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Table of Contents Agenda

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Officer Reports   

President’s Report Treasurer’s Report Secretary Report

Bill Phillips Tom Lewis Richard Smith

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Committee Reports     

Finance Adjudication Hall of Fame Top Soccer Grassroots

Anne Thompson Eric Highsmith Adele Dolansky John Schlenker J. Marcelo Gangotena

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Staff Reports   

Executive Director Technical Director Competitions

Serkan Orsan Gordon Miller Ray Ford

Page 5 - 7 Page 8 - 9 Page 10 - 13

Unfinished Business New Business Good of the Game Supplemental Documents      

Monthly Financials April 15 BOD Meeting Minutes May 20 BOD Meeting Minutes June 17 BOD Meeting Minutes July 15 BOD Meeting Minutes August 18 BOD Meeting Minutes

Page 14 - 23 Page 24 – 69 Page 70 – 114 Page 115 - 161 Page 162 – 179 Page 180 - 219

VYSA BOD MEETING: Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 7:00 PM - Via Zoom Welcome and Call to Order Roll Call Approval of the Previous Board Minutes – August 19, 2026 Approval of the Previous Board Minutes – June 17, 2026 Approval of the Previous Board Minutes – July 15, 2026 Approval of the Previous Board Minutes – May 20, 2026 Approval of the Previous Board Minutes – April 15, 2026 Reports Officer Reports President’s Report

Bill Phillips

Treasurer’s Report

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Secretary Report

Richard Smith

Tom Lewis

Committee Reports Finance Hall of Fame

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Top Soccer

Adele Dolansky John Schlenker

Virginia Grassroots Adjudication

Anne Thompson

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J. Marcelo Gangotena Eric Highsmith

Staff Reports

✅ Technical Director ✅ Comp Director ✅ Executive Director

Serkan Orsan Gordon Miller Ray Ford

Unfinished Business New Business Good of the Game Adjournment Note: The next Board of Directors Meeting is October 21st via Zoom

TREASURER REPORT (09-16-26) Tom Lewis, Treasurer Overview of YTD Budget vs. Actuals As of 08-31-26 YTD Total Income Budget $531,292

YTD Total Expenses

Variance Actual $415,593 ($115,699)

Budget $345,374

YTD Net Ordinary Income Budget $233,315

Actual $247,755

Actual Variance $258,074 $87,300

YTD Net Income

Variance $14,440

Budget $185,918

Actual $157,519

Variance (28,399)

Cash and Equivalents 08-31-26. o Insured Cash Sweep Account $ 84,592 o Operating Account $50,000 o Vanguard Account $2,314,357 Total: $ 2,448,949 Principal & Interest Loan Payments 08/31/26  Virginia National Bank $23,332.97 – Monthly  Infrastructure Solutions $13,895.81 – Monthly

Principal YTD $11,447.72 $8,661.40

● Accounts Receivables Update as of 09-14-26. o

Total A/R - $71,275.89

Additional Comments related to the VYSA Budget and Financials 

Outstanding checks are accounted for through 10/31/25.

Interest YTD $11,885.25 $5,234.41

Adjudication Committee Report September 15, 2026 

The following matters should be published by VYSA: o The Committee settled a matter arising out of a U13B tournament match as follows:  Two players, who separately said, “This fucking ref sucks!”, accepted a 4match suspension for committing referee abuse with abusive language (NonPhysical Referee Abuse, Level 2).  A coach, who repeatedly dissented and failed to intervene when their players and parent engaged in referee abuse, accepted a 4-match suspension for committing referee abuse with harassing and intimidating language and actions (Non-Physical Referee Abuse, Level 2).  A parent accepted a 10-match suspension for pushing a referee (Physical Referee Abuse, Level 2). o The Committee settled a matter arising out of a U19B tournament match as follows:  A coach, who yelled, “You are terrible!” at a referee, accepted a 1-match suspension for committing referee abuse with abusive language (NonPhysical Referee Abuse, Level 1).

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A matter is pending from a U13B tournament match, where a coach refused to manage their team’s parents who were expressing dissent to a youth referee. Another matter is pending from a U12B tournament match, where a coach made several abusive comments to the referee, including, “You are terrible!” The Committee expects the matter to be settled. Two matters were closed due to disinterest by the referees. An appeal by a coach to US Soccer of a club’s disciplinary decision remains pending.

Eric Highsmith Committee Chair

Virginia-DC Soccer Hall of Fame1 Committee Report for VYSA Board Meeting on September 16, 2026 This report provides two Virginia-DC Soccer Hall of Fame Committee updates for the Board: a reminder about the Annual Golf Tournament and the deadline for Class of 2027 nominations.

Annual Golf Tournament Reminder The Hall of Fame Golf Tournament will be held on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at Pleasant Valley Golf Club, 4715 Pleasant Valley Road, Chantilly, VA 20151. Please register at vadcsoccerhof.org before Thursday, September 17, 2026. The Virginia-DC Soccer Hall of Fame Committee will again donate a portion of the HOF Golf Tournament proceeds to the VYSA TOPSoccer Program. If you have any questions, please contact Bill Willis, HOF Golf Tournament Chairman, at vadcshofgolftournament@gmail.com.

Class of 2027 Nominations Virginia-DC Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2027 nominations are due on or before 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Meritorious Service and Player nomination forms are available for download from the Virginia-DC Soccer Hall of Fame website at vadcsoccerhof.org. Respectfully submitted, Adele Dolansky, Co-Chair, Virginia-DC Soccer Hall of Fame Committee Larry Monaco, Co-Chair, Virginia-DC Soccer Hall of Fame Committee

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT – September 16, 2026 VYSA – Organizational Dashboard (September 2026) Area

Status

Membership Engagement Marketing Department Partnerships & Sponsorships Operations (PVSTC) Events & Competitions Finance Department

Key Notes

🟡 In Progress 🟢 On Track 🟡 In Progress 🟡 In Progress 🟢 On Track 🟢 On Track

Travel Registration In – Rec in Progress New Partnership, Activity Announcements New Opportunities & Renewal Reviews Facility Needs & Spotsy County Meetings FA26 Cups in Progress New FY 26/27 Budget

Legend:

🟢 On Track / Completed 🟡 Monitoring / In Progress 🔴 Needs Attention ORGANIZATION - INTERNAL Key Internal Initiatives: 

Travel Clubs Player Registrations: 17,386 vs. 21,016 (-17% to projected -20%)

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Year of “Building the Future of Youth Soccer Together” o

Quarterly Technical Leader Forum with US Soccer 

Option 1: Thursday, September 24 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

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Option 2: Monday, September 28 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Hall of Fame Golf Tournament, October 1, 2026, Chantilly, VA Pleasant Valley Golf Club

October Member Meetings

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Thursday, October 22: Broader Member Meetings agenda

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Friday, October 23: Future model working sessions with state associations

AGM and Hall of Fame Gala, Saturday, February 6, 2027, Kalahari Resort

ORGANIZATION - EXTERNAL MEMBERSHIP DEPARTMENT 

Now:

September Touchline with Full updates

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Sept 18th : D.C United Coaches Corner

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Mid-Oct:

VYSA on Tour Powered by GotSport

MARKETING DEPARTMENT 

On Going:

Activity Announcements on Social Media

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Mid-October

1st VYSA Podcast

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New Sponsorship / Collaboration Initiatives and Renewals: o

Trace

Buy out VEO – Receiving $15K and $20K per year for 3; Partnership finalized,

with the official announcement posted o

Manay CPA

Audit/990 Firm and Partner to introduce to Members for Discounted Tax

Services; Partnership finalized, with the official announcement posted o

Enterprise Rent a Car Revenue-sharing partnership finalized, with the official announcement posted

Washington Spirit

Partnership finalized, with the official announcement posted

Soccer Parenting

Revenue-sharing partnership finalized, with the official announcement

forthcoming o

Atlantic Union Bank:

Turkish Airlines

Sponsorship and activation platform presented, with discussion in progress Sponsorship and activation platform presented, with discussion in

progress o

Kalahari Resort

Sponsorship and activation platform presented, with discussion in

progress o

Wiistream:

Commercial partnership terms under discussion

TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT 

Department Lead: Gordon Miller

CUPS UPDATE 

Department Lead: Ray Ford

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES NEXT 60 - 90 DAYS 

Execute the approved FY 2026–27 budget and organizational structure, including monthly budgetto-actual reporting, cash-flow monitoring, Ramp implementation, completion of the Accounting Assistant hire, and preparation for the audit and Form 990.

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Ensure operational readiness for Fall 2026 competitions and programs, including final schedules, field availability, referee coverage, registration systems, communications, and contingency planning.

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Develop a prioritized PVSTC capital, maintenance, and asset-management plan, including project costs, funding options, operational impact, equipment controls, and potential return on investment.

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Protect membership and program revenue during changes in the youth soccer landscape, with USYS merging into US soccer using timely registration and participation dashboards, direct club outreach, scenario planning, and continued engagement with US Youth Soccer and U.S. Soccer.

KEY RISKS/ MONITORING 

Membership and participation risk: League restructuring, competition fragmentation, and changes in club affiliations could reduce player registrations and participation in Cups, ODP, and other programs. Monitor registrations against budget and prior-year results and increase targeted club engagement.

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Financial execution and cash-flow risk: Registration timing, sponsorship collections, receivables, audit expenses, and program performance could affect the approved budget. Use monthly forecasts, budget variance reporting, and clear A/R and A/P accountability.

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Fall event-delivery risk: Schedule conflicts, referee availability, weather, field conditions, and registration-system problems could disrupt Cups and other fall programs. Finalize contingencies, escalation procedures, and operational ownership before competition weekends.

Technical Director’s Board Report-September 16, 2026 By: Gordon Miller VYSA Technical Director ODP     

The six District ODP tryouts have now all been completed. The Districts have now all started their training programs. We have had various staff education nights to go over DODP, ODP and GK training curriculum. We will continue to scout and add talent to the training pools. Inter district scrimmages Nov. 21 &22 at our facility.

COACH EDUCATION Grassroots Licenses: Date 07/28/2026 - 08/01/2026 07/30/2026 - 08/01/2026 08/04/2026 - 08/08/2026 08/05/2026 - 08/08/2026 08/05/2026 - 08/08/2026 08/06/2026 - 08/08/2026 08/15/2026 08/18/2026 08/22/2026 08/22/2026 08/22/2026 08/23/2026 08/29/2026 - 08/30/2026 08/29/2026 - 08/30/2026 09/07/2026 - 11/09/2026 09/07/2026 - 12/19/2026 10/01/2026 - 10/03/2026 10/02/2026 - 10/03/2026

Course Club 7v7 Course - Alexandria, VA Alexandria Soccer Association 9v9 Course - Alexandria, VA Alexandria Soccer Association 9v9 Course - Charlottesville, VA Virginia Soccer Alliance 7v7 Course - Colonial Heights, VA Colonial Heights Soccer Club 7v7 Course - Charlottesville, VA Virginia Soccer Alliance 11v11 Course - Colonial Heights, VA Colonial Heights Soccer Club 9v9 Course - Chesterfield, VA First Touch Sports Coach For Community - Richlands, VA Clinch River SA 7v7 Course - Centerville, VA SYA 7v7 Course - Chesterfield, VA First Touch Sports Coach For Community - Warrenton, VA Northern Piedmont Sports Club 11v11 Course - Centerville, VA SYA 7v7 Course - Stafford, VA Stafford Soccer 11v11 Course - Stafford, VA Stafford Soccer U.S. Soccer D Course - Chesterfield, VA VYSA First Touch Sports U.S. Soccer C Course - Fredericksburg, VA VYSA 9v9 Course - Leesburg, VA VA Revolution 11v11 Course - Leesburg, VA VA Revolution

National Licenses:

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US Soccer B: Fall 2026 In-Person completed. 7-11 September (19 Coaches) US Soccer C: Fall 2026 In-Person. 20-13 October (36 Coaches) US Soccer Educator License: o 2025-2026: 5 educators earned their license, 3 are ongoing o 2026-2027: 12 identified for application process

Club Development Clinics (August/ September):  Clinic River Soccer: Recreation Soccer | Practice Organization  Gunston Soccer: Recreation Soccer | Practice Organization  VA Revolution: Game Model and IDP Development  Richmond United: Performance Analysis and IDP Development  Alliance: Topic at later date News:  

VYSA Club Development Series to be announced next week Evolution of Coach Education from US Soccer

VYSA FALL CUPS REPORT

Goals & Ghouls VYSA REC Cup Sunday 1st November 2026 Currently have 9 teams fully registered for this competition. We have 4 teams that have started an application for this event. Interested Teams= CM Soccer, FCA VA, RU RED Rec & Stafford. Registration Deadline

Friday Tuesda y

On-Line Team Check In

10/9/2026 10/13/202 6 10/16/202 6 10/22/202 6 10/23/202 6

Event Begins

11/1/2026

Sunday

Accept Teams Brackets Posted Schedule Posted

Friday Thursd ay Friday Daylight Savings Day

Work for next 30 days on the following:    

Will be targeting teams and clubs with help from VYSA Commissioners. Pending an order for medals & trophies. Field sizes and Maps. Vendors & off field activities.

U15 to U19 Boys & Girls Fall State Cup

Fall 2026 Age

State Cup

Groups

Boys

Girls

19U

17U

16U

15U

Total

TOTAL 72 TEAMS Previous Clubs not returning for various reasons: DC Soccer Vienna Beach Richmond Utd Richmond FC NVU VA REV VA Velocity VA Utd Loudoun Mclean St.James Alexandria?

Registration Deadline Extended: State Cup Wednesday 16th September 2026. Girls State Cup Single Elimination Play In Games Deadline October 18th. Q-Finals Self Scheduled before November 1st deadline. S-Finals & Finals December 5th & 6th at PVSTC. Boys State Cup Single Elimination Play In Games Deadline October 18th. Q-Finals Self Scheduled before November 1st deadline.

