General Baseball Booster Board Meeting - Sept 6, 2016

Meeting was called to order at 7:02pm

Greeting and introduction of Board members by President Brian Mayfield.

Board members attending- 
Brian Mayfield, President
Ruth Covin, Sec
Bill Kappler, VP
Jennifer Patrick, VP
Andrea Dickson, Treasurer
Pam Petrides, Fundraising 
Kerri Hunt and Kenda Lopez, Spirit Wear Committee

Treasurer Andrea Dickson read the Budget reconciliation and asked for questions.  Reconciliation was approved by Booster member Mike Short and seconded by Mike Stapleton.

Upcoming 2016-2017 Proposed Budget was read by Andrea Dickson and approved by Booster member Kerri Hunt and seconded by Maruchy Cantu.

Brian Mayfield thanked everyone for all the help during the field clean up day Saturday August 27th. Special thanks to Tim Marbut and Eric Kleinsorge for all their hard work. 
Discussed new items which will be put into place this week including Halo for home plate, new grill turf, and new turf behind home dugout.  Field will be off limits this weekend for installation.  We will have another small field clean up day in January to get ready for Spring season.

Discussed upcoming Golf Tournament -  Ball drop needs to raise 20,000 in order to meet Budget fundraising amount.  If this falls short, we will need to hold another fundraiser to meet goal.
Pam Petrides explained about the Ball Drop raffle and noted that this year we will have two winners of the raffle.  First place will win $750 and second will win $250.  Boys are asked to sell chances on 25 balls this year, and can turn their money and forms in at the field on Saturday, Sept 17th from 8-9am and also Tuesday, Sept 20th from 7-8pm.  Pam explained that we will have Silent Auction items online for people to advance bid the week before tournament and asked for any item donations.  Question was raised if single players could participate and she informed them that it was no problem and they would be placed with other single players.  
Pam asked for donations of small prizes for the upcoming Homecoming Carnival booth.
Talked about different Sponsorship levels for the new season and will provide further information on this later.

Brian Mayfield spoke about Freshman Fall Baseball season.  All other age levels will be participating in Performance Course.   Freshman uniforms will consist of black jerseys which are provided and players can wear any type of gray baseball pants with black belt and socks.  Parents will be responsible for transportation of players to the games.

Coach Sherman introduced himself and welcomed new people to the baseball program. He spoke about his goals for the  baseball teams and importance of keeping this program fun for the players and the difference between goals vs. reality. Discussed the dangers of too much parental pressure and his experience that this time needs to be about the players and what they will take from this program for their everyday lives rather than about their futures baseball careers.  Floor was opened up for questions and meeting was adjourned at 8pm.