CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SOCCER REFEREE ASSOCIATION

SUMMARY OF EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER REPORTS

October 2009 

President’s Report 

October is starting to be a busy month. With the youth and college season in full swing and the amateur league starting our talents are in high demand. Despite the wide number of games we must be aware that the calendar year is quickly coming to a close and now is the time to start think about meeting the recertification or upgrade requirements. Please see US Soccer or CCSRA webpage for details on the requirements for each grade.  

The written test will be offered before the October and November meeting at 6pm in the SMUD building. In addition, the fitness test will be conducted October 10th and November 15th. Please RSVP with Tom Starr for both the written and fitness test. Assessments can  be scheduled though Lynn Williams. 

Our Association looks forward to supporting you in your future referee endeavors. Please submit comments, suggestions or pictures to president@ccsra.net 

Respectfully submitted,

Mike Kampmeinert 

 

First Vice-President’s Report 

I recommend the Board meet in person at very near future date.

Several of the items below are repetitive from last month as they have not yet been addressed or are updates. 

1) “Fitness Club”: Still postponed until further notice. (VP not available. CA in Sunnyvale during the work-week.) 

2) “Pass Back”: Is anyone else on the Board willing to store and distribute items when they are requested? I am currently living in Sunnyvale during the workweek and only, on occasion, in Sacramento on the weekends.  

3) Website: Attempting to keep items/events up to date. Arbiter not currently active. Can no longer send out mass emails from Arbiter as our contract has expired.

All CCSRA and NCSOA members emails are in CCSRA web mail, however it is limited for mass emails needs. 

4) Everyone be sure to notice and recognize non-member attendance and make them welcome.  

5) I support that CCSRA attempts to become the avenue to CCSL Assignments.  The Association can post Assignments, Forms, Information on a direct CCSL/Referee Page.  

6) We need to discuss as a Board and as an Association:

      a) preparation for Annual Awards

      b) Preparation/announcements for Board Elections

    c) need to renew Network Solutions

      d) Sign up with either Arbiter or other product 

-Submitted by Colin Arblaster

Report Respectfully submitted,

Steven Culberson, Secretary

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SEPTEMBER 2009

First Vice President Report

1) “Fitness Club”: Postponed until further notice. 

2) “Pass Back”: Is anyone else on the Board willing to store and distribute items when they are requested? I am currently living in Sunnyvale during the workweek and only, on occasion, in Sacramento on the weekends. 

3) Website: Arbiter not currently active. Currently working on entering all members’ emails into CCSRA web mail so that we may distribute email blast from own email source. 

4) Posted the 9/11/09 Meeting Agenda Flyer on the NCSOA website to invite more non-members to this event. 

Everyone be sure to notice and recognize non-member attendance and make them welcome. 

(NCSOA has significantly reduced their number of meetings so an overload of attending meetings at this time of the year should not be a major burden upon all local referees during both NFHS and USSF matches.) 

Submitted by Colin Arblaster

First Vice-President

 

5) I have still not heard anything about Arbiter or Ref Scheduler(?). A decision should be made soon since the membership will be unable to access Arbiter and something needs to be put in place.

 

6) I still have the two new members from last meeting that I have not been able to add to a database since we are without one at the current time.

 

7) The current checkbook balance is $1,425.77  

  

Submitted by Ed Miles

    Treasurer

Report Respectfully submitted,

Steven Culberson, Secretary 

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August 2009

First Vice-President’s Report

 1) “Fitness Club”: Veronica Perez has been orchestrating both Tues and Thurs evening sessions. (This has been noted on website.)

 2) “Pass Back”: nothing to note.

 3) Website: “web hosting” needs to be renewed by:  January 09, 2010

 Renewal Options are:

• 1 year – Get 12 months for price of 9 at $159.50  (13.33 /month)
• 2 year – Get 24 months for price of 18 at $319.00
• 3 year – Get 36 months for price of 25 at $446.60 (12.40/month)

We originally elected a one-year renewal this past year to familiarize ourselves with the existing services, as the price break is not real significant from 1 to 3 year plans. (I can set this up to be automatically renewed with Ed Miles help -bank stuff. with what ever plan is chosen.

 4) Arbiter: Arbiter is in the process of updating its format and features. Now has a new domain name of www.arbitersports.com

    New features have not been completely revealed at this time so it is not yet possible to compare it with the other product of potential choice at              www.gameofficials.net

Price breaks for gameofficials.net still seems to be the main difference.

 5) New Website additions: created a background image of Blue jersey to add color and site uniqueness.

    Several local tournaments posted.