S-Finals November 7th. Finals November 8th* *Boys State Cup Final 4 weekend is subject to change to a later date if Finalists have a league conflict, December 5th or 6th.

U15 to U19 Boys & Girls Fall Presidents Cup Fall 2026

Girls Boys

19U/ 18U

17U

16U

15U

Total

VCSL

SVU? August? Pheonix? Culpeper? Gunston? VISTA?

VYSA Presidents Cup Single Elimination Extending the registration deadline to the following date of Monday 14th September, 2026 for Presidents Cup, U15 to U19’s Boys & Girls.

Play In Games Deadline October 28th. Round of 16 Deadline November 1st. Q-Finals November 14th Boys Q-Finals November 15th Girls Semi-Finals November 21st Boys & Girls Finals November 22nd Boys & Girls. Presidents Cup Champions will be expected to attend Regionals and then hopefully Nationals in Wichita, KS.

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August 26 -YTD VYSA

VYSA

Variance

ACTUALS

BUDGET

VARIANCE

Notes

ODP/DODP Revenue

189,873

223,848

-33,974

Expenses Net Operating Income

22,773 167,101

48,632 175,216

25,859 -8,115

Revenue

3,000

10,000

-7,000

Expenses Net Operating Income

2,778 222

2,788 7,212

10 -6,990

Revenue

3,000

Expenses Net Operating Income

1,528 1, 472

2,788 (2,788)

1,260 4,260

Ghouls & Goals Invitational Revenue Expenses Net Operating Income

1,500 0 1,500

0 0 0

1,500 0 1,500

District training registrations are under budget & Tryouts registrations are over budget. District training,DODP & Tryouts contract labor under budget.

PRESIDENTS CUP Sponsorship revenue under budget and will be reflected in Sept.

STATE CUP

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COACHING EDUCATION Revenue

89,420

75,675

13,745

Course registration over budget.

Expenses Net Operating Income

13,740 75,680

20,646 55,029

6,906 20,651

Contract labor & facility rental under budget.

0 0 0

67,941 67,941 0

-67,941 67,941 (135,882)

41,780

41 8

41,362

ITG GRANT Revenue Expenses Net Operating Income

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MEMBER SERVICES/AWARDS GALA Revenue Expenses Net Operating Income

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Revenue rebate from Nl league & unbudgeted sponsorship Travel expenses & facility rental are under budget

VYSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS | APRIL 15, 2026

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes April 15, 2026, | Attendance, motions, and approvals highlighted Motion and Approval Summary Time

Motion / Action

Disposition

00:11:08

Accept the previous Board meeting minutes as published.

Accepted as posted. No additional changes or corrections were recorded.

00:32:38

Accept NVA All-Stars Soccer Academy and Greater Fredericksburg Civilis Soccer Club (name as transcribed) as provisional members.

The voice vote recorded affirmative responses. No opposition or abstention was recorded; the chair did not separately state that the motion carried.

02:20:25

Adjourn the meeting.

Motion made and second acknowledged. The chair concluded the meeting.

Highlight Key Attendance / roll call - names and remarks identifying those recorded as present. Motion / procedure - motion wording, mover, seconder, or procedural setup for the vote. Approval / outcome - voice-vote record, abstention, acknowledged conclusion, or decision to take no action.

Full Transcript 00:10:10 Bill Phillips: Alright, you ready to get started? 00:10:14 Anne Thompson: I'm ready. 00:10:16 Serkan Orsan: I don't know if we have… 00:10:18 Brad: I don't know if we have a… 00:10:19 Bill Phillips: Yep, we're good. We got Tom, John Davis, David Glass, Corky, myself. 00:10:25 Bill Phillips: Um… Richard's on now, and uh… Ann, of course. 00:10:32 Bill Phillips: And Brad, so we're good, 100%. I just did the roll call for you. 00:10:32 Serkan Orsan: Perfect. 00:10:36 Serkan Orsan: You're… you're awesome. 00:10:41 Bill Phillips: Okay, so, um, yeah, you can… you can mark us all as, um, present and accounted for. Um… 00:10:48 Bill Phillips: I will get into the, uh, the minutes from the previous board meeting, and um… 00:10:54 Bill Phillips: Hopefully y'all had an opportunity to look at those, and uh… for those that did, were there any

corrections or additions to the, uh… 00:11:02 Bill Phillips: Minutes from the previous board meeting. 00:11:05 Anne Thompson: No. 00:11:06 Bill Phillips: No? Okay. 00:11:07 Anne Thompson: Not me. 00:11:08 Bill Phillips: All right. Um, sorry, pop-ups here. Um, alright, is there a motion to accept the minutes as published? 00:11:19 Anne Thompson: I will note that motion.

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00:11:20 Bill Phillips: Thank you, Ann. Is there a second? 00:11:24 David Glass: Second. 00:11:25 Bill Phillips: There we go. And… 00:11:29 Bill Phillips: There are no other changes or corrections to the minutes. The minutes are accepted as posted. 00:11:34 Bill Phillips: Okay, uh, the next item is the, um… 00:11:40 Bill Phillips: Officer reports… 00:11:42 Bill Phillips: And the first up is, um… 00:11:44 Bill Phillips: the President's report, and I don't have a whole lot to talk to you about. 00:11:51 Bill Phillips: you know, just a couple things. So, did everyone… this was interesting today… did everyone see the,

um… 00:11:58 Bill Phillips: The email that came out from U.S. Soccer today with the, uh… 00:12:04 Bill Phillips: Kang Women's Initiative, KWI. 00:12:07 Anne Thompson: No. I didn't. 00:12:08 Serkan Orsan: No. 00:12:08 Bill Phillips: Okay. Alright. I'll forward it to you. So, um… 00:12:13 Bill Phillips: It's, uh, it's just an interesting read, um, in the way of the topics that are part of this. 00:12:20 Bill Phillips: Um… hang on, I'm pulling it up right now. So, yeah, KWI, Michelle Kang is… 00:12:26 Bill Phillips: You know, she owns the, um, Washington Spirit, and then she has this Kang Women's Institute, um. 00:12:33 Bill Phillips: So, I guess she believes, and uh… 00:12:37 Bill Phillips: U.S. Soccer, and now I'm seeing UNC, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill are involved in this. 00:12:44 Bill Phillips: Um, so, just to sort of, uh… 00:12:48 Bill Phillips: Peak your interest, that's a better way to put it. Peak your interest. 00:12:52 Bill Phillips: The first topic that they're discussing is from lab to pitch. 00:12:57 Bill Phillips: And I'm quoting what is written here. Turning menstrual cycle and performance data into better soccer

decisions. 00:13:05 Bill Phillips: And the second topic… 00:13:08 Bill Phillips: HersuPlay, a dropout study, and that's, uh, focused on why. 00:13:13 Bill Phillips: female players are dropping out of the sport, uh, at a higher rate than men. As again, as I said, I will

forward that to you. 00:13:21 Bill Phillips: Um, to take a look at and, uh, follow along as that data comes forward. 00:13:26 Bill Phillips: Um, as far as, uh, our topics from last month, I personally have not heard anything more. Maybe others

have, and they'll share with us later in the evening, but I've heard nothing more about Newcomp. 00:13:39 Bill Phillips: Um, I do believe that there was, uh… 00:13:44 Bill Phillips: Maybe some of you knew about this, um, there was a… 00:13:48 Bill Phillips: an email, sort of a press release that went out from Maryland. 00:13:53 Bill Phillips: Uh, as, um, as you may know, Maryland decided that they were going to. 00:13:58 Bill Phillips: Organize and run their own state league. 00:14:02 Bill Phillips: Next season, and… 00:14:05 Bill Phillips: in that, um, press release, they mentioned that Maryland was going to be aligning with MLS. 00:14:12 Bill Phillips: and the GA. 00:14:14 Bill Phillips: Um, so I took the opportunity to call the president of Maryland and have a discussion with him about

it. However, he was.

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00:14:21 Bill Phillips: Traveling abroad, and, um, didn't have a whole lot of information to share, so… 00:14:26 Bill Phillips: Um, I'm gonna follow up with him again and see if there's anything more that, um… 00:14:31 Bill Phillips: That's come of that discussion. 00:14:34 Bill Phillips: And, uh, you know, obviously, I think you all saw that we have two teams that will be attending the

National Championship Series. 00:14:42 Bill Phillips: in, um, in Nashville, Tennessee, so that's on the, on the girl's side. 00:14:48 Bill Phillips: Uh, no one attending on the boys side in Utah. 00:14:51 Serkan Orsan: We actually have one, I think. 00:14:52 Bill Phillips: Oh, we do! Okay, okay. Uh, so I stand corrected on that. 00:14:53 Serkan Orsan: Yeah. 00:14:57 Bill Phillips: And uh… also, just 2 days ago, there was an opportunity for a grant that came out. 00:15:03 Bill Phillips: Um, from U.S. Soccer. Now, I don't know if the club will qualify, they'll have to apply. 00:15:09 Bill Phillips: Uh, but I think it's upwards of $2,600 to help offset, um, travel expenses. 00:15:16 Bill Phillips: So, um, I know… 00:15:16 Serkan Orsan: Yep, we share that with the… 00:15:18 Bill Phillips: And I'm sure you did. 00:15:19 Serkan Orsan: Clubs that were attending. 00:15:21 Bill Phillips: Yeah, yeah. 00:15:21 Serkan Orsan: And just the… sorry. 00:15:21 Anne Thompson: What was… is that… I'm sorry. Go ahead. 00:15:24 Bill Phillips: What's that again? 00:15:25 Anne Thompson: I just… the $2,600 is for clubs going to nationals? 00:15:31 Bill Phillips: Yes. 00:15:32 Anne Thompson: So they have to apply very soon if the… if… if… 00:15:37 Anne Thompson: You know… 00:15:38 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, we actually sent it to them, like, last week, so… 00:15:39 Bill Phillips: Yeah, there's, like, a… 00:15:44 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 00:15:44 Serkan Orsan: They have all the information if they can take advantage of that. 00:15:45 Anne Thompson: Okay. 00:15:48 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 00:15:48 Serkan Orsan: And then, by the way, on the East Region call, Greg was a little, you know, quiet in terms of that UCL. 00:15:57 Serkan Orsan: that they're putting together that has MLS Next and GA. 00:16:02 Serkan Orsan: So I didn't want to put him on the spot, but I do have a call with him later on. 00:16:07 Bill Phillips: Okay. Um, so I… that's it from me this evening. I don't have a lot of information for you, but uh… 00:16:14 Bill Phillips: Anyway, uh, hope I piqued your interest on that other article, and I'll send that to you as we, uh, we go

along this evening. Uh, oh, one more thing I wanted to bring up with you as well. 00:16:24 Bill Phillips: Adele did a really great job in putting together. 00:16:26 Anne Thompson: Hmm. 00:16:28 Anne Thompson: Yes. 00:16:29 Bill Phillips: Um, 3 people that she'd identified as, as, um…

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00:16:35 Bill Phillips: people that, you know, players or Hall of Fame members, they are VYSA, uh… 00:16:40 Bill Phillips: Hall of Fame members that are worthy of consideration for USYS Hall of Fame. 00:16:46 Bill Phillips: Um, and I'd sent those to you. So that needs to go out. 00:16:51 Bill Phillips: The application or that process needs to take place here fairly quickly. 00:16:56 Bill Phillips: Um, I'm gonna send it to you again. 00:16:58 Bill Phillips: This evening, because I was, uh… I was negligent. I should have sent it to you over the weekend. 00:17:05 Bill Phillips: But I'm gonna send it to you again and ask for you to just quickly get back to me. Some of you already

have, but do read all of their bios and. 00:17:13 Bill Phillips: And, um, their past playing histories, because, uh, even though some of them, you know, we've

obviously heard of Allie Krieger, most of us, but the other… the other two, maybe some of us had not, and they're… 00:17:24 Bill Phillips: They're… they both have very noteworthy playing careers, so… anyway, I'll send that along as well this

evening for you to… 00:17:31 Bill Phillips: take another look at. Any questions for me? 00:17:36 Serkan Orsan: Uh, just to chime in on that, in terms of… I have an exhibit at the end of the… in my report in terms

of what I have from USYS. 00:17:36 Bill Phillips: Nope. 00:17:45 Serkan Orsan: in regards to the Dallas meeting, so… I was there, obviously, a week prior to possibly Richard being

in Atlanta for… 00:17:55 Serkan Orsan: His, uh… 00:17:57 Serkan Orsan: meetings for the new comp operator. So, mine was more… 00:18:02 Serkan Orsan: in relation to the state soccer Association and what the local arm really means, so I will chime on

that later when it comes to the executive director report. 00:18:12 Bill Phillips: Yeah, I guess we didn't… we didn't share that deck, did we? Um, Serkan? 00:18:17 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 00:18:18 Bill Phillips: So, uh, that's another action item for me to share, because I, uh… 00:18:23 Bill Phillips: I didn't share that deck yet. 00:18:25 Serkan Orsan: Well, I have the highlights on the addendum as exhibit on this. 00:18:31 Bill Phillips: Okay. Yeah, I saw that. Alright, well, that concludes my report, um… 00:18:37 Bill Phillips: We'll go ahead and, uh, I'll turn the floor over to, uh, Tom Lewis for the Treasurer's Report. Tom? 00:18:44 Tom: Okay, um… 00:18:47 Tom: As you can see, uh… 00:18:49 Tom: The, uh, variances look pretty good at this point. 00:18:53 Tom: Uh, we did have, uh, 81,000. 00:18:57 Tom: Uh, less income than we budgeted for. 00:19:01 Tom: Um, but, uh, expenses are down, uh, ordinary income is up over… 00:19:09 Tom: Uh, the actuals over the budget. So, the, uh, net looks pretty good. 00:19:15 Tom: At this point. We'll have to… the finance report now shows you what each of the cost centers. 00:19:22 Tom: Are doing, uh, with regard to these reports here, and also… 00:19:28 Tom: Give you an idea of what it's going to look like at the end of the year based on the budget, not actuals. 00:19:34 Tom: Uh, principal and interest, you can see, uh, cash and equivalents, uh. 00:19:41 Tom: Report is there as of the 31st. 00:19:45 Tom: And, uh, the accounts receivable…

