Minutes Principals’ Meeting Wednesday February 17, 2010 8:15 am

 

1.  The meeting started at 8:20—the following schools were not present:  Cissna Park, St. Joseph-Ogden and Momence.

 

2.  Mr. Rawdin of PBL made a motion, seconded by Mr. Bean of Tri Point to approve the Minutes of September 9, 2009 meeting as presented.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

 3.  Mr. Van Meter of Iroquois West made a motion, seconded by Mr. Felesena of Clifton Central to approve the Treasurer’s Report as presented including the monies from Watseka for the boy’s tourney which have not been deposited yet.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

4.  The remaining expenses 2009-2010 were discussed see the 2008-09 Treasurer’s Report.  Some of last year’s expenses will not reoccur this year—Certificates are one example.

 

5.  The Principals reviewed the 2010 Girl’s Basketball report, the tournament made $31.68.

 

6.  The Principals reviewed the 2010 Boy’s Basketball report, the tournament made $3467.10.

 

7.  Upon the request of a basketball coach the Principals discussed playing at Parkland College.  The coach did not like playing at Parkland and would rather play at a high school.  The Principals all agreed that Parkland was a great neutral site and a bargain ($150 per tournament) and agree to continue playing at Parkland in the future.

 

8.  The Principals discussed the policy of how many trophies are given at the tournaments.  This year only the first place plaque was given at all three tournaments in order to save money. The savings is $75 per tournament. The Principals all agreed to continue to just give the first place trophy.  It was discussed that very few schools place other trophies in their trophy cases.

 


 

9.  The Principals discussed the cost saving methods from the Athletic Director report concerning admission prices in the tournaments.  The Athletic Director recommended going to $5 (adults) and $3 (students) for all 2 or 3 game nights.  The admission would stay $4 and $3 for single game nights.  This will be discussed at the next meeting.

 

10. The Athletic Director suggested asking the currently hired officials for future girl’s tournaments if they would be willing to do two games for $100 each ($300 per night, instead of $360) to save money.  The girl’s coaches and the officials will be surveyed to see what their feelings are.  Currently all officials are hired for next year at $60 per game and this would require the officials to allow modification or cancel some contracts.

 

11.  The Principals reaffirmed their email vote to only purchase 8 sets of questions for the Scholastic Bowl Tournament and not for regular season matches.

 

12.  The Principals set the April 14th meeting at the Scholarship selection date.  The forms will be updated and John Overstreet will notify the Principals when this is done.  It was agreed to pay the second installment of the scholarships this year later in the spring.  The winners that are selected at the April meeting will be paid half after the first semester of the 2010-11 school year and the second half in the spring of 2011.  The final amount will be set later.

 

13.  The Principals reviewed the remaining 2009-10 calendar.

 

 

14.  The Principals discussed the Athletic Directors’ Report from the February 3, 2010 meeting, topics included:

 

The All Star Basketball game will be held on Saturday March 27th at Gibson City High School and hosted by radio station WGCY.  The teams will be selected at the All Conference Dinner on March 4th.

 

The use of end zone cameras for football was discussed, there are no current SVC by-laws or IHSA rules that prevent its use.

 

A brief discussion of possible expansion of the SVC was held. 

 

The possible use of online film exchange in football was discussed.  The football coaches are reviewing various sites and will report to their local Athletic Director.

 

15.  Mr. Millage made a motion, seconded by Mr. Felesena to accept the revision in Article IV of the Constitution concerning dues language.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

16.  Mr. Van Meter made a motion, seconded by Mr. Rawdin to accept the language adding Soccer to Section 3 of Article V of the Constitution.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

17.  Mr. Spilker of Watseka made a motion, seconded by Mr. Van Meter to accept the new language for a tie breaker process in Soccer. The motion carried unanimously.

 

(see SVC Constitution) —click here

 

18.  After some discussion on the sites of the SVC tournaments, Mr. Millage made a motion, seconded by Mr. Rawdin, to have the Athletic Directors discuss and bring a recommendation back concerning moving the tournament back to central sites to save money and travel.  John Overstreet explained the reasons as to why it was central sites and why it was changed a few years ago.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

 

19.  There was discussion on the Honor Chorus and the site.  Currently it was scheduled to be at Momence High School.  After the meeting, Momence informed John Overstreet that they could not host.  After the options of moving or dropping the event were shared, Clifton Central agreed to host the event on Monday March 15th.  More information will be sent later.

 

 

20.  Mr. Spilker announced that Rich Dickte of Watseka had resigned as Athletic Directors effective at the end of the year and that his Board had hired Barry Bauer to replace him.

 


 

21.  A discussion was held on ways to save money for games, some ideas were playing freshman the same night as varsity and if that was not possible then the game would not be played. Other ideas concerned more freshman games in a round robin concept in basketball like some schools do and maybe even playing some varsity boy’s and girl’s games on the same nights.  These will be discussed by the Athletic Directors at their March 3, 2010 meeting.

 

 

22. Mr. Millage made a motion to adjourn, seconded by Mr. Rawdin to adjourn.  The motion carried unanimously.  The meeting adjourned at 9:30 am.