THE OFFICIAL HOME OF THE SAINT JOHN SLOPITCH LEAGUE

Hey everyone.

 

Thanks for everyone that showed up to the meeting tonight.

 

A couple of things from tonight.

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• Went over financial reports from previous years – document will be uploaded to the site and FB page.

  • Increase this year of 3% from the city for costs of fields.

  • Umpires went down in price this year as previously we charged the first 3 playoff games to have a 2 umpire per game system.  Now we will only be having 2 umpires in the finals of playoffs for each division.

 

• Mike Murray has once again joined as our league statistician.

 

• This year there will be a change of how many payments we will be taking.  Instead of previous years of 3 payments we will be collecting registration in 2 payments.

  • May 1st - $1300

  • June 1st - $1300

 

• Insurance was up for renewal this year.  The choices this year are SPN and NSA.

  • Jim McKinney attended the meeting to pitch the NSA insurance.

    • The cost for NSA is 110$ per team.

    • He will also give credits to the teams for the NSA website to get their merchandise for the prizing. (Ex: If there are 23-24 teams, he will give $2500 to put towards it).

• Shawn Hanson was not in attendance, but Tim was able to speak on his behalf.

  • The cost for SPN is 110$ per team.

  • The prizing is 15 hoodies per team.

• The representatives put it to a vote that SPN will once again be the insurance for a 2 year term.

 

• With SPN being the insurance again, every team/player need to access the SPN website to sign off on the waiver.

  • https://www.slo-pitch.com/login

 

• The All-Star weekend is now going to be renamed to the Harold Nason All-Star tournament in honor of Harold.  The date is still TBD.

 

• Discussed that the Saint John Slo Pitch league is going to be merging with the Sab/Miller Co-Ed Slo Pitch league.

  • This will help give us more leverage with the city and with time slots.

 

• Tim has spoken with BJ Doucette, and he advised that there are more umpires to join the league. 

 

• We are looking to work with the city on finding a way to have a league sponsorship with companies to help reduce the costs of the fees.  Teams are still more then welcome to find their own sponsorships though.

 

• We opened the floor to questions regarding anything from last year or would like to bring forward this year.

  • The DH rule for the pitcher is still an ongoing rule that we will have in place.

  • The divisions are going to remain the same with A/B split and C and D.

 

• Molson is once again the sponsor for the league.  They will provide cases of beer for every team.  They will also do the receipt challenge again with the prize being a keg of beer to the team who hands in the most receipts of Molson products.

 

• We ask that the rosters be handed in on May 1st along with the first payment of $1300.  The e-transfer payments will go to saintjohnslopitch@gmail.com.

 

Thanks everyone and speak to you soon.

The Executive.