Methuen Lax January 2024 Board Meeting Summary
Methuen Lax held its January 2024 Board Meeting discussing various agenda items including roll call, classic registration updates, coaches assignments, team progress, winter training plans, and more. The board members reviewed the current status of team registrations, coach assignments, and upcoming events. Actions were taken to address low team registrations and offer free registration for specific age groups. Winter training plans were finalized, including sessions for agility training and lacrosse skills. The meeting concluded with preparations for upcoming events like Select tryouts and free clinics for young kids.
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Methuen Lax January 2024 Board Meeting
Roll Call Position Name Status President Mike Ruffini Present VP Carrie Czismadia Present Secretary Gina Ruffini Absent-Excused Treasurer Sarah Laflamme Present At-large Matt Doneghey Present At-large Bill Trefethen Present At-large Ceci Oviedo Present At-Large Andrea Perez Present
Agenda Registration Snapshot Team/Coaches Updates Winter Program Update Select Updates Finance Updates Bylaw Updates Lacrosse Convention Roundtable
Classic Registration 2024 100 Registered for spring season Girls 7/8 is full and waitlisted Boys 7/8 is 90% full All Other teams are good, looking to have just 1 team at each level (We had 2 at some level s last year) 1-2 Teams are low, need to try to get more kids to register. Offered free registration through January 15th.
Coaches Update Boys 1/2 TBD Boys 3/4 TBD (No coaches) Boys 5/6 Brandon LaFlamme,Fernando Mancini Boys 7/8 Aaron Poulin, Mike Ruffini, Matt Donaghey, Bill Trefethen, Zack Gentile Girls 1/2 TBD Girls 3/4 John Enos, Robert Duffy, Cheryl Donaghey Girls 5/6 Sean Fitzpatrick, Ian Cowpar Girls 7/8 Cait Connolly, Christine Najjar
Team Updates We are tracking to have 1 team at each age group. Except for 1st/2ndgrade level. Once you submit a team, you can t remove it, and after the deadline, you can t add a team (scheduling function takes over and it s a mess) Teams must be created in Demosphere before we can register them so that they will be automatically linked to Mass Youth Lax. Deadline is February 16th(need a couple of days to setup demosphere) Need some help with the 1st/2ndgrade teams Trying to get gym time for offering free clinics. Open to other ideas. Made it free to register, that had little impact. We can extend the free registration Also boosted post on FB regarding free registration for this age level.
Winter Training We voted last month to move forward with training at Haus of Athletes, pending 25 kids interested in participating. Cost to MYL: $0. Cost per kid $125 Includes 6 sessions. 30 minutes of agility training and 30 minutes of lacrosse stick skills training. We have 26+ interested and we will send them a link to register with Haus. Additional Gym time Requested gym time for the field house Drop-in practice (potentially) Free learn to play lacrosse for young kids 1st 2ndgrade Select tryouts
Boys Select No interest at 5/6 level 2 interested (they can try out for 7/8 team) 6 maybes (but not ready skill-wise for 7/8 select) Interest at 7/8 level 8 interested, 5 maybe interested (including our goalie) Partnerships Amesbury sending players to Super Team (Georgetown/Triton, Haverhill) Lowell Boys doesn t have enough for a 7/8 Classic team this year. Tewksbury (partnered with Dracut last year) going on their own Dracut. Waiting to hear back from them MYL team cost: $1,295
Girls Select Little interest at 5/6 level 2 interested, 4 maybes (they can tryout for 7/8 team) Interest at 7/8 level 8 interested, 5 maybe interested. Partnerships Lowell reached out and would like to partner again this year. Waiting to see what we are doing on the boy s side before we figure out when we can/need to have a tryout. MYL Cost: $695 per team.
Beginning Account Balance $REDACTED Expenses: $100 $100 Demosphere Fee Finance Income: $1,583 $1,433. Spring 2024 Registration (Demosphere) $150 Jersey Mike s Ending Balance: $REDACTED Update-Sarah
Status of our Board Current Board members At Large Members Tim Lasonde Bill Trefethen Executive Board Sean Fitzpatrick Cesi Olivero President Michael Ruffini Andrea Perez Wendy Forsyth Vice President Carrie Csizmadia Christine Najjar Ian Cowpar Treasurer Sarah Laflamme Peter Koziell Matt Donaghey Secretary Gina Ruffini Joel Faretra Cheryl Donaghey Per current bylaws, we can have up to 15 at-large member and they must attend 2/3rdof our meetings. Our Bylaws only state how to remove someone by voting them off (usually for disciplinary issues) by voting them off (2/3rs majority) There is nothing in the bylaws on how to remove people that never show up to meetings Propose that we form a subcommittee to review the bylaws and add language in there that if you miss 5 or more meetings in a 6-month period, you can be removed from the board without a vote. Would also like to review other articles.
Lacrosse Convention
Round table and General Discussion
