EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES

OCTOBER 29, 2010 10:00am

1.       Call to order. Attending: President Bob Hilpertshauser, 1st VP Ron Deckard, 2nd VP Vicki Marteney, 3rd VP Verdell Woollard and Sec/Treas Marcela Santoyo

2.       Treasurers report

3.       Jr state championship – FSHPA bylaws may need to be changed regarding how to handle Jr divisions when there are  fewer than 3 pitchers in any given division

o         Vicki will investigate how other states are handling and how their bylaws are written (NC, AL, GA, SC, LA)

o         New bylaw (must comply with NHPA By-Laws) that will be approved by EC to be ratified before next state tournament

4.       Club team tournament

o         Reviewed changes (date, location, tournament director)

o         Ron will take money and set up tournament then email files to Marcela

o         Marcela will run tournament day of the event

5.       Election of Officers

o         Buddy short running for President

o         Bob Marks running for 1st VP

o         Election committee still be seeking out additional candidates for these offices

6.       5 member council

o         Reviewed flow chart and discussed changes

o         4th VP removed, responsibilities moved to 2nd VP

o         May need a bylaw change to move responsibility of identifying most improved player to Sec/Treas and update the state statistician duties

7.       Discuss status of clubs

o         Top of the world – need to have courts checked for 2011 if they want to hold sanctioned leagues; need to submit a list of officers  to keep charter membership; put back on the web

o         Brooksville – not holding sanctioned leagues – if they want to keep up charter membership they need to send officer list, at least Pres must have NHPA card

o         Sarasota – closed; remove from website

o         Niceville - not holding sanctioned leagues – if theey want to keep up charter membership they need to send officer list, at least Pres must have NHPA card

o         Tampa – nothing listed on website; not holding sanctioned tournaments; no officer list; Ron will check and see if the Tampa club members want to be a charter club

o         Okeechobee – button on web map takes you to FSHPA page. Not a charter club anymore. Ok to remove from the web site

8.       FSHPA to implement HS Score keeping program

o         Discussed possibility of implementing – need to investigate cost, logistics

o         Will get feedback from Bradenton – pilot program

9.       Revision of the notes for the FL tournament schedule

o         Suggestions from Ernie Kovacs  to update the footnotes in the tournament schedule

o         To take effect for 2011-2012 tournament year

o         Motion to approve changes to footnotes, Bob

o         2nd by Dell

o         Unanimous vote to accept

10.    Discuss EC motel reimbursement for 2011 state tournament

o         Discussed EC motel reimbursement for council members

o         Motion to reimburse all 5 EC council members, 4 nights  Bob

o         2nd by Ron

o         Unanimous approval

11.    Correspondence

o         Rcvd letter from Jim Smith resigning as promotions chairman

o         Still looking for historian and promotions chairman

12.    Next meeting Friday Jan 28, 2011 1pm in Melbourne (location TBD)

13.    Adjourned

                                                                                                               Marcela Santoyo,  Sec/Tres.