Thursday, September 13, 2007
New Section 'Region Disclosures' Added to Website
This section has the current operating budget and will contain our meeting agendas, minutes and financials, as well as other reports and items of disclosure as they are produced.
Financials (the topic it seems many have been waiting for...)
I'd like to inform on the following:
Audit:
An audit is being conducted on our region's financials by an outside CPA firm as part of AYSO's National Accounting Program. Our region's audit have been raised to the Section level of AYSO and we've been put in the front of the line. We expect results before the next Board meeting (not this Friday, but the next one).
Budget/Financials (updated):
Our operating budget has been posted on the Website under new Region Disclosures section. I'll be posting our last year's financials as soon as I can put my hands on them to post them -- hopefully in a day or so as I receive them from National.
Cost per Player:
There is a cost per player in our current operating budget, but we'll also be deriving a new cost-per-player based on costs for this season as soon as we have a good idea of what those costs are. That will be made public.
AYSO Guidelines on Financials:
AYSO recommends publishing financials at least once a year. We'll follow this recommendation, but I'm sure we'll have information available more often than just once a year.
Internal Audit Functions:
I'll be proposing to the board the agenda item to address an internal audit function for our region. This may include the opening of a Board position entitled "Regional Auditor" that is already defined by AYSO. It is my hope that it may also involve the formation of an Auditing Committee that will consist of the Regional Auditor, as well as some members that do not hold Board positions. However, these items will need to be discussed and voted on by the Board. When we address this agenda item, we'll of course ask for public comment.
Audit:
An audit is being conducted on our region's financials by an outside CPA firm as part of AYSO's National Accounting Program. Our region's audit have been raised to the Section level of AYSO and we've been put in the front of the line. We expect results before the next Board meeting (not this Friday, but the next one).
Budget/Financials (updated):
Our operating budget has been posted on the Website under new Region Disclosures section. I'll be posting our last year's financials as soon as I can put my hands on them to post them -- hopefully in a day or so as I receive them from National.
Cost per Player:
There is a cost per player in our current operating budget, but we'll also be deriving a new cost-per-player based on costs for this season as soon as we have a good idea of what those costs are. That will be made public.
AYSO Guidelines on Financials:
AYSO recommends publishing financials at least once a year. We'll follow this recommendation, but I'm sure we'll have information available more often than just once a year.
Internal Audit Functions:
I'll be proposing to the board the agenda item to address an internal audit function for our region. This may include the opening of a Board position entitled "Regional Auditor" that is already defined by AYSO. It is my hope that it may also involve the formation of an Auditing Committee that will consist of the Regional Auditor, as well as some members that do not hold Board positions. However, these items will need to be discussed and voted on by the Board. When we address this agenda item, we'll of course ask for public comment.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Coaches Blog Added
We've added a Coach's blog for discussion centered around coaching, and Ill be adding a Referee's blog as well in the next couple of days. I'll post links to all the blogs on the LINKS page of our website.
Board Meeting this Friday
The next Board meeting is at La Mirada Christian Church. I'll post a schedule and agenda shortly. There will be a public comment period towards the beginning of the meeting. Guidelines for Public Comment will be posted as well. We welcome all. This meeting, we got moved to a smaller room than the main room we normally can use because of another event, but we'll do our best to accommodate all who want to come.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Opening Day
How did we do? What did you like? What did you not like? What can we do better for next year?
Ideas wanted for discussion
Please post your comments to this thread to propose the items you'd like to discuss. Thank you!
Welcome to the AYSO Region 22 Blog!
This blog is designed to promote discussion for AYSO Region 22, La Mirada. The goal of the discussion is to improve our region to provide the best youth soccer programs possible. Having said that, I'd like to ask that the comments, suggestions, criticisms and ideas are written in a constructive and positive way. Please refrain from making personal accusations or attacks against any individual in this forum. This is meant to be a place for civilized, constructive discussions.
This is my first experience using a blog, so it may take a little experimenting to get it working for all of us the way we'd like to promote open discussion. I'm pretty sure that the way this works, is that a POST has to be made, then open comments from readers can be posted about that POST. So, I'll make a post for IDEAS to discuss, then readers can comment on that post and based on the comments, we'll make new posts to discuss each individual idea that seems to have interest behind it. Hopefully this will work as a good way for us to discuss the many things about our region that we'd all like to participate in.
Anyway, welcome to all and let's start blogging...
This is my first experience using a blog, so it may take a little experimenting to get it working for all of us the way we'd like to promote open discussion. I'm pretty sure that the way this works, is that a POST has to be made, then open comments from readers can be posted about that POST. So, I'll make a post for IDEAS to discuss, then readers can comment on that post and based on the comments, we'll make new posts to discuss each individual idea that seems to have interest behind it. Hopefully this will work as a good way for us to discuss the many things about our region that we'd all like to participate in.
Anyway, welcome to all and let's start blogging...
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