Colorado Judo League Meeting

September 24, 2006

 

Attendees:

 

 

Pat Nading-Amman  – Vice President – Northglenn

Diana Cheatum– Northglenn Judo Club

Tammie Liddie – Treasurer - OTC

Heidi Moore – Denver Judo

Matt Simmons – Secretary – Eastside Judo Club

Sherrie Phillips – Boulder Judo Training Center

Grace Jividen  – Delegate at Large – Denver Judo

Richard Mignogna  – School of Mines Judo Club

Verna Larkins – Delegate at Large – Northglenn

 

Jentry Kendall – Delegate at Large – Northglenn

 

 

 

 

With a quorum present the meeting was called to order at 1:15 PM

 

Minutes of the previous meeting were accepted on unanimous voice vote.

 

Reports:

 

Treasurer:  Tammie Liddie – Operating account $13,891; Scholarship account $3115.  The tune-up Camp brought in $692.58.  The final report on the CJL banquet shows an income of $1400 but the cost of Jackets to the All-Colorado Team and payments to support athletes show a net loss.  Next year’s report will not have awards as part of banquet expense but a separate line item.

 

Tammie announced that starting January 2007 standards will be set on money request, and deadlines will be set for athletes eligible for support/reimbursement to turn in their paperwork.  Tammie, Sam Hashimoto and Pat Nading-Amman will meet with the League’s accountant and instruct him to start structuring his reports to match the line items in the Treasurer’s and the CJL Budget report.

 

Tammie and Rich Mignogna reported that the League has a $410 shortfall to Great Crates for handling the mats.  Most of the shortfall is due to fuel increases for transporting the mats. Total cost of mat storage and shipment is $2160 and estimating 7 tournaments renting the mats there will $1750 of income form the mats.   It was decided that Rich would draft a letter to send to all of the League members requesting donations to make up the short fall.  This seemed the best compromise since all League members benefit from the mats, and now that the League is a charitable organization any donations would be tax deductible.  If there is still a shortfall after the request then fee increases may be required.

 

Public Relations: Pat Nading-Amman – No Report. 

 

Development: Grace Jividen – Official report was held until the discussion of the Dutch team’s visit.

 

Fundraising: Pat Nading-Amman – The biggest fund raisers are the State Championships and the CJL Banquet.  The Championships were set for March 3, 2007 at Northglenn.  The Banquet was set for February 10, 2007 at same location as the 2006 banquet.  Discussions were held on ideas for fund raising.  It was agreed that CJL fund raising should not interfere with individual clubs fund raising.  It was suggested that the head of the Fundraising Committee contact AnnMaria DeMars from the California Judo League and find out what they have done for fundraisers.  It was also suggested that the CJL set up a whole sell IPO where members of the CJL could purchase items at retail and the profits go to the League.  Requesting corporate sponsorship was also suggested.  Heidi Moore volunteered to contact Frontier Airlines, and Sherrie Phillips volunteered to contact Whole Foods.

 

Budget and Finance: Diana Cheatum –A proposed budget was presented using past budgets as a guideline.  There is $1000 shortfall in the budget.  In the past a deficient was not a major concern but now with CJL being classified as a charity the Government rules require a balanced budget.  Several suggestions were given to help reduce the deficient including fee increases and giving Colorado All-Stars patches for their judogis rather than jackets.  Diana was directed to present a final balanced budget at the January meeting for 2007.  At that time cuts in the budget or fee increases will be finalized.

 

Coaching: Richard Mignogna – The national committee is developing a new system and no clinics will be given until new system is determined.

 

Tournament: Pat Nading-Amman – All tournament directors are encouraged to reserve the dates of their tournaments as soon as possible.  Currently the following tournaments are scheduled: 11th Albert Tagawa Memorial Shiai (Denver Buddhist Temple), 28 Oct 2006; Denver Judo Tournament, 18 Nov 2006; 2006 Brian Olson Winter Classic (Boulder Judo Training Center), 2 Dec 2006; 2nd Pikes Peak Tournament (Eastside Judo), 24 Feb 2007; CJL State Championships, 3 Mar 2007; OTC Tournament, 5 May 2007.

 

The Rocky Mountain State Games gave $318 to the CJL.  Next years games will be held on August 5 (same date as the Junior Open).  Since Colorado is hosting the State Games of America the entry fee will be raised to $30.  The RMSG are looking for Commissioners to head the Judo competition.  The RMSG is aware of the problems and concerns that were voiced by the CJL and have promised to do better next year.  Additionally, there is a group of 48 blind judoka from the whole nation who will be holding their own tournament prior to the State Games but are planning to also compete in the State Games.

 

The Technical Officials Committee has been folded into the Tournament Committee.  The biggest problem is training volunteers to be bracket keepers.  (The consensus is that scoring and timing can be quickly picked up.)  Heidi Moore has again agreed to provide a power point presentation on basic bracket keeping to anyone who requests it, and Jon Miller’s training notebook is also available on request.  The Tournament Committee is also initiating a program where two new people will shadow the bracket keepers to learn how to do bracket keeping.  The tournament host will have the option to train his own members.  If he doesn’t supply two people, then members of other clubs will fill the training slots.  A technical kit will be provided to tournament directors for a fee of $10 ($25 for non-CJL members), to cover repair and replacement.  The kit will contain scoreboards, stop watches, osea komi paddles, sashes and bean bags.  It is up to the tournament director to provide administrative supplies.

