John Overstreet, Executive Secretary
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Minutes Principals' Meetings 1999-2000
Minutes: May 3, 2000
1. The meeting started at 8:15. All schools were present.
2. Mr. Gibson of Milford made a motion (seconded
by Mr. Moll of Tri Valley) to accept the minutes of the April meeting. The motion passed unanimously.
3. Mr. Moll presented the Treasurers’
Report. As of May 3, 2000 the SVC has a
balance of $4805.15. Mr. Doan of
Watseka made a motion (seconded by Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge) to accept the
Treasurers’ Report as presented. The
motion passed unanimously.
4. A lengthy discussion was held over the
concerns of many schools with the crossover games in the SIFA. Schools express their concerns with the
safety of their players playing in games against larger schools and the
injuries that may occur. Mr. Gibson
stated that Milford would make a decision as to whether to play larger schools,
depending on the safety issue. This
would mean that Milford would notify the other school that they would not play
the game and if an opponent could not be found, then Milford was prepared to
take a forfeit loss.
The discussion centered
on three choices. 1. crossover games
and their elimination, 2. keep crossovers, 3. pull out of the SIFA and
reestablish the SVC football conference.
After a straw poll of the 12 football schools on the elimination of
crossovers, which ended in a 6-6 vote, a motion was made by Mr. Doan (seconded
by Mr. Mulvaney of Armstrong) to eliminate the crossovers and realign the
conference back to 8 in the big, 6 middle and 6 small. This vote passed 9-2 (1 absent) on a roll
call vote of the football schools.
The results of this vote
will be conveyed to the ICC before their meeting on May 17th.
The timetable for the
SIFA is: June 1st the CAC
will meet. This is the alignment
committee members only. June 7th
the SVC Principals' meeting to be held at Gibson City Melvin Sibley High School
and a full SIFA meeting during the week of June 12th. (this is
tentative)
5. Mr. Bogner of Gibson City Melvin Sibley made
a motion (seconded by Mr. Moll) to expand the SIFA to include cross-country,
golf and wrestling as presented by the CAC.
The motion passed unanimously.
6. Mr. Roberts of Fisher made a motion
(seconded by Mr. Kelley) to also expand the SIFA to include a conference
schedule in soccer. The motion passed
unanimously.
7. The Athletic Director's report was
presented.
8. Nominees for the Bud Maynard Award were
accepted.
9. All Academic certificates were passed
out. The full team will be posted on
the SVC homepage as soon as all names are sent to John Overstreet.
10. The calendar for 2000-2001 was
presented. Mr. Gibson made a motion
(seconded by Mr. Bogner) to accept the calendar as presented. The motion passed unanimously.
11. The conference approved the following coops:
Armstrong (host),
Rossville-Alvin and Bismarck-Henning in cross-country (Gibson/Bogner--passed)
Fisher (host) and Gibson
City Melvin Sibley in soccer.
(Gibson/Moll--passed)
Crescent Iroquois (host)
and Cissna Park in girl's golf. (Bogner/Doan--passed)
12. SVC passes were distributed for the
2000-2001 school year. Each school
should have received 40 passes.
13. The next meeting of the SVC will be at
Gibson City Melvin Sibley High School at 8:15 on Wednesday June 7th. The golf outing will follow.
April 5, 2000
1. The meeting started at 8:20. The following schools were present: Paxton Buckley Loda, Milford, CPCI, Hoopeston Area, Rossville-Alvin, Blue Ridge, Uni High, Fisher, Gibson City Melvin Sibley and Tri Valley.
2. Mr. Bogner of Gibson City Melvin Sibley made a motion to accept the minutes of the March 2000 meeting, Mr. Gibson of Milford seconded. The motion carried.
3. Mr. Moll of Tri Valley presented the Treasurers’ Report. The SVC has a balance of $5505.15 as of April 5, 2000. Mr. Roberts of Fisher made a motion to accept the Treasurers’ Report, Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge seconded. The motion carried.
