Little League Baseball, Inc., United
States Eastern Region
State of Pennsylvania Association of District
Administrators
www.pastatell.org
Meeting Minutes
November 10, 2007 11:00 a.m.
Recreation
Building, Little League Headquarters,
South Williamsport,
PA
State Coordinator Glen Fiebig called the meeting to order.
Roll call was taken by sign in sheet.
Districts represented: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31 and 32.
Also present was Eastern Region Director Don
Soucy and honorary member Earl Mercadante.
Motion to approve the meeting minutes of August 25, 2007
was made by District 22. Second by
District 15. Motion passed.
Motion to approve the finance report dated November 10,
2007 was made by District 13.
Second by District 12. Motion
passed.
OLD BUSINESS
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Joe Wendler reported on the creation of District 6 by splitting District 14.
It will be split north and south with the north portion consisting of
10 leagues and becoming District 6 which will be in Section 4 and the south
portion consisting of 14 leagues remaining District 14 in Section 7.
No leagues from adjoining districts will be included in the split.
The proposal is being submitted to the Charter Committee for approval
after which there will be an election for a District Administrator for
District 6. Joe will handle matters
for District 6 until the election of the new DA.
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Obligations for leagues hosting state tournaments were discussed.
Motion was made by District 12 to require hosts to provide state pins
for all participants at state tournaments, a championship pennant for the
state champion as well as a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania flag for the Senior
League Baseball champions. Second by
District 22. Motion passed.
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Motion was made by District 9 to require hosts to provide division pins for
all participants in the east and west division tournaments and an Eastern
Pennsylvania/Western Pennsylvania championship pennant for the tournament
champion. A pennant is not to be
presented for qualifier tournaments that send the top two teams to the state
championship tournament. Second by
District 23. Motion passed
NEW BUSINESS
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Bill Dithrich presented a proposal for the 2008 tournament calendar.
After discussion and modification of several dates District 5 moved
to adopt the calendar. Second by
District 14. Motion passed
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Report on the recent PVUA meeting was made by Terry Bean, who attended the
meeting. The organization is working
on umpire training. They are
developing a protocol for selecting and recommending umpires for
tournaments. They have scheduled
2008 umpire clinics for February 9 in Connellsville, March 2 in Scranton and April 7 in Williamsport.
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Pool play. Glen reiterated that the
championship game must be played for any pool play tournaments.
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Motion was made by District 1 to amend by addition the following section to
the by-laws to become effective in 2008:
Section 1.03
Member in Good Standing
A member in good standing shall
be defined as a Regular Member that is not in arrears in dues and has attended
or been represented for at least 50% of association meetings for the past 12
months.
Second by District 22.
Motion passed.
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Motion was made by District 12 to grant Honorary Membership to Jim McDonald
in recognition of his 15 years of service to District 30.
Second by District 15. Motion
passed unanimously.
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Motion was made by District 22 that sections will abide by the state
association by-laws. Second by
District 30. Motion passed.
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Dan Merck gave an additional report on the progress of the PVUA.
He highlighted the action taken by the organization to permit the
districts to register all the umpires in their district for a one time fee
of $50. There is no limit to the
number of umpires a district can register.
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Eastern Region Director Don Soucy spoke on the following items:
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Asked districts that were due for administrator
elections in 2007 to hold elections immediately and those that have held their
election to submit the election results.
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The District Administrator clinic held at Eastern
Region Headquarters last weekend.
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The ASAP program.
He commended the membership for the 71% participation rate the state has
achieved, but encouraged all to strive to get more of their leagues to
participate.
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Road Shows coming to Pennsylvania.
Coming soon to District 30 and District 17.
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Asked for concerns on any issues that he can take
to the management meetings at headquarters this week.
Concerns voiced were the new pitching rule prohibiting a player from
pitching in consecutive games and how rules of lesser impact are presented and
voted on at congress and then between congresses rules with much greater impact
on the leagues are made by the Rules Committee without input from all the
administrators. There is also the
concern over how the rule changes impact the small leagues.
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Marc Shoenfelt from B2B Baseball gave a brief summary of his program and
expressed his desire to work with the districts of Pennsylvania in training coaches.
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By agreement the next meeting date is set for March 15, 2008 at the Recreation Building at Little League
Headquarters.
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Motion to adjourn by District 14. Second
by District 3. Motion passed.
Respectfully submitted,
Bill Dithrich
DA PA District 1
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