California Community College Athletic Directors Association

Business Meeting March 21, 2001  Reno,NV.

MINUTES

 

Discussion led by CCCADA President, John Keever

 

1.                Call to Order at 2:30 P.M. by John Keever

 

2.                Introduced CCCADA Board

John Keever            Moorpark College                    President

Jean Snuggs Sacramento City College          1st Vice President

John Woods            Palomar College                               2nd Vice President

Dale Murray            Cabrillo College                              Treasurer

Ben Partee    Santa Barbara City College          Past-President Absent—Surgery)

 

3.                Membership and Treasurers Report, Dale Murray

 

a)                Current membership is 55. Would like to get 100 members by next year.

b)               It was recommended that each Athletic Director make the Constitution available to their staff.  The majority felt it would not be difficult to duplicate each member of their staff a copy.

 

4.                Conference Representatives were acknowledged

 

Bruce Werner                    Bay Valley Conference

Steve           Cassady                    Central ValleyConference

Gary Dilley                              Coast Conference

Ellie Bewley                    Foothill Conference

Gary Houser                                   Golden  Valley Conference

Keith Calkins                    Orange Empire Conference

Dave Evans                              Pacific Coast Conference

John Norton                              South Coast Conference

Jim Sartoris                              Western State Conference

         

a)       Each representative was asked to take back information on the Athletic Directors Convention to their members.  Seventy attended last year. Our goal would be to get eighty this year.

b)      Each conference representative was reminded of their commitment to try and secure $200 for sponsorship of the 2001 Convention in Tahoe.

 

5.                Presidents Report, John Keever

 

a)                Members were encouraged to nominate individuals for the Honors Awards.  Individuals must have been retired for a minimum of two years and served as an athletic administrator for ten years.

b)               Take a look at the CCCADA web site.  It is linked to the COA site.

c)               The site contains our Constitution, meeting minutes, forms related to the CCCADA, 2001 convention information and other stuff.

d)               If you have recommendations on the site please forward them to John Keever.

e)                The 2001 CCCADA Convention, June 3rd-5th, South Shore Lake Tahoe.

1.                Deadline for reservations is April 18th

2.                Registration Sunday, 12:00 to 1:00 P.M.

3.                Concludes Tuesday, 12:00 Noon

4.                Sponsors are $200 in program and $500 on site.

Send $$ to Dale Murray and information to be printed to John Woods.

5.                 Great opportunity to share ideas, professional development and to have input on legislation.  Encourage your colleagues to join us.

 

6.          Legislative Action, John Keever

 

(Get List From Keever)

 

7.       Form 5’s, Jean Snuggs

 

a)                May need to initiate legislation on: reimbursement deadlines, transportation reimbursements and standardization of game expenses.  A straw vote was taken which supported pursuing Form 5’s in these areas.         

b)               Keith Calkins felt there needed to be more information provided to the field on how and where Form 5’s may originate and how the forms are completed.

c)                Bruce Werner reminded everyone that reorganization had created an opportunity for the development of legislation important to our organization.  Examples of such legislation would include post-season competition and out-of-season contests.  We should seize to opportunity to develop legislation to govern the things we deal with everyday.

 

8.                Post-Conference Competition, John Norton

 

a)                Mission and Goals statement has been established

b)               Surveys were sent to Sports Representatives and Management Council Representatives.

c)                Primary issues deal with number of total teams, number of participants and the number that qualify for post-season competition.

d)               Report will be reviewed at Tahoe.

 

9.                Recruitment Task Force, Marilyn Ladd

 

a)                Thanked members of the Task Force:  Gary Dilley, Jim Sartoris, Gary Houser and especially Bob Clement for making the arrangements at Harris Ranch.

b)               Survey results indicated that we have more out-of-state athletes participating since the new policy was implemented.

c)                Other survey comments included: 1) Open-up the State 2) More COA enforcement 3) Letter of intent 4) No new rules 5) Provide a recruitment window 6) Cap out-of-state recruits.

d)               Recommendations were also made on restructuring the Form 1’s and Form 3’s to identify specifically were the student athlete came from.

 

 

10.           Professional Expert Contracts, Sue Beers

 

a)                Chaffey College and Citrus College have issued contracts to football coaches without teaching as part of their load.  The salaries are significant, but the contracts are for one year and can be terminated with 30 days notice.

b)               Eliminates the problem of coaches who choose not to coach moving into the classroom full time.

c)               Points were made on both sides of the issue. Stay tuned.

 

11.           Pepsi Plan, Mike McPherson

 

a)                Mike will present the fundraising concept with Pepsi at the CCCADA Convention at Lake Tahoe.

 

12.           Nineteen new and replacement staff position were announced.

 

13.           Athletic Directors Association Memberships, John Keever

 

a)                John will provide a list of members to each conference representative.  The list will be used to help recruit new members.

 

14.           The Northern Representative to the Executive Council was asked to bring nominations for the CCCADA officer to Lake Tahoe.

 

15.     The meeting was adjourned at 4:25 P.M.