Sep 10 2009 General Minutes[2]

CBOA Fall Meeting

September 10, 2009 – 6:45 pm

St. Mary’s H.S.

Minutes 1. Call to Order 2. Secretary – introduction to Ken Runquist, CBOA webmaster. Review of the newly launched CBOA website by Ken. If anyone has any suggestions for content to the website please direct it through to Donald via e-mail at [email protected] as he is CBOA’s point of contact with the webmaster. 3. Member at Large – Currently working on firming up the locations for all future meetings. Please stay tuned to the website for information on venues for upcoming events. 4. Evaluation – If you are looking for an evaluation this fall, please contact Ian via e-mail [email protected]. Your 1st evaluation will be free. The mentorship program has been reworked for this year, and all officials will have a mentor. Your mentor should be contacting you shortly. 5. Vice President – Mt. Royal Recruitment Fair is on October 7th at Mt. Royal during the day. If you have some time please contact Rod at [email protected] and let him know. All officials are encouraged to be actively recruiting additional officials whenever the opportunity arises. An additional volunteer was required for the Discipline Committee, Dave Carlgren has volunteered. CBOA will be looking in to a clothing item for the membership. Rod will bring back some options to the November meeting, please advise if you have any suggestions directly to Rod. 6. Treasurer – welcome to Admir Chihaluca and Chris Pelletier who will be assisting Evan Picton with Treasurer duties. $475,000 worth of games were billed from September 2008 – September 2009. Approximately $2300 increase in balance over the year. Advances will be printed the third Sunday of each month. If you have extenuating circumstances please advise, otherwise advances will only be granted once per month. 7. Commissioner – Dick provided an overview of the new Arbiter. All officials are requested to go in and blocks their unavailable dates ASAP. 8. President – Congrats to Michael Weiland for attaining his FIBA card this summer, also to Sergio Giordano for going to referee the European Wheelchair

Next Meeting

Saturday November 21st @ 9 am

Father Lacombe

CBOA Fall Meeting

September 10, 2009 – 6:45 pm

St. Mary’s H.S.

Basketball Championships in Turkey. Welcome to all new and returning officials to the CBOA. The Executive will be bringing forward three motions for changes to the Bylaws for the November meeting. First motion will be looking to increase the number of required games from 40 to 60 to be a member in good standing. Second motion aims to limit the number of terms an individual can stay in one Executive position to three consecutive terms. Final motion will address how the Commissioner’s contract will be awarded. Suggested that it is awarded on a yearly basis, with a maximum of six consecutive years. Exact wording and supporting information will be distributed ahead of the November meeting. 9. Education – there is a new method for reporting unsportsmanlike fouls, technical fouls and ejections. The revised score sheet with explanation will be posted to the CBOA website shortly. A new function on the Education portion of the website will be the ability to submit a question and have a response posted on the website. The person asking the question will remain anonymous. Please send your questions to [email protected] Meeting Adjourned

Next Meeting

Saturday November 21st @ 9 am

Father Lacombe