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

Attendance: Darrin Lamphier, Brandon Lietke, Erik Davenport

Brad Cline: It was decided that an Award would be made to honor the memory of one of the Orion League’s greatest players. A plaque will be made for the Brad Cline MVP award, which will be awarded to the player that is voted the MVP by the players in the league. It was also talked about to get better participation for this award and the Tim Keenan award that we start voting on the awards with two weeks left in the season. Patch: Erik has Garrett Hoffman and Shawn Clark working on making a Bad Brad #11 patch.

Balls: We tried out some composite core balls at the Pig Roast and it was decided, even though it will cost us a little more the balls hold up throughout the game.

View the full meeting minutes here: Meeting Minutes 12-13

Bobby Sanchez has brought this up to the board and at the Pig Roast we would like to discuss this bylaw, for or against and then vote on it.  We do not want this to consume the day so we are asking that you think about it before hand and bring good questions for discussion.  

Section 7         Executive Board Decisions

C         Board Executed Discipline Decisions

Any discipline decisions by a current and or past Executive Board cannot be changed in any way for a minimum of 5 years. In the case of a player suspension for more than 5 years, and only after the 5th year of the suspension, the disciplined player must supply, in writing, his reasons why he should be reinstated to the current board at that time. If the current board at that time, by majority vote, agrees to overturn the original decision by the past Board/s, the current Board can then take this re-instatement request to the general membership for vote. This general membership vote must be taken at the next General Meeting. If this vote passes by the majority of the general membership, the said player will be allowed to enter the draft the following year.

Section 7         Executive Board Decisions

C         Board Executed Discipline Decisions

Any discipline decisions by a current and or past Executive Board cannot be changed in any way for a minimum of 3 years. In the case of a player suspension for more than 3 years, and only after the 3rd year of the suspension, the disciplined player must supply, in writing, his reasons why he should be reinstated to the current board at that time. If the current board at that time, by majority vote, agrees to overturn the original decision by the past Board/s, the current Board can then take this re-instatement request to the general membership for vote. This general membership vote must be taken at the next General Meeting. If this vote passes by the majority of the general membership, the said player will be allowed to enter the draft the following year.

LAKE ORION MEN’S “WORLD FAMOUS” TEAM DRAFTED SOFTBALL LEAGUE

GENERAL MEETING MINUTES

      11:00 am MARCH 1, 2015         

Meeting was called to order at 11:12am 

            Dean addressed the players stating that 1% to 3% of the players are giving the league a bad name. We need to stick up for one another and show sportsmanship.  Everyone is responsible for their own behavior. If someone is caught by the township for drinking at the fields they are done in this league…

View the full meeting minutes here: 2015 GENERAL MEETING MINUTES