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description of the meeting, who was there, action items and
the next meeting date.
Note: all minutes are marked “Draft” until official
approved by the next committee meeting.
ACTIVITY STANDARDS COMMITTEE
Friday, March 24, 2006
VPA Office
Members
Present: Bob Davis, Patrick Burke, Cynthia Hinrichsen,
Frank Pecora,
Bill Lawson, Erik Wicklund, Pam Arnold, Dan Marlow, Shawn
Pickett, Kathi Bierwirth, D.G. Weaver, Bob Johnson, Ray
Pellegrini
Also
Present: Charlie Burbank, Bob Lucenti
Minutes:
- motion
by Shawn P., second by Kathi B., to accept minutes of 1/12
and 1/13/06.
Approved unanimously. (correct Cynthia’s name)
- correspondence
- discussion on Hazen self-report on ineligible player on
JV team. Bob J.
recommends no further action. No action taken.
- discussion on letter from Glenn Carter requesting permission
for high school
players to start on a non-school team early. Concern that
this would set a
dangerous precedent. Also, these should be individual request
with a
school formally requesting an appeal. Bob J. will inform Glenn
of this.
No further action.
- request
from Websterville and Cabot for a waiver of 50% team requirement
so
that Websterville and Cabot could enter into a Member to Member
agreement in Baseball for this Spring. Motion by Dan M., second
by Bill L., to grant a waiver.
Discussion
– Member to Member Committee is recommending that
schools who have less than 50 boys or 50 girls be exempt from
this
requirement. Rationale – under current policy, schools of
this size would
never be eligible for the program due to their size, Straw
vote indicated
that ASC is in favor of this policy change. Further discussion
– similar
request in Fall was denied (Gailor/Winooski), however because
of this
request the committee looked at the rule and proposed a change.
Final vote – approved unanimously. Bob J. will communicate
this to
the schools.
- discussion
on recommendations from the Member to Member Committee. Bill
L.
explained the proposed changes in sections #6, #7, #9 and
#10. Kathi B.
requested that team numbers in field hockey be increased to
the same
number allowed in soccer as starting teams have the same number
in both
sports (approved informally). Bill L. also recommended that
the policy no
longer be considered “experimental” and that be considered
like all other
policies and revised when needed (approved informally). Motion
by
Pat B., second by Bill L., to approve proposed recommendations
and
forward them on to the Executive Committee for their consideration.
Motion approved unanimously.
Brief
discussion on information presented by Jay VanStuckleman and
Larry Reed concerning individual sports being classified as
team sports
under the Member to Member Program. Issue tabled until May
meeting.
- Bob
J. updated committee on Dance Exhibition on March 11th at
JSC. 12 teams
participated and the event was very successful. Bob J. recommends
that
Dance be sanctioned as a VPA activity starting in 2006-2007.
Motion by
Bill L., second by Cynthia H., to approve Dance as a VPA activity
beginning in the 2006-2007 school year. Vote – approved unanimously.
Forward to the executive Council for consideration.
- discussion
with Bob Lucenti from the Community High School of Vermont.
Bob
gave a background on the CHS. One issue is its status. Is
it an independent
or public school. Current independent school application has
not formally
been acted on (operate as an independent school until otherwise
notified).
Unlike public schools, CHS has a compulsory age of 22. CHS
is awarding
diplomas. Approx. 20-25% of community based participants are
not
formally involved with Corrections. CHS sees itself as a community
resource and has informally been accepting students from area
schools
whether they have been referred to CHS or not. There are still
many
unanswered questions about the status of CHS that CHS is trying
to get
clarified.
- discussion
on issue from a member school concerning guidelines/policies
for
issue dealing with cross-gender (trans-gender). Is there an
actual medical
definition that deals with the issue. Recommend that Bob J.
ask NFHS
to pose the question to all members to see what other states
do. Also
recommend that Bob J. contact John Black (NFHS attorney) for
his
perspective. Also, contact the NCAA to see what they have
done. No
further action.
- discussion
on Basketball Committee recommendation to change the start
of the
Winter season so that the girls would start on the second
Monday in
November and the boys will start the 4th Monday in November.
Discussion on the pros/cons. This came from a recommendation
from the
Basketball Coaches Association, however their recommendation
was
slightly different. Concern over how this would impact other
sports.
Vote to table issue until further information can be gathered.
Revisit
in May.
- no decision
on request from the Officials Committee to consider the development
of an Ethics Committee which would look at issues with officials/coaches/
fans/athletes. Question as to whether an additional committee
is necessary.
Bob J. mentioned that the committee felt the first option
for disciplining an
Official needs to be with the officials organization. They
in turn would
make the VPA aware of the sanctions taken. If there was additional
concern, then the VPA would get involved. Bob J. also presented
the
concern with site management from the officials perspective.
Even though
most schools have an administrator at an event, is it unrealistic
to think
that one or two people will be able to control a large crowd.
ASC requests
that Bob J. check with other states to see what involvement
they have with
their various officials organizations. Would also like to
discuss this issue
with Michael Marks at the summer retreat. No further action.
- update
on the Winter season. Very few problems as the weather cooperated.
Not
all revenue is in, but it looks like we did well financially
(report in May).
- update
on NFHS/ASEP situation. No decision yet on whether VT will
go with
ASEP or with the proposed NFHS Coaches Training course. The
new
course will be exhibited at the NFHS summer meeting. ASEP
committee
will met in April to discuss options.
- other
business
- discussion on eligibility of students who transfer from
one school to
another while under a discipline sanction. Are they eligible.
The transfer
policy does not address the issue specifically. Most schools
accept the
sanction being implemented from the sending school, but there
is no
requirement to do so. Discuss further at upcoming meetings(s).
- 8th
graders playing on sub-varsity teams will be discussed at
May
meeting. VSADA and ML Committee have not met yet to discuss.
- question
as to whether the VPA is required to get individual student
permission if they are to be videotaped. Will check with Michael.
- adjourned.
Next meeting, May 2nd at Holiday Inn, South Burlington 10:00
a.m.
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