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2016 Blessings in a Backpack
At our 55th Annual Meeting President Darrin Lamphier hands Blessings in a Backpack co-Chair Kelly McDonald a check from the league for $500. This is the 2nd year that the league has participated in this wonderful program that benefits needy children in the Lake Orion School District.
2016 Annual Meeting Minutes 3/6/16
Annual Meeting Minutes 3-6-16
Officers Present: Darrin Lamphier(President), Dean Klovski(Vice President), Todd Hartzell (Secretary), Brandon Lietke(Treasurer) and Erik Davenport(Player Representative). Rob Griffin Umpire in Chief
Introduction to the members and then Kelly McDonald, from Blessings in a Backpack, presented her charity and how they are funded, as 100% of all monies goes to the kids. Blessings helps over 300 disadvantaged kids in the Lake Orion school district to have a backpack full of food to eat over the weekend, because most of them would not eat on the weekend without their help. They are in need of volunteers and drivers so if you are interested in helping out please go to their website, www.blessingsinabackpacklakeorion.org. At the end of her presentation Darrin handed her a check from the league, for the 2nd straight year, from the League Golf Outing proceeds, in the amount of $500, which she was very grateful.
Dean went over the Annual Golf Outing for this year which is being held at the Myth on Saturday August 13th and space is limited, so if you want to have a great time don’t forget to sign up as the proceeds will help Blessings in a Backpack.
Rob Griffin spoke to us about his umpires and how most of them are umpping to get into the league. He has 7 umpires and 1 back up umpire. He also mentioned that his umpires will be professional and because there is only one, mistakes will be made so please act civilized. He also asked how we were handling rainouts as far as pay, which that will be discussed by the board.
Dean addressed the Wall of Fame situation as one where we need to get all of the pictures from the WOF players to bring it up to date. He also noted that if Christi’s is sold we might have to move our WOF somewhere else or we might have to… READ MORE
2016 Trades
TRADE:
Paul Sokol is trading Tim Scribner to Brian McCall for Keith Weiss
Done deal 3/11/16
TRADE:
Don Miller is trading Robert Siegers (9th round) to Ron Biggs for Mark Breault (9th Round).
Done deal 3/10/16
2016 By-law Proposals
2016 By-law changes
Article 3-Registration
Addition to the by-law:
• All coach’s must have their dues paid before they meet to draw the draft order and coach slotting order.
• On the last day of registration there will be no on-line registration so there are no technical difficulties that would prevent us from the drawing of hat picks, if they are needed.
Article 3-Registration-F
Current by-law:
F. Late Fee-If a member of the Executive Board has not received a player’s applicable fees before the completion of the second-to-last Pre-Registration session, the player shall be required to pay an additional $20 late fee in addition to any other applicable fees.
New By-law:
Late Fee-If a member of the Executive Board has not received a player’s applicable fees before the last registration date, on the date of the last registration a $20 late fee will be charged in addition to any other applicable fees.