Derby Baseball Association Bulletin Board

The Derby baseball board members held thier meeting on 9/13/09 at the DRC with the following members present. Debbie Ventle, Dwight Ritter, Aaron Whiteman, Grant Adams, Phil Nelson, Tom Prunier. Eldon Ventle, President was out of town.

Minutes from last meeting were reviewed. Grant moved to approve, Dwight second the motion. Minutes approved.
Treasurer report was read. Aaron moved to approve with Dwight seconding the motion. Report approved.

Grant brought up the subject of trophries verus giving out wall plaque. The board decided to go with the plaque. Also grant asked that we order the plaque for this past years winning teams in each age bracket. This includes all players and coaches on each team. A motion made by Grant with a second by Dwight to approve  the giving out of plaques and ordering them for the past season winners. Motion passed.

The board members reviewed our by-laws and decided to change some wording. Board members will now be named Board Directors. Also under Art 2 Section #7 which pertaines to associate members. Associate members will be a non-voting member and will be in the volunteer status and assist in the many tasks associated with the Derby Baseball Association.. When there is an opening on the Board of directors, an associate member may apply in writing for that position. 

Board members discussed the opening for Vice-President and felt that this position should  be filled immediately. Also brought up was that our President Eldon Ventle, due to his job requirements was out of town for long periods of time and had told the board he felt he could not perform the functions of that office and would be willing to step down and remain on the board. His resignation was accepted by the board with regrets and Eldon will continue to be a board member. After some discussion, Dwight made a motion to nominate Arron for President and Grant for vice-presidnet. This was seconded by Phil. A vote was taken and all members voted in favor of these appointments.

With no further business to discuss, Phil made a motion to adjourn the meeting and Dwight seconded the motion. Meeting adjourned.

Our next meeting will be October the 25th at 3pm at the DRC. As always, interested persons are welcomed to attend.

Tom Prunier

The board members met at the DRC on August the 23rd. Members present were Deb Ventle, Dwight Ritter, Grant Adames, Tom Prunier.

Treasuers report was read and accepted. Dwight moved to approve and Grant seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Old Business>
A review of the by-laws pertaining to bring on new members onto the board was tabled until our next meeting when all members could be present. Motion made by Tom and seconded by Grant. Motion passed.

New business.

Dwight Ritter had invited Phil Nelson to attend our meeting as a propected canadiate to fill  the opening on our board. Dwight went over Phil's involvement with baseball. He has been a long time player, a coach for many years and a long time Umpire. Phil is well know by many members of the Derby base ball association.. After some discussion Dwight made a motion to bring Phil on as a Board member. Seconded by Tom. The motion carried four in favor.

A discussion was held pertaining to filling to open position of Vice President. It was decided that this appointment would be made at our next meeting if all members are present.

Motion to adjorn was mase by Grant snd seconed by Dwight. Meeting adjourned.

Our next meeting will be at 3pm on August the 23 at the DRC.

DBA assocation Board met on Thursday 7/16/09. The following members were present., Eldon Ventle, Debbie Ventle, Aaron Whiteman, Tom Prunier.

Minutes from last meeting were approved. Treasures report was discussed and approved.

There was no old business to discuss.

New business

Debbie Ventle said she has been in contact with Kenny who is with the Sonic Beep Ball association. They are raising money and asking for equiptment donations for thier teams. The board voted to donate $250.00 and excess equiptment that we have on hand. Motion by Tom to approve, with Aaron seconding the motion. Motion passed.

A discussion was held on up coming board members elections for the position of Vise-President and Treasurer. This was tabled until our next meeting so that all members could be present.

The subject of a donation to the DRC for all the work that they did for our association this past year was discussed. Aaron moved that we donate $1000.00 to the DRC to help with thier expenses and Debbie seconded that motion. Motion passed.

The board also voted to give Clayton McKenna a gift certificate in the amount of $100.00 in appreciation for all his help he gave the association during our two tournaments. Motion made by Tom and seconded by Aaron. Motion passed.

The DBA board would like to thank all coaches, thier staff, all the player and all the parents for thier involvement in this past baseball season. It was a great season for everyone involved.

Submitted by

Tom Prunier


(REMINDER: DERBY TWINS BASE BALL GAME JULY 28TH)

DBA ASSOCIATION IS SPONSORING THE GAME ON THE EVENING OF JULY 28TH. ADMISSION IS FREE TO EVERYONE AND WE WOULD LIKE ALL COACHES AND THIER PLAYERS TO ATTEND.








































No further business. arron moved that we adjour with a second from Tom. Meeting adjoured.

