IAABO EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

SUNDAY, Sept 25, 2011

Immediately following 2011 IAABO Fall Conference

RADISSON HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER – MANCHESTER, NH

MINUTES

 

Call To Order: By President Zecha  10:20 AM

 

Attending: Dedopoulos, Dichard, Driscoll, Fronk, Marcotte, Matte, Ordway, Pelletier, Plumer, Semprini, Smith, Tostevin, Vickery, Wolff,  Zecha, Paul Raymond (observer), Dan Goddu (observer)

 

Absent:  Kyle, Lehouillier, Moylan, Rossetti

 

April 10, 2011  & August 4, 2011 Meeting Minutes:  Reviewed, motion made to accept Marcotte/Pelletier, approved.

 

Secretary/Treasurer report:

No detail financial report was available.

 

President Zecha acknowledged a very full agenda and selected the order of attention to follow for the meeting.

 

Interpreter Report:

Marcotte presented the dates and times of the Annual Fall Interpretations for each of the Boards as follows:

Board 117 - Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 7:00 pm at Pinkerton High School

Board 122 – Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 6:30 pm at Portsmouth high School

Board 118 – Sunday, October 30, 2011, 9:00 am at Plymouth Elementary School

Board 128 – Sunday, November 6, 2011, 9:00 am at Dartmouth/Hitchcock Medical Center

No Makeup meetings are currently planned.

 

Marcotte reported that all of the Boards had started their apprentice programs and that the annual apprentice test would be given by all boards on Monday, November 28, 2011.

 

Marcotte indicated that the 2011-2012 season required both the rules test and mechanics test. Tests are due to the local board secretaries on or before November 28, 2011.

 

At the annual rules interpretations, Marcotte will present “Areas of Concentration for Officials Training” in conjunction with the Rules Interpretation.

 

Marcotte talked about the use of arm sleeves by players.  He presented the information that he exchanged with the NHIAA and the discussions he has had regarding the NHIAA and the NHIAA’s desire to require a waiver to wear the arm sleeve.  Ordway added that no official notification had been made and the NHIAA policy & procedures did not address this yet.  Marcotte agree that for now the rule shall be interpreted as written until definitive information can be obtained from the NHIAA.  Smith will follow up with the NHIAA on this.

 

Supervisor Report:

Smith discussed a list of items that he had received during his meetings and discussions with the NHIAA.  The items include;

    1. Encourage opportunities for the development of young officials

    2. Encourage regional training for officials

    3. Encourage practice opportunities for the 3 person game

    4. Regional assigning studied to see if it works for basketball

    5. Encourage more female officials involved in the organization

    6. Develop a better evaluation plan

    7. Improve the training and skill for the people in each region

    8. We feel we are losing official especially young officials

Smith confirmed with members of the NHIAA basketball committee that this list was NOT of a critical nature, but simply a list of things that they would like to learn more about how our officials organization (IAABO) looks upon these items.

A question was raised about what ever happen to the ‘Women with Whistles’ project that had once existed.  A short discussion about how more women might be attracted to officiating basketball took place.  Smith suggested that we think about looking into this and other things that IAABO may be doing in this area.  Matte volunteered to take the lead on this topic.  Ordway will connect Matte with the appropriate individuals at IAABO on this topic.

 

Zecha ask about official’s ratings and Smith indicated that he has had an initial meeting with Marcotte and he was re-organizing the list of officials and would be able to report to the boards at their Fall Interpretation meetings.

 

Assigner Report:   No report available.

 

Old Business:

 

Assigner Annual Review – Nothing to report.  Zecha will address with the individual Board Presidents

 

Preliminary Assignments Review – The basic question of, “Was the process that was used last season to review preliminary game assignments adequate for the Board Presidents?”  A lot of discussion about what was presented in the past and expression from the local Board President that they would like more complete and more substantive information in their preliminary review.  A motion was made Driscoll/Pelletier,  to provide the local Board Presidents with their board member official’s assignments for all NHIAA sanctioned varsity, junior varsity and freshmen level games by November 1st.  The President of Board 32 and the Supervisor may receive this same information for all board officials. The final list of these assignments will be available to the local board presidents by way of limited access through the Arbiter assigning software by December 1st.  Motion passed.

 

Rankings to support Assignments -  see New Business, Evaluation Committee

 

Officials vs. Cancer – Ordway raised the questions of what Board 32 would require for this season’s official vs. cancer campaign.  Discussion about past requisites of white whistle, pink whistle, lanyards, etc was short.  A motion was made Ordway/Pelletier to require the use of the pink whistle and the pink lanyard by all IAABO official working all games during the campaign week in January and that all local boards shall be responsible for supplying their officials with the pink whistle (if no previously provided) and a pink lanyard.  Motion passed.

 

New Business:

 

Evaluation Committee -  Dichard will chair this subcommittee and will work with Smith and other members of Board 32 Executive Board to bring the start of a new method of evaluating and ranking all NH IAABO Officials.  Dichard has reserved the week of October 10 – 14 and possible meeting nights.  He will poll all members who are interested in participating and attending and the most popular date that week will be selected.  As of this writing, the meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 11th and will be held at Manchester West High School.

 

John Clark Award –  Smith asked about the procedure to follow for the John Clark award nominations.  Some discussion followed about has nominations were take in the past.  Past nominees were generally re-nominated of they were not selected.  If selection were made, new nominations were given.  The local board presidents agreed to get Smith 1 nomination from their individual board.  Smith will poll Board 32 Executive Committee members and submit nominees.

 

All business not address on this meeting’s agenda will be carried forward to the next meeting as Old Business. President Zecha suggested that because of the length of this agenda and the importance of the issues to be covered that we meet again prior to our regular meeting in December.  A motion was made Zecha/Marcotte to hold a meeting on Sunday November 13, 2011.  Motion passed.

 

Next Meeting:  Sunday, November 13, 2011 @ 9:00 AM @ NHTI

Adjournment: Motion was made, Marcotte/Pelletier, to adjourn @ 1:00PM, approved.

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Dennis Ordway, Secretary/Treasurer