Present: Jeff Cheesman- Glentworth(President/Treasurer), Justin Greffard- Glentworth, Mark Hildebrandt-Herbert, Jacob Hildebrandt-Herbert, Taylor Dingwall-Hodgeville, Riley Schick-Mossbank, Jordan Schick-Mossbank, Byron Klein-Gravelbourg, Julien Michaud- Gravelbourg, Jordan Wilson-Morse, Chapin Sleightholm-Rockglen (Vice- President/Secretary/Website). Missing: Riverhurst, Coronach. 1. Call meeting to order: 12:05pm 2. Changes/additions to the agenda: none 3. Minutes from the last meeting (April 17th 2016) a. Errors or Omissions: none b. Adoption of the minutes : yes c. Business arising from the minutes Rules from the last meeting that will still apply this year: 1. Helmets on bases everyone must wear batting helmets while on base. 2. Bats (wood or metal) Keeping the metal bats until the 2020 season, but they must be a -3 length to weight ratio. 3. 3rd to 1st pick off move this pick off move is no longer allowed. 4. Sliding into 2nd base No big collisions, light contact is allowed. 5. Umpires (1 or 2) playoffs highly recommended to have a home plate umpire and base umpire for both league and playoff games. 6. Playoff eligibility = 3 games ? 4. President’s Report The 2016 season seemed to run fairly smooth. The major changes for the 2016 season involved the schedule. Going back to a North south format to eliminate some of the long distance games. This came in handy as there was more rain out games this year and caused some scrambling to get games made up. The other change involved the playoff format. With the semi finals being a crossover rather than a North and South final. This created the possibility to have two division rivals to meet in the final. This was the case in 2016. All three games of the final had attendance between 100-200 spectators for all 3 games. A little confusion towards the designated hitter rules for playoffs but those seemed fairly minor. 1 playoff game was played with only 1 umpire against league policy. The game was played but guidelines need to be setup to address how this situation is to be handled in the future. The only other issue to deal with involved teams willingness to schedule makeup games at the end of the year when final league standings were at stake. The simplest way to correct this would be to move the make up week ahead one week and have a week of league games for the following week. This would leave enough points available to be won that a team would be unable to manipulate the final standings by not playing a team that is behind them in the schedule. To add to this the last 2 games on the final week of the schedule "could" be made as a play it or forfeit it game to keep teams from not playing them. I am stepping down as league president. I would be willing to make the 2017 schedule based on the format decided at the 2017 meeting if no one else is interested in doing it. Myron Fowler 5. Treasurer’s Report The Dunning League bank account was closed on June 20, 2014. There was $567.25 withdrawn. 2 bills have been paid with cash since then. The first to Clayton Menzies for $26.40 to add some missing engravings on the league trophy. This was approved to be paid at the 2016 league meeting. The second bill paid with cash was to Myron Fowler for two years of the website for $63.00?. Both bills have been included. The league has a current cash balance of $477.85. All funds are a counted for. Myron Fowler a. Discussion of report: The question was asked, should we charge league fees? At the time we couldn’t find a good use for league fee money other than paying for our website usage every year. We will re visit this topic at next year’s meeting. b. Adoption of report : yes 6. Correspondence : None 7. Executive Nominations a. President - Myron Fowler i. Resignation/Nominations Jeff Cheesman nominated himself and was unanimously voted in as President. b. Vice President - Chapin Sleightholm i. Resignation/Nominations Let his name stand and remains Vice President. c. Secretary - Chapin Sleightholm i. Resignation/Nominations Let his name stand and remains Secretary. d. Treasurer - Myron Fowler i. Resignation/Nominations Jeff Cheesman nominated himself and was unanimously voted in as Treasurer. e. Website Administrator - Chapin Sleightholm i. Resignation/Nomination Let his name stand and remains Website Administrator. 8. New Business a. Wood bats: 2020 season we will be switching to wood bats with a -3 length to weight ratio. We chose 3 years so that teams can start buying wood bats and players can get used to hitting with them. b. 9 man bat: Lots of discussion on this topic, both for and against the 9 man bat rule. We decided to table this discussion and allow the President and Vice president to try and come up with a solution that makes both sides happy. c. Playoff Eligibility: 3 games d. Forfeiting: Changed the time from 12:00pm to 1:00pm for non-weather related forfeit to allow teams to have the lunch break to try and find a solution to the forfeiting issue. Must contact the other team before 1:00pm on game day or you forfeit the game losing 1-0. ? e. Moving make up week: We decided to move the make-up week ahead one week so that there are still games scheduled the last week before playoffs, this should eliminate teams trying to not make up games in order to manipulate the regular season standings. f. Sending game data: Both teams need to send a picture of the game sheet to Chapin (306-270- 7977) g. Determining Playoff Home Advantage (After Cross-over): Points in regular season. It was also discussed that since there are 5 teams in the south and only 4 in the north that if the 5th place team in the south has more points that the 4th in the North, then the 5th in the south becomes the 4th in the north and takes their spot in the playoffs. h. Provincials: If you or your team would like to enter a Provincial team than you can do so, however the Dunning League is not responsible for any of the fees or cost involved. i. All Star Game: We decided to bring back the All-Star Game this year. The location is Glentworth for the 2017 season because Jeff Cheesman stepped up to become President so we allowed him to host the first All Star Game. In future seasons we will chose the location from a draw until there are no locations left and then go back to the top of the list. We decided that each team will send 1 pitcher and 3 players to form the North and South teams. The game itself will not determine anything, just done for fun. We chose July 8th as a tentative date (however this date already doesn’t work for the host team). j. 9. Round Table: It was asked that the schedule include weekend double headers for long road trip games. It was decided that the President and Vice President would do their best to make this happen, and teams would email the President with dates that did not work for them. So please do this immediately so the schedule can be made ASAP. 10. Next Meeting: April 15th 2018 Gravelbourg (time and venue not selected) 11. Adjournment: 2:15pm