Board members attending were Joe Cummings, Louise Waxler, Janet Rayfield, Paul Payne, Mike Curry, Steve Malone, Schellas Hyndman, Kathy Zolad, Tony McCall. Tim Holt, Lauren Gregg, Marti Coan, Carlos Menjivar, Diane Drake, Joe Borrosh and Al Albert. Others attending were Steve Veal, Jeff Tipping, Chris Wyche, and Rob Robinson.

President Cummings called the meeting to order at 10:06 AM.

The minutes were read. The following changes were noted: On page 12, Kathy Zolad should have been added. Also Greg Mauch was incorrectly identified as Gene Mauch.

MOTION: To accept the minutes with corrections. MOTION PASSED

Discussion on consent items. In Waxler’s report (page 31) Letters of Commendation should be changed to Letters of Appreciation. McCall discussed issues related to communication between staff and the youth representatives. The discussion evolved into the topic of communication with all of the constituent representatives -- college, high school and youth -- and the infrastructure of the organization and where these positions fit in. The consensus of the group is that continued improvement is necessary to determine the exact role of every board member and how the national office keeps them informed of activities related to their role. Waxler suggested that the secretary provide an annual book of motions from the previous year. Coan suggested that the incoming president continue the monthly newsletter to keep the full board connected.

MOTION: To accept the consent item reports. MOTION PASSED

Action items were presented:

Second Vice President – Louise Waxler (Convention and Awards)
No motions were made.

First Vice-President – Schellas Hyndman (Membership and Education)
No motions at this time.

The meeting recessed for lunch at 12:10.

The meeting was reconvened at 1:10 PM. After lunch, there was a presentation by Dana Schoenwetter and Jay Hoffman from U.S. Paralympics Soccer.

Third Vice-President – Steve Malone (Marketing and Communication)
MOTION: That the NSCAA Board of Directors approve a three-year sponsorship agreement with eFundraising. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the NSCAA Board of Directors approve a new partnership agreement with Major League Soccer. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the NSCAA Board of Directors provide preliminary approval for an investment policy for the NSCAA and NSCAA Foundation. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the NSCAA Board of Directors approves an affinity telecommunications proposal as a membership benefit. MOTION DEFEATED

MOTION: That the NSCAA develop its own branded goalkeeping DVD and not include use of any prior footage from the video currently being used. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: Until a new NSCAA DVD is created for goalkeeping courses, we continue to use the current one for our goalkeeping courses, subject to approval by adidas. MOTION PASSED

Past President’s Report – Janet Rayfield
Rayfield gave a brief report on the restructuring of the election procedures last year. Further discussion will take place on Sunday.

Secretary – Al Albert
A brief report was given on Albert’s involvement with a new non-profit organization. It will be presented at 2:30 pm Saturday at the Convention Center. (Soccer Community Partnerships of America).

Executive Director – Jim Sheldon (presented by Steve Veal)
A number of issues were presented by Veal for information purposes, including review of the annual calendar, the status of the chair for the Division 1 Women’s College Committee, the cancellation of the NSCAA-USSF meeting on Friday, the Governor’s Council nominations and election and the annual business meeting on Friday.

There were no objections from the Board on Bill Steffen continuing his role as chair of the Division I Women’s College Committee.

President Cummings called for any additional nominations for the Governor’s Council. If there are more than two candidates, a ballot will be prepared and the Board will elect two people.

Jeff Tipping suggested we review the Federation’s position on our premier course being recognized for “A” license credit.

President’s Report – Joe Cummings
Cummings gave a brief summary of his prepared comments for the eight meal and social functions during this week.

Mike Curry – At-Large
Curry gave a brief presentation on the staff diversity training held the previous day and plans for the next training on June 4 in Indianapolis.

Lauren Gregg – Women’s Professional
Gregg updated the board on efforts to re-launch the women’s professional soccer league. 2006 is the goal, but there is nothing set at this time.

Tim Holt – Men’s Professional
No action items at this time.

Paul Payne – Men’s College
No action items at this time.

Diane Drake – Women’s College
No action items at this time.

Joe Borrosh – Boys High School
No action items at this time.

Marti Coan – Girls High School
No action items at this time.

Tony McCall – Boys Youth
MOTION: That all members of the Board of Directors be required to attend a minimum of two days at one of the residential academy courses within 18 months of joining the Board. MOTION PASSED

Kathy Zolad – Girls Youth
Zolad asked that the recreational coach of the year award be a co-educational award rather than boys or girls specifically. No action taken. Referred to the Awards Committee.

At 5 pm, President Cummings presented gifts to the entire board and convention committee.

Carlos Menjivar – At-Large
Menjivar presented a PowerPoint presentation on a plan for an NSCAA Hispanic program including Spanish speaking courses and a LASCA newsletter.

MOTION: To accept the NSCAA Hispanic plan as presented by Carlos Menjivar.
Discussion centered around what oversight the Director of Coaching would have over the coaching courses in Spanish if administered by LASCA, and whether we would have a separate budget and infrastructure from the overall education and marketing budget and infrastructure. Much discussion and concern on LASCA continuing to operate as an independent organization if the Hispanic program comes under the NSCAA as a Latin American Soccer Coaches Committee. MOTION TABLED

MOTION: That we remove Desmond Armstrong from the Board for lack of attendance and failure to participate in diversity training. MOTION PASSED

The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 pm by President Cummings.

