Minutes Principals’ Meeting Wednesday September 8, 2010

1. Introductions—The meeting started at 8:15 and all school were present.

2. Mr. Chatterton of Cissna Park made a motion, seconded by Mr. Van Meter of Iroquois West to approve the minutes of April 14, 2010 meeting. The motion carried unanimously.

3. Mr. Brooks of St. Joseph-Ogden made a motion, seconded by Mr. Eshleman of PBL to approve the Treasurer’s Report as of September 8, 2010 the SVC had a balance of $2949.50. The motion carried unanimously.

4. The Principals reviewed the 2010-11 Calendar. Items still that need to be finalized include Scholastic Bowl sites and the site of the Honor Band. The Principals will discuss this with their staff and report back.

Mr. Felesena of Clifton Central made a motion, seconded by Mr. Spilker of Watseka, to adjust the calendar as follows: the October meeting will be moved to October 20^th and not to hold the November meeting unless deemed needed. The motion carried unanimously.

5. The 2010 SVC Social Update will be held on Wednesday September 15^th at Shagbark in Onarga. More information will be emailed in the next few days. The Principals discussed and made no nominations for the “Friends of the SVC” award this year.

6. The Principals discussed the Athletic Directors’ Report from Wednesday September 1, 2010. The following items were discussed:

---The Volleyball tourney will be held in Paxton and that admission to all tournaments, including the basketball tournaments, will be $5 for adults and $3 for student.

---the Principals agreed to the recommendation that the SVC register for the IHSA Conference “Do What’s Right” program. (This has been done)

---a review of the IHSA Steroid testing program was held. All coaches—paid or volunteer—have to take and pass this test. The test is in the IHSA school center. Also, all student-athletes are required now to sign the steroid consent form.

---a discussion of the future of the SVC and possible expansion was held. Mr. Spilker made a motion, seconded by Mr. Van Meter to have President Millage write a letter to send to area school expressing the SVC’s interest in expansion. The letter would ask schools interested to attend a meeting at a site to be determined on November 17^th after the IHSA town meeting in Mahomet. Some of the ideas to be in the letter included, the need for another football school, geography, travel costs, similar sizes of schools and tradition. The motion carried unanimously.

---Mr. Eshleman made a motion, seconded by Mr. Felesena to set Thursday Oct 7, 2010 as the SVC “Volley for the Cure” night. All SVC schools would take part except Momence who already does this with Grant Park. It would be up to local schools to sign up with the IHSA and local schools would take care of shirts and other events that night. The motion carried unanimously.

7. Several cost saving items were discussed. Some possible cost saving measures are:

---looking at travel and combining trips for teams, especially in the spring.

---a discussion was held on how many freshman and JV games each school had and how many were cut this year?

---Mr. Chatterton discussed the IHSA change in bat sizes, schools will be required to purchase new bats. He offered to write a letter to the IHSA explaining the hardship that this change would have on schools already facing cuts in budgets.

---a discussion on costs for trainers, ambulance and police coverage at games. Some school pay for police and ambulance coverage other don’t. The cost of a trainer varied considerably from school to school.

8. Mr. Chatterton made a motion, seconded by Mr. Millage to adjourn. The motion carried unanimously. The meeting ended at 9:50.