ANNUAL CLUB - EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES

APRIL 21, 2010 9:30am 

1.       Call to order at 9:30am by President Hilpershauser

2.       2011 State Tournament site is St. Cloud – St. Cloud President David Jagers confirmed.

3.       2012 State Tournament site is Bradenton - Visitor Joe Pickett, Sports Commissioner can help with volunteers, tents, permitting, hotels, rates, and can help the local club off-set the costs. Also might bid for the world but their indoor facilities might be too small.

4.       Roll Call – All clubs represented except for Villages, Top of the World, Sebring, Sarasota

5.       Minutes from last meeting already approved by executive council

6.       Treasurers report /proposed budget  was reviewed and accepted

7.       Correspondence –

a.       New club application for Oak Bend HS Club in Ocala area –council approved membership

b.      Joe west sent notification of stepping down as tournament director after 35 years. New director is Bob Marks

c.       New charter request Palm Coast HS Club located at FL Agriculture Museum on I-95. Potentially upwards of 100 horseshoe pitchers

8.       Jim Smith reviewed expenses, new server for club websites, 50th anniversary patches, website for state tournament, photography plan for state tournament

9.       No old business was discussed

10.   Brevard County HS Club was selected at random to host next year’s team tournament.  

11.   By-law changes were reviewed and unanimously accepted

a.       Implementation date for amendments to by-laws is June 1

b.      Language regarding duties and responsibilities of the Regional Director moved from Article V, Section 2d to Article VI, Section 2e

c.       Reduced number of executive council from 7 to 5 eliminating 4th VP and Past President

12.   World tournament delegates – possibly Bob Marks, Walter Ray Williams, Shirley Ingles, Ron Deckard, BJ Jarrett, Marcela Santoyo; President Hilpertshauser will appoint a committee at a later date

13.   Additional issues

a.       Shirley Ingles plans to propose by-law change to reduce minimum number of tournaments to qualify for the state to 3 tournaments

b.      Jim smith extended deadline for contest to predict state champions to the first pitch of mixed doubles

c.       John Peplinski distributed new rule book  

14.   Meeting adjourned

                                     Comments from the Secretary/Treasurer           

Oh boy….here we go…my very first comments for the newsletter as Secretary/Treasurer!  I would start off by saying thank you to everyone who voted for me but I ran unopposed!! So instead, I will thank all of you who have expressed your confidence in me and I will do my best not to let you down. I realize that this is not an easy job and I have a gigantic learning curve ahead of me so I ask for your patience and your forgiveness in advance! 

Moving on to actual FSHPA business….thank you to all who attended and participated in the 2010 Closed State Tournament. What a tournament! We had 38 Mixed Doubles teams, 46 Doubles teams and 128 singles pitching in the tournament this year.  Participation was down a little from last year but we had just as much fun and witnessed some spectacular pitching like Dell Woolard and Pam Maples coming down to a tie in their last game and having to pitch 4 more shoes. Of those last shoes, all but one were ringers! Talk about drama!

Next year the tournament will be held at the St. Cloud HS Club. Several of the members of that club come down for the winter and go back up north before the state tournament so they will need help from neighboring clubs.  Please “pitch in” when you’re not pitching in a tournament event!

I’m looking forward to working with the executive council and to interacting with more pitchers from all over the state in the years to come.  Have a happy summer!