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00:19:48 Tom: Uh, 200,000 at this point. 00:19:51 Tom: Uh, nearly 100,000 of that is, uh, the public's, um… 00:19:56 Tom: Money that's, uh, was just… 00:20:00 Tom: I would say, invoiced to them. 00:20:03 Tom: So that'll reduce that by quite a bit. There's a couple other big ones that we're expecting money in on, so… 00:20:09 Tom: Hopefully by, uh, next month's report, that should be down by quite a bit. 00:20:17 Tom: Anybody have any questions? 00:20:20 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 00:20:23 Anne Thompson: Yep. 00:20:23 Tom: Okay, that's it. Thank you. 00:20:31 Serkan Orsan: thing next is Richard. I apologize, Richard, I didn't have a chance to pitch yours. 00:20:34 Bill Phillips: Sorry, I was… 00:20:37 Serkan Orsan: as this came in a little later than anticipated, so if you want to share it, but I have it on my executive

director report. 00:20:46 Serkan Orsan: If you need those 2 clubs, because I know that it's in my report as well. 00:20:53 Richard W. Smith: Alright, thanks, Serkan. Uh, I don't… I don't have it in front of me either, and I apologize, I'm not

on video, I'm in the car. 00:21:01 Richard W. Smith: The, uh… there were two clubs that have put in applications that we wanted to bring to your

attention. 00:21:06 Richard W. Smith: Uh, the first one is NVA All-Stars Soccer Academy, if I recall correctly. 00:21:14 Serkan Orsan: Yep. 00:21:14 Richard W. Smith: Uh, they are duly registered with the state, uh… 00:21:18 Richard W. Smith: They, uh, they are… 00:21:18 Serkan Orsan: Okay. 00:21:21 Richard W. Smith: Uh, I think they're travel only. Uh, they had… 00:21:27 Richard W. Smith: they reported to VYSA on their application that they were going to have 6 to 8 teams. 00:21:32 Richard W. Smith: Uh, they have subsequently made an application to NCSL where they say they only have 4. 00:21:37 Richard W. Smith: So that is not going to meet the minimum requirement of Teams for NCSL, and they will not. 00:21:42 Richard W. Smith: It will not get entry into NCSL on the travel side. 00:21:47 Richard W. Smith: Uh, but, uh, but everything… 00:21:52 Richard W. Smith: They meet the very bare minimum of what they need to provide to us. I, I doubt that their

corporate documents are. 00:22:02 Richard W. Smith: Compliant with law, but uh… but they've met the very bare minimum. 00:22:07 Richard W. Smith: Of what they have to give to us, and… 00:22:10 Richard W. Smith: Uh, this is a club that could use a friend who could help them with documentation, but uh… 00:22:17 Richard W. Smith: But it probably meets the bare minimum. I just don't know where they're gonna play, and they

are all… all travel. 00:22:24 Richard W. Smith: Uh, it isn't… it's a non-profit club that's, uh, based in Alexandria slash Fairfax County, kind of

south of Alexandria. 00:22:35 Richard W. Smith: So the recommendation would be to, uh, allow their provisional membership. 00:22:45 Bill Phillips: And the next one? 00:22:47 Richard W. Smith: The next one is, uh, Greater Fredericksburg Civilis…

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00:22:53 Richard W. Smith: soccer club, I believe. Uh, they, uh, they've done a much better job with their documentation.

Everything seems to be in order. 00:23:02 Richard W. Smith: fulfills requirements. They've registered with the state, another non-profit. Their documentation

looks like it was looked at by a lawyer, or at least a smart AI machine. 00:23:13 Richard W. Smith: Um, they, however, only have one team. 00:23:16 Richard W. Smith: Uh, they're located, obviously, in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, uh, and they say that that

team will be playing in EDP if they can, uh. 00:23:25 Richard W. Smith: get admitted. 00:23:27 Richard W. Smith: So the motion would be… or the recommendation would be a motion to allow their provisional

membership as well. 00:23:33 Serkan Orsan: And just to chime in on that, I just got off the phone with the, uh, I guess the, uh, person who will be

in charge. 00:23:41 Serkan Orsan: Uh, his name is Brian, I can't remember the last name, I apologize. But, um, had a lengthy

conversation, he was asking about the status of it, and I just told him that we would be. 00:23:51 Serkan Orsan: Uh, the board would be reviewing it tonight, that we would get back to him probably tomorrow with

some details if it's approved. 00:23:57 Serkan Orsan: But he has shown a lot of interest in terms of… I think he did do due diligence in terms of looking at

the UISA closely. 00:24:06 Serkan Orsan: He saw some board openings as well that he was interested. Obviously, I did not. 00:24:12 Serkan Orsan: You know, tell them anything about what was, you know, clearly open, what was being voted. 00:24:17 Serkan Orsan: Uh, so if it's an interest to you guys, I will definitely share the contact details with you guys. 00:24:23 Serkan Orsan: Uh, in terms of his board interest, too. 00:24:26 Bill Phillips: Okay, yeah. 00:24:28 Anne Thompson: Could I… could I make a… I don't know if it's… 00:24:33 Anne Thompson: actually comes to a board vote, it probably will, if the… my idea is changed. 00:24:40 Anne Thompson: I know that NCSL's, um, application for membership requires a minimum of 6 teams. 00:24:46 Anne Thompson: I'd like to know what, um, VCSL's minimum number, if they have one. 00:24:54 Anne Thompson: Um, for, for membership. And then, of course, we know that EDP will accept one team. 00:25:02 Anne Thompson: I think that our… our rules should be… 00:25:06 Anne Thompson: Since they… when they come in as travel, our rules require them to play in a league. 00:25:12 Anne Thompson: So, when they enter VYSA, it just seems, unless their plan is to play EDP, and they know that it

can be accepted with one or two teams. 00:25:23 Anne Thompson: if their interest is in NCSL or VCSL, then… 00:25:28 Anne Thompson: I think that we need to have. 00:25:31 Anne Thompson: Maybe a minimum number of teams to be accepted, because it doesn't make any sense to

accept. 00:25:36 Anne Thompson: A club that has nowhere to go. And we know they have nowhere to go when they come in. 00:25:42 Anne Thompson: Um… 00:25:45 Anne Thompson: There… it's… it's not… it's not healthy for them, and it's not healthy for us. 00:25:53 Anne Thompson: That's my thought. 00:25:56 Bill Phillips: Any other comments on what hand is, uh… 00:25:59 Brad: But isn't that why we call a provisional member club? 00:26:03 Brad: I mean, because we're giving them that chance to… and if not, then they don't become a member, right?

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00:26:10 Bill Phillips: It's… yes, go ahead, I'll let someone else answer that. 00:26:10 Anne Thompson: Oh. 00:26:12 Brad: I mean… what's that? 00:26:16 Bill Phillips: I was just… I thought someone else was speaking up. So, Brad, the provisional portion of that and the,

you know, the verbiage is such that we realize that, um. 00:26:17 Brad: No. 00:26:26 Bill Phillips: Clubs have to have an opportunity to get, you know, up and running, right? 00:26:31 Brad: Right. 00:26:32 Bill Phillips: And so, we're accepting them under the premise that they upload players into the VYSA database. 00:26:41 Bill Phillips: Either in the coming season, which in this case would be the fall, or the spring season. 00:26:47 Bill Phillips: Um, and so that's that part of it, what we're doing as far as the provisional side. 00:26:55 Bill Phillips: Um, you know, with regards to the other classifications of membership, which we're not really delving

into right now, but, you know, there's rec- only clubs, there are travel. 00:27:07 Bill Phillips: Only clubs, and then there are, um… 00:27:11 Bill Phillips: Tournament only, right, Ant? Tournament only, I think it's… 00:27:12 Anne Thompson: No, we have… we… we have never allowed tournament only, or we brought that to the board

before, but it has never passed, so we don't, right now, do not allow tournament only. 00:27:23 Bill Phillips: Well, it was… I'm sorry, it's not tournament only, but it allows them to play in the Cups. 00:27:29 Bill Phillips: What… what do we… 00:27:30 Anne Thompson: Oh, oh, non-league cup. Yeah, right, there is that category. 00:27:32 Bill Phillips: non-league Cup teams. Sorry, that… that's what I meant to say, and I spoke incorrectly, so… so, Brad… 00:27:35 Anne Thompson: Yeah. Yeah, but… 00:27:39 Bill Phillips: And so those are primarily the classifications of clubs that are applying for membership in, you know,

VYSA. 00:27:44 Anne Thompson: Well, except that get into non-league Cup, you have to already be a member of BYSA, because

otherwise you couldn't play. 00:27:52 Anne Thompson: Um, or in the case of the current way we run state cup. 00:27:58 Anne Thompson: Um, they, they can… that's how they register their teams if they go forward, and they want to

play in a USYS event. 00:28:08 Anne Thompson: But otherwise, non-League Cup. 00:28:10 Anne Thompson: are… is not the person that just comes in with one team and has nowhere else to play. They can't

go there. 00:28:20 Anne Thompson: They can't go anywhere right now, unless they get a league. 00:28:24 Anne Thompson: Or unless they go to EDP. 00:28:24 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 00:28:27 Bill Phillips: But it also, Brad, is not a prerequisite that they be. 00:28:31 Bill Phillips: accepted by a league before they apply for membership with VYSA. 00:28:34 Anne Thompson: Right. Right. 00:28:36 Bill Phillips: So that, that fits in also with that provisional, um… 00:28:40 Bill Phillips: Membership. So… 00:28:41 Serkan Orsan: From a, um, status standpoint, the provisional would allow them to.

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00:28:46 Serkan Orsan: Whole tryouts, and hopefully increase awareness to their club and get enough players for the

upcoming season, correct? 00:29:00 Richard W. Smith: That's right. 00:29:01 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 00:29:05 Richard W. Smith: And we… and we do in NCSL, we've had clubs that have gained entry. 00:29:05 Serkan Orsan: So… 00:29:10 Richard W. Smith: Virginia clubs that have gained entry with only one team in the past. Uh, and we would… we

would do that again. It's just… 00:29:17 Richard W. Smith: It's a special circumstance, but uh… 00:29:20 Richard W. Smith: But that's certainly happened, so… I think… I think having a minimum. 00:29:22 Anne Thompson: Oh, okay. 00:29:25 Richard W. Smith: Um… 00:29:27 Richard W. Smith: would… you know, EDP will take anybody, so, uh, so having a minimum, I don't think is

necessary. 00:29:36 Anne Thompson: Okay. 00:29:38 JD: I have an opinion. 00:29:40 Brad: I agree. 00:29:42 Bill Phillips: Okay, let's hear your opinion, John. 00:29:44 JD: So we… in Northern Virginia, we have a few clubs that consist of one team or two teams. 00:29:51 JD: Um, some of them hold out just fine, they've been around for a few seasons, like. 00:29:57 JD: Fairfax City Academy enters one or two teams in either National League or EDP, and they do fine. 00:30:04 JD: Most of these tiny clubs. 00:30:08 JD: Come about because some coach isn't getting along with the leadership of. 00:30:14 JD: Whatever the local club is, and decide to go out and start their own. 00:30:19 JD: So when, when Richard said that, uh, the first new club, the, uh, the All-Star Club. 00:30:24 JD: is coming from just south of Alexandria. Alexandria, of course, is a. 00:30:30 JD: very, very robust club with competition at all levels. And then just south of Alexandria, there's probably 3 more. 00:30:38 JD: robust clubs, so it raises the question in my mind is, okay, what's… what's different? What's, uh… 00:30:46 JD: What makes them unique that they need to have their own club who's not letting them play? 00:30:52 JD: Um, and then what, what stems from that is, uh, the, the biggest. 00:30:59 JD: Obstruction to starting a new club up here is getting a field. 00:31:04 JD: And uh… that would be the real question for the club is. 00:31:05 Anne Thompson: I… John, John, I… 00:31:09 JD: Where are you guys gonna train, and where are you guys gonna play? 00:31:13 JD: So, all of that said, um, I'm a huge supporter of anything that gets more members into VYSA is a good thing, so

I'm certainly going to support it. 00:31:23 JD: But, uh, I think that… 00:31:26 JD: We'd be remiss if we don't keep a good eye on these clubs and see how we're doing, how they're doing, and… 00:31:32 JD: If necessary, as Richard said earlier, send some of our experts in to help them if needed. 00:31:40 JD: Anyway, that's my opinion. 00:31:44 Anne Thompson: I take it all back. I didn't know… I didn't know NCSL accepted anything less than a certain number,

and I figured that, um, NC… in… what is it?