 

Belt Rank and Promotions:  Page Baptist – Ten judokas were promoted on August 10.  There are still a few who have not received their certification because they have not paid the national fee.  It is the responsibility of the coaches to assure the paperwork of their students being promoted is properly filled out.  Several judokas testing had incomplete or no paperwork.  Elite athletes on the National Roster require only paperwork and do not have to test.  The next testing will be held in February 2007 at the Denver Judo Dojo.

 

Referee: Jentry Kendall – Had no report.  Changes at the national office will affect referees just as it affects coaches, but those changes are still unknown.

 

Registration: Verna Larkins – The CJL has 430 members as of September 1, 2006.  The national office will start sending rebates quarterly instead of monthly starting 2007.

 

Volunteer:  Tammie Liddie – No report.  Since the volunteers fall under Tournaments/Technical Officials it was proposed and passed that the Volunteer Committee be dropped.

 

Scholarship: Verna Larkins – No report.  There was a request for additional members to join the committee.  Pat Nading-Amman, Tammie Liddie and Heidi Moore agreed to join the committee and will give a report at the next League meeting.

 

New Business:

 

Funding of Dutch Junior Team: Report by Grace Jividen.

The Dutch Junior team will be in Denver, Colorado 21-29 October.  Grace requested the CJL to provide protocol gifts for the Dutch team, and the request was approved. 

 

Workouts with the Dutch Team will be scheduled with several of the Denver clubs.  There will also be a clinic on the Friday night before the Buddhist Temple tournament.  Brian Levitt has agreed to allow a special team competition between the Dutch juniors and Colorado’s elite juniors at his tournament. The team competition will be for 14 to 19 year olds. 

 

Women’s Sport Foundation (RYKA): Report by Diana Cheatum.

Diana has submitted the paperwork to the Foundation requesting a grant or $10,000 to encourage women to remain active in sports after college.  If the grant is approved the CJL will have to vote on approving the $1200 finical support listed in the grant proposal.  The grant will be used to finance clinics, help pay dues (national and club), pay for equipment and provide scholarships for women.  Funding will be open to any woman over 25 years.

 

Electronic Score Boards:  Requested by Matt Simmons.

With all the e-mail traffic between members of the Executive Committee Matt Simmons requested a final decision on the CJL purchasing electronic score boards.  The proposal to purchase electronic scoreboards was disapproved.

 

Executive Committee Meeting: Report by Pat Nading-Amman.

Pat gave a quick report on the Executive Committee meeting and pointed out the thrust of the meeting was ways to fund raise for the CJL and working to develop athletes.  To aid in fund raising dates were fixed to hold the CJL Banquet (10 Feb 2007) and Championships (3 Mar 2007).  The venue for the Banquet will be the same as last year and the Championships will be held at the Northglenn Community Center.  There was a question from the floor on the reason for Northglenn as the location of the Championships.  It was pointed out that the Community Center could be rented for $150 and rental expense for anywhere else was 3 to 5 times higher.

 

Fee Increases:  Verna Larkins.

Due to the budget shortfall (see Treasure and Budget & Finance reports above) some CJL fees will have to be increased.  Sanctioning fees will increase from $25 to $30.  It was suggested that clinic fees remain unchanged while tournament fees be increase.  It was decided that the added trouble of bookkeeping did not make it feasible.   Club registration fees for the CJL would increase from $25 to $50.  Currently club registration requires a $25 payment to the national office and $25 to the CJL.  It will now be $25 to the national office and $50 to the CJL for a total of $75.  Verna reported that the national office may increase their fee to $50 for any clubs registered after 1 Jan 2007 (for a total of $100).

 

The shortfall of mat storage was reported under the Treasurer’s Report above.  If Rich Mignogna’s letter requesting donations fails to make up the short fall then mat rental fees will have a $60 increase for a total of $310 to rent mats.

 

Other Business Not Listed on the Agenda:

 

CJL Bidding on National Events:  Sherrie Phillips proposed the CJL look into the possibility of bidding on national judo events and tournaments.  Rich Mignogna reported that the Denver Metro Sports Committee was asking the CJL’s support in bidding for the PanAms and Olympic tryouts for judo.  The bidding system has changed so that it is now cities that bid for these events rather than sports organizations.  The fees charged for hosting such events are now $5000 for the PanAms and $25,000 for Olympic tryouts.  Denver, Las Vegas and Cleveland are currently bidding for these events.

 

Team Force: Heidi Moore reported that Buck Wessell and Jimmy Pedro were working on setting up a Team Force scholarship program for up and coming juniors.  They are not looking for national champions but those who show promise.  Applications are online and financing of up to $7000 will be available.  Buckner and Pedro are requesting levels of commitment from athletes 13 or older.

 

Banquet Committee:  Grace Jividen accepted the chairmanship of the committee; Heidi Moore, Tammie Liddie, Verna Larkins, Pat Nading-Amman, Diana Cheatum and Sherrie Phillips agreed to sit on the committee.   A report will be presented at the next meeting.

 

Location of Future League Meetings:  Pat Nading-Amman proposed that future meeting be held at the Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock since it is a half-way-point between Denver and Colorado Springs, and there is no charge for conference room.  The proposal passed.

 

Next Meeting: Tentatively scheduled for January 7, 2007.

 

Meeting adjourned 3:00PM.