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Meeting opened at 7.01PM |
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Jim Dee agreed to Chair the meeting, he spoke about the Special Meeting that had been held prior to this meeting. He advised that Gordon Young had submitted his resignation at the previous meeting. All other motions at the meeting had been passed. |
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Correspondence
In – Kathie Hall’s Blue Card confirmation
Complaint from Hilda Sand
Out – BAS Statement |
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Minutes of Previous
Dave Emblem requested a small alteration to the minutes.
Motion to accept the minutes proposed by Dave Emblem, seconded by Brian Maloney. All in favour.
Motion Passed. |
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Business Arising from Minutes
No business arising from previous minutes. |
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TREASURERS REPORT
Kathie distributed of the financials to all in attendance. Bank statements were presented to the meeting. A copy of the Budget was distributed to those that we not in attendance at the last IHQ meeting.
MOTION: That IHQ accept the Treasurer’s Report Moved by Kathie Hall, Seconded by Nigel Appleton.
ALL IN FAVOUR - MOTION CARRIED
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PRESIDENT’S REPORT
No report |
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IHA Report
No report available. |
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Senior Co-ordinators Report
Storm had supplied a report to the Secretary and will be distributed with these minutes.
She advised that the draft had not been done too well, as they had mainly gone with the teams from last season. Some teams appear to the be stacked and need to be monitored, how can we monitor the players in each division. There are currently 3 teams in division 1, 4 teams in division 2, and 5 teams in division 3. All teams are now full. There has always been an issue with which division the players are competing in.
Division 4 has been getting ignored but the currently have 2 teams that are playing on alternative weeks.
There have been a problem with getting the referee’s for the games this season. The game costs will be revised next year.
Ron Hughes has been having a team from Division 4 training with his Division 3 ‘Blue Stars’ team. Some of the players need some off-ice training (game plays, training video’s). It would be a help if we could get GSHL to play on a separate night to Division 1.
It was mentioned that we need to focus on the Senior players as well as the juniors because they also bring along Junior players.
IHQ need to start planning the next season now so it is not rushed at the end.
Paul Brazier would like to complement Storm on the work she has been doing and done during the last season. |
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Junior Co-ordinators Report
Had a successful turn out for the first weekend of junior hockey, this included 17 players in the Come ’N’ Try program, 35 players in the Bantam and Midget group and 24 in the Atom and Pee Wee group.
Juniors will now be playing on Sunday’s at Boondall. The times are: 3.30 – 4.30 Junior B, 4.30 – 6.00 Junior A, 6.15 – 7.30 Senior Drop-in and from 7.30 onwards will be the Senior League. All the games for the season are now posted on the website and all players have been advised of their teams. Junior players will train on a Tuesday night at Boondall.
The Come ‘N’ Try sessions will be at Boondall on a Saturday afternoon 4 – 5PM and Dean Tully will be sending someone to help with these sessions. The Come ‘N’ Try sessions at Acacia Ridge have not been successful. It was suggested that the Stars target the schools. There was also a problem with coaches who could attend the time slot at Acacia Ridge.
It was suggested that the training on a Tuesday night was too late for some of the junior players and could they try a different time slot at Acacia Ridge.
Both Acacia Ridge and Boondall have offered some slots in the Skate School that the hockey players can attend to develop their skating skills.
The rinks have advised that it has been helpful that they are now only dealing with one person (Lianne Steven) to book all the ice times for ice hockey.
Storm thanked Lianne for her efforts with all the ice bookings. |
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Coaching Co-ordinators Report
Brian reported that there has been a shortage of coaches only Warren and Brian have been available. There has been no other response from players to help out with the coaching. Warren will be speaking to the players at Acacia Ridge to see if anyone will agree to help out. There have been no players from Acacia Ridge in the 5 – 13 year age group.
Roger Smith requested the 9.30-10.30 Sunday morning time slot for Junior Training and that ice time has been booked to 9th December, IHQ has also advised Roger that they would make up any shortfall in the payment for the ice. Roger Smith opted out of this time slot because he wanted to run the training privately and not under IHQ. Roger has now commenced a privately run training session on the Gold Coast.
There are currently no games junior games scheduled out of Acacia Ridge as there is a shortage of referee’s available for the timeslot at Acacia Ridge.
Jim Dee has suggested that these issues be discussed at a different time slot and possibly develop a sub committee to help with these issues.
Tamara Jones (SA) has agreed to hold a coaching course in early March. It would require a whole weekend starting on Friday night through until Sunday evening. It was suggest that the Friday night session could be held in a central location. IHQ require 6 weeks notice prior to the commencement of this course to notify the members who wish to attend. This would also include the refresher course for accredited coaches. It would be expected that 15 people would attend this course. IHA run the course for Level 2 coaches and will be held in Newcastle early next year. |
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Referee’s Report
Jim McIntosh spoke about the summer season and the limited number of on ice officials that are available during the summer season. He advised that there have been 2 course run this year and 17 people attended, of those only 14 have been on ice. For the summer season, there are some who wish to have a break, there are also some that are injured and last weekend there was also some illness. Last weekend there were 5 rostered for Boondall and 2 for Acacia Ridge, only one attended at Boondall and was on-ice from 3.30 – 10PM, which was much too long for one person. There was an incident that occurred and this may have been prevented if there had been a senior official available.
NSWIHA have made it compulsory that each team supply 2 referee’s at the courses.