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00:31:55 Anne Thompson: VCSL, I didn't know about them, so I changed everything I said, sorry. 00:32:02 Anne Thompson: Yeah, everybody. 00:32:02 Bill Phillips: Well, just so you know, VCSL doesn't have a requirement as far as a club applying for membership. 00:32:09 Anne Thompson: Okay, okay, I take it, totally take it all back in that case. 00:32:13 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:32:15 JD: Yeah, so these teams that become clubs, they're going to affiliate somewhere. 00:32:20 JD: And if they can affiliate with us, that's a great thing. 00:32:26 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:32:28 Bill Phillips: Um, well… 00:32:30 Bill Phillips: we're gonna put this to a vote, I guess. Um, all in favor of accepting, um… 00:32:34 Richard W. Smith: We would… we would probably need a motion and a second first. 00:32:35 Bill Phillips: Cool. 00:32:38 Bill Phillips: Right. Yeah, I'm sorry. 00:32:38 Richard W. Smith: Uh, so I'm happy to make the motion, I'll just make it as 1 to accept. 00:32:44 Richard W. Smith: Both of these clubs as provisional members? 00:32:48 Brad: Awesome. 00:32:48 Anne Thompson: How's your content? 00:32:52 Bill Phillips: Alright, so the… 00:32:54 Bill Phillips: You, you made the motion, John? Or, actually, Richard made the motion. You, you seconded. 00:32:58 Anne Thompson: For sure. 00:33:02 Bill Phillips: Yes. 00:33:03 Richard W. Smith: Yes. 00:33:03 Anne Thompson: Actually, I think both… both John and I did, sort of, at the same time, but it is seconded. 00:33:04 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:33:07 Bill Phillips: At the same time, okay. 00:33:09 Bill Phillips: Alright. Okay. 00:33:11 Bill Phillips: Uh, sorry, Matt's texting me like crazy now. So, anyway, um, yeah, so, uh, all in favor of accepting these

two clubs, signify by saying aye. 00:33:20 Anne Thompson: Hi. 00:33:21 Richard W. Smith: Hi. 00:33:21 Bill Phillips: as provisional. And that, of course, is as provisional members. Uh, anyone opposed? 00:33:21 David Glass: Hi. 00:33:21 Tom: Hi. 00:33:27 Bill Phillips: Anyone abstained from voting? 00:33:30 Bill Phillips: Hang on, okay. All right. Is that, um… was there anything else to bring before us in your report,

Richard? 00:33:37 Richard W. Smith: Yeah, just really quickly, uh, I did ask the staff for updates on our registrations. 00:33:44 Richard W. Smith: Uh, travel registrations are, uh, we're over 1,000 additional registrations from the fall. 00:33:52 Richard W. Smith: Uh, the staff, for whatever reason, was unable to tell me whether that was up or down from last

year. They said they… they don't. 00:34:00 Richard W. Smith: They changed the way they were measuring registrations last year, so they don't have that.

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00:34:06 Richard W. Smith: For, uh, for recrigations, uh, there's… there's a good number of additional rec reg registrations

that have come in as well. 00:34:13 Richard W. Smith: Uh, that's not finished yet, uh, by any stretch, so… but they did not have. 00:34:18 Richard W. Smith: comparisons for last year, either, to give us an indication there. As you recall, our rec reg

registrations were significantly down. 00:34:26 Richard W. Smith: from last year, as of about Christmas, but I just haven't been able to get an update. 00:34:33 Richard W. Smith: On a comparison from last year now. 00:34:37 Richard W. Smith: Uh, the last thing is, um… 00:34:40 Richard W. Smith: Kristen Ostein has asked for us to consider, uh. 00:34:45 Richard W. Smith: Putting together a… a… 00:34:49 Richard W. Smith: Kind of announcing when we're going to see… when we're going to review new clubs. 00:34:54 Richard W. Smith: Uh, and so that she can tell the applicants when the board will take up those applications. 00:35:02 Richard W. Smith: I don't think it's necessary, because every time I learn of an application, I'm putting it up at the

very next board meeting. 00:35:07 Richard W. Smith: Uh, there was one… this Fredericksburg one was missed this year. I mean, this past board

meeting, but that was because. 00:35:14 Richard W. Smith: She didn't send it to me, not because we didn't have an expectation that we would be reviewing

it. 00:35:21 Richard W. Smith: So, my sense is we don't need such a thing, and we'll just tell everybody that the board takes

them up as soon as they get them at their… at their next Dewey. 00:35:30 Richard W. Smith: um, scheduled meeting, but I thought I would mention that. 00:35:35 Serkan Orsan: Richard, you said, uh, did you say, uh, Kristen was not able to provide you with the accurate, uh,

comparison to last year? 00:35:43 Serkan Orsan: Was that something you requested from her? 00:35:43 Richard W. Smith: That is correct. 00:35:46 Richard W. Smith: Yes, that's correct. 00:35:47 Serkan Orsan: Would you do me a favor, and you request something, and they were not able to provide you

something that you can actually send me a note as well? 00:35:55 Richard W. Smith: Sure thing. Apologize for that. 00:35:56 Serkan Orsan: Because we did a compare, you know, comprehensive analysis in terms of… obviously, this was for

the deck that I'm providing as, like. 00:36:05 Serkan Orsan: You know, we did look at intensively to all the numbers clubs. 00:36:10 Serkan Orsan: Travel versus rec, uh, female versus male. 00:36:15 Serkan Orsan: Uh, as well as age bracket breakdown, so I'm surprised that she was not able to provide, so… 00:36:21 Serkan Orsan: I will double-check that and make sure that if something like that happens, let me know, please. 00:36:27 Richard W. Smith: Okay, happy to do it. 00:36:29 Serkan Orsan: Thank you. 00:36:29 Richard W. Smith: Thank you. 00:36:33 Bill Phillips: And just a heads up, um, Richard, so Matt is telling me that he just admitted, um, a club from Alta

Vista, Virginia. 00:36:41 Bill Phillips: And that they'll be applying, so that's one to put on the radar that we should be seeing an application

from soon. 00:36:48 Richard W. Smith: Are they planning on playing in the spring?

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00:36:50 Bill Phillips: No. 00:36:52 Richard W. Smith: Good. Okay. 00:36:58 Serkan Orsan: All right, I think next stop. 00:36:58 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:36:59 Richard W. Smith: That's it for me. 00:37:00 Serkan Orsan: Thanks, Richard. 00:37:02 Bill Phillips: Any additional questions from the rest of you for Richard? 00:37:06 Anne Thompson: Mm. 00:37:07 Bill Phillips: Okay, very good. All right, we'll move into committee reports, and the first of which is the finance

committee report. 00:37:14 Bill Phillips: Uh, Ann Thompson, will you present that report, please? 00:37:19 Anne Thompson: Um, the bulk of the report, um, is the upcoming, um, budget. 00:37:24 Anne Thompson: Um… 00:37:26 Anne Thompson: We are… the Finance Committee is expecting to get the, um… 00:37:32 Anne Thompson: new 26-27 budget preparations from the staff on the 30th of August, spending basically. 00:37:42 Anne Thompson: from the 30th of August until the 16th, um, when we are. 00:37:48 Anne Thompson: In person, um, at the State Office. 00:37:52 Anne Thompson: I'm working out, um… 00:37:56 Anne Thompson: All the little kinks and trying to put together the most realistic budget we can. 00:38:01 Anne Thompson: Um, that will come to board after… after that meeting on the 16th, then… 00:38:08 Anne Thompson: there will be some period of time that Robert and Serkan will put it back together after we have

made all the changes. 00:38:16 Anne Thompson: And then that will come pretty quickly after that to the board of directors, and then the board

will then. 00:38:24 Anne Thompson: Review the budget, um, and… 00:38:27 Anne Thompson: And, uh, discuss it and pass it, hopefully, on June 17th. 00:38:35 Anne Thompson: That is the next time that the board will meet, and basically that meeting is. 00:38:41 Anne Thompson: just for budget review, um, and approval. 00:38:45 Anne Thompson: Because generally, we don't have a June board meeting because of the annual general meeting

on the, I think, the 27th of June this year. 00:38:54 Anne Thompson: So, that's our schedule. If anybody and I has any. 00:39:00 Anne Thompson: Thing about the budget they want to ask, or discuss, or… 00:39:05 Anne Thompson: Feel like we haven't covered properly or whatever, please call. 00:39:11 Anne Thompson: is… you can call me. You… and I'll pass anything on to everybody else. 00:39:17 Anne Thompson: And discuss it with you, and all of the… anything you want to do or talk about. So let's do that. 00:39:25 Anne Thompson: things that have bothered you in the past, let's do that. And then that on the… when you get the

budget from the… 00:39:34 Anne Thompson: Finance Committee, you won't say, well, it doesn't include this or that. 00:39:39 Anne Thompson: So, before April 30th. 00:39:44 Anne Thompson: Um, call, and then we'll talk about… 00:39:47 Anne Thompson: And obviously, everything is not possible, all your ideas are not possible, but some will be, so… 00:39:55 Anne Thompson: Everybody's welcome.

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00:39:59 Serkan Orsan: And just to chime in on that, just so you guys know what we're doing internally here, until the 30th,

the staff here is… 00:39:59 Anne Thompson: Um… 00:40:07 Serkan Orsan: they already have their marching orders, in a way. Uh, everybody has their departmental actual plus

forecast for the season. 00:40:17 Serkan Orsan: So, throughout this week, until next week, they're working on their highlights. 00:40:22 Serkan Orsan: pricing strategy, if it's applicable, costing strategy, expenses, highlights of those for us to discuss

internally till next week. And then we're also utilizing that next week until the 29th of April for us to look at every. 00:40:39 Serkan Orsan: Uh, department line by line for us to give you guys a budget on the 30th that's gonna have. 00:40:45 Serkan Orsan: Uh, some type of a good direction for you guys to review and give us feedback by May 10th, and

that's the goal. 00:40:52 Serkan Orsan: We're gonna give you a shared document so that you can actually dump it in, so it's not like one

person just sending us an email, but it's more like a collective. 00:41:03 Serkan Orsan: Uh, notes that you can see everybody's involvement and suggestions and updates. 00:41:08 Serkan Orsan: And then we'll follow the calendar deadlines accordingly, just like Anne mentioned. 00:41:22 Bill Phillips: Any other questions? 00:41:24 Anne Thompson: Well, the rest of it is the expense reimbursement policy, and Serkan has that information. 00:41:31 Anne Thompson: Um, highlighted, or he's bringing that to the board, and… 00:41:36 Anne Thompson: Accounts receivable are high, but as Tom said, um, most of the… well, half of that is, uh,

sponsorship dollars from Publix. 00:41:45 Anne Thompson: So, and then, of course, um, the spring registrations are still outstanding, so that all will get

caught up. 00:41:54 Bill Phillips: Yeah, there was… there were two in there that were on the, um… 00:41:57 Bill Phillips: The aging receivables list, and one of… one of which was the, uh… 00:42:03 Bill Phillips: Vio. 00:42:06 Bill Phillips: Is that, um… is that of any concern there? 00:42:10 RobertCarey: Uh… no, Bill, uh… 00:42:14 RobertCarey: Serkan recently reached out to VO, uh, because it was getting old on the AR report. 00:42:19 RobertCarey: And they replied that they would cut a check, and we would get it in the next week or two. 00:42:24 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:42:24 RobertCarey: So we have reached out to them. 00:42:27 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, we didn't have a credit card other than the GotSport opportunity to get it right away, so… 00:42:27 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:42:34 Serkan Orsan: They're writing us a check. 00:42:35 Bill Phillips: Oh, gotcha. And then, um… 00:42:39 Bill Phillips: the Keeper Wars, they kind of fell off the report, right? 00:42:44 Serkan Orsan: No, I am in touch with Tanya as well. She's getting me a timeline to be able to pay that. 00:42:51 Serkan Orsan: Along with several other AR components that we discussed today with Robert. 00:42:58 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:43:00 Bill Phillips: I have no further questions. 00:43:03 Bill Phillips: Anyone else? 00:43:06 Bill Phillips: Hearing none. Okay.

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00:43:08 Bill Phillips: Uh, the next report that comes before us is, uh, well… 00:43:13 Bill Phillips: One you turn to first is the adjudication report. 00:43:16 Bill Phillips: And, um… 00:43:18 Bill Phillips: you should all have an opportunity at some point to read over that. I know some folks are just getting

this today, but um… 00:43:25 Bill Phillips: John, is there anything that we… we need to, um… 00:43:30 Bill Phillips: Be mindful of here. 00:43:33 Bill Phillips: John Davis? 00:43:33 JD: No, everything… no, everything in the report is straightforward. 00:43:36 Bill Phillips: Okay. And, um, from your perspective, uh… 00:43:41 Bill Phillips: 531-9 is, um… 00:43:44 Bill Phillips: has been an effective policy change thus far for Virginia. 00:43:48 JD: So, it's been in effect for a year, and uh… based on what some, uh… 00:43:55 JD: teams are experiencing when they come from out of state. Virginia is ahead of the curve. 00:44:00 JD: On, uh, enforcing good sportsmanship. 00:44:06 JD: So, uh, yeah, I would say that the system is working. 00:44:11 Bill Phillips: Okay, very good. 00:44:13 Bill Phillips: All right, the next report to come before us is, as he turns the page… 00:44:18 Bill Phillips: Uh, the Executive director's Report. So… 00:44:21 Bill Phillips: Hall of Fame, did Adele submit anything? Because I didn't get to look through everything. So, nothing

from Adele. 00:44:25 Anne Thompson: You see… 00:44:28 Bill Phillips: John, are you gonna talk about your… Serkan, are you gonna talk about your, uh… 00:44:33 Bill Phillips: Email conversations with John Schlenker. 00:44:36 Bill Phillips: in your report. 00:44:39 Serkan Orsan: Oh, yes, yes. 00:44:40 Bill Phillips: Okay, alright. And, uh… 00:44:41 Serkan Orsan: I can touch that as we do. 00:44:43 Bill Phillips: Marcelo, nothing from him as well, on grassroots. 00:44:49 Bill Phillips: Okay. 00:44:49 Serkan Orsan: I'll just jump into the Executive director report. I have Ray and Gordon, since they're on the line, as

well as within the report, once I get to those components right here, I'll let them chime in. 00:45:01 Serkan Orsan: As they got some good recaps, too. And I apologize for some reason, the color did not pop into this. 00:45:07 Serkan Orsan: So, uh, as much as, you know, all of them are green except, uh… 00:45:12 Serkan Orsan: in preparation right here, we're basically preparing for the President State Cup, uh, but most of

those are in green right now. 00:45:20 Serkan Orsan: And then, uh, as I just hover over to the organization internal, what you guys can see is… 00:45:26 Serkan Orsan: Uh, we have implemented the share calendar for, uh, upcoming season, as well as for the next 3

seasons, so everything that, uh, the team is working on. 00:45:38 Serkan Orsan: They have visibility to every component of the business. 00:45:43 Serkan Orsan: that's taking place regardless of department. So, if you look at the calendar, you're able to see ops in

terms of ODP, coaching education.

