Mansfield Youth Baseball
Board Meeting – Minutes
February 10, 2009
Meeting commenced at 7:30 pm at the Mansfield Holiday Inn – Members in attendance
(in no particular order): Peter Smith, Frank Maloney, Andy Dousa, George Johnson,
Tim Nagle, Mark Boulter, Don Benner, Paul Achin, David Smith, Jeff Kassler, Mike
DiMascio, Jim Riley, John DeMassi, John Rivard, Scott Peterson, Eric Kessler, Chris
O’Malley, Pat Farragher, Ken MacDonald, Rob Crowley, and John Krouskos.
1.
The 1/13/09 meeting minutes submitted by Michael McCarthy were approved and
unanimously adopted by the Board. David Smith will post to the website.
2.
Jim Riley presented an accounting of the league’s finances for the past month.
The balance to date is sitting at $60,298 with potentially a couple more payments from
Sports Manager still outstanding for the Spring 2009 season. Jim reminded the Board
members the monies collected will be the operating amount available to spend this
coming year. There is potential for additional funds via sponsors and the golf tournament
which would boost the operating account value. No additional monies from fundraising
(Prize-A-Day) should be expected since those funds have been pre-paid as part of the
Spring registration.
Jim discussed the financial state of the Mansfield Youth Baseball sponsor’s. Efforts were
put forth to audit the existing sponsor list with the payments received in 2008. Peter
discussed bank statements and checks were used to understand the fundraising
contributions in 2008 to get a better feel of what may be available in 2009. Overall,
MYB collect $12,230 (Signs= $1830, Shirts= $10,200, and Web = $200) in sponsorships
in 2008, significantly lower than had been recognized in prior years. Discussions took
place regarding the fact 96 team t-shirt sponsors were used in 2008, however only 36 paid
the $300 fee.
There is an opportunity to collect more money from sponsors. Mike Dimascio reported
the 2009 sponsor letters have been sent out. To solicit support from our existing
sponsors, each rep present agreed to contact 2 sponsors from the existing list to confirm
continued MYB support and will try to secure one new sponsor this coming year. Mike
will send out the sponsor list for Board members to select a sponsor they wish to contact.
This should be done by Thursday, February 12th. This is critical as uniform orders need
to be placed by March 1st at the latest.
3.
Peter Smith gave the report on the upcoming season field schedule. The
following information was provided:
League
T-Ball
Rookie
Start Date
April 13th
April 13th
End Date
June 14th
June 14th
# of Games
9
18
Playoffs
No
No
A
AA
AAA
Majors
Juniors
Seniors
April 13th
April 13th
April 14th
April 13th
April 14th
April 18th
June 14th
June 7th
June 5th
June 4th
June 5th
June 7th
18
14
14
15
14
14
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Frank Maloney raised the concern of playing games on June 7th as this the date of the
MHS graduation.
The schedule is preliminary at this time, so once the team counts by league are finalized
the season calendar will be made available.
4.
Paul Achin then gave an update on registrations.
Age Player Count
5 years old
65
6 years old
112
7 years old
106
8 years old
113
9 years old
107
10 years old 102
11 years old 88
12 years old 98
13 years old 68
14 years old 52
15 years old 50
16 years old 39
Totals 1,000
Little League numbers for 2009 - Estimates
Age
16's
15's
14's
13's
12's
11's
10's
9's
Seniors Juniors Majors AAA AA
39
50
15
37
68
75
23
45
43
30
72
107
A Rookie T-Ball
Totals
39
50
52
68
98
88
102
107
Unregistered
32
19
23
38
23
20
31
35
8's
7's
5&6
Totals 104
105
# of teams
8
Roster spots/team
Tot. Avail Spots
Openings
0
113
106
120
9
13
104
3
96
10
12
108
0
179
8
12
120
0
113
14
12
96
3
106
10
13
182
7
177
177
10
12
120
14
113
106
177
1000
16
12
120
15
23
24
29
297
85
12
192
42
n/a
1042
To date, we have received 1000 registrations. We are hopeful to have about 25-30 more
kids sign up to near our targeted enrollment of 1,082 players which would equate to 86
teams.
Mark Boulter raised concerns regarding the decision to limit AAA to 8 teams from the 10
team original format as this had not been voted or Board approved to be changed.
Opinions were presented from Frank Maloney, Peter Smith, Jim Riley, Tim Nagle, and
all before a formal vote. The Board voted 16-5 to keep the AAA team count at ten teams
for the upcoming spring season.
Jeff Kassler requested a listing of ‘A’ league volunteers as well as the 2008 Rookie
rosters to assist in formulating the 2009 spring teams.
6.
Peter Smith reported Mike Rockett is working with Julia Mitchell to get the
necessary permits to use the Varsity, JV, JJ and Robinson fields. These permits will be
granted once the pending insurance binder is available.
Shooting for the annual Manager’s Meeting to be held on March 18th .
Opening Day will be on Monday, April 13th. For the leagues that do not play on
weeknights, games will commence on Saturday, April 18th.
7.
Tim Nagle provided an update on the Hock League which will be expanding to
include a “B” team next season for ages 9 – 13 and perhaps higher (depending on
interest). Mansfield will commit to fielding an A and B team in the 9 - 13 age groups
and we will continue to explore alternatives for the 14 year olds to play as the
participation in the Hock League may not be able to accommodate these kids. An effort
is still needed to grant those Non-Hock kids an opportunity to play competitive summer
baseball against other towns. Sharon and North Attleboro have ‘C’ leagues for remaining
summer league kids.
8.
The last item that was brought up was a presentation by Frank Maloney on a
revised Mansfield Youth Baseball Charter to include the evolving league changes due to
the league size and league affiliation change. This has been long term initiative for the
Board to undertake.
Frank review the existing charter with proposed changes. A soft copy was sent to Board
members for review and feedback. All input and meeting suggestions shall be
incorporated in the revised charter for Board review in coming meetings.
With no further topics for discussion, the meeting adjourned at 10:10pm with the next
meeting date scheduled for March 10th at the Mansfield Holiday Inn.