Our next meeting is to be held on Sunday, the 2nd of August at 3pm at the DRC.

A special board meeting was called for 6:30pm 5/17/09 in the Court room of the Derby Police Department. This meeting was called to address an incident that occured during a 10 & Under baseball game on Monday 5/11/09. This incident involved the alleged mis-conduct of the Head umpire for the game.

All board members were present.
Also present were several coaches and asst coaches who were at the ball game and had knowledge of what ahd taken place. The board members listened to each of the coaches who presented thier side of the events as to what had taken place and what they over heard between the unpire, players and coaches. The unpire in question was not at the meeting as he was out of town. The board also heard from the umpire in chief, Dwight Ritter, who had talked to the umpire involved.

After all the information was gathered, the board thanked the coaches for taking the time to show up at the meeting and assured them that the board would weigh all the information before making a decision.

Head umpire Dwight Ritter advised the board that after taking to his umpire, and gathering other information, felt that he had in fact acted improperly. Therefore he suspended him for 4 games, advised him that he would not be allowed to umpire any more games involving the 10 & under and the 12 & under teams during the regular season and tournnaments.. Further that he was on probation for the remainder of the season. After further discussion, Arron made a motion to approve the punishment that Dwight had issued to the umpire. Tom  second the motion. Roll call was taken. Arron, Deb and Tom voted yes in favor, Dwight did not vote becasue of his involvement and Grant voted against the motion. Motion carried 3 to 1. Eldon who is president can not vote unless there is a tie.

Tom moved to adjour the meeting. Dwight second the motion

Tom Prunier
Secretary

Board members present: Eldon Ventle-Debbie Ventle-Aaron Whiteman-Grant Adams-Dwight Ritter-Tom Prunier

































































Secretay
Tom Prunier

BOARD MEETING 3/26/09

Members present: Dan Billman, AAron Whiteman. Grant Adams, Tom Prunier

Minutes from last meeting were read. No treasurers report given. Moved to approve by Grant, seconded by Aaron, Approved 4/0.

OLD Business.
Board discussed incorporation. AAron moved to table  and Dan seconded, Approved 4/0.

Upcoming tournament. AAron advised the board that we had 8 teams in the 12 & under bracket signed up and 4 teams in the 10 & under signed up.

Grant advised the board the he has made up the agenda for the coaches meeting.

AAron reported to the board that the tryouts held last Sunday were a sucess and that all player who tired out were place on teams.

Dan advised the board that he met with Southcentral officals and that they agree to take on our three Babe Ruth teams. Grant agreed to attend a meeting with them on April the 26th.

AAron reported to the board that our pitching mounds that we ordered are in. We now have a total of 5 portable pitching mounds.

Dan brought up the subject of pay to the head umpire, Dwight Ritter. After some discussion this was approved. Tom brought up umpiring in tournaments. We all felt that the board members needed to be involved in the running of the tournaments and board members should not umpire in these tournaments unless absolutely necessary. Motion by Aaron and seconded by Dan. Approved 4/0

Dan discussed rainouts. Board decided to have rainout notification on our webb site no late than 4;15.

With no new business Tom made a motion to adjourn with a second by Dan.
Voted 4/0 to adjourn.


Submitted  by

Tom Prunier

This is the 2nd page of the DBA board meeting held on 3/19/09.

AAron brought up the following information regarding the open league.
That we presently have 4 teams sign up for the 10 & under league, 5 teams signed up for the 11 & 12 league and 7 teams signed up for the 13 & 14 age league. We have other players signed up with no team assignments. Tryout will be held Sunday March 22nd at 2pm out at Garrett Park.

10 & under players will meet on field #1
11 & 12 yr old players will meet on field #2
13 & !4 yr old players will meet on field #3.

REMINDER;;; COACHES MEETING ON FRIDAY MARCH THE 27TH AT 6PM. TO BE HELD AT THE DRC.

With no further business, Dan moved to adjourn, Dwight seconded. Meeting adjourned.

Submitted by

Tom Prunier

DBA Board of Directors met on the evening of 3/19/09 with the following members present. Dan Billman, Debbie Ventle, Aaron Whiteman, Grant Adams, Dwight Ritter and Tom Prunier.

The minutes from our last meeting were read. The Treasuers report given. Dan made a motion to approve  and Tom seconded the motion. Approve with a vote of 6/0.

A discussion was held regarding our up-coming coaches meeting. It was decided that an agenda was needed. Grant volunteered to put this together. A motion was made by Dan and seconded by Dwight to allow Grant to make up an agenda. Approved with a 6/0 vote.