4. The following were elected officers for the 2000-2001 school year. Each person was elected unanimously.
Mr. Flaherty of Paxton Buckley Loda--President, Mr. Gibson of Milford--Vice President and Mr. Moll of Tri Valley--Treasurer.
5. A discussion on the status of the SIFA was held. The following was discussed:
There will be a Conference Alignment Committee Meeting on Wednesday April 26th at Ned Kelly's in Urbana at noon. Those attending representing the Sangamon Valley Conference will be Mr. Flaherty, Mr. Doan of Watseka, Mr. Gibson and John Overstreet.
Mr. Gibson inquired into the interest of the Principals in leaving the SIFA and reforming the SVC football conference. Discussion centered on the stability of the SIFA now and in the future. Concerns with small schools playing larger schools, concerns with internal problems with the ICC that the SVC has inherited with the SIFA. Mr. Roberts of Fisher agreed with the need to look into reforming the Sangamon Valley Conference. A motion was made by Mr. Roberts to draft a statement for the SVC Principals to review concerning the withdrawal from the SIFA as of 7-1-2000 as required by the current SIFA by-laws. This statement would include that a major reason for the withdrawal was due to the turmoil in the ICC and SIFA. Mr. Hedeman of Uni High seconded. The motion carried.
Mr. Moll of Tri Valley discussed the current status of Tri Valley coop with LeRoy and its possible intention of applying to the Midstate. He said that the Tri Valley board on April 17th would consider 3 motions: 1. End the coop with LeRoy in football effective in the 2002-03 school year. 2. End the coop with LeRoy in softball effective 2002-03 and 3. Apply to the Midstate, effective 2002-03.
6. A committee was formed to review nominees for the Bud Maynard Award. Mr. Hedeman and Mr. Kelley will review nominees, due at the May 3rd meeting.
7. A discussion was held on gathering information on the SVC sponsoring a Captain's Group. Mr. Bogner will research and report to the Principals.
8. A discussion was held concerning the most recent All Star Basketball Game. There was concern expressed on how the distribution of uniforms was to be handled. In past years, the student-athletes were allowed to keep their uniforms. This year due to the cost, WGCY asked that uniforms be returned. Some were not. The Principals felt that it was the understanding that the athletes had always received their uniforms from the game. Several options were discussed. Mr. Flaherty will call WGCY and ask that they purchase tee shirts for each student-athlete, in return any uniforms still outstanding would be returned. For the 2001 All Star game, if WGCY wanted to continue sponsorship, WGCY would purchase tee shirts for the participants and uniforms would be the property of WGCY. If WGCY was unwilling to do this, the SVC would sponsor the games without outside sponsorship.
9. The Principals again agreed that there would be no All Conference certificates for golf, cross-country and track.
10. Scholastic Bowl Teams were passed out. These are available online at the SVC Homepage.
11. Principals were reminded that the names and activities of All Academic award winners needed to be sent to John Overstreet by Friday April 28. These teams will be announced at the May 3rd meeting. Please review the criteria in Article V Section 3 of the Constitution and Article XI in the By-laws.
12. The Principals gave their authorization to have an Athletic Director's meeting on Tuesday May 2 at the Country Thyme Tea Room in Paxton. More information will be sent out later to the Athletic Directors.
13. Mr. Bogner will contact Railside concerning the Principals' golf outing on Wednesday June 7th following the last regular meeting of the school year.
14. Mr. Roberts asked how other schools handled class rank and weighted classes.
15. The meeting adjourned at 9:45
March 1, 2000
1. The meeting started at 8:15. All schools were present except Momence, Clifton Central and LeRoy.
2. Mr. Maurer of CPCI made a motion to accept the minutes of the February 2, 2000 meeting, Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge seconded. The motion carried.
3. Mr. Moll of Tri Valley presented the Treasurers’ Report. The SVC has a balance of $2890.65 as of March 1, 2000. Mr. Gibson of Milford made a motion to accept the Treasurers’ Report, Mr. Roberts of Fisher seconded. The motion carried.
4. Secretary Overstreet presented the final tournament report. The Boy's Basketball tournament made $3907. The 3 tournaments combined made $3853.