    California Cup Photo shoot.

    Basic maintenance and updates

 6) Online Referee Availability Form for Cal Cup received over 70 entries. Was of good use to the Cal Cup Assigners and provided greater exposure to high     level referees outside of the area. Placer United tournament requested the same format for their tournament.

 7) Colin is now also managing the NCSOA website. This should be up shortly. One will notice a similar style and navigation process making it easier for one serving both associations. Having the ability to marry information from both sites may hopefully assist both associations in regard to shared information, expanded information, browser traffic, increased membership.

Submitted by Colin Arblaster

First Vice-President

 

Treasurer’s Report

 1.) Current checkbook balance is positive

 2.) Membership is now at 82.

 4.) A consensus at the last meeting was that the polo shirts will continue to be embroidered and will not involve a sewn-on patch not a black background stitched around the net portion of the logo.  Our logo will be standardized when stitched onto clothing or other items.

 5.) Previously I asked for the Board members to send me their polo shirt sizes.  I have not heard from many of you.  Please send me an e-mail confirming what size polo shirt you wear.

 Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Submitted by Ed Miles

Treasurer

Report Respectfully submitted,

Steven Culberson, Secretary

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JUNE 2009

President’s Report

April was the election for the CCSRA Executive Board. The membership approved the bylaws and the new direction the Referee Association is going by trying to become the premier referee development group for Northern California. With the election we also had three members not return to the Executive Board. I would like to thank Jim Sandison, Dave Richard and Kurt Olson for their service to the CCSRA. They are very committed individuals who dedicated much time and energy to Referee Development and to the CCSRA. The election also brought three new members to the Executive Board: Nathan Lacy, Steven Culberson and Ed Foster. Their experience and knowledge is a great addition to the CCSRA and I look forward to working with all of them.

We have several exciting events scheduled for June around the California Cup. On June 19^th we have US Soccer Referee Inspector, Local Area Coordinator for Professional Assignments and former National Referee Farhad Mansourian and the guest speaker at our Membership Meeting. Please see the website www.ccsra.net for details about the meeting and the California Cup.

-Submitted by Mike Kampmeinert

 

First Vice-President’s Report

1) “Fitness Club” experiences non-activity from leaders. Any suggestions?

2) Will bring “Pass Back” stock onsite to Friday 19^th Cal Cup Tourney and Meeting that same evening. Warehouse has over 50 uniforms plus several other items. Several items from FIFA women have been received. Smaller sizes now available.

3) New Website additions:

-Hall of Fame and Awards Poll now online

-Cal. Cup Referee Availability Form and Web Page    

-Submitted by Colin Arblaster

Treasurer's Report

1) Financial status is good.

2) Our second CCSRA banner is ready for use. 

3) There have not been any new members that have paid dues and joined.

4) Members who paid their dues prior to our last AGM are grandfathered as members until our next AGM.  Membership fees are now $25 and are good until the next AGM is held.  Instructions on how to join are posted on the CCSRA webpage.

 -Submitted by Ed Miles

Member-at-Large Report

CCSRA Awards:

1. We should plan to award a Youth and Adult Referee of the Year, covering the current calendar year (i.e., the 2009 Awards will be awarded at the AGM in December 2009).

2. We should also award a Youth and Adult Assistant Referee of the Year Award.

3. We also might consider a Fourth Official of the Year Award.

4. We need to develop a list of past award winners for reference and historical purposes.

5. The Chuck Fleischer Award will be awarded on an “as-appropriate” basis to recognize assessors or other persons in the soccer community who have made outstanding contributions “for the good of the game.”

 -Submitted by Jim Sutton

 

Report Respectfully submitted,

Steven Culberson, Secretary

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MARCH 2009

First Vice-President’s Report:

Recent "Fitness Club" participants:  Sunshine Strong, Dealana Quan, and Samantha Moos.

Pass back:  four recipients to date.  Will bring stock to March meeting.  Warehouse up to 37 uniforms plus several other items.

Website:  3237 visits and 35 countries since installing analytics function on November 22.

Advertising space placed on website.

New website additions:  District VI Director of Assessment page (including electronic request form), CCSRA/District VI Hall of Fame, Referee Courses and Clinics

Purchased two USSF polo shirts from OSI, awaiting arrival.

Twelve assessments and eleven D&Gs requested for Association Cup.

 -Submitted by Colin Arblaster

Treasurer’s Report:

Current checking balance is healthy at $1,352.67

Paid membership for 2009 is forty-nine.

CCSRA banner has been ordered and should be ready any day now.

-Submitted by Ed Miles

 

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