Minutes of the board meeting

Meeting site, Sauk Rapids Legion, Sauk Rapids

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Meeting called to order by Vice President Fischer.

Roll call showed all directors present with exception of Odman.

Motion Brennan, seconded Forsman, carried, to approve the minutes of the previous meeting as mailed.

Joe Kreger representing Green Isle baseball came before the board requesting they be re re-classified to call “C”. He told the board that a few players would be retiring, and that he was not aware of any players that sat out the previous season coming back. He also stated their fan base was hurt with all the traveling. The board tabled this matter until the November meeting, and told Kreger to go back to his league to see how they would feel if this move should be made.

Letter was received from Wayne Butor of Eagan his concern was the slide rule, he asked the board to address this matter at the annual meeting.

Letter was also read from the Carver Central Leagues, also with concern with the slide rule. They would like to see the MBA go back to the college slide rule or some variation. They would also like to see a rule that would prohibit a manager or coach of a MBA registered team to be in the dugout of another MBA team during state tournament play, unless he was a rostered player and he was drafted.

The auditing committee met and completed their audit.

The meeting was recessed for dinner.

Meeting was called to order by vice president Fischer at 5:30 p.m.

Directors present: Fischer, Zellmann, Wegscheid, Richter, Fiemeyer, Roufs, Brennan, Forsman.

Director absent: Odman.

Section commissioners: 1 Mike Barry, 3 John Breimhorst, 4 Bob Reinhart, 5 Larry Bergman, and 7 Mike Kieke.

Region commissioners: Vernie Radloff, 3 Marlin Reinardy, 4 Brent Meyer, 6 Don Dvorak, 7 Geral Roepke, 8 Paul Froncak, 15 Randy Schoenberg.

Leagues: Cannon Valley, Cannon Valley Classic, Carver Central Red, Carver Central Blue, Corn Belt North, Crow River North, Crow River South, DRS Red, DRS White, Eastern Minny North, Eastern Minny South, HI-10, Lake at Pine No., Lake at Pine South, Lakewood West, Lakewood Central, North Star Central, North Star East, North Star West, Southern Minny, Stearns County South, 13-60 Black, 13-60 Blue, Victory East, Victory North, Victory South, Victory West, total 27 leagues.

After a welcome statement by vice president Fischer, the following committees were appointed:

Credentials: Roufs, Richter

Nominating: Fiemeyer, Brennan, Barry, Larson, Froncak

Tellers: Fiemeyer, Brennan, Barry, Larson, Froncak

Members of the board reported on assigned topics.

Secretary - Treasure Zellman: Read and reviewed the annual financial report. Brent Meyer of New Prague who was on the auditing committee stated the audit showed the financial statement to be correct, balanced, and complete. His fellow auditing committee member John Richter concurred with this report. A motion by Froncak, seconded Breimhorst, carried, to accept the financial report as presented.

Nominating committee: Reported the following nominees for election to the board of directors. Dave Odman, Jerry Wegscheid, Mark Forsman, Dave Hartmann. Vice president Fischer called for nominations from the floor, after the required number of times motion Larson, seconded Kieke, carried, to close nominations. Voting results: Wegscheid 27, Odman 24, Forsman 23, hartmann 20. Wegscheid, Odman, and Forsman were re-elected to a three year term.

Paul Froncak reported on the commissioners meeting. Items discussed: Home base where teams used two town names, slide rule, commissioners get vote like board members, commissioners vote in all section and region meetings, no fee to sanction tournaments.

The floor was then open for discussion: Larry Sakkinen of Clear Lake, who also attended the board meeting, would like to see elimination of the draft or some modification: 1 No drafting allowed; 2 teams may draft only two pitchers after the regions are completed, drafted players cannot bat in the state tournament, they must be hit for, drafted personnel can only be used as follows, in the final weekend of the state tournament play, once a team has one loss, in rounds two and three if the game goes into extra innings. The slide rule was brought up a number of times. Put all metro teams all in one section. Bill Nelson talked about a way to subsidize state tourney sites. The board will review all these questions and concerns at the November meeting.

Dan Buss from Bussports addressed the assembly. He had full line of sporting goods on display, and answered all questions.

Jerry Wegscheid and Paul Froncak introduced the winner of the 2004 Mike Downs Award, John Breimhorst of Jordan.

With no further business, motion Kieke, Lakewood, seconded Voneschen, Carver Central, carried, to adjourn at 7:15 p.m.

Meeting called to order by vice president Fischer at 7:30 p.m.

First order of business was election of officers. Motion Fiemeyer, seconded Brennan, carried to submit a white ballot for president Dave Odman.

Motion Brennan, seconded Wegscheid, carried to submit a white ballot for vice president Jim Fischer.

Motion Brennan, seconded Forsman, carried to submit a white ballot for secretary/treasure Bob Zellman.

Motion Fiemeyer, seconded Brennan, carried to set rates for handbook ads, 1/3 page $35, 1/2 page $50, center fold $400 each site covers, and full page $75.

Motion Richter, seconded Fiemeyer, carried to set the president salary at $1,000.

Motion Wegscheid, seconded Brennan, carried to set secretary/treasure salary at $1,500, office rent $1,250, clerical $500, equipment allowance $500.

Motion Roufs, seconded Forsman, carried to keep board expense at $30 per day, mileage at 35¢ per mile.

Motion Fiemeyer, seconded Wegscheid, carried to have Zellmann secure handbook ads for $500.

The annual meeting for 2005 was set for October 15, Sauk Rapid Legion Club.

Next meeting of the MBA is Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 at Ultimate Sports, Waite Park, 11 a.m. This is a time change so mark it on your calendar.

This is a revised list of players that will be playing in the Roy Hobbs World Series in Florida. Bob Klefsaas, Tom Steinbach, Rod Schafer, Tim Fleming, Herb Koch, Tom Lucina, Dave Hinkemyer, John Cosgrove, Tom Arnold, Paul Jaunich, Randy Moselle, and Dan Vandehey.

There being no further business motion Forsman, seconded Wegscheid, carried to adjourn. Adjournment at 8:10 p.m.

Bob Zellman

Secretary-Treasurer

MBA