5. A discussion of the SIFA and Route 1 took place. Mr. Moll again reminded the Principals that Tri Valley would be holding a public meeting on March 13 and a School Board meeting on March 20 to discuss their coop with LeRoy in football. He hoped that a decision would be reached by early April.
President Flaherty stressed the desire to keep Tri Valley in the SIFA/Sangamon Valley Conference and felt that most SIFA schools would accommodate, but were waiting for Tri Valley to make a decision. Mr. Moll also stated that the Midstate Conference was still an option to them.
6. Secretary Overstreet presented the Athletic Director's report.
a. The first item was the Athletic Director's position that the Sangamon Valley Conference do what was needed to maintain the SVC in all sports. The Athletic Directors were concerned that the Route 1 discussions may destroy not only the SIFA, but would affect the SVC.
Mr. Matta, Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Gibson all shared their feelings about what occurred at the Route 1 meeting on Tuesday February 29. They informed the Principals that schools had to notify Catlin's Superintendent by this Friday if they were interested in pursuing the Route 1 conference. The three agreed that the meeting again centered around schools not wanting to play St. Joseph-Ogden and Unity. Mr. Mulvaney suggested the possibility of forming a mega conference with some of the current ICC schools as an option to Route 1. Mr. Roberts of Fisher expressed his concerns that the SIFA and it problems should not destroy the SVC and that maybe the SVC should look at returning to its own football conference.
b. Mr. Roberts made a motion to allow an Athletic Director's meeting on April 4, Mr. Kelley seconded. The motion carried.
c. The possible change of conference schedules to a round robin set up was discussed as opposed to playing divisional play. Some suggestions of the Principals were to play varsity girls and boys games on the same nights, switch some boy's games to Thursday and play some girl's games on Friday. The general opinion of the Principals was to maintain stability in the SVC was to keep divisional play. The Athletic Directors will study this at their April 4, 2000 meeting.
d. Mr. Doan of Watseka made a motion to increase the Executive Secretary's salary by $200, based upon the recommendation of the Athletic Directors. Mr. Maurer seconded. The motion carried.
e. Changes were discussed in the tournaments for next year. These are explained in the Athletic Director minutes.
7. Mr. Thomas of Rossville-Alvin requested the Principals approve a coop with Bismarck-Henning in girl's softball for 1999-2000 and 2000-2001. Mr. Gibson made a motion to accept the coop, Mr. Moll seconded. The motion carried.
8. Mr. Cowgill of Gibson City Melvin Sibley will look into the need to have the Basketball All-Star game, scheduled for Saturday March 25 at Gibson City, sanctioned by the IHSA.
9. The meeting adjourned at 9:10.
1. The meeting started at 8:20. All schools were present except Momence and Rossville-Alvin.
2. Mr. Bogner of Gibson City Melvin Sibley made a motion to accept the minutes from the December 1, 1999 meeting as presented. Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge seconded. The motion carried
3. Mr. Doan of Watseka made a motion to accept the Treasurers’ Report showing a balance of $3473.15 as of February 2, 2000. Mr. Gibson of Milford seconded. The motion carried.
