[Mark Padgett]

Tonight is our local kids rec league Board meeting and it's the last one before registration starts. A coach we ejected from the league "forever" last season has applied for an appeal and we will hear from him as part of the meeting. I was not at the game in which he was ejected, but I was told he got so upset at the coach from the other team (this was 7th grade boys) that he threw a clipboard at him and then, when one of the officials tossed him, got in that official's face and used profanity. A committee of the Board voted him out right after that. I would be very surprised if he got even one vote to reinstate.

Another serious topic will be considering trying to move our Friday night HS level games to another night. We have been asked to do that by the local HS athletic department because they feel the kids and parents who participate in our games that night would attend the regular HS games if they didn't have their games that night, and that would help the public HS games attendance. However, we took a survey of those kids and their parents and almost none of them said they would do that. Besides, it would make it difficult for us to redesign our scheduling to have those games on a different night. We have to be very cooperative with the HS, however, because their coaches do clinics for us at no charge. We don't want to have that stop because of a disagreement.

Oh yeah, we'll also discuss pay raises for officials for next season, but I doubt there will be any. Darn.