Wausau Youth Hockey 
Monthly Board Meeting Minutes
Date: February 2nd, 2025
Time- Place: 7:00 pm – Wausau Mine Company

Attendees: Seth Sierk, JJ Deffner, Nick Gumtz, Andrew Brueggeman, Eric Pergolski, Kayla Harrington, Rick Pergolski, Ben Krenke, Ryan Schroder, Greg, Simkowski, Rob Wegmueller and Kelly Denzin 
Public Attendee: n/a
Call to order: 7:00 pm 
Minutes: Ben approved, Greg second, all in favor. 
Committee Updates:
- Hockey Committee: n/a.
- Finance Committee: Nick
Starting balance $96125.24 ending balance was $90750.47. Talked about duel signing of checks and what that would look like as there are a wide range of checks written. There is about 200 a checks written a year with an average size of $1100.00. Normal checks are for reimbursement and script. Andy will work on a policy to be reviewed. Nick will bring numbers next month for comparison. 
- Girls Program Committee: Ryan
Will be holding a meeting this month and did have 3 teams qualify for state. 
- Discipline Committee: Rick
Besides the one that was brought before the board there have been 2 other reports on officials. An email was sent to Justin; however, we have not heard anything yet. Eric and Greg will follow up with him. 
- Equipment Committee: n/a
- Fundraising Committee: JJ
Ice breaker we are hoping to break even this year. Next year we will plan on something different, no band and a new vibe. Slime the coach just started and we have made $200.00 so far, goal will be $300.00. Brady Cleveland Jersey sales will start here this coming week and the LTS Knetter Jamboree was a success. The Family came that day and were overwhelmed with the event and how we utilized the funding. Hoping we can build on this in the future. 

- Recruitment and Retention Committee: n/a

New Business:
-	This Tuesday the county will decide what plan will be voted by at the board meeting. Thought about having all the kids sign a jersey to bring to the meeting. Once we know more about what the decision is and see if we need to talk to the Fair board. They own one month a year. Maybe we should make a committee to help in this area to see what options there are and what we can come up with as many Associations have their own rink. Do we need 2 rinks? 
-	The executive board met and reviewed the 2025-2026 plan. The goal is to break into teams and tackle the policies to make things more simplified. A lot of the documents online are outdated and need to be updated. We need to provide clear expectations for each role in the organizations, players, coaches, officials, board members. Will plan to start working on this come April 1st once all members on in place for the season. April 3rd will have all the elections in and Sunday April 6th we will have a meeting likely at the Bar to vote on members. 
-	Nick stated he has one year left and would like to get someone in to start training them. If anyone has any ideas of who would want to take this spot. We need to have members that want to improve the association by actively participating. 5 spots are up this year for renewal or new member - JJ, Brandon, Ben, Ryan and Rob. 
-	Playdowns did not go so well this year. We did use some ice time for a mite mash up at the 8U level and the kids had fun. Let’s see if this year or next year we can do sticks and pucks mites level all the way up to squirt, if ice time see if coaches want to do. Also see if coaches want to do play ups. Power skating ends on February 24th. 
-	Starting March 3rd, 2025, we have no ice in MP2. Make sure that 10U, 12U and Squirt Bs have ice. Feb 23rd is the last day for the Mite League and LTS. 
-	Spring training and dryland. Is there another facility we can use? There is the old Eastbay warehouse building we could get in. Some Association will use that time to do film studies and it’s a lot bigger. However, most of the practices for dryland are before practice so it might not be convenient for parents and kids. We pay $1800.00 a year for a dryland facility already. 
-	Talked about how the season is too long. We might need to review the start date so that kids doing fall sports can attend those and finish those sports, vs making them pick. 
-	The County reached out and stated there was damage to one of the Dasher boards over by the shooting area. We will need to replace. We should look to see if we can make that area nicer for the kids to shoot in and play around in as there are many kids over there. 
-	Meeting adjourned: 8:21 pm
– motioned by Andy
– second by Ryan
all in favor, motion approved. 

Next meeting is: March 2nd at 7:00 pm at Wausau Mine Company. 

Respectfully submitted by Kelly Denzin, WYH Secretary