MINUTES
NSCAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
January 16, 2005 – Baltimore, Maryland

In attendance were Schellas Hyndman, Steve Veal, Steve Malone, Joe Borrosh, Paul Payne, Tony McCall, Carlos Menjivar, Lauren Gregg, Louise Waxler, Al Albert, Marti Coan, Joe Cummings, Jay Engeln, Bob Robinson, Chris Wyche, Mike Curry, Craig Bohnert and Kathy Zolad. Missing was Randy Waldrum, Diane Drake and Tim Holt.

Rob Robinson introduced the convention committee and recognized them for their outstanding service and administration of the Baltimore convention. We had a new record of nearly 7,000 convention attendance and also set a record for number of exhibitors.

Hyndman presented Past President Joe Cummings with a gift of appreciation from the association for his service this past year.

The Board of Directors meeting was called to order at 9:55 am.

Schellas Hyndman began with a few remarks. He indicated that he wanted to see membership and educational programs grow in 2005. He asked for job descriptions from board members by February 15th. To enhance communications, he will ask that the full board receive minutes from Executive Committee meetings as well as board meetings. He asked Joe Cummings to lead a task force regarding the progress of negotiations and the location of the national office in the future.

Mike Curry introduced Dennis Franczak from RDW Group and presented a review regarding our website. A timeline was presented to achieve an upgrade of our web services within 18 months.

MOTION: That the NSCAA re-establish/ re-organize a formal Web Development Committee. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the NSCAA Foundation Committee be empowered to annually recommend the organizations that have check-off boxes on membership and convention registration forms with approval of the NSCAA Board of Directors. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the Foundation Committee design and implement an annual application process for inclusion of organizations beginning with the 2006 NSCAA forms. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the Investment Policy be accepted as amended and implemented immediately. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the National Office Staff develop an investment program relationship with Commerce Bank and bring an investment strategy to the Investment Subcommittee for evaluation and approval. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the NSCAA approve the 2005 NSCAA Foundation Grant Application process. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That grants made by the NSCAA Foundation in 2005 be made by applying the 2005 Soccer Jersey raffle revenues to this purpose. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That the implementation plan of the Ambassador Program be approved with a line item budget of $5000. MOTION PASSED

The election results from Friday were announced. Elected to office were Kathy Zolad, youth girls; Joe Borrosh, high school boys; Diane Drake, college women; Randy Waldrum, secretary; and Al Albert, third vice president.

There was a brief recess and the meeting reconvened at 11:43 am.

Hyndman announced his reappointment of Mike Curry as at-large representative and appointment of Hylton Dayes as a new at-large member of the Board representing the Black Coaches Committee. Dayes is men’s soccer coach at the University of Cincinnati.

MOTION: That the Board approve the reappointment of Mike Curry as an at-large representative and the appointment of Hylton Dayes to replace Desmond Armstrong as at-large representative. MOTION PASSED

The election results for the Governor’s Council was announced. The new members are Janet Rayfield and Barry Gorman.

The tabled motion on the Hispanic program was revisited.

MOTION: To accept the Hispanic plan as presented by Carlos Menjivar on Wednesday. Jeff Tipping was present for this discussion and shared his opinions on what we are presently doing through education for Hispanic coaches. MOTION DEFEATED

MOTION: That the Latin American Coaches Association (LASCA) will now become the Latin American Coaches Committee of the NSCAA. LASCA will cease to exist as a separate outside organization. Menjivar reiterated the need for Spanish speaking courses immediately from the NSCAA. Hyndman asked Tipping to coordinate the scheduling of these courses with Menjivar. Chris Wyche was asked to work with the Executive Director on a merger document with LASCA. MOTION PASSED

There was discussion regarding board members being informed of their ability to request funds from the travel budget of the BOD to attend various events important to their constituents, based on budgetary approval.

MOTION: That the NSCAA Board of Director members be encouraged to attend appropriate constituent events. MOTION PASSED

MOTION: That funds be provided in the annual budget of the Board of Directors for sole purpose of being able to communicate with constituent groups, gather input, concerns and suggestions as to how we can best represent them within the NSCAA. MOTION PASSED

Joe Cummings discussed the “Multiply The Membership” initiative from 2004 and the academy staff and board members who have not attended diversity training. There will be another attempt at promoting the membership initiative in 2005. Cummings will contact the people who have not replied to availability for diversity training in June.

Waxler brought up the issue of whether unsuccessful candidates for elections should be allowed to run multiple times without limitations. She also expressed concern that candidates for Executive Committee positions on the Board should have NSCAA leadership experience.

MOTION: That the President, in conjunction with the Awards Chairman, appoint a committee to revise and update the Awards Policy Handbook. The committee would meet at times and places determined by the President and the Awards Chairman. MOTION PASSED

Steve Malone commended Steve Veal for his outstanding work in standing in for the executive director this week.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:12 pm.