The LeBoeuf Little League held their monthly meeting at the Waterford Boro Building. Garry Sargent called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm.

ATTENDANCE: Steph Mitchell, Darlene Haibach, Brian Mitchell, Jeff Kuzma, Greg Roberts, Jeff Jones, Joe Welch, Ed Vorpagel, Paul Peters, Brian Smith, Brian Webster, Jim Dylewski, Kevin Litz, Mike Falk, Stu Carr, Garry Sargent, Jeff Yost, Frank Conti, Mike Herring, Rod Smith, Mark Rose and Pat Herr.

SECRETARY: The minutes were read and approved by Joe Welch and Greg Roberts.

TREASURER'S REPORT: Income of $796.00 and Expenses of $6,267.20; Approved by Jeff Kuzma and seconded by Paul Peters.

SPECIAL PROJECTS: Jeff Jones will have 1,500 copies of the registration formed copied. Sponsorship form already started to try and avoid conflict. Garry will email past coaches and give Jeff Jones as a contact if they desire a specific sponsor for their team. Sponsorship fee is $150.00. Paul suggested we raise Stromboli price from $2.00 to $2.50. He will pass out Stromboli information at picture day, which is May 6, 2006. We will decide on Stromboli price at next meeting.

PICTURE COMMISSIONER: May 6, 2006 at the High School.

PUBLIC RELATIONS: Website is all updated. Still have some t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts for sale. Garry will bring some to sign-ups to sell. Garry sent for the info for the Pitch/Hit/Run.

SOFTBALL COMMISSIONER: Will confirm all scheduled dates for in-door clinics and who will be running those clinic’s after tonight's meeting. Jeff and Jake Kuzma would like to make 2 nets for each school for the in-door clinics. Mark made a motion to allot $250 for 6 nets, seconded by Stuart. A vote was taken and all were in favor.

BASEBALL COMMISSIONER: One notice to be made to supply both boys and girls of the in-door clinic dates/school/times. Clinics will be for children 7-14.

UMPIRE COMMISSIONER: Jim is waiting to formalize training session/sessions. Would like to supply the information on Tom Roberts’ website. Would like to arrange session for coaches perhaps in February/March. Perhaps will open training to other areas such as Union City. Will discuss further at next meeting. Garry passed around a sample of the MYAA voucher system. This will be considered for our team/travel expense for 2006.

TOURNAMENT COMMISSIONER: No report.

SCHEDULING COMMISSIONER: No report.

UNIFORM COMMISSIONER: Brian is looking into 3 different vendors. He would like to fine tune the bids and present at next months meeting.

FIELD MAINTENANCE: Walls are working. Fields look good. Gregg wants to use field flattener on all the fields. Will check with Boro President regarding the park field.

EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE: No report on mower yet. Information to be represented at next months meeting. A motion was made by Garry to stay with J&S for all equipment and seconded by Jeff Jones. A vote was taken and all were in favor.

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER: Joe sent $500.00 in but they returned it asking that we wait till the first of the year to submit initial premium. Joe called to make sure that we are still covered and they indicated "yes".

OLD BUSINESS:

1. Mike Herring attended Grant Writing session and presented a list of what is needed by the League. We need to address the tax-exempt status before we can proceed.
2. Kevin wanted to make sure the money that was returned from the 9-10 year old girls trip to states was set aside for any future states team. The total amount to be considered for future use is $2,987.84.
3. Greg will look into gate situation one last time and perhaps league will do on their own.
4. Soil Conditioner; wait to see what the financial situation is.
5. Bill Brace will let us know when future meeting with DEP and Waste Management has been scheduled. Would like to see Tom Kaufman and Tim Hoff at his meeting.

NEW BUSINESS:

1. West End Community Center made a donation of $500.00 (to be used in Summit). Rod will send a letter indicating that the money will be used to construct Dugouts at Field #3 in Summit. Mark made a motion to allocate the money to be used on field #3 and this was seconded by Kevin. A vote was taken and all were in favor.
2. Since the 9-10 Year old Minor Girls District Tournament will take place at the Waterford Complex; Kevin wants to make committee’s and establish fields/concessions/maintenance and tournament director. This would be a 2-week commitment towards the end of July.
3. District Meeting is February 19. Will check in with Tom Roberts to make sure we have the District Tournament ideas covered.
4. Late sign up date will be March 11, 2006.
5. No refunds after league draft day (March 19, 2006). As of that date uniforms will be ordered.
6. Garry’s Spring Tournament is June 10-11, 2006. Last year had 17 teams, would like 20. Teams that entered last year get first choice.
7. Perhaps Tech School Students can help construct Dugouts for the Complex fields.
8. Coach Burchanowski offered to have a coach’s clinic; perhaps February 25 or March 4 for a couple of hours.
9. Joe Welch presented information for fundraiser being held at Sparrow Pond on February 12 from 4-7 to support Heard Family and raise money for Cancer Research. Motion was made by Brian Mitchell to donate t-shirt, hoody and sweatshirts as well as $200.00 for this fundraiser, seconded by Gregg. A vote was taken all were in favor.

NEXT MEETING DATE/TIME: February 9, 2006 at 7pm

ADJOURNMENT: Motion was made by Mark Rose to adjourn meeting at 9:26 pm, seconded by Kevin.

Submitted by: Stephanie Mitchell/Secretary