4. A discussion was held on the SIFA proposals. A roll call vote was taken on each proposal.
Proposal #1: Voting yes-Armstrong, Hoopeston Area, Paxton Buckley Loda, Fisher, Clifton Central, Watseka, Gibson City Melvin Sibley and Iroquois West (8 yes)
Voting no: Milford, Blue Ridge (2 no votes)
Abstaining: LeRoy (1)
Proposal #2: Voting yes-Armstrong, Hoopeston Area, Paxton Buckley Loda, Fisher, Blue Ridge, Clifton Central, Watseka, Gibson City Melvin Sibley, Iroquois West (9)
Voting no-Milford (1)
Abstaining-LeRoy (1)
Proposal #3: Voting yes-Armstrong, Hoopeston Area, Paxton Buckley Loda, Clifton Central, Watseka, Gibson City Melvin Sibley, Iroquois West (7)
Voting no-Milford, Fisher, Blue Ridge (3)
Abstaining-LeRoy (1)
Proposal #4 Voting yes-all 11 schools
Proposal #5 Voting yes-Hoopeston Area, Milford, Fisher, Gibson City Melvin Sibley (4)
Voting no-Paxton Buckley Loda, Blue Ridge, Clifton Central, Watseka, Iroquois West (5)
Abstaining-Armstrong, LeRoy (2)
5. Dr. Moll of Tri Valley discussed the current status of the LeRoy/Tri Valley football coop. The Tri Valley board will be holding a public forum on March 13 to discuss Tri Valley beginning its own football program. If so, Tri Valley will play with LeRoy in school years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. Tri Valley would begin its own JV team in the 2001-2002 season and have its own varsity team in 2002-2003. Dr. Moll also informed Principals that the Midstate has contacted them.
The Principals discussed the ramifications of the coop change on SIFA. Tri Valley would begin Varsity football in what would be the second year of a realignment cycle. This would mean the need for a 1-year cycle with LeRoy/Tri Valley coop and then a new 2-year cycle with Tri Valley on its own.
6. There was a discussion on the possible "route 1" conference that would involve all sports. As of now, a letter was sent to several schools in the ICC and SVC to consider a possible "route 1" conference.
7. A Girls Basketball Tournament report was passed out. The tournament lost $443. The Athletic Directors were instructed to study the format of all 3 tournaments and present recommendations back to the Principals.
8. Mr. Kelley informed Principals that the Scholastic Bowl questions have been ordered and will cost the conference around $700.
9. Mr. Gibson of Milford made a motion, seconded by Mr. Roberts of Fisher, to pay the accompanist for the Honor Chorus $150. The motion passed.
10. Mr. Bogner updated that the WGCY SVC Basketball All-Star games will be held on Saturday March 25. More information will be given later.
11. President Flaherty reminded Principals that nominees for the Bud Maynard Award are due at the April meeting.
12. An Athletic Director report was given. The Principals took no action on the following: Increase the number of trophies for tournaments and adding a by-law that would require schools to allow visiting teams to shoot before and halftime of the JV games.
13. Flaherty informed Principals that St. Thomas More of Champaign had again asked for membership into the SVC. No new action was taken.
14. A letter from the Principal at El Paso High School was presented. The letter contained a change in IHSA by-laws concerning private schools. Mr. Hawkins made a motion after discussion to leave any action concerning the letter to be left up to each individual school. Mr. Doan seconded. The motion passed.
15. Mr. Gibson raised the question concerning the by-laws dealing with a team having to play all games on the SVC schedule in order to be conference champions. Milford and CPCI were snowed out in late January and the game will be played Saturday February 5.
16. Mr. Bogner informed the Principals that GCMS would not be interested in holding both the girl's and boy's tournament after next year (2000-2001). He felt it was a hardship on practice time and his programs. The Athletic Directors will consider this at their meeting next week.
17. The meeting adjourned at 10:05.
The next meeting of the Principals will be Wednesday March 1st in Paxton.
Minutes December 1, 1999 Meeting:
1. The meeting started at 8:20. The following schools were present: Fisher, Blue Ridge, PBL, Hoopeston Area, Milford, CPCI, Rossville-Alvin, Tri Valley, Gibson City Melvin Sibley and Uni High.
2. Mr. Moll of Tri Valley made a motion to accept the minutes of the November 1999 meeting as presented. Mr. Bogner of Gibson City Melvin Sibley seconded. The motion carried.
3. Mr. Moll presented the Treasurer's Report. The Sangamon Valley Conference has a balance of $3473.15 as of December 1, 1999. Mr. Kelly of Blue Ridge made a motion to accept the Treasurer's Report, including paying $250.00 to John Overstreet for 1/2 of his Secretary salary for 1999-2000. Mr. Bogner seconded. The motion carried.
4. Mr. Kelly of Blue Ridge informed the Principals that the schedules for Scholastic Bowl have been sent to each school and that questions have been ordered, but not received yet.
