Cedar Rapids Athletic Officials
Association
Fall Business Meeting
November 5,2012
I. Call to order. The meeting was
called to order by Joe Schmall at 7:00 pm in the
cafeteria of Washington High School. An attendance sheet was passed for all in attendance
to sign in lieu of roll call. Thirty Six members were in attendance.
II. Minutes of the Spring 2012 meeting. The Spring Meeting Minutes were
available on the website. It was moved by Pat Dolphin and seconded by Jack
Jasper to accept the minutes as written. Motion carried.
III. Financial Report. Pinky
Primrose reviewed the financial report with the membership. The Executive had
met and reviewed the financial report as well. There is currently $5,963.06 in
the bank accounts. It was moved by Bill Utterback and
seconded by Rob Noble to accept the financial report. Motion carried.
IV. Executive Board Report.
Information from the earlier Executive Board meeting was shared with the
membership. The committee discussed CRAOA dues and why we have the $5.00
penalty for late dues. It was decided to keep the dues and the penalties the
same. CRAOA needs to be able to know the number of members before the season
starts so that we can let Arbiter know how many members we will have for the
season. The committee discussed transfers and applying members. There was a
discussion about Adrain Simonson. A letter has been
sent to him and he has been dropped as a member of the CRAOA. They also had
discussions about the training of new basketball officials. There were also
discussions about rules differences for football at Metro Football and 7thgrade
games for some schools. There was discussion among the membership about extra
20 minute quarters after the regular games were over. It was decided that
coaches cannot get together and decide to have two extra 20 minute quarters.
The athletic directors need to have this decided before the game. Pinky stated
also that all of the basketball games are filled except for 20 games at this
date.
V. Membership. It was suggested
that Jim Hazelton and Charlie Porter be moved to honorary status. Motion for
this was made by Dan Hilby and seconded by Jack
Jasper. Bill Yeisley made a motion that Gordon
Freeman, Greg Gravert, Eric Hoekstra, Boyd James,
Bryan Johnson, John Johnson, Shannon Johnson, Drannon
Kenny, Kurt Schindler, Jeff Schneidermann, and Dan
Thomas be moved to full membership. It was seconded by Jerry Winter. Motion
carried.
Bill Yeisley
made a motion that Todd Ambrosy, Bill Connally, Mark Murphy, Troy Patrick, Mike Pons, and Noel
Wilbur be moved from Step I to Step 11. This was seconded by Bill Ross. The
motion carried.
Jerry Winter made a motion to
accept David Baker and John BeGuhn as transfers to
full membership. Cal Norris seconded this. Motion carried.
Kevin Johnson, Chris Kenney, Tim
Nye, Cody Oakes, Kevin Schrader, Adrain Simonson,
Kevin Thorp, and John Winter did not meet the meeting requirements. All of
these members except for Adrain Simonson called or
sent a letter about the missing meetings.
There was some discussion about
Steve Cooper. Pinky Primrose stated that he has not been able to contact Steve
by phone or e‑mail on numerous attempts. It was decided that he will not
be scheduled for any basketball games at this point.
Alec Clark and Matt Smith were
applying members to the association. Pinky Primrose stated that they will both
be dropped from the association.
Joe Schmall
stated that the Annual Banquet will be scheduled for April 10th.
A motion was made to nominate
Scott Anderson as the Third Vice President from the football side. No further
nominations were received. Motion was made by Pat Dolphin and seconded by Rob
Noble to approve Scott Anderson as
Third Vice President. The motion was passed with no discussion.
The meeting was adjourned.