Principals’ Minutes
1. The meeting
started at
2. Mr. Maurer of CPCI
made a motion, seconded by Mr. Koehl of
3. Mr. Uphoff of
Fisher presented the Treasurer’s
Report. The SVC has a balance of
$6294.68 as of today. Mr. Colba of
4. A brief discussion was held on the basketball tournament reports. (Girls and boys reports)
5. President Jim Flaherty of PBL informed the Principals that discussion of a new conference were on “hold” and that there had been very good contact from those schools involved.
Mr. Tipsord of LeRoy stated there was going to be 2 more meetings this month to discuss pros and cons.
Mr. Uphoff stated that Fisher felt that they did not fit into the new conference, but understood why some discussion were taking place due especially to geographic reasons.
5. Mr. Uphoff briefly
informed the Principals that the Honor Chorus was scheduled for Monday March 15th
at
6. Mr. Colba discussed the SVC Principals’ Scholarships. Applications are online. It was agreed that at the April 7th meeting the committees would discuss and select the winners. Mr. Colba will have the committee assignments that day.
7. It was agreed to have a breakfast meeting at the April 7th meeting. The SVC will pay for the breakfast.
8. A discussion was held on the possible by-law change to allow tournament games count as conference games if pre arranged. The Principals will discuss this with their coaches and discuss this again at the April meeting.
9. A discussion was held concerning the possibility of allowing SVC tournament games to count as conference games in case of “snow outs”, if possible. No final action was taken.
10. A reminder about nominees for the Bud Maynard Award was given. Nominees are due at the April meeting and selection will take place at the May meeting.
11. It was agreed to
have the SVC Fall Social at the Railside Golf Course on
12. A discussion was held concerning admission to the SVC track meet and awards for the meet. At the October 1, 2003 meeting the Principals voted to change the awards to medals for 1-3 and ribbons for 4-6 and to charge admission of $3 and $2 to the meet. (#5 and #6 in the minutes)
After reviewing a possible cost of medals and ribbons (track awards cost report) the following action was taken:
Mr. Roberts of Watseka made a motion to charge $1 admission to the meet. All proceeds from admission would go towards paying for any expense incurred by Gibson City Melvin Sibley in running the meet. The motion also included requiring each school that enters the meet to pay $30. The entry fee money would offset the increase in awards. The motion was seconded by Mr. Hawkins. The motion carried unanimously.
13. Mr. Colba made a motion to change the SVC By-law Article VII, Section 7 as follows: (SVC Constitution)
Section 5. The championship will be awarded to the school scoring the most points. Medals shall be given to first place in all events and ribbons shall be given to places 2-6.
Mr. Uphoff seconded. The motion carried unanimously.
14. The meeting adjourned at