Grant brought up the subject of the sizes of baseball bats. He felt that this issue needed to be revisited by this board. Several board members had talked to coaches and other baseball leagues in the area. After much discussion the board decided to change its view on this subject and allow the coaches to decide which bat size that his/hers players would use. A vote was taken to allow
2-3/4 and 2-5/8 bats to be used.  Motion made by Dwight and seconded by Grant. Board vote 5/1 to allow this.

AAron was going to check on the status of the two new pitching mounds to find out if they had been delivered. (Later learned they were delivered.)

Grant brought up the subject of a Batter who must keep one foot in the batters box between pitches and pitchers must receive ball back from pitcher while on the mound. (this is covered in the Abbreviated Rules). Dwight Ritter our head umpire explain the keeping of the one foot in the batters box pertains to when a batter is taking signs from his coach. This is to keep the batter from walking from the plate up toward his coach and speeds up the games. As we have all seen some batters will walk quite a ways toward thier coaches for a signal.  Regarding the pitcher walking off the mound after a pitch. Normally a pitcher throwing a ball to home plate will come off the mound a few steps. again we have all seen pitchers, that after throwing a pitch to the catcher will walk a least half way to the catcher and then stroll back to the mound. This slows the game down. A motion was made by Dwight, seconded by Tom to keep these rules as it. Voted 5/1/in favor.

A discussion was made regarding where we would be sending any of our Babe Ruth teams. Arron made motion and seconded by Tom to send them to South Central League. Approved 5/1.

Debbie brought up the issue of insurance for this up-coming season Dwight moved and seconded by Aaron to go ahead and renew our current policy. Approved 6/1/.

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Greetings from the DBA board members.

The meeting scheduled for March 5th 6pm had to be rescheduled until March the 19th at 6pm, because several members had other commitments and could not attend.  Everyone is invited to attend our next meeting.

A reminder that the last day of sign ups without an additional $25.00 late fee is Friday March the 20th. Tryout if needed will be Sunday March 22nd at Garrett Park, 2pm.

Hope everyone has a good day

Tom Prunier

The executive Board of the DBA has voted to publish all of the minutes of each meeting in this bulletin section. This will begin with the meeting held on 2/19/09.

The DBA executive board members met at 6pm at the DRC on 2/19/09. In attendence were Eldon Ventle, Debbie Ventle, Aaron Whiteman, Grant Adams, Dwight Ritter and Tom Prunier.  Dan Billman. was absent.

The minutes from the last meeting were read along with the Treasures report Dwight moved to approve and Arron seconded the mothion. Motion approved 7/0

A change was made in assignments on the Board, with Tom Prunier taking over the duties of secretary and Aaron Whiteman taking over the responsibilites of overseeing the 13/14 yr old teams in the open division.

Old Business:

Question was asked if a coach could come to the DRC and sign up his entire team at the same time. The answer is yes.

Reference up coming tournaments. Cost $275.00 per team, with a 5 game guarantee and we supply the baseballs. NBC points awarded.

New Business:

Dwight brought up the subject of buying  baseballs. After some discussion  Dwight made a motion and second by Aaron to buy sixty (60) dozen from Varsity Sports. Motion carried  7/0.

Aaron advised the board that the webb site had been updated and that we now could sell advertisment on our webb site. After some discussion, Grant made a motion, seconded by Dwight that we charge $30.00 per ad per year. Motion carried 7/0.

The board discussed when we should have tryouts for any players not assigned to a team. Since out last day to register is March the 20th, it was decided to hold the tryouts on Sunday afternoon March 22nd at Garrett Park 2pm . Motion made by Dwight, seconded by Aaron. Motion carried 7/0.

Dwight brought up the subject of pitching mounds. After discussion a motion was made by Dwight, seconded by Grant that we purchase two additional pitching mounds giving us a total of 4. Motion passed 7/0

10 Run rule was discussed and the following decided. 10 & under teams the game will end after three (3) inning if the team is losing by 10 runs. (Exception- all players on losing team must have been at bat, if not then the game goes one more inning. 12 & under. the game will end after four (4) innings if the team is losing by 10 runs. 14 & under, the game will end after 5 innings if the teams is losing by 10 runs. Dwight moved to approve with Aaron seconded. Carried 7/0

Aaron moved to adjourn with it being seconded by Dwight. Motion carried 7/0

REMINDER-COACHES MEETING 6:30PM AT THE DRC on March 27th.

The board member encourage coaches and other interested person to attend our board meeting. Our next meeting will be on March 5th at 6pm, DRC.

Submitted by

Tom Prunier