5. President Flaherty informed the Principals that there would be a SIFA meeting next Wednesday December 8 at noon at Ned Kelly's in Urbana.
A discussion was held concerning the crossover games. Mr. Gibson of Milford expressed strong concerns about the crossover games between big and small division schools. His feelings were supported by Blue Ridge and Fisher.
The discussion also included the future of the SIFA if a "route 1" conference was formed.
These concerns would be shared at next week's meeting.
6. There will be no January 5, 2000 meeting unless needed. If there is a meeting it will be held a site other than the Country Thyme Tea Room (they will be closed that day). The need and site will be announced later.
7. There will be an Athletic Directors' meeting Wednesday December 8 at 8:15 a.m. in Paxton.
8. The meeting adjourned at 8:40.
November 3, 1999 Minutes:
1. The meeting started at 8:17. The following schools were present: Iroquois West, Watseka, Gibson City Melvin Sibley, Blue Ridge, Fisher, Tri Valley, Milford, CPCI, PBL, Armstrong, LeRoy and Uni High.
2. The minutes of the October meeting were approved.
3. Mr. Moll of Tri Valley presented the Treasurer's Report. The Sangamon Valley Conference has a balance as of November 3, 1999 of $3167.65. Mr. Bogner of GCMS made a motion to accept the Treasurer's Report, Mr. Maurer of CPCI seconded. The motion carried.
4. Mr. Maurer of CPCI informed the Principals that CPCI would not participate in the Sangamon Valley Conference Scholastic Bowl this year. They have not applied for their coop in Scholastic Bowl with the IHSA.
5. Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge informed the Principals that new questions were needed for the Scholastic Bowl. The cost is around $400. It has been at least 4 years since new questions were ordered. Mr. Bogner of GCMS made a motion to for the SVC to purchase the questions. Mr. Roberts of Fisher seconded. The motion carried.
6. Mr. Flaherty of PBL agreed to hold the Honor Chorus at PBL High School on Monday March 13, 2000. The music director from Hoopeston Area will be in charge.
7. A financial report from the SVC Volleyball tournament was presented. GCMS made $308, Fisher made $138 and PBL lost $57, for a net profit of $389. The Athletic Directors will discuss any possible changes or problems at their December 8, 1999 meeting and report back to the Principals.
8. Mr. Roberts expressed a concern with a set of officials that were on the second year of a 2-year contract with Fisher and were not informed by the SIFA that they did not have a game that night. The officials showed up at Fisher for a home game, Fisher was on the road. Mr. Roberts felt that the SIFA should honor the contract ($250) and pay the officials. This will be discussed when the Principal committee of the SIFA meets in December.
9. There more than likely be a meeting of the CAC of the SIFA after Thanksgiving. If you have any concerns about the SIFA please contact either Jim Flaherty or John Overstreet.
10. Mr. Bogner informed the Principals that radio station WGCY in Gibson City would host the SVC All Star Basketball game on Saturday March 25, 2000. Mr. Doan made a motion to allow WGCY to host the tournament under the same conditions as in past years. Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge seconded. The motion carried.
11. There was a discussion over the alignment of the SIFA and the concerns that smaller schools had with playing schools in the large division. This will be discussed at the SIFA meeting in December.
12. The meeting adjourned at 9:00.
The next meeting is December 1, 1999.
1. The meeting started at 8:15. All schools were present except Tri Valley, Watseka, Momence and Clifton Central.
2. Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge made a motion to accept the minutes of the September meeting. Mr. Gibson of Milford seconded. The motion carried.
3. The Treasurers' Report was presented. The SVC has a balance as of September 30, 1999 of 4359.41. (As of September 30, the following schools still owed dues: Armstrong, Rossville-Alvin and Momence) Please send your dues to Dennis Moll at Tri Valley, if you haven't already.) Mr. Bogner of GCMS made a motion to accept the Treasurers' Report and pay a bill to Trophy Time for the Bud Maynard Award, Mr. Gibson seconded the motion. The motion carried.
