Sangamon Valley Conference

Principals’ Minutes

November 5, 2003

 

1.  The meeting started at 8:20 am, all the schools were present except:  Armstrong, Clifton Central and Momence.

 

2.  Mr. Totheron of Milford made a motion, seconded by Mr. Hornbeck of Hoopeston Area, to accept the minutes of the October 1, 2003 meeting.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

3.  Mr. Uphoff of Fisher presented the Treasurer’s Report.  The SVC has a balance of $4276.84 as of today.  Mr. Koehl of Blue Ridge made a motion to accept the report as presented, seconded by Mr. Colba of Tri Valley.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

4.  The volleyball financial report was reviewed.  The tournament made $382.60. 

 

5.  A discussion was held on the Scholastic Bowl and the purchase of questions.  The discussion centered on the need for new questions each year for varsity and jv contest.  It is unclear whether the questions used each year could be saved and used for the jv contest the following year.  Mr. Koehl will discuss this Mr. Hendricks of Blue Ridge to find out what is reasonable.  Mr. Roberts of Watseka made a motion to instruct the secretary to purchase questions for varsity and/or jv based on Mr. Koehl’s findings.  Mr. Koehl seconded the motion.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

6.  Secretary Overstreet informed the Principals that according IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman the IHSA was going to stay with rally scoring best 2 games of 3 and not increase that to 3 or 5.

 

7.  A discussion was held on the upcoming Legislative Commission Proposals and the required attendance at the Principals Rules Meeting this year.  Meetings start a 9am with the Proposals and the Rule’s Meeting will follow.

 

Various proposals were discussed.

 

8.  Mr. Tipsord of LeRoy discussed the quadrant system in football and its many weaknesses in determining a true state champion.  Any problems would have to be sent to the Football Advisory Committee who meets on December 4, 2003.

 

9.  Mr. Uphoff of Fisher made a motion to accept the change in Article XII Section 2, but to delete as presented Section 3.  Mr. Colba of Tri Valley seconded.  The motion carried unanimously. (link to by-laws changes)

 

10.  A discussion was held on the possible by-law change in VIII Baseball/Softball concerning the completion of a suspended game.  Currently the IHSA, NFHS and SVC bylaws all state different endings for games.  The proposed by law would require a non official game to be started over if suspended.

 

There were several arguments for and against this.  Including the cost factor of traveling to a site for maybe one inning or less.  The impact that if one team was leading on a certain date and the game was suspended and had to be restarted, the change in pitchers could have an impact on the outcome.

 

It was agreed to survey the baseball/softball coaches to get more input before acting on this bylaw.  A survey will be sent out to the coaches next week.

 

11.  Mr. Overstreet of PBL asked for input about booster club, business sponsored activities at the SVC schools.

 

12.  The meeting adjourned at 9:20.