spiewak, Jeff Ino, Bill McKinnon, Nelson Trichler; absent: Richard Ross, Rudy Ybarra, Roger Wilde. Formal Player Evaluation to be Done. With input and assistance from many people, Rudy Ybarra has prepared a player evaluation form. Over the next couple of weeks, the coaches are to fill out one of these forms for each of their players. Rudy and the trainers will then add their own evaluations on the same forms. Finally each coach will individually go over the evaluations with each player and their parents. Many players/parents have asked for this type of feedback. The goal is to have this mechanism be a positive help in guiding players on what areas they need to be working on the most at their current stage of development. IMPORTANT: Summer Cup Tournament Dates Changed to August 19-20, 2000. Although UCSB had verbally agreed to the previously announced dates for our annual tournament, they scheduled another event at Storke Field at that time. Our tournament director, Nelson Trichler, is working with UCSB to develop a formal contract mechanism which will avoid this problem in the future. The bottom line is that our tournament will be held August 19-20 next year (pending final approval). The Development Program for 5-10 Year Old Players being run by Greg Morancey and Joey Bilotta has gotten off to a good start. There are 30 players currently registered. Sessions are held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30-6:00 at La Colina Junior High
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