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MROS Meeting Minutes
7/8/08
Deep Run Community Center
The
meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by President Tom Dent.
Jerry
Stone read a tribute to Henry Armstrong, who passed away last evening. This was followed by a moment of silence.
A
recommendation was made and accepted to set up a committee to set up criteria
on retiring uniform numbers. Tom is
going to have the already formed bylaw committee look into this matter.
Attendance
was taken by sign in sheet
Bruce
Frye, Commissioner, gave out VHSL service awards and VHSL certificates for
state playoff assignments. These
normally are given at the banquet, but they arrived late.
PROMOTIONS:
Three
Provisional Members were promoted to Full Membership—Ellen Mooradian, Joe
Pintavalle and Tim Beard.
Five
Trainees were promoted to Provisional Member—Sheehan Walker, Charles Arvin,
Stephen Heyer, Patrick Crum and Steve Sylvester.
Bylaw
Committee:
Wayne
Whitlock read over bylaw recommendations that his committee has received. They will take these into consideration while
looking at all the bylaws and the constitution of the association. As we were getting ready for votes on proposed
bylaw amendments and elections, Bert Wilson clarified our present bylaws in
regards to quorums and votes needed for these.
Bylaw
Amendment:
The
amendment proposed by Jerry at our previous meeting was read by the
Secretary. A friendly amendment by Dickie
Foster was accepted by Jerry changing the position from Interpreter to
Interpreter/Training Officer. After much
discussion a vote was taken and ended in a 14-14 tie. The motion was defeated.
Later
in the meeting Donna Richardson brought back the amendment with duties and
qualifications of the position added.
After minimal discussion a vote was taken and it received 15 votes in
favor and 10 against. As a two thirds of
the votes is needed to amend the amendment failed.
The
minutes of the previous meeting were accepted as published on the website.
Bert
gave the Treasurer’s Report stating that MROS has a balance of approximated
$2000. All schools with the exception of
Blessed Sacrament have paid. The report
was accepted as presented.
BANQUET
COMMITTEE:
The
banquet was held at the Italian Kitchen and everything went well. Pat Maloney, chairperson, received an ovation
for a job well done.
Commissioner’s
Report:
Bruce
stated that we had nine umpires receive state playoff assignments and a total
of twenty five umpires did playoff games.
NEW
BUSINESS:
Rhea
Saltz spoke about state playoff assignments made by our Commissioner. Assignments had been sent in by him before
the evaluation committee had met. This
is contrary to MROS policies. Bruce rebutted
some of Rhea’s points, but not the point of submitting names early to the
VHSL. Bill Harrison, VP, clarified some
points on dates which reiterated what Rhea had brought up. Both of these men are on the Evaluation
Committee. Other comments were made by
several members.
ELECTIONS:
The
Election Committee, chaired by Ken McIntyre, ran the elections. Bill Harrison, VP; Bert Wilson, Treasurer;
and John Shepherd, Member-at-Large were all elected by acclimation.
The
election for Commissioner was contested between Rhea Saltz, who was nominated
from the floor by Jerry Stone, and Bruce Frye, who was nominated by the
committee. The winner in the
Commissioner election must receive a majority of the qualified voting members
of the association. On election night we
had FIFTY qualified members meaning the winner had to receive TWENTY SIX
votes. There were only thirty two
members present and the final vote was a tie at 16-16. The election remains undecided.
It
was decided by the Board and Election Committee that we would have a vote by
mail and a meeting on August 12th to finalize voting for
Commissioner. All full members will
receive a “proxy” in the mail and may vote by mail or come to the meeting to
vote in person. The meeting will be held
at Deep Run CC at 6:00 p.m. on August 12, 2008.
The
meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:30 p m.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Joe
Yates
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