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Attendees: Bill Turner, Janet Wiese, Ken Paddock, Kathy Paddock, Cindy LaLonde, Tara Jenne, Jeri-Ann Bush.

Discussion of next year’s officers: Several names were mentioned as hopefuls for the upcoming year: Dan Clement, Michelle and Todd Brewer, Joe Impiccatore, Karen Chase, Tara Jenne, Wendy Jansen, Kathy Paddock, Mr. Eggleston.

The positions available are President, Vice president, Treasurer, Secretary, Tournament Director, Equipment Coordinator, Travel Team Coordinator, Treasurer, Secretary, Adult Team Coordinator, Registrar, Facility and Field Coordinator, Senior Rec League Coordinator, and Junior Rec League Coordinator. Tara has offered to fill the Travel Team Coordinator position. There will be some bylaws amendments necessary to reflect the change in coordinator positions over the years.

Cindy has agreed to continue as Secretary. Janet Wiese is willing to continue as Treasurer. Bill Turner will be in charge of the Adult Leagues.

Several ideas were discussed about how to elicit involvement in the DSC and how to fill the officers positions. Bill will contact coaches to involve the parents of the players. A handout with information may be given to the coaches to give to the parents. We also need to check with Peggy to review the 2000 soccer sign-up sheets which have a space provided for interested volunteers.

Report given by Tara Jenne about The FIELD: A grant has been approved by Senator Seward for $250,000.00. Another Financial backer from Florida will match local funds. Groundbreaking is set for June with hopeful opening in November. The FIELD will offer local teams 2 indoor soccer fields, in-line rollerblade rink, and golf turfs. Tara is setting up a Phone-a-thon this Sunday, May 20 at TC3 from 5:00-7:00. Interested people should attend and help man the phones to remind people to send in their pledges to help fund the FIELD.

June 9 and 10: No games will be played at TC3 due to roofing work at the college. The games will be played at Dryden schools. The coaches will be contacted about the change in field location.

Formation of a separate Youth Soccer Club: Bill discussed the formation of a separate Dryden Youth Soccer Club which would be a New York State West Youth Soccer Association affiliate, and allow the DSC to be an unaffiliated club. The purpose of this would be two-fold:

1. The DSC rec leagues will not be governed by NYSW. The insurance carrier will be Benemarc (same carrier as for the Adult group). This will dramatically lessen the work required by the Registrar, as well as eliminating the length wait for late registrants, as the group can be insured as a whole. Bill has discussed this with Benemarc, and will confirm their willingness to be the insurance provider.
2. The DYSC would be able to freely make any bylaws changes demanded by NYSWYSA or USYSA.

The bylaws of the DYSC would be written so that the officers of the DSC will constitute the board of directors for the DYSC, so it would in fact be a subsidiary of DSC and not require separate meetings etc.

Bill will draft the necessary documents and present them at the next meeting for a vote. He will also contact Mike Allmendinger about the possibility of the Town of Dryden sponsoring the rec leagues.

Facilities: Ken Paddock discussed the change in school policy for next year concerning building use and fees. The school will no longer charge for gym time if a staff member is already on the premises. If a staff person is part of the activities then that person will constitute as the building charge person. A charge will be incurred only when a staff person has to be brought in to the building.

The next DSC meeting will be June 11,2001 at 7:00. All are welcome!

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