The Wyoming Youth Soccer Board meeting, January 28, 2016
President – Casey Nix
Secretary – Wendy Brown*
District 1 - Dan King
District 3 - Lyndon Klein
District 5 – David Eldred
SYRA – George Wieser
Vice president - Laurie Christensen
Treasurer – Jason Howell - absent
District 2 – Terry Call
District 4 – Jeff Carruth
Member at large – Fred Catchpole
ED – Darcy Goni
Jan meeting called to order – 5:34 – voting strength at 9
Casey called for a motion to accept November minutes as presented, so moved & 2nded, all in favor,
none opposed. Minutes accepted as presented.
Reports
Presidents report – presented
Exec Director – report presented –
It was verified that Region IV voted at their AGM to move forward with the age mandate in the fall of
2016. It was noted that the Sub Regional ODP event currently has 60 players with a cape of 40 per age
group. It was requested that the Sub Regional event information to be sent out again.
District I – Meet with District – will present questions when the rules & procedures are addressed.
District II report presented
District III -report presented
District IV – report presented
District V – report presented
Several of the reports noted a concern about the 15yr old 8th graders. This is a nationwide change to the
birth year. This will increase the number of 15 & under group. A new column is available in Got Soccer
that indicates the birth year age.
Executive committee – No Report
Judiciary/Discipline Committee – No Report
SYRA – Report presented – It was noted the current number of referees at 153. George indicated we are
about 100 referees short for the year.
Membership Committee – No Report – Club accepted per president report.
*Wendy Brown Joined the meeting – bringing the voting to 10
Risk Management – No Report
Financial Oversight – No Report
Casey created 2 committees that are currently needed, Bylaw committee and the Nominating
Committee. Casey explained the purpose of the committees.
Casey appointed Jeff Carruth as the head of the bylaw committee.
The committee chair for the nominating committee will be appointed as soon as possible.
Approved as Read March 20, 2016
WYS Rules & Procedures Changes
District 1 started the discussion with a question about the change in the fee from $100 to $300 in
protest & appeals and if there was an option for it to be refundable if it was an error in part of the WYS
or if they won the appeal. It was proposed to change it to a percentage being return. Will be revised
by state office and send out for approval.
Dan motioned to accept with the pending changes. Point of order to a discussion. Dan rescinded the
motion in order to review additional changes.
The process of sending out the decision of the committee currently is assigned to the Secretary, it was
discussed that it would be better for the correspondence to be sent by the ED, since the ED was already
the point of contact for that information. No objection to changing it to the ED.
Discussion on the filing of an appeal shall not delay the execution of such rules. Discussion, it delays the
execution but the person can not participate until the appeal is heard. Wording will be reviewed.
U6 age group was removed along with a correct in the roster numbers in the number of players rules.
Discussion on the sit out form for a suspension.
Discussion on the Disciplinary Procedures & Penalties, there was questions and discussion on the
number of games required to sit out for different types of misconduct. The number of games per
incident was reviewed.
Discussion on the yellow card suspension was reviewed. Decided on 4 games.
Revisions to the rules will be completed and sent out to the membership for review.
George motion to accept the changes to the rules & procedures as discussed. Dan seconded the motion
all in favor, none opposed.
League Rules & Policies - Casey went through the submitted changes in League rules. Concerned were
voiced about the fine for not providing a referee. Discussion followed. Teams sizes were updated.
Wording was change in a few minor spots. Changes noted in who pays the referees.
Proposal to update the guidelines regarding age. There is a concern about how some Jr High school
programs will affect some teams in small areas. A proposal was submitted to update the guideline to
allow up to 3 u13’s to play down in the U12 age bracket. Discussion followed. Wyoming went from 2 Jr
high programs to 5 programs. No play downs in Regionals or in Wyoming Cup. The play down was put
back to Terry to rewrite with 3 option and then it will be reviewed & brought back to the board.
Due to time constraints, Casey requested if other items needed to be address before adjourning the
meeting. Darcy requested that the board make a decision on the Joe Cumming proposal for consulting
with the bylaws & strategic meeting for WYS. Casey called for an addition meeting to discuss the
proposal for next week. It was decided to have a meeting next week for about 1 hour to decide.
Meeting on Thursday, February 4th at 7pm.
Motion to adjourn, 2nd, all in favor none opposed. Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted
Wendy Brown
WYS Secretary
Approved as Read March 20, 2016