Minutes Principals’ Meeting Wednesday November 7th

 

1.  The meeting started at 8:20 all schools were present except Cissna Park, Mr. Hawkins of Iroquois West was the acting President.

 

2.  Mr. Buchanan of Watseka made a motion, seconded by Mr. Schuricht of Clifton Central, to approve the minutes of September 5, 2007 meeting.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

3.  Ms. Pappas of Momence made a motion, seconded by Mr. Bean of Tri Point to approve the Treasurer’s Report as presented.  The motion carried unanimously.  The report also included the profits of the SVC Volleyball tournament.

 

4.  Several updates were made in the 2007-08 Calendar. (Calendar update) Mr. Buchanan made a motion, seconded by Mr. Miller of Crescent to alter meeting dates of the Athletic Directors and the Principals, to change the Principals meetings to the second Wednesday of each month and to move the Scholarship Selection meeting the April Principals’ meeting.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

A site for Honor Chorus is still needed and will be discussed at the December meeting.

 

5.  Mr. Brooks of St. Joseph-Ogden made a motion, seconded by Ms. Pappas, to approve COOP renewal for Watseka and Milford in Track.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

6.  Mr. Schuricht made a motion, seconded by Mr. Miller to approve COOP agreement between Momence and Grant Park in Girls Soccer.

 

7.  A discussion on Scholastic Bowl Questions for varsity and jv for regular season and a discussion about a possible SVC tournament.  (see proposal/costs)

 

Mr. Rawdin of Paxton-Buckley-Loda made a motion, seconded by Mr. Bean to purchase Varsity questions for the 2007-08 season.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

Mr. Buchanan made a motion, seconded by Mr. Rawdin, to purchase JV questions for the 2007-08 season.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

Mr. Bean made a motion to establish a SVC Scholastic Bowl Tournament to be held on a Saturday or another non-student attendance day and to purchase questions and awards for the tournament, Mr. Schuricht seconded.  The motion carried unanimously.

 

8.  The possible COOP between Iroquois West and Tri Point in football was discussed.  Mr. Bean of Tri Point stated that his Board would consider the COOP at its November 13th meeting and that Tri Point options were/are to have its own program, not to offer football or COOP with Iroquois West.  The later will be the recommendation made to the Tri Point BOE. 

 

Mr. Hawkins of Iroquois West stated that the Iroquois West BOE will also consider the COOP at it meeting in mid November.  He felt the COOP would help Iroquois West especially at the lower levels to maintain the entire program.

 

The COOP would be for one year since it is a modification to the existing COOP that Iroquois West has with Crescent Iroquois in football.  The modified COOP would have about 520 students for next year.

 

During the discussion the SVC options on whether to accept or deny the COOP were discussed.  The SVC could say no to the COOP and Tri Point would either have to drop their program or play games next year.  The drawbacks would be that Tri Point student-athletes could lose out on the chance to play football in a COOP, the true intent of IHSA policy and Tri Point could at the last minute drop their varsity program next summer leaving the other SVC schools without a game.  If the Principals approved the COOP and the two Boards also approve it, this would allow for the SVC schools to get games now for the upcoming years.

 

Some schools have contracted games for the next two years, some are still looking.  A possible “alliance” with the Heart of Illinois Conference to fill open weeks will be pursued in the upcoming week.  Any “alliance” would not take place until the 2010 and 2011 school years.

 

Upon a roll call vote, the Principals approved the COOP between Iroquois West and Tri Point for the 2008-09 school year, pending their Board’s approval.

 

9.  The Principals discussed a supervision policy at SVC contests.  It was agreed not to require Administrators to attend away contests due to local Board policy, but to encourage schools to send a representative and have that rep identify themselves to the host school’s administration upon arrival.

 

10.  The possible trademarks for SVC schools will be investigated.  (#4 Athletic Directors minutes)

 

11.  John Overstreet informed the Principals that the Athletic Directors were looking into a possible shift in the SVC Girl’s Basketball Tournament in the 2008-09 school year.  The change would involve moving the tourney back one week to allow for move regular season conference games to be played before seeding of the tourney would occur.  The drawbacks are the officials and non conference games already scheduled.

 

12.  John Overstreet also informed the Principals that the Athletic Directors were looking into possible changes in the volleyball tourney to an all day Saturday or Thursday/Saturday format.  This was something the volleyball coaches asked to be considered.  The drawbacks are the officials, sites, and the ACT test that day.

 

13.  John Overstreet reminded the Principals that over the next few weeks the IHSA was holding required Town Meetings at various sites to discuss the By-Law proposals and other topics from the IHSA Staff.

 

14.  A brief discussion was held on the lawsuit brought by the Illinois Press Assoc.  (IHSA statement)

 

The meeting adjourned at 9:35.