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Board of Parents

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Announcements

Calendar

See the board Email Archive for the most up to date information or the Web Youth Soccer calendar and the below archive of agendas and minutes.

Board Meeting Agenda's and Minutes

Board archives of past years
2007  2006  2005  2004

The Board of Parents generally meets once a month on the first Tuesday starting at 8:00PM at Hillview Senior Center Rm 12, 97 Hillview Ave, Los Altos. We thank the Senior Center and City of Los Altos for this provisional use. We also thank PostPath for the use of their room in 2007 and Camino Medical Group for the use of their room from 2002 through 2006!

The meeting at the beginning of June is the annual meeting where new officers are inducted (elections are held at the meeting in May). The June meeting is generally a dinner meeting to thank the outgoing members and welcome the incoming parents. We tend to meet twice a month over the summer otherwise. The board generally does not meet in December or January as the Volunteer Appreciation Party is roughly at the same time and we take a breather before starting preparations for the next Fall season.

Email Archive and List

• Board Archive of messages
• Submit a message to the board list: board@ayso43.org
• Automatically subscribe to the board list: board-subscribe@ayso43.org
• Automatically unsubscribe from the board list: board-unsubscribe@ayso43.org
  
• Similar lists have been setup for the coaches and referees (coach@ayso43.org and ref@ayso43.org; respectively, with similar archives and subscribe / unsubscribe techniques).

Note that you must unblock email from yahoogroups.com to receive messages from any of these lists. The list name will change each year to reduce unsolicited messages that the moderators have to process and throw-out. But list membership will transfer over automatically.

Increasingly since 2003, the board has used an email list to communicate important messages and decisions to each other. To better serve the parent board and the community as a whole, as of the Fall 2007 season, we have moved this list to be an archived and public message board using Yahoo Groups as the underlying engine. You access the list through our server and can now automatically subscribe or unsubscribe to the communications via email to our server. To prevent SPAM'ers from broadcasting to the list, submissions to the list are limited to members and moderated by the Executive Board. Membership in the lists is open to anyone.

Overview

Any AYSO region is run by a board of parents and volunteers who then elect their regional commissioner and other key officers. The regional commissioner is an officer in the national AYSO organization and elects the officials from the local Area Director on up to the President and National Board; along with approving any rule changes in the organization. The National board must also approve the elected regional commissioner. It all starts here locally and is mostly focused on local operations. All the other positions are there to support the local regions. There is more information in our "About Us" page entitled the ABC's of AYSO

All board meetings, activities, and finances are open to the public as much as possible. Only privacy concerns for volunteer and child welfare override this. If you do not find what you are looking for on this website, inquire with the regional commissioner.

Volunteer of the Year

2007 - Steve Brocksen for his 18 years of dedicated service that continues today with management of field permits, field lining, and coaching of our high school teams.
2007 - Kim Sheehan for her 10 years of helpful service in almost every role; most recently as assistant registrar, publicity, practice field scheduling, and game scheduling.
2006 - Laurent Delamare for his untiring work to build a referee organization, recruit parents, and follow through with each team and parent to achieve success in the role. For picking up other areas such as corner flags at all fields and scheduling when last minute changes saw the need
2005 - Steve Cutcomb for his MacGyver characteristic with goals and field equipment, helping us achieve 100% compliance on goal anchoring for the first time and change over to smaller, lighter safer goals for most of the younger age divisions
2004 - Patrick Murphy for his work as the new registrar and tackling the Web AYSO system to take us into the online, Internet age

Started in 2004 to recognize that one volunteer on the board who goes beyond the the call of duty. Always providing an extra level of service and taking on more work and projects as the need arises. Does the work of 3 to 5 volunteers when others back out or new issues arise. Maybe one of these years we will have enough volunteers that this is not needed.

RC Honor Roll

The all volunteer, parent board is headed by an elected Regional Commissioner (RC). This RC is an officer in the National entity known as AYSO and runs the region as one of many departments there. As such, the RC carries much weight for not only the local organization but in shaping the national group. As such, we wish to recognize our past RC's and there senior staff here:

Alan Black, 2008-
              (Fuad Abu Nofal: Coach Admin, Laurent Delamare: Ref Admin,
               Frank Pinkelman: Treasurer; Donna Vieraitis: CVPA, Daryl Odnert: Registrar;
               Jane Bohrer: Divisions Commissioner; Steve Brocksen: Safety Director)
Randolph Harr, 2004-2007
             (Vivien D'Andrea, Mike Khosraviani, and Fuad Abu Nofal: Coach Admin;
              Kevin Moynihan, Laurent Delamare: Ref Admin; Frank Pinkelman: Treasurer;
              Donna Vieriatis, Jane Bohrer: Divisions Commissioner; Jane Dupperault, Donna Vieraitis: CVPA;
              Kim Sheehan, Patrick Murphy, Daryl Odnert: Registrar)
Jane Lombard, 2002-2003 (Chuck Yort, Coach Admin; Ray Cooper, Ref Admin)
Steve Brocksen, 1998-2001 (Chuck Yort, Coach Admin; Ray Cooper, Ref Admin)
Becky Hayman, 1995-1997 (Jon Hayman, Coach Admin; Mark Vasser, Ref Admin)
Jon Hayman, 1990-1994 (Lisa Siber, Coach Admin; Mark Vasser, Ref Admin)
Ken Siler, 1987-1989 (Sam Harding, Coach Admin; Jim Bawley, Ref Admin)
Steve Gerrish, 198x-1986 (Sam Harding, Coach Admin; Jim Bawley, Ref Admin)
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Chet Frankenfield, 1973- (Esther and ?? Ellis: fields; Chet Prokop: ?; Rick Harker: )