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00:45:55 Serkan Orsan: When it's happening, where it's happening, if there are any deadlines to prepare for that prior to

that deadline. 00:46:01 Serkan Orsan: Uh, as well as anything that's happening at the facility, anything that's happening from marketing

and membership standpoint, as well as finance. 00:46:12 Serkan Orsan: So, I'll go to Exhibit A first, which is, uh, we have been working on the expense and reimbursement

policy. So, what I did for, just as a recap. 00:46:23 Serkan Orsan: I separated the expense and reimbursement policy to review and update that as quickly as possible

to improve it a little. 00:46:31 Serkan Orsan: Uh, because it's within the financial policy, and there are certain things that was… 00:46:36 Serkan Orsan: pretty much standard operating procedures for ODP that did not, uh, should not be there, should be

separated. 00:46:42 Serkan Orsan: So I did not make any recommendations to financial policy yet, but just the reimbursement policy, so

I'll just skip to that page, which is… 00:46:55 Serkan Orsan: 13, 14. 00:46:57 Serkan Orsan: So, the idea here with the expense policy is, uh… 00:47:03 Serkan Orsan: What we're trying to achieve is basically these top components right here. 00:47:09 Serkan Orsan: is we're trying to digitize everything. Basically, the main component is trying to work with an

application and software that is, uh. 00:47:20 Serkan Orsan: friendly with QuickBooks. That is gonna be very productive from our end, instead of inputting

everything into paper documents. 00:47:30 Serkan Orsan: Uh, we're gonna be able to take photographs of the receipts, and those receipts will be

automatically. 00:47:37 Serkan Orsan: Directed to the accounting codes that we will set up in the system, and those will be generated in a. 00:47:46 Serkan Orsan: environment that's gonna house on the ramp, and it's gonna be account-encoded to the QuickBooks

directly. A couple other improvements that we made is we're gonna, you know, obviously, since we have this ability to upload receipts right away. 00:48:02 Serkan Orsan: We're gonna require the submission timeline to go down to 14 days, so… 00:48:07 Serkan Orsan: We're gonna require all of our staff to be able to upload their receipts very quickly, since they don't

have to do it with the software, they can do it digitally. 00:48:17 Serkan Orsan: as long as all those receipts have information on them. So, every receipt will need to have the need

for it. 00:48:26 Serkan Orsan: Uh, accounting code for it, uh, whether it be a, um, a breakfast meal. 00:48:32 Serkan Orsan: Or anything related to a purchase that will need to be identified for us to, uh… 00:48:37 Serkan Orsan: quickly identify and put them in the right accounting order. We looked at the meal cap. We wanted

to raise that a little to $75 a day, but that's also broken down. 00:48:50 Serkan Orsan: Uh, as breakfast and lunch and meals, so it could be, uh, sorry, it could be… 00:49:00 Serkan Orsan: 8. 00:49:05 Serkan Orsan: Total, $75 a day, or it could be broken down by $15, $25, $35. 00:49:12 Serkan Orsan: Uh, in terms of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Uh, we looked at the mileage rate. We slightly raised it,

but we are gonna, uh, increase the minimum threshold from 30 to 50 mile radius. 00:49:25 Serkan Orsan: to make sure that we're addressing those needs that are actually outside of Fredericksburg area, or

wherever the event is taking place. 00:49:37 Serkan Orsan: Uh, other components is obviously to make sure that we are gonna have. 00:49:44 Serkan Orsan: The leads…

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00:49:46 Serkan Orsan: approve… 00:49:48 Serkan Orsan: Up to $250, and anything about $250 will need to be approved by. 00:49:55 Serkan Orsan: uh, executive director of the, uh, chief financial officers. And we bring several strong enforcement

because. 00:50:03 Serkan Orsan: we're gonna have the opportunity to deny late submissions. Any type of credit card misuse,

obviously, that comes with the territory. 00:50:12 Serkan Orsan: So, the idea is to modernize the expense and reimbursement policy to make sure that we're meeting

the requirements and the deadlines. 00:50:22 Serkan Orsan: As efficiently as we are. 00:50:27 Serkan Orsan: Uh, going back to… 00:50:29 Serkan Orsan: the report… 00:50:38 Serkan Orsan: There we go. 00:50:43 Serkan Orsan: We've talked about the key dates. Um, I do have a proposal for the AGM. 00:50:51 Serkan Orsan: which I would like to kind of switch it to annual leadership event, and I would like your opinion,

because this is a recommendation that. 00:50:59 Serkan Orsan: Again, some of these things might have been done in the past, so if you guys can give me your

feedback on it. 00:51:06 Serkan Orsan: I am kind of thinking about the AGM to be a bit more of a, um… 00:51:13 Serkan Orsan: event experience to increase participation and engagement across all stakeholders, uh, kind of, like,

create a platform where our. 00:51:22 Serkan Orsan: Uh, partner sponsors could take partnership in the, uh, event. 00:51:27 Serkan Orsan: Uh, provide some type of education, and structure it, like, more like a… maybe a board meeting on

Saturday morning, and then, uh… 00:51:36 Serkan Orsan: Attendees could arrive on Saturday afternoon for an event that is, um, I have. 00:51:44 Serkan Orsan: Zoom calls tomorrow with Iceland Soccer Federation, as well as Turkish Football Federation. 00:51:50 Serkan Orsan: And I think Turkish Football Federation is highly interested because they're gonna be here, and I'm

trying to figure out a way for them to attend the session here. 00:52:00 Serkan Orsan: Uh, to provide us with some valuable insight in terms of maybe coaching, education, or maybe

referee participation in any type of activation that we can do. 00:52:11 Serkan Orsan: Um, I just exchanged messages with Ryan down in Florida. Uh, since, uh, Scotland will be playing

Brazil down there, they're doing a similar activation. 00:52:22 Serkan Orsan: Uh, with Scotland Football Federation. 00:52:24 Serkan Orsan: Um, I also have Wales in my call list. Noel Mooney is the Federation CEO down in Wales. 00:52:33 Serkan Orsan: I know they did not make the World Cup, so Turkish Football Federation makes it a little easier for

me to. 00:52:39 Serkan Orsan: cost it, because they're already going to be here, so it would be a domestic flight for me to figure out

for them to be here. So my idea was to. 00:52:49 Serkan Orsan: Have an event with an opening remarks around 11, leadership and club development, some type of

breakout activities with coaching, admin, and operations, where we can have some of our, again, partners. 00:53:01 Serkan Orsan: Uh, we would have some vendor sponsor activation area, and then possibly an evening reception. 00:53:07 Serkan Orsan: And then we would work with, you know, Ray mentioned that there's a Marriott close by. 00:53:12 Serkan Orsan: Uh, maybe for the ones that we would like for them to attend with a stayover, uh, we would partner

with the Marriott to see, because since this event is going to be in Northern Virginia.

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00:53:23 Serkan Orsan: They won't need that. They can attend a Saturday, and if they want to swing by Sunday, that's still

fine, but we would have the opportunity to house some of these guys. 00:53:34 Serkan Orsan: Uh, with an event fee, maybe, to participate, uh, from Beach and Roanoke area. 00:53:41 Serkan Orsan: So that was my idea in terms of, uh, trying to switch the event a little. 00:53:48 Serkan Orsan: To make vendor participation, and then come up with some sponsorship packages, and make it a,

you know, pilot year this first year, and then kind of build on the blocks with the 50th year anniversary. 00:54:00 Serkan Orsan: Uh, which I did not include in the report, but I had really good results with the DC United agreement. 00:54:08 Serkan Orsan: Uh, you know, just to recap on that, 5 clubs were participated. We sold tickets to DC United Dallas

FC game. 00:54:16 Serkan Orsan: Which they told me not to show up anymore, because they lost 4-0. 00:54:22 Serkan Orsan: But their sporting directors, like I said, he's a good friend of mine, he said, uh, talk to the guys. 00:54:28 Serkan Orsan: Uh, they have agreed to, uh, donate $1,000 to our Top Soccer footy golf event. 00:54:35 Serkan Orsan: Uh, they're gonna come up, uh, come down to Fredericksburg and do some, uh, soccer clinics in the

Fredericks, you know, in our public training center. 00:54:44 Serkan Orsan: Uh, they're gonna be participating at the State Cup with a tent and a lot of merchandise. 00:54:49 Serkan Orsan: Um, they've agreed to, um, host several coaching events, Q&A events. 00:54:55 Serkan Orsan: with a breakfast on a Friday morning when they have a game on Saturday, so we will pre-screen the

coaches. 00:55:02 Serkan Orsan: and choose appropriate coaching personnel to attend to these events. One will be in fall, one will be

in spring, and this will be a Friday morning event where. 00:55:13 Serkan Orsan: they're actually training at the Audi field, so it will be the coach, players in a QA, and then light

breakfast will be provided. 00:55:22 Serkan Orsan: They will also open their fields to us for our 50th year anniversary next year. 00:55:28 Serkan Orsan: I'm working the details to see if I can actually get kind of like an ODP Hall of Famer. 00:55:33 Serkan Orsan: players versus, uh, some of the VYSA coaches, an event. 00:55:39 Serkan Orsan: But they also will have agreed to have up to 250 players, uh, do pre-game show on the field to be

recognized based on. 00:55:49 Serkan Orsan: the ticket sales that we decide for the 50th year anniversary. So a lot of momentum there, so I

thought this would be a good opportunity to have the AGM. 00:55:58 Serkan Orsan: Uh, to be a pilot year and then start building up on these. 00:56:03 Serkan Orsan: But I'm open to your feedback as well. 00:56:10 Bill Phillips: Any comments? 00:56:13 Anne Thompson: Um… 00:56:21 Serkan Orsan: Okay. 00:56:22 JD: I have… I have 3. I was waiting for him. 00:56:24 Serkan Orsan: Go for it! 00:56:27 JD: Okay, um, June 27 is the AGM? 00:56:31 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 00:56:31 Serkan Orsan: Correct. 00:56:32 JD: And that's… that's also the date of the… 00:56:37 JD: Uh… referee semi-annual meeting? 00:56:40 Serkan Orsan: Well, we combine it with them.

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00:56:41 JD: You might… that's why I'm bringing it up. Why don't you give a call to George or Mort, and see if we can do

both at the same place. 00:56:44 Serkan Orsan: Awesome. 00:56:51 Serkan Orsan: I would be more than happy to coordinate that with your help, or we can do it together, however

you like, John. 00:56:54 JD: Okay. 00:56:56 JD: I'll help any way I can, but I think it starts with a phone call from you to George. 00:57:01 Serkan Orsan: Absolutely, I can do that. 00:57:02 Anne Thompson: Can… can I ask where Alex Renew is? Is that where we had it last year? 00:57:07 Anne Thompson: I don't know where that is. 00:57:07 Bill Phillips: Yes. 00:57:10 Bill Phillips: It's where we had it last year, Ann. 00:57:10 Serkan Orsan: I think so. 00:57:11 Anne Thompson: Okay, okay. 00:57:14 Serkan Orsan: And the fact that, again, I haven't been there personally, but they have, you know, Robert gave me

good feedback, Ray gave me good feedback in terms of the possibilities, and, you know, based on what I saw online. 00:57:26 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 00:57:29 Bill Phillips: The only issue there is the parking, you know, um… 00:57:32 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. Bye. 00:57:34 Bill Phillips: But it's a great building, yes, they have a field right out back, but the parking is a little bit… 00:57:38 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, tell me about parking. I went to DC United game, they were charging $90. 00:57:43 Serkan Orsan: For parking. So I parked at South 4th Street, Southeast 4th Street, or whatever, 4th Avenue is like a

half a mile walk, which was a good night, an interesting night. 00:57:55 Anne Thompson: That's awful. 00:57:57 Serkan Orsan: But it was a good event, you know, we were able to get top soccer players on the field per game. 00:57:57 JD: Okay. 00:58:03 Serkan Orsan: They, they had more on the list but, you know, I think there was only 2 players that showed up out

of the 15 that we said we would get on the field. 00:58:13 JD: Next time you're up here for a DC United game, let me know I have… 00:58:13 Serkan Orsan: But we didn't… 00:58:17 Serkan Orsan: I know, I saw your email afterwards. 00:58:19 JD: Yeah, and I have free parking. 00:58:22 Serkan Orsan: Oh, awesome. Then definitely I'll call. 00:58:26 JD: Uh, second, you started off talking about a centralized calendar? 00:58:32 Serkan Orsan: Uh-huh. 00:58:32 JD: There may be reasons why you don't want to do this, but I'm wondering whether you would consider opening

that calendar for the board to see? 00:58:41 JD: Um, that way, when you're doing an event in Northern Virginia, we can look at it and say, hey, maybe I'll go and

show up and watch. 00:58:48 Serkan Orsan: Absolutely, we can definitely do that, because Board of Directors meetings and everything is on that

