In attendance:
Mike Conant Barbara Foster Trecia Travers Cheryl Bascomb Carol Renell Robyn Davie Brad Davie Andrea Harvey Susan Robins Karen Stewart Al Ketchen David Van Wie Vicki Mason Review of Minutes

The minutes were reviewed and accepted with several revisions. They will be corrected and posted to the web site.

Treasurer's Report
We have three requests for refunds for players that have decided not to play. By unanimous vote it was decided that the $50.00 will be refunded to Evan Baggs family (dual custody family with a mix-up on who would pay). Dan McLean has paid $100. We will refund $50.00 and keep $50.00 in escrow for next year. Mitchell Dunn has requested a refund of his deposit. It will be kept in escrow for next year.

Andrea will be at practices to collect assessments from Middle School and High School players.

A refund of $81.00 will be given to Mike Conant for ad book expenses.

Andrea would like to make a change in the checking account at Peoples Bank to a Small Business free checking account. This was accepted by unanimous vote.

We are GNG Poland Hockey doing business as the Blueliners Club. Andrea is still working on the 5103C issue

Fund Raising
Catalogs-Robyn stated that a lot of items were ordered and some are back ordered. Robyn will email Trecia and Andrea the final figures when the project is complete. The final figures will have the 5% already taken out. The owner of the company is no longer in business, there will be no future catalogs.

Spaghetti Supper
This has been cancelled due to lack of participation.

Citrus Sale
This is not going well. If we do not receive enough orders it will be cancelled. If anyone has outstanding orders, please let Sue Lajoie know.

Golf Tournament
There are plans to try this again next year.

Hats
Brad requested to order 48 GNG/Poland Hockey baseball caps to sell. The hats would sell for $18.00 each. This was approved by unanimous vote.

Coaches Report
Middle School
After our last meeting, David received several inquiries from players for a B team. Some parents were concerned that the less skilled A players might spend the season on the bench. He and Trecia made a decision to go ahead and reinstate the B team since he now has 21 players. Andrea re-worked the budget and the price will remain the same. David informed the board he may have to 'bend the rules a little by dropping A players to B'. The Board advised David that we must follow the SMMSHL rules.

High School
We have several players not returning this year. Brandon Slattery, Travis Dunn, John Conant and Dan McLean will not be returning. Linda Gagne's son Matt has dislocated his shoulder and cannot play until the end of December or early January. We currently have 22 players on the roster. Brad has given back about $2,000. in ice time. The High School is having intensive dry land training. Brad is going to have a trainer do a body fat analysis at the end of the season an again at the beginning of next year's season to motivate players to work hard over the summer. He is hoping to have 52 weeks of dry-land training. He will have more information for the players at try-outs.

Public Forum
Dylan Conway's father prompted a discussion on the recent mandatory meeting and how it was communicated. He did not read his email until it was too late to attend. He does not feel it is fair to penalize his son because he did not read his email. His son has worked hard all summer to improve his skills and he does not want to see him have to sit out the first game.

Old Business
Banner- Due to time constraints, this issue is tabled until a future meeting.

Ad Book
This is going well. A parent (Michelle Lefebvre) has been making phone calls and we have collected $1,015 so far for the general fund.

Amendment To By-Laws
An Amendment has been approved to change the by-laws to read "If a Board Member or Officer misses three consecutive meetings, whether called or scheduled, that member will be asked to resign."

Gate Fees
We will be charging $3.00 general admission for gate fees and $1.00 for students and seniors (age 65+). We are also planning on a concession stand at home games.

Meeting was adjourned at 9:00 PM Our next meeting is scheduled for December 21st at 6:30 PM at the Ricker Library in Poland.