MEETING MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF OFFICERS OF THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY DART ASSOCIATION (SCCDA)

 

Date of Meeting:            February 9, 2004

Location:                      Poet & Patriot

Time of Meeting:            7:00 p.m.

 

A meeting of the Board of Officers of the Santa Cruz County Dart Association (SCCDA) was held on the date and at the time set forth above.

 

The following Officers were present:

Also in attendance were Laura Beese and Bruce Rich.

 

Concerns and topics discussed by board members during this meeting:

1.       ADO research

2.       Start of the Season Reports

3.       The Official Rules and Bylaws Committee submitted changes

 

OLD BUSINESS:

               1. ADO Research

Charlie brought an information packet received by Don Hurdle from the ADO containing all the vital information about membership. Charlie motioned we create a committee to go over the rules and requirements and to sumerise the details for the board. The motion passed for Abel to form a Research Committee to assertain the changes and effects ADO membership and the cost thereof.

 

               2. Start of the Season Reports

Nichole reported that all League members have paid their dues, on time, without hassle. Abel reports that everyone seems to have a handle on Stats procedure and that the first two weeks went with out incident. 

 

               3. ORBC Committee

  The ORBC continued their submission of of proposed rule changes to the board.  Don Wilson, a ORBC member also submitted a list of issues he felt the ORBC had not had time to discuss and his solutions to the problems as well as a series of Charts illustrating board set up, Conflict Management, Short-handed playing, the amendment process, protest procedure, final standing determination, and removal of officers. These charts were still in draft form, not a final submission.  The diagrams included information or procedures that are part of the proposed changes to the rules so any real discussion was put off until after the rule changes have been adopted. Cliff pointed out that flow chart form would be clearer.  As for the list of proposed changes:

 

Part I Article II Section H The proposed change would allow but not require the playing of doubles games in shorthanded situations, letting one person take on two. Cliff motions we send this issue to a Captains vote, the motion is delayed until we know the total number of issues that need to be put to the captains.

 

Part I Article II Section L (old labeling) This is a rewording of how to handle late arrivals and which matches those latecomers can play in. It was also relabeled to be Section J.  There was no major changes just clarification, and was approved by the board.

 

Part I, Article II, Section L (new labeling) The board decided it would be best to remove the term division in the descriptions of leagues  (i.e. not A “Division” League as it currently stands but just A league) and reserve the term division for when a league is large enough to require a division split within it. This change will be applied to the whole rules document. The proposed additional lines to section L allowing division splits, providing for when they shall occur, setting down playing requirements to ensure fairness, and determination of championship were reworded by the board and then approved in their reworded form. Cliff questioned the necessity of requiring divisions and the capability of future statistician to deal with them. Abel indicated he had templates for division splits.

 

Part I, Article II, Section N (new labeling) The board approved the addition “Single Elimination” into the Best of the Rest Tournament definition.

 

Part I, Article II, Section O This section concerns when first place teams have to move up and how that effects individual members or when any team/player can move down a league. This section was reworded from the initial OBRC proposal back to more of its original meaning with additions to allow for petition.  This section was approved.

 

Part I, Article II, Section Q The rewording of the definition of a new team brought up how we define a team, is it necessarily 4 players or should we allow teams to form with only 3 especially considering we’re proposing to make playing shorthanded easier. Charlie motioned to keep the number set at 4, the motion passed with 5 ayes, 1 nay, and 1 abstain. The description of Season/Term paragraph was moved to this section in the interest of consistency. As to that description Cliff proposed we define a league of consisting of one or more divisions which would remove the necessity of defining term for both regular and divided leagues and make the second paragraph redundant. The section was then approved, 7 ayes no other votes.

 

Part I, Article X, Section A, Line 1 This section was reworded to remove the unnecessary and redundant requirements and received the board’s approval with 7 ayes.

 

Part II, Article VII, Removal of Officers Cliff recommended we put the word intentionally into the penalties for presenting false information, it was also recommended that if a letter ballot is necessary due to captains not in attendance that the ballot be sent out only to the missing captains and the votes of the present captains be counted at that time. This suggestion was not acted upon further. Charlie moved we accept the changes and all seven votes were cast as Ayes.

 

Part II, Article VIII All changes proposed by the rules committee were voted in with seven ayes, no other votes.

 

Part II Article XIII Section F This section also passed with seven ayes, no other votes.

 

The proposed changes for Part I: Official Rules of Play were put off until the next meeting.

 

NEW BUSINESS:

               1. Mailing stats to Captains

Abel reported that Captain Matt Walden requested that stat be mailed to him personally instead of to his home bar, as did Ryan Bigsby, one of his teammates. The board decided to mail one set of stats to Matt.

 

               2. Yellow Pages

Nichole reported that the phone company contacted up about paying to have an add in the yellow pages, after brief discussion the board decided that it wasn’t worth the money.

 

               Next week’s topics of discussion. (but not limited to)

               1. ORBC proposals

               2. All Stars locations

               3. ADO Research Committee update

 

               Meeting adjourned at 8:58 p.m.

 

               NEXT MEETING: Poet & Patriot March 1st, 2004 @ 7:00 PM. All League Members Welcome