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00:58:54 Serkan Orsan: It's more like a, you know, just for everyone to have eyes on other things, because the staff here is

very strong in terms of their core areas. 00:58:55 JD: Okay. 00:59:06 Serkan Orsan: and they support the other areas, but sometimes, you know, because they're actively doing their

own thing internally, they don't really get the eyes on them for the other departments, so I believe it will be helpful. 00:59:18 JD: Yep. 00:59:20 Serkan Orsan: For us to remember and support. 00:59:22 JD: Yep, love the… love the idea. Any… anytime I get to do eyes on a local club at the working level. 00:59:30 JD: I try to do that. 00:59:32 Serkan Orsan: Cool. 00:59:32 JD: Um, and then on the financial policy, is that just for internal staff, or is that a policy for anybody who wants a

reimbursement? 00:59:35 Serkan Orsan: Yep. 00:59:43 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, it actually has, uh, components. I will send you guys the policy. It actually covers, uh… 00:59:52 Serkan Orsan: training center as well, how the golf carts will be refilled in terms of gas, who will be able to use

them in terms of how and when, and with a waiver if they need to do so. 01:00:04 Serkan Orsan: Uh, it covers everyone. You know, obviously, uh, we have a different, um, structure that we're

looking at, that I was privy to, uh, the way that we reimburse ODP coaches and all that, uh, so they don't, you know, I think Gordon does a good job of. 01:00:20 Serkan Orsan: Looking at averages of coaches that are driving to events. 01:00:26 Serkan Orsan: So that we're not reimbursing them miles, and they have creative ways, and we're looking at it, how

even to make that more profitable. 01:00:34 Serkan Orsan: and productive for us. But whoever, you know, anyone that's returning a receipt will, you know, will

follow that same reimbursement policy. 01:00:44 JD: Okay, um, something to consider for the mileage reimbursement, instead of a set rate, if you use the IRS rate. 01:00:53 JD: Then you don't have to change it every year? 01:00:55 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, it's… correct, it's… right now, I think it's .72 half, so… 01:00:55 JD: Um… 01:00:59 JD: Right, right, but in the policy, if it says .72, and it says .72 until you change the policy again. 01:01:01 Serkan Orsan: Yep. 01:01:07 JD: If you change that to, say, we'll reimburse mileage at the IRS rate, then whenever the IRS rate changes, which is

usually once a year, sometimes a couple of times a year. 01:01:18 JD: Then it just, you know, goes up and down. 01:01:21 Serkan Orsan: I was hoping that we keep it this way, maybe if they go too high, I can lower it. 01:01:21 JD: I see. 01:01:27 JD: Yep. 01:01:29 JD: Just something to consider. That way, you're not changing policy every year. 01:01:30 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, no, it makes sense. 01:01:34 JD: And then, uh, third comment on the financial policy is, do you intend to deny. 01:01:41 JD: Any request that's over 14 days old, or are you going to be judicious about that? 01:01:47 Serkan Orsan: We're gonna start implementing it, and then, as we get into the habit of it, hopefully we won't have

to deny anything. 01:01:55 JD: Okay.

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01:01:57 JD: Alright, that's all I got. 01:02:02 Bill Phillips: I'm the only offender of that 14-day thing, so… 01:02:06 Serkan Orsan: We'll cut you some slack, because you bought me steak. 01:02:13 Bill Phillips: Alright, so, um… 01:02:14 Serkan Orsan: Alright. Any more feedback? And, you know, I put together some, you know. 01:02:20 Serkan Orsan: Uh, ideas here in terms of what, you know, if approved. 01:02:25 Serkan Orsan: I had, uh, two options, event name and branding, Grow the Game Virginia or Game On Virginia. 01:02:32 Serkan Orsan: VYSA Leadership Weekend. 01:02:34 Serkan Orsan: Uh, put together some logos, you know, obviously, again, this would be… the first year would be a

pilot. 01:02:41 Serkan Orsan: establish some foundation, uh, hopefully deliver some high-quality initial experience. You know,

again, you know, I have calls tomorrow. 01:02:50 Serkan Orsan: I will definitely recap what is doable, and if I foresee some, you know. 01:02:57 Serkan Orsan: pushback or challenges, I will let everybody know, but this was an idea that I thought we would start

and make this a kind of like a… 01:03:04 Serkan Orsan: in the summer, an event where experiences, uh, because of the weather being nice, some type of

coaching, maybe referee activation with sponsors, as well as some demonstrations, and then definitely combine semiannual meeting of the referees, and then utilize the February AGM. 01:03:24 Serkan Orsan: As… as the event portion. 01:03:27 Serkan Orsan: This would be kind of like a lighter workshop, uh… 01:03:32 Serkan Orsan: Maybe kind of like a little cocktail in the evening, maybe like a social event. 01:03:38 Serkan Orsan: Rather than a sit-down. 01:03:43 Bill Phillips: Yeah, the only… what I would say about it is… go back up to your schedule. 01:03:48 Bill Phillips: Um, for the, uh… 01:03:52 Bill Phillips: the day on Saturday, so… 01:03:55 Bill Phillips: Um… 01:03:59 Bill Phillips: Yeah, so you got everything beginning at 11, right? 01:04:03 Serkan Orsan: Mm-hmm. And I thought we would use the morning for a board meeting if we needed to, but we

have a board meeting in June 28th anyways. 01:04:04 Bill Phillips: Yeah, and then… 01:04:13 Bill Phillips: Right. Um… 01:04:15 Serkan Orsan: So we wouldn't have to do that. 01:04:17 Bill Phillips: Yeah. And then… 01:04:18 Serkan Orsan: And then this would give them enough time to get there if they're coming from Northern Virginia,

or… 01:04:23 Serkan Orsan: You know, from the beach, you know, if they take off a little early, and then they would spend the

night, obviously. 01:04:27 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 01:04:29 Bill Phillips: Right. Um… 01:04:31 Bill Phillips: But you're also talking about… 01:04:34 Bill Phillips: because I think one… one section here, you're talking about moving it to Fredericksburg from

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01:04:41 Bill Phillips: Or did I misread that? 01:04:43 Serkan Orsan: No, this would be all Alex Renew. 01:04:46 Bill Phillips: Okay. 01:04:49 Bill Phillips: Um… 01:04:52 Bill Phillips: Yeah, just… I know, like, we've done it kind of late on Saturday in the past, just because we… 01:05:00 Bill Phillips: We do have folks that drive up from Virginia Beach. 01:05:03 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, I mean, this could be, like, shifted to 12, yeah, absolutely, yeah. No, I'm open to those, you

know, feedback, obviously, as we, you know, if we… if we approve the idea, then we would look at the logistics to make sure it's feasible for everyone. 01:05:04 Bill Phillips: And… yeah. 01:05:06 Bill Phillips: Yeah. Right. 01:05:17 Bill Phillips: Yeah. Now… 01:05:20 Bill Phillips: You know, not to be a negative person about this, but in the past, when we've done workshops. 01:05:26 Bill Phillips: on the same day, or during the AGM. Um… 01:05:30 Bill Phillips: The only workshop that was well attended. 01:05:33 Bill Phillips: was the Coaching Ed workshop. 01:05:35 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 01:05:35 Serkan Orsan: Mm-hmm. 01:05:37 Bill Phillips: the others, it was a little bit embarrassing. We would have… 01:05:41 Bill Phillips: you know, for instance, um, God's Sport would show up. 01:05:45 Bill Phillips: And there would be no one in there, you know, and we brought in 3 people from God's board. 01:05:50 Bill Phillips: Um, we had, uh… 01:05:53 Bill Phillips: the insurance carrier at the time, it was the Monument Group, but later it was Dan Pullen. 01:05:59 Bill Phillips: From, um… 01:06:02 Bill Phillips: Whatever agency he's with now. Anyway, our current insurer. And, uh, it's just… 01:06:06 RobertCarey: Player's health. 01:06:08 Bill Phillips: Player's health, and nobody's there, you know, so, um, I'm just giving you that feedback because I… 01:06:08 RobertCarey: Yeah. 01:06:12 Serkan Orsan: No, no, I totally get it, because I can assure you, when we did in Tennessee, there's, like, you know,

again. 01:06:20 Serkan Orsan: You had very similar players health or similar, uh, concussion group. 01:06:26 Serkan Orsan: There was maybe, you know, I want to say 15 people out of. 01:06:30 Serkan Orsan: 150, if there was any 10% in there. And obviously, you know, any type of workshop that you're

talking about. 01:06:31 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 01:06:37 Serkan Orsan: Competition or anything like that, the room was full. 01:06:41 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 01:06:42 Serkan Orsan: Um, my other idea was to make sure that we kind of focus in on the recreational clubs, too. 01:06:50 Serkan Orsan: to make sure that, you know, just like John mentioned, when we were talking about these two clubs

that might need, you know. 01:06:57 Serkan Orsan: Hand-holding, providing them with the support that they might need, what type of structure that

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01:07:04 Serkan Orsan: from a 501c standpoint, to have a board that supports the program, but also a soccer operations

that helps them. 01:07:12 Serkan Orsan: how to really develop that. So, ideas like that, obviously coaching it will be, you know, again, number

one. You know, if we're bringing a football federation, I want to make sure that they're utilized and everybody. 01:07:23 Anne Thompson: Yes. 01:07:24 Serkan Orsan: Is there to maximize that opportunity, but then sprinkling some of these ideas. 01:07:29 Serkan Orsan: That might support them, and then, uh, we gotta promote it, too. You know, obviously we can't just

say, hey, we're doing this, and not really give them guidance of what they're gonna receive when they get there. 01:07:40 Serkan Orsan: So the more we promote it, you know, put a little countdown on the website and make sure that

they understand what the… 01:07:47 Serkan Orsan: The possibilities will be when they get there, from a swag standpoint, to opportunities from a

coaching ed, to maybe little small mom and pops. 01:07:58 Serkan Orsan: Soccer clubs to understand how they should operate efficiently. 01:08:04 Anne Thompson: Hmm. 01:08:05 Serkan Orsan: And then, you know, just so you know, today, you know, yesterday, a survey went out that has

questions about the AGM2. 01:08:13 Serkan Orsan: So, we already received about 45 response to the survey. 01:08:19 Serkan Orsan: Uh, from 120 clubs, so that's a good result so far that we haven't tabulated yet. 01:08:24 Bill Phillips: Yeah, that's great. 01:08:26 Anne Thompson: Um… 01:08:28 Bill Phillips: Okay, that was the only comments I had. Go ahead, the rest of you. 01:08:28 Tom: So, one of the… 01:08:31 Anne Thompson: I would, I think we'd be better off the first time not to do overnight. 01:08:38 Anne Thompson: Um… to try to get it all into one day. 01:08:43 Anne Thompson: Um, unless you think that having guests in would… would… 01:08:48 Anne Thompson: force that overnight. I think having the… the Turkish Federation, I assume it's a federation. 01:08:55 Anne Thompson: Um, some of the members, not the players or anything like that, right? 01:08:59 Serkan Orsan: Uh, they will be from their… no, they will be from their education department. 01:09:00 Anne Thompson: Not the coaches, not the… not the staff. 01:09:04 Anne Thompson: Yeah. Um… 01:09:07 Anne Thompson: That, of course, will be a draw. Um, AGM is never a draw, unless there's some… a little bit of

controversy going. 01:09:15 Anne Thompson: Um… yeah. 01:09:17 Anne Thompson: So, promoting something that's extra besides the annual meeting. 01:09:24 Anne Thompson: I would say will take a lot of work. And I'm not against it, because I think it would be really

helpful. 01:09:30 Anne Thompson: As far as charging the people money to come, I read the whole thing, Serkan, and I… 01:09:36 Anne Thompson: I'm so in favor of having something for the members, because they miss having something like a

workshop, or they always say they do. 01:09:44 Anne Thompson: But getting them there is… 01:09:48 Anne Thompson: it's really hard. Um, so… 01:09:53 Anne Thompson: that's the only thing. And then the other thing…

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01:09:57 Anne Thompson: What's the financial plan? Is this something that's costing us money? 01:10:03 Anne Thompson: Or how are we working that kind of thing out? 01:10:06 Serkan Orsan: Well, obviously, if I bring the Federation, it will cost me some money to get them here and house

them. They're not gonna do it for free, but this would be the best timing and opportunity to do that. 01:10:13 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 01:10:15 Anne Thompson: Right. 01:10:18 Serkan Orsan: Meaning, I know that most of them gonna be here because they have a game on the 25th of. 01:10:25 Serkan Orsan: June against U.S. So, um, you know, having that key date, I know that they're gonna be here, and I

can have several of them. 01:10:30 Anne Thompson: But… 01:10:34 Serkan Orsan: fly out here for. 01:10:37 Serkan Orsan: Just one day at least, or maybe two. 01:10:39 Anne Thompson: Yeah. Um… 01:10:41 Anne Thompson: I think that's a… that's a question that needs to be answered, I think, a little bit before we even,

like, vote on it. Like, how… what is the… 01:10:49 Anne Thompson: I mean, obviously we know, you know, the room rental for the annual meeting and all of that, I

mean, there's some expense to that, too, and that's already… 01:10:58 Anne Thompson: already going to be spent. Um, but if it… if you… 01:11:00 Serkan Orsan: Yep, so… No, I'm in agreement. That's why I kind of put… 01:11:03 Anne Thompson: Well, yeah, right. 01:11:07 Serkan Orsan: Very simple, you know, costing strategy here. 01:11:11 Anne Thompson: Alright, alright. 01:11:13 Anne Thompson: I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong. If we're going to have maybe, um… 01:11:18 Anne Thompson: some kind of coaching education and then we have that. You know, I don't think any of us want

to say no, but we've been burned a lot on people not coming. 01:11:21 Serkan Orsan: Mm-hmm. 01:11:29 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, no, no, I'm… I'm totally in agreement, and the problem is… 01:11:30 Anne Thompson: And so… 01:11:33 Anne Thompson: Huh. 01:11:36 Serkan Orsan: If we do it, we gotta do it right, but if we don't do it, then we're never gonna get it right, because we

didn't do it. 01:11:44 Serkan Orsan: If that makes sense. So, my idea is… 01:11:46 Anne Thompson: It does. 01:11:48 Serkan Orsan: My idea is, let's use it as a pilot year. Um, I… you know, obviously, if I'm doing this, I'm gonna do it at

a minimum cost that's gonna support the event. 01:11:59 Serkan Orsan: but also, you know, make it impactful. I don't want it to, you know, do it just the sake of doing it, but

if we're gonna do it, I'm gonna try to bring, you know, again, this is gonna be, you know, my conversations tomorrow. They might as well say, hey. 01:12:13 Serkan Orsan: You know, we can't really do it at this time, uh, but they've shown interest. I mean, I've had, you

know, initial call with them to say, hey, I'm going to pitch this idea so you can't let me down. 01:12:23 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 01:12:24 Serkan Orsan: So, I am sure that I will get some interest. 01:12:28 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm.