4. Scholastic Bowl questions were discussed and tabled. Mr. Kelley will investigate the need for new questions and report back next month.
5. A discussion was held on whether Crescent Iroquois could have their own Scholastic Bowl team, separate from Cissna Park who also would have one. The discussion centered on whether not the SVC admitted CPCI as one school or as Crescent Iroquois and Cissna Park. Secretary Overstreet was instructed to check the minutes. (The minutes of January 8, 1997 show that "Cissna Park-Crescent Iroquois be accepted a full member of the SCV (sic) for 1999-2000."
6. The SVC Volleyball Tournament was discussed. 30 orange passes were given to school in attendance. (I will mail to Watseka and Tri Valley their passes.) These passes are for players, coaches, managers, stats, administrators... You must have an orange pass to get into the tournament. If you attended the meeting and did not get your passes call me.
7. The Principals decided not to change policy concerning all-star games. Outside sponsors could hold all-star games using SVC seniors, but the conference would not sponsor the games.
8. The Principals approved an Athletic Director meeting for Wednesday December 8, 1999 at Country Thyme Tea Room in Paxton.
9. Honor Chorus was discussed. Either Hoopeston Area or PBL will host. This should be finalized at the November meeting.
10. The application of Judah Christian High School was discussed. The opinion of the Principals was not to accept Judah for membership. President Flaherty will contact Judah Christian.
11. The meeting adjourned at 8:55.
1. The meeting started at 8:20, all schools were present except LeRoy and Momence.
2. Mr. Moll of Tri Valley was named Treasurer for the Sangamon Valley Conference. Mr. Gibson of Milford made the motion and Mr. Roberts of Fisher seconded. The motion carried.
3. Mr. Moll presented the Treasurers' Report. The SVC has a balance of $1959.41 as of September 1, 1999. Mr. Kelley of Blue Ridge made a motion to accept the Treasurers' Report, Mr. Bogner seconded. The motion carried.
4. President Flaherty discussed the SIFA Golf Outing held on August 6 at Railside in Gibson City. Railside has sent statements to Flaherty for schools that did not pay for meals, tips or golf. Railside closed the course expecting 80 golfers, 50 showed up. Railside would like to be paid for the no shows. Railside also added a gratuity to each school's bill. It was the recommendation of the Principals that each school pay for meals and tip, but each school would make their own decision on golf. If you did not receive a copy of your school's statement, contact me.
5. Secretary Overstreet reminded Principals that SVC Directory pages are due. All schools have turned in their pages, except Momence and Rossville-Alvin. Please send them to John Overstreet at Paxton Buckley Loda by Tuesday September 7th. These will be passed out at the Social on the 8th.
6. President Flaherty reminded Principals that a count was needed for the SVC Social to be held on Wednesday September 8th at Lakeview Country Club in Loda. (Details on the meal were on the agenda.) Please contact John Overstreet at PBL with your numbers by Friday September 3. The number you reserve will be the number you are responsible for paying for. Gratuity is included in the $18.25 cost. If you need directions call John Overstreet at PBL.
7. A coop between Rossville-Alvin and Bismarck-Henning for girl's basketball for the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 school years was approved. Mr. Gibson made the motion and Mr. Bogner seconded. The motion carried.
8. Schools are reminded to pay their SVC dues ($200) by October 1st. Please send SVC dues to Mr. Moll at Tri Valley.
9. Schools are reminded to pay their SIFA dues ($100) by October 1st. Please send SIFA dues to John Overstreet at PBL.
10. Mr. Gibson made a motion to hold the SVC Track meet on Tuesday May 9th at Central of Clifton's track starting at noon. The motion included waiving Central's SVC dues for 1999-2000 for use of their track. Mr. Roberts seconded. The motion carried.
11. A site is still needed for the Honor Chorus on Monday March 13th, 2000.
12. The meeting adjourned at 8:50.
Reminders: Athletic Director's meeting Wednesday September 22 at the Country Thyme Tea Room at 8:15.
The next Principals' meeting will be on Wednesday October 6th.