SOFTBALL GENERAL MEETING 3/10/09
ORCHARD
CREEK BREAK OUT ROOM 3:00 PM
All
board members and 92 members were present.
President
John Bush called the meeting to order, asked for approval to waive the
reading of the previous
meeting.
After
asking if any new members were in attendance, (there were none) he let member
Ron Olson take five minutes to tell the membership of the importance of the
upcoming votes in ratifying the C C & R's for our
community.
John
then began going over the rule changes for the upcoming year. The only rule that seemed to draw any real
attention was the
pinch runner only being allowed from first base, some of the
members felt that this would put a real burden on some teams. John said that the rules committee felt that
if you could make it to second or third base on a hit, you did not require a
runner. It was also felt that this would
speed up the game.
All other rules were explained without much
apprehension.
Monty
went over the upcoming draft and Dale Hurlbut was
acknowledged for his
hard work in rating all the players. The draft was to be Monday the 16th and
Wednesday
the 18th. A managers
pre-draft meeting would also be held on the 11th.
Treasurer Bruce Briggs told the meeting that
he would be looking for a small committee of members to audit our books. He also told the membership of the sponsor
status as of that moment. He said we
short a couple of sponsors but that he had leads he had not yet explored.
Dar Gallaway,
brought the membership up to date on the ceremonies for the
upcoming 10th Anniversary celebration. That it was now going to be 4 days instead of
7 days.
Stan
Young let the membership know of the condition of the field and that it would
be getting ready for the league season and would not be available to teams
until opening day, but possibly the weekend before we started.
Finally, Pete Savoia, brought us
up to date on the search to replace the infield with artificial turf. In the end it was an expense we could not
really afford at this time.
Meeting Ajourned at 4:15.