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01:12:29 Serkan Orsan: I can put together a simple, you know, my pilot year, you know, revenue potential was 20 to 50. 01:12:35 Anne Thompson: Yeah. 01:12:35 Serkan Orsan: And again, I looked at this as… it's a minimal cost to us to rent the place, so we don't have any

expense there. It's gonna be, you know. 01:12:44 Serkan Orsan: minimal cost when I… if they're here already, because I'm not going to fly them over from Turkey,

they're going to be here already, so it's looking like a… more of a domestic flight than international flight, if it's two people. 01:12:56 Serkan Orsan: And housing them is gonna be… 01:12:56 Anne Thompson: Well, but they're flying in from, what, Washington state, so that's not anything these days, if

you've looked at airline tickets, so… 01:13:03 Serkan Orsan: No, what I'm saying is it's not an international flight ticket. It's more of a, you know, domestic ticket,

so… 01:13:07 Anne Thompson: Yeah. 01:13:09 Anne Thompson: Right. Um… 01:13:10 Serkan Orsan: At least, you know, I get that, that discount. 01:13:14 Anne Thompson: Yeah, one of the other things is we… we were in that room last year, so one of the things I would

be sure to ask is. 01:13:22 Anne Thompson: What's the maximum number that they think an event can hold? 01:13:27 Anne Thompson: Because the room we were in was nice and large for the annual meeting, but it wasn't really big. 01:13:34 Anne Thompson: So, I think they might have something, you know, another room… 01:13:39 Serkan Orsan: Sure. 01:13:39 Anne Thompson: But I think that's one thing that you should need to ask. 01:13:43 Anne Thompson: Because I'm not sure, at least go see it, because I'm not sure it's going to hold a lot of people. 01:13:53 Anne Thompson: Of course, if we got a lot of people, we'd be so happy. 01:13:53 Serkan Orsan: Fair. 01:14:00 Tom: So, one of the things that… 01:14:03 Tom: I would suggest is that… 01:14:05 Anne Thompson: Oh. 01:14:06 Tom: when I've gone to conferences, and I'm sure when you guys have gone to conferences, if there are different. 01:14:13 Tom: Uh, tracks, and different… 01:14:16 Tom: Opportunities to, uh, go to these meetings. You had to sign up for them. 01:14:23 Tom: And it would seem to me that if people. 01:14:27 Tom: If we did that, had them sign up, we would know in advance, if we cut the sign off at a certain point, whether

or not it's going to be attended or not. 01:14:36 Serkan Orsan: Yeah. 01:14:36 Tom: In which case, we could cancel it. Uh… 01:14:36 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 01:14:39 Tom: I don't think we've ever done that in the past. We've just said, well, at least since we quit having the big ones

in, uh… 01:14:46 Serkan Orsan: No, that's a fair feedback, Tom, because I plan to have a registration portal that goes into this. 01:14:55 Serkan Orsan: that has all the details once I button it up, meaning, hey, here's what you get for your $50. It's a

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01:15:03 Serkan Orsan: Uh, if we add the semi-annual meeting of the referees, you know, they could be there. Uh,

additional. 01:15:09 Serkan Orsan: Potential session sponsors, depending on what those sessions look like and what their, um. 01:15:16 Serkan Orsan: Opportunity to give us, uh, additional component. 01:15:21 Serkan Orsan: To the value equation that we want to promote. 01:15:25 Tom: Okay. 01:15:27 Serkan Orsan: And again, you know, the survey has these things on the… 01:15:31 Serkan Orsan: AGM, and what's important to them. 01:15:35 Serkan Orsan: And it's also, you know, goes back to what Richard kept challenging me in terms of. 01:15:40 Serkan Orsan: What are the benefits? 01:15:42 Serkan Orsan: Uh, because those benefits will start increasing in terms of, you know, hey, this is a benefit. If you

come to this leadership event, regardless of where you play, who you play, or what league you attend, whether you be New Comp, whether it be state league. 01:15:56 Serkan Orsan: or State Cup, or President Cup, your coaches, your executive directors have an opportunity to. 01:16:03 Serkan Orsan: attend to these events as the leadership event of UISA, along with the additional components that

we're going to start doing throughout the year with DC United. 01:16:12 Serkan Orsan: Uh, for ODP players as well as others. 01:16:18 Serkan Orsan: This would be a moment to showcase that. 01:16:23 Anne Thompson: Okay. 01:16:30 Serkan Orsan: Any other feedback? 01:16:32 Anne Thompson: Hmm. 01:16:37 Serkan Orsan: And I'll go back to… 01:16:43 Serkan Orsan: Well, this is what it did. 01:16:50 Serkan Orsan: Oh, the fun part, the marketing. 01:16:54 Serkan Orsan: Sorry. So, as of today, you guys can see that. 01:17:01 Serkan Orsan: Uh, we are regional chamber member, uh, we're planning a ribbon cutting. Basically, ribbon cutting

is. 01:17:07 Serkan Orsan: Meaning, it's not the new business, it's… they're new to our, uh, member. 01:17:13 Serkan Orsan: Um, and we're gonna plan an event, uh, probably towards the mid-May. 01:17:18 Serkan Orsan: with them to showcase our office, as well as have a little get-together here on possibly a Friday,

maybe a Thursday evening. From a new sponsor and collaboration initiatives, we have a big meeting with Atlantic Union Bank. We had several meetings already with them. 01:17:38 Serkan Orsan: Uh, but this meeting is with their vice president of, I think, Virginia Chapter. 01:17:44 Serkan Orsan: We are talking about how we can partner them with a, um… 01:17:48 Serkan Orsan: more collective way in terms of how we can do workshops for not just our staff, but the

membership. So, they have a lot of. 01:17:59 Serkan Orsan: Uh, solution banking, uh, literacy workshops, 529 college. 01:18:06 Serkan Orsan: Fund creation for families, so we're going to be talking with them in terms of how we can

collaborate and potentially have them on our field, uh, from a. 01:18:17 Serkan Orsan: permanent opportunity where they could be our bigger partner. Obviously, Kalahara Resort, I've had

discussion with them. 01:18:26 Serkan Orsan: I'm talking to… I'm sure you guys know, uh, Sky, she's from Richmond, I'm sure she…

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01:18:32 Serkan Orsan: talked to you guys several times, uh, she's a good friend of mine, she's married to a Dutch guy, um,

so I've talked to her many times as well, so we're talking about… 01:18:42 Serkan Orsan: Collaboration, more of a… 01:18:44 Serkan Orsan: Soccer Parenting sponsoring us for us to support them to be able to be promoted to our member

associates. We have Enterprise Rent-A-Car. 01:18:55 Serkan Orsan: we will be promoting that. I have a call with them. Uh, we do have a call with Soccer.com, Soccer

Village. Percy Iceland is, like I said, is our. 01:19:04 Serkan Orsan: Uh, Iceland, uh, KSI, Soccer Federation. Uh, we talked to Praxis Sport, uh, as well as Ponka, Tim

Ponka, that I've connected with. 01:19:15 Serkan Orsan: Uh, talking about some opportunities there, when and if he gets back to me again. I'm also looking

at the renewal contracts, talking to Convention Center for… 01:19:25 Serkan Orsan: opportunity for annual general meeting, and how we can look into that further. Uh, talking to Carey

and the publics, uh, to expand that, we have prepared a deck, which. 01:19:37 Serkan Orsan: I will share with you later, uh, as we use that deck on Friday with Atlantic Union Bank. Um, I also

have, uh, calls, actually 288 Travel will be here, I think. 01:19:50 Serkan Orsan: Uh, in two weeks, for us to talk about opportunities to see how we can expand. 01:19:57 Serkan Orsan: Um, operations department for the field. We have a… 01:20:02 Serkan Orsan: in… offered to an assistant manager to replace DJ, uh, as he moved on. Uh, so we'll see how that

pans out by Friday, and we have several as Jefferson Cup is complete, we have MLS next, State and President Cup, FCSI, Phoenix Tournament, and the National League Cup, and… 01:20:22 Serkan Orsan: With that further ado, I will leave it to Ray. 01:20:25 Serkan Orsan: to chat about events and competition, and then Gordon will chime in with his fancy Spanish accent. 01:20:33 Serkan Orsan: as they're back from Spain. 01:20:36 Raymond Ford: Uh… 01:20:38 Raymond Ford: Good evening, everyone. Uh, I just see on your notes, Serkan. 01:20:44 Raymond Ford: About President's Cup. Um, on the next… did you say you had my details on the next page? 01:20:46 Serkan Orsan: Oh, sorry. 01:20:51 Serkan Orsan: I do. 01:20:52 Raymond Ford: Yeah. 01:20:53 Serkan Orsan: Of course I do. 01:20:55 Raymond Ford: Just because, um, that's more accurate on numbers, um, with President's Cup. It's not 29, it's 129,

which is a little bit nicer. 01:21:07 Raymond Ford: Um, current state of play, uh, we've been… 01:21:13 Raymond Ford: very active, getting all the games self-scheduled, and that's thanks to the referee people, uh, as

well as the teams involved, but yeah, 140 teams in State Cup. 01:21:24 Raymond Ford: We've got the 76 games, uh, self-scheduled, and… 01:21:30 Raymond Ford: All those in State Cup will be completed by May 10th, so that we have a full lineup for the

quarterfinals on May 16th. 01:21:39 Raymond Ford: Uh, in Fredericksburg. President's Cup, uh, we've got 129 teams. Once we've got everyone into

group play on, uh, May 9th and 10th, we will then have the league champions from VCSL. 01:21:55 Raymond Ford: take up their semi-final spot. They've already paid, and it's just a case of who their champions are,

um, and everything should come together nicely on, uh, May 30th. 01:22:07 Raymond Ford: Uh, 31st for the semi-finals and finals. Um, just moving on to who's representing.

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01:22:16 Raymond Ford: State Cup nationals. We've got VSA, and we've got Braddock Road going to Tennessee. We've got

Springfield U14 boys that committed last week. 01:22:29 Raymond Ford: Um, and that's been publicised. 01:22:32 Raymond Ford: by USYS on their various social medias. Um… 01:22:39 Raymond Ford: the President's Cup regionals, we've got all our U15 to U19 boys and girls paid and committed. We

do have. 01:22:48 Raymond Ford: four teams, uh, as reserve wildcards, and I expect all the 13 and 14 spots to be filled as well when

we get… when we get to that end of May. 01:23:00 Raymond Ford: And the last new piece is that Saturday the 27th of June and Sunday the 28th, Maryland are

hosting U11, U12 National Cup Championships, which we've committed to. 01:23:15 Raymond Ford: And several other states are also attending, um, and our State Cup champions will be offered. I've

already reached out to directors to say if they're… 01:23:26 Raymond Ford: All in or not, and we've got a good response that we'll fill all our spots. 01:23:32 Raymond Ford: Uh, for, uh, that new event, 9v9. 01:23:40 Serkan Orsan: Ray, just so you know, today I got a little message on my social media. The boys that are going to

Utah, there is a breeze. 01:23:49 Serkan Orsan: Airline? Flying direct from Washington to Provost. 01:23:56 Serkan Orsan: I did not, so… 01:23:56 Raymond Ford: Okay. 01:23:59 Serkan Orsan: That was news to me. 01:24:03 Raymond Ford: News to me. 01:24:08 Serkan Orsan: Um… where do I put technical reports? Let's see… 01:24:13 Serkan Orsan: Page 12… 01:24:18 Serkan Orsan: Alright, up… 01:24:20 Serkan Orsan: Gordon. 01:24:22 Gordon Miller: Hola en buenas noches. 01:24:25 Serkan Orsan: Well, that's not just… 01:24:27 Gordon Miller: Um… mine's pretty… 01:24:28 Serkan Orsan: Those services are over. 01:24:29 Gordon Miller: I think all I know is Cinco cerveza por favor. 01:24:35 Gordon Miller: But sometimes that's an important phrase to have. 01:24:37 Serkan Orsan: I'll put up the conversation. 01:24:38 Anne Thompson: No. 01:24:40 Gordon Miller: Yeah, um, we just came back from Spain. 01:24:44 Gordon Miller: As you know from previous reports with the four teams, two boys and two girls. 01:24:48 Gordon Miller: They played, uh, 4 games each, they saw a professional match, 70,000 fans in there. 01:24:55 Gordon Miller: So it was a great experience for them. 01:24:59 Gordon Miller: Um, they visited a couple historic towns and developed their cultural side, learned a little bit of the

language, learned to eat different foods. 01:25:09 Gordon Miller: Learn to deal with a different opponent on opposition soil, which is always unique. 01:25:18 Gordon Miller: Um, we had a couple of sickness, just a 24-hour bug that went through.