The meeting was advised that some of the players that are prepared to attend the course cannot do so if the course is both days of the weekend. Jim advised that a mid week course had previous not worked but could try a course that would be on two consecutive Sundays. There are also GSHL members that would be prepared to attend if the course was run over a longer time frame. The course would need a total of 1 ½ hours ice time. IHQ will set the dates for this course and advertise, advise Jim and he will arrange the for the course to be run. IHQ requested that they be supplied with the roster for the weekend games, the night manager would then know who they should be expecting at each game.
Jim advised that some of the players have been abusing the officials and if this continued he would exercise the rule for Abuse of Officials and the appropriate penalties would be given to players.
Jim advised that there have been some Division 2 and 3 players that have been around for some time now and he would contact them directly about attending the referee’s course. To immediately fix the problem for this season we need 10 people. Jim could run a linesperson course in 6 hours if required. |
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Summer Trial for 2006/2007
The Bucc’s requested that this topic be discussed at this meeting. Brian spoke out about any decision that will exclude any club for competing would be wrong. Running the summer season would exclude the Grizzly’s. The ice on the Gold Coast is not suitable for games during the summer. It was suggested that we run a winter season and the club could arrange drop-in during the summer. Ron Hughes suggested one 40 week season but most agreed that would be too long and with the shifting population in Queensland would be a problem with the number on teams. There would not be as many problems with scheduling games if we had unlimited ice time available, but most of the ice is late at night or early in the morning. The time slots need to be appropriate for the age group that is playing. It was mentioned to the meeting that kids play once a week and then train once a week, in the lead up to the tournaments perhaps they could do 4-5 weeks intense training. One of the problems that the state teams had this year was because they trained hard, they lacked the game practice going into the tournaments.
Jim Dee suggested that this needs to be discussed further at a separate meeting for this matter only. |
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Will GSHL be moved from an Associate member to a voting member
GSHL advised that they are not interested in putting a team in the IHQ competition. As most of the GSHL members are also members of another club, if there status was changed from Associate to Voting member, most of these members would then be have a double representation. GSHL advised that they are happy with the Associate status.
All members of GSHL need to be registered with another IHQ club prior to be eligible to play in the IHQ competition.
It was recommend that GSHL member join another club prior to joining GSHL, if they wish to participate in the IHQ league. |
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What is the Raptors and GSHL Mission Statement
Both the Raptors and GSHL advised that there Mission Statement is included in their constitution. |
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Refund of Registration for Alex Sewell
A request from Karen Sewell was received, requesting the refund of Alex Sewell registration for the 2007 season. He had paid his registration prior to the end of February and was injured, broke his leg, during a try-out for the State Team prior to the end of February 2007. He has not played or trained after 1st March 2007. IHQ agreed to refund his registration and have requested the Bucc’s to refund their portion of the registration also.
Jim will contact IHA requesting a refund for there portion also. |
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Appointment of a Grants and Forward Planning Officer
A discussion took place about appointing a Grants and Forward Planning Officer to the IHQ committee. Jim advised that the Vice President doesn’t have a job portfolio and that he should look at taking on this role. The VP sees and understands the operations of IHQ. Other members are of the opinion that this should be a separate role and should be a nominated position.
Jim Dee advised that about 7 years ago each board member had a portfolio that they each handled individually. Paul suggested that we get a member from each club as part of a sub-committee. |
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Refs and how to run the course
A date for the linesperson course will be set by IHQ. IHQ will arrange some date and advise Jim McIntosh |
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Club Audit Reports
This is a reminder that all clubs are required to have there audit report to IHQ as soon as possible after the 31st October, this needs to be at least one week prior to the AGM. This is a requirement of IHA. |
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Address the running of unendorsed/unsanctioned training Programs
IHQ have been advised that Roger Smith has been holding unsanctioned training sessions. The meeting was advised by Caroline Smith that Roger has his own insurance and that there is definitely NO games being played, they are only training sessions on the Gold Coast.
Paul quoted the clause on the IHA registration form and as long as they are only training they are not in breach of the rules of IHA.
Any games played by registered members must be sanctioned by IHQ and all players must be registered.
Caroline will forward a copy of the training program to Sue. |
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Kathie Hall’s resignation
At the end of the meeting Kathie submitted her resignation from IHQ as at the 31st October 2007. She advised the meeting that she has someone that she would like to talk to about taking over the position.
Jim thanked Kathie for all her work over the past 2 years. |
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Acting President
The meeting discussed that someone should be appointed to take over the position of President until the AGM, both Jim Dee and Storm Griffin names were put forward. The meeting agreed that Jim Dee would take on the position until the AGM. |
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Greg Riddoch Complaint
Hilda Sand has lodged a complaint about Greg Riddoch to IHQ, this matter was discussed at the meeting by all in attendance, the Bucc’s advised they are behind Hilda on this matter. There have also been some problems with other Officials during trainings and games. This matter needs investigating further and Jim advised that Tony Martyr Snr has the most experience for this investigation. Jim will ask Tony Snr if he can attend the meeting to discuss this matter and there are guidelines that need to be followed. Anyone who is interested can look on the IHA website at the Members Protection Policy. |
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Female Officials being Abused by Players
The meeting was also advised that there have been abused of the female officials. The meeting was advised that the night managers need to formalize this complaint, so this can also be included in the investigations. |
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Next meeting will be Wednesday 7thNovember 2007 at 7PM at Beenleigh Tavern. |
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Meeting closed at 9.05PM. |
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