Member Organizations Represented: Findlay, Gem City, Kettering Fairmont, Louisville, Lakota, Evansville, Oxford, Cincinnati

President Murray Stall opened the meeting and the agenda was reviewed.

The minutes from the 8/30/98 Board Meeting were reviewed. The minutes were accepted as submitted.

The Treasurer's report was reviewed and accepted. A big "Thank You" goes out to Todd Smith, of Gem City, and the Holiday Inn of Englewood. Todd and the hotel donated the use of the room and refreshments for the September Board and Scheduling Meetings.

The empty position of Vice President was addressed. Jeff Walker of Gem City Youth Hockey volunteered to serve in this position. Murray Stall nominated Jeff Walker as VP of the BTHL, Kim James seconded. Motion carried. This gives the League a full compliment of officers for the 1998 - '99 season.

Murray reported on the End Of Season Tournament. Now that all the teams have been defined, he can move forward with planning.

Discussion moved to final placement of teams. Prior the meeting, the Findlay Bantam and Columbus (IN) Squirt teams were approved to play at the 'A' level. The Cincinnati Squirt A and Indy Racers A1 teams notified Len of their desire to drop out of the League.

The Cincinnati team dropped from the Squirt A division citing that since the division was not being divided geographically, there would be excessive travel that they were not prepared for. The League allowed them to drop out, bringing the division from 9 teams to 8, however, per the Rules & Regulations, they would not be refunded their registration fee.

The Indy Racers A1 team dropped from the Squirt AA division stating that the variety of different teams within the division did not materialize. Again, they were allowed to drop, but were not refunded their registration fee. The Squirt AA division dropped from 6 to 5 teams.

Louisville then requested that their Pee Wee team be allowed to play 'A', even though the team has nine second year Pee Wee players. Len proposed the following:

Division members would be made aware of the request and the final decision would reside with them.

a) If the division members accept the team, the decision is final and everything will proceed as is.

b) If the division members choose not to accept them, we will allow them to schedule their games but the results will not count in the standings. They will in effect become a non-league team for the regular season. No refund. They could however participate in the season ending "AA" tournament.

c) After the scheduling meeting it becomes "self-policing"; if team "A" thinks team "B" has too many 2nd year players, we require a roster and all scoresheets to be submitted and reviewed. If team "B" is found to be in violation of the rule they forfeit their league games. We could then make it a Board decision whether we allow them to participate in the tournament.

The other Pee Wee A members allowed the Louisville team to play at the 'A' level.

Len reviewed the final list of teams for the this season. He also briefly reviewed how the scheduling meeting would proceed, deferring any more detail to the start of the Scheduling meeting.

Due to some scheduling and travel conflicts, the October meeting will be a conference call, with the November meeting being face to face.

Motion was made and seconded to adjourn the meeting.

Buckeye Travel Hockey League Scheduling Meeting

September 19, 1998

Holiday Inn, Englewood, OH

Murray Stall opened the meeting with welcomes and immediately turned things over to Len Holtgreven.

Len reviewed the procedures for the scheduling meeting.

All teams are reminded to report scores each weekend. Scores can be reported by calling and leaving a message at 419-422-4437. Leave the Game number, home score, visiting score.

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