(3) Treasurer's report:

Previous Balance: $2297.08

Income: $5757.58

Expenses: $4341.68

New Balance: $3712.98

Notes:

1. We have been able to keep total account balance greater than $3000, and hence have avoided monthly fees.

- Some discussion on why we, as a GEWA Club, have incurred fees in the past. Brad will check with the credit union.

2. Big expenses have been ref fees, $3500 and insurance, $420 (annual fee, paid already)

3. The ref fees were less than usual ($500) because we did not play 5 games in the Fall due to rainouts. This will be paid in the Spring when the extra games are played.

4. Overall, our financials are healthy with some cushion for unexpected expenses.

(3) Team dues were voted to be $715 per team - the same as last year. However, the following teams owe work party fines from last Fall:

Orange - $50

Gold - $50

Grey - $25

Purple - $25

The work party fines are paid first before the dues are paid. All work party fines and 1/2 dues are paid by the end of the 3rd week - April 21.

All dues paid by end of 5th week - May 5.

Budget Estimate:

Refs (47 games) 4700

Insurance 420

Field:

-Dirt 400

-Nets 300

-Line Paint 200

-Fertilizer 300

-Gas 75

Work Party 30

Annual Party 150

Admin. 30

(4) GEWA has approved a $9000 grant and a $9000 loan that we can accept for improving the field. We proposed to put in a well and buy new goal posts. Carl has to get more details on this. We had a discussion on what we really want to do again with the field. The consensus was that we need to focus on improving the drainage in some inexpensive way. Steve Brown volunteered to lead a small committee to really work out a detailed plan for the options. He will talk with Barry Coyle who has already done a lot of work. We need 1 or 2 more people to really do some leg work. The hope is that we may actually do something after years of talk.

(5) New Division Alignment

I went back to the minutes of the annual meeting: Here is what I found:

"We had a discussion about the current division alignment. The top 4 teams from last season were put in 1 division and the bottom 4 in the other by the Scheduler. This is not how we normally do it from our By-laws where we switch the 1 and 3 and 2 and 4 teams in each division. There were various pro and con arguments. The majority of the members voted their opinion that the top 4/bottom 4 division alignment was a better way since teams will play more games against teams of similar competitive skill.

Every team will still play every other team at least once. We voted to keep the current Fall schedule since the season is close at hand, and we did not want the Scheduler to do extra work. The Executive Committee will consider changes to our By-laws and present them to the members to adopt a new schedule format. We will consider this season and perhaps next as a trial experiment."