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01:25:23 Gordon Miller: the group, um, but all in all, everything went extremely well. We had our sports psychologist with

us, our trainer with us, the team admins, and the coaching staff. 01:25:33 Gordon Miller: Uh, long days, but we got everybody back to the airport and handed them off to their parents. 01:25:40 Gordon Miller: Some of them we wanted to leave over there, but that's normal. 01:25:45 Gordon Miller: Um, we had a little kerfuffle with… 01:25:48 Gordon Miller: the boys go through, um, Vienna and into Malaga. The girls went through Dublin and in, and on the

return leg, the… 01:25:58 Gordon Miller: the Dublin flight was delayed a couple hours, which forced them to miss their connection in Dublin,

so they had to stay over an extra night. 01:26:07 Gordon Miller: And the airline picked up the cost of everything, so I think when everybody's on the last day and

they want to get home. 01:26:14 Gordon Miller: Especially with younger girls, um, it can cause, you know, anxiety levels, but the team, I think, the

group that was with them did a good job and. 01:26:24 Gordon Miller: Managing them and getting them all back safe and sound. 01:26:27 Gordon Miller: So now we've picked the teams for all the boys and girls for the region tournament coming up in

Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 01:26:34 Gordon Miller: And we'll have 1 more training session in late May. 01:26:38 Gordon Miller: Once… once the, um… 01:26:41 Gordon Miller: season finishes, and we'll bring them back together in order to prep a little bit for the tournament

in that June 5th and 5th. 01:26:49 Gordon Miller: Anybody have any questions with ODP and the event? 01:26:53 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. Sounds like a wonderful trip. Did you stay in Malaga? 01:26:57 Gordon Miller: We went to… 01:26:58 Anne Thompson: Who did you travel around? 01:26:59 Gordon Miller: Yeah, we went to Cadiz first. 01:27:02 Gordon Miller: Um, a small kind of Moorish town on the Mediterranean. 01:27:07 Gordon Miller: And then we made our way back to Malaga because we always try to stay in 2 different. 01:27:13 Gordon Miller: locations that give the players, um, you know, a different feel for things. And we also know from

experience, if you put. 01:27:20 Gordon Miller: Players in one location for 8 days, then more issues can crop up. 01:27:26 Gordon Miller: Uh, so we ended up back in Malaga before we flew out, um, early that morning. 01:27:32 Gordon Miller: But no, everything was good. We, I don't know whether you're aware, we, we use an app called

Band. 01:27:39 Gordon Miller: And we loaded photos and videos and everything on all 4 teams, and the parents had access to it,

and. 01:27:46 Gordon Miller: Uh, they were extremely pleased with what they saw and the contact they had with their kids. 01:27:51 Gordon Miller: And some of them, they thought they were going to have a lot of contact with their kids, and the

kids didn't have much contact with parents, so… 01:27:59 Gordon Miller: sometimes that's a good thing. We see them maturing both on and off the field. So, yeah, it was… it

was very good, and we… we appreciate the group that helped us out over there with Soccer Network. 01:28:09 Gordon Miller: That we've used for the past 15 years, and they're extremely professional and well-organized. 01:28:15 Gordon Miller: Uh, go ahead.

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01:28:15 Serkan Orsan: And just for those who… sorry to interrupt, just for those who don't know, it's important to choose

those wisely. 01:28:17 Gordon Miller: Yep. 01:28:21 Serkan Orsan: Uh, if you guys are aware, there's an agency called GoPlay LLC who does similar travel

arrangements. 01:28:27 Serkan Orsan: And Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association's ODP program just got… 01:28:32 Serkan Orsan: Hammered with that, they paid the money and then the company went bankrupt. 01:28:39 Serkan Orsan: Uh, so… University of Dallas men's basketball team was also stranded as a result of that bankruptcy

of… 01:28:46 Serkan Orsan: That particular travel agency. 01:28:50 Gordon Miller: Um, with coaching education, uh, not a lot going on with tournaments now in full swing in the

season. 01:28:57 Gordon Miller: Starting, a lot of the clubs aren't requesting licensing because of, you know. 01:29:03 Gordon Miller: Uh, cramped scheduling and tournaments and things like that. So, we're in the middle of a B. 01:29:09 Gordon Miller: We're in the middle of a sea. We wrap up the sea at the end of May, so we're doing a lot of virtual

teaching right now, and we have a couple of. 01:29:16 Gordon Miller: one-off licenses that I threw in there along with the instructors. 01:29:21 Gordon Miller: Club visits, we've done visits and clinics with those clubs in the last month. 01:29:29 Gordon Miller: And Paul leaves tomorrow to Kansas City to participate in grassroots instructor training, which. 01:29:36 Gordon Miller: Uh, we'll accredit him to be an instructor of instructors, and we did this on purpose a while ago. 01:29:43 Gordon Miller: So we can… he not only is able to teach grassroots licenses for us, but he's able to license other

instructors. 01:29:52 Gordon Miller: And we put a… we put a bunch of Virginia. 01:29:56 Gordon Miller: Uh, people forward to be vetted, and we will put them through this course, and then that'll give us

more instructors and be able to meet the growing demand for the. 01:30:07 Gordon Miller: increased licenses request that we're getting. So, he's off tomorrow to Sunday, and. 01:30:12 Gordon Miller: Should be completed that pretty soon. 01:30:16 Gordon Miller: Um, questions? 01:30:23 Gordon Miller: Okay, that's it, thank you. 01:30:25 Anne Thompson: Thank you, Gordon. 01:30:26 Serkan Orsan: Thanks, Gordon. 01:30:34 Serkan Orsan: That wraps up the staff reports. 01:30:37 Bill Phillips: Okay? Um… 01:30:40 Bill Phillips: Is there any unfinished business to come before us this evening? 01:30:43 Anne Thompson: Um, I didn't… 01:30:46 Anne Thompson: you know, I'm looking at, Serkan, I'm looking at your report, and you said you have exhibits, A, B,

and C? 01:30:53 Serkan Orsan: Yep. 01:30:54 Anne Thompson: I'm sort of interested in C, because I'm looking at the thing that said USYS Dallas trip, future state. 01:31:01 Serkan Orsan: Yep. 01:31:02 Anne Thompson: And local arm… what in the heck does local arm mean? 01:31:07 Serkan Orsan: So, basically, during my trip, I have these slides that I took snapshots and connected here.

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01:31:15 Serkan Orsan: So, during our Dallas meeting, they have requested state soccer associations to. 01:31:22 Serkan Orsan: Uh, provide interest in terms of, uh… 01:31:26 Serkan Orsan: understanding the next step, how the USYS state soccer associations will be. 01:31:31 Serkan Orsan: Um… 01:31:34 Serkan Orsan: partnering with U.S. soccer as well as U.S. Club Soccer. So this was the key themes from the Pathway

Strategy. 01:31:42 Serkan Orsan: Uh, in addition to that. 01:31:44 Serkan Orsan: I'll just go to the meat and potatoes of that, basically. 01:31:50 Serkan Orsan: is the local arm would be the state soccer association, so it was more of information about. 01:31:57 Serkan Orsan: if the State Soccer Association would like to participate with the U.S. Soccer. 01:32:03 Serkan Orsan: Uh, we put in an interest form that said 51 State Soccer Association out of 54. 01:32:09 Serkan Orsan: shown interest to become a local arm of U.S. soccer, which is… 01:32:15 Serkan Orsan: understanding the clear role of the state, making sure that governance and sanctioning continues to

be done by USYS. 01:32:24 Serkan Orsan: Uh, supports the national infrastructure. 01:32:28 Serkan Orsan: Outlining new comp, making sure, and the being the local arm in terms of. 01:32:35 Serkan Orsan: What that means is, basically, I can tell you from this slide. 01:32:42 Serkan Orsan: is… 01:32:44 Serkan Orsan: We will continue to offer state cups, we will continue to offer coaching education, we will continue

to operate ODP and talent identification. 01:32:55 Serkan Orsan: And continue to offer club development to clubs as a local support and local delivery. 01:33:01 Serkan Orsan: The idea behind it is to have state Soccer Association as the local arm to govern. 01:33:08 Serkan Orsan: Convene for the reach and community, and then develop quality and capacity, like talent

identification, coaching and referee education, and club and program development. 01:33:19 Serkan Orsan: So we'll continue to do everything during that process, what they're looking for is. 01:33:26 Serkan Orsan: to give them some type of guidance from our association, what the challenges are in terms of

membership. You know, if there's a revenue. 01:33:36 Serkan Orsan: shortfall because the new comp is coming into play, how we can we address it and let them know

from, uh, as we partner with them? 01:33:45 Serkan Orsan: So they put together a little timeline of events. By June, they will give us some type of external

vision. 01:33:52 Serkan Orsan: With some clear direction based on the roadmaps that they put and, you know, reflected into the

pathway. 01:33:59 Serkan Orsan: As well as, uh, appoint certain state soccer associations to. 01:34:05 Serkan Orsan: Partner with them to understand what that local arm looks like. 01:34:09 Serkan Orsan: based on the feedback that they receive from these state soccer associations. Obviously. 01:34:15 Serkan Orsan: They're at a stage right now to figure out who's interested in helping to figure this next stage. 01:34:22 Serkan Orsan: of what State Soccer Association New State looks like. So these feedbacks. 01:34:29 Serkan Orsan: Uh, out of the 51 of 54, they've received initial interest. 01:34:34 Serkan Orsan: Uh, they will appoint certain states, I believe, to work with them to figure out. 01:34:40 Serkan Orsan: what that local arm operating model looks like. So that was my meeting. My meeting had very

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01:34:50 Serkan Orsan: I will leave that to Richard. Hopefully, maybe he had some more information for us based on his. 01:34:58 Serkan Orsan: You know, operating, um… 01:35:02 Serkan Orsan: association, is that the right word? But I saw today that they are very close to the naming, I guess, of

the new comp, because it was on the social medias. 01:35:12 Serkan Orsan: Kind of like a black blank logo popping up and down. 01:35:16 Serkan Orsan: To let us know that something is happening. 01:35:20 Serkan Orsan: From a naming of the new comp, I believe. So, this is pretty much what, uh, my meeting was about

in Dallas. 01:35:20 Anne Thompson: Um… 01:35:28 Serkan Orsan: Uh, for about, I want to say, 4 hours that we talked about. They got some feedback from state

soccer associations. 01:35:35 Serkan Orsan: Based on their challenges, uh, and introduce this idea of anticipated timeline. 01:35:41 Serkan Orsan: Um, this was Chris. 01:35:44 Serkan Orsan: Tom, Tina, as well as Anna from U.S. Soccer, uh, sharing all this information with us. Uh, and they

were very frank about the frustration that the State Soccer Association had about. 01:35:58 Serkan Orsan: The communication, which was… 01:36:01 Serkan Orsan: Poor in terms of… 01:36:03 Serkan Orsan: These… this information flowing a little… 01:36:08 Serkan Orsan: You know, sporadically, if you would. 01:36:13 Anne Thompson: This is big news. This is something that, I mean, what happens at USYS? How does that fit in? 01:36:23 Anne Thompson: How does USYS fit into the whole picture? 01:36:29 Serkan Orsan: I'm sorry, I'm not understanding the question. You mean as… this was USYS and US Soccer

presenting it together? 01:36:37 Anne Thompson: I realized, but if we're going to become an arm, which I hate that word, um… 01:36:43 Anne Thompson: Obviously, they're not going to call us a state association anymore. Um… 01:36:49 Anne Thompson: And we… and so we are directly… 01:36:54 Anne Thompson: We are directed directly by U.S. soccer. Weird and pay them, and they tell us what we can and

can't do, and. 01:37:03 Anne Thompson: Whatever this turns out to be. Where is USYS in this picture? 01:37:11 Serkan Orsan: I mean, that's a good question, um… 01:37:18 Serkan Orsan: I think, uh, there was a… 01:37:18 Anne Thompson: I mean, right now, we pay them quite a bit of money. 01:37:22 Serkan Orsan: Um, I, I think there was a, you know, you know, this is a good question, because I think there was a. 01:37:22 Anne Thompson: Is that… 01:37:28 Serkan Orsan: feedback survey for, uh, Tom Condone, I guess, uh, Bill. 01:37:34 Serkan Orsan: Uh, you were able to fill that out, because, you know, I have not worked with Tom diligently for me

to. 01:37:41 Serkan Orsan: you know, talk about, you know, his vision, his strategy, and how that impacts USYS within the next

chapter. 01:37:50 Bill Phillips: Yeah, I did the survey, and uh… I was, um… 01:37:54 Bill Phillips: Honest. 01:37:54 Serkan Orsan: I said you were very frank.

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01:37:56 Bill Phillips: about my opinions of Tom Condone, since, uh… 01:38:01 Bill Phillips: Having become the CEO of USYS. 01:38:04 Bill Phillips: And, uh… 01:38:06 Bill Phillips: You know, it wasn't… there wasn't a lot of… I mean, there was some… some opportunity to… 01:38:13 Bill Phillips: Expound on the response, but it was… 01:38:16 Bill Phillips: You know, it was questions like. 01:38:18 Bill Phillips: You know, how do you feel the CEO has done so far? 01:38:23 Bill Phillips: You know, um… 01:38:24 Anne Thompson: And then, what, you write him, like, 1 through 5, that, you know, wasn't a written… 01:38:28 Bill Phillips: No, no, it's like, uh… 01:38:30 Anne Thompson: Yeah. 01:38:31 Bill Phillips: Yeah, no, it… it… 01:38:33 Bill Phillips: Believe me, um, I don't have a high opinion of Tom Condone, and I'll just put it out there right now. 01:38:39 Bill Phillips: Um, ever since he's, uh… 01:38:41 Bill Phillips: Assume the role and, you know, when we look at the past and the programs and. 01:38:46 Bill Phillips: the initiatives on the behalf of USU Soccer with Elite 64, and the National League, and. 01:38:55 Bill Phillips: quite frankly, just about everything, uh… 01:38:58 Bill Phillips: You know, we're looking at not a lot of success. 01:39:01 Bill Phillips: from USYS, and um… 01:39:03 Bill Phillips: I paid very close attention to when they presented the budget. 01:39:07 Bill Phillips: Um, there was some tremendous shortfalls in their budget. 01:39:11 Bill Phillips: Uh, on the revenue side, um… 01:39:14 Bill Phillips: one of the most glaring was with the National League. 01:39:17 Bill Phillips: And, uh… 01:39:19 Bill Phillips: you know, I mean, I know they want to remain optimistic about the national championship Series, but

um… 01:39:27 Bill Phillips: I just don't see where it's headed that it's anything good that comes out of this. 01:39:32 Bill Phillips: So… that's where we are. And… and, you know, USYS. 01:39:38 Bill Phillips: was, in the process, just like U.S. club soccer did. 01:39:43 Bill Phillips: Of developing, uh, either an MOU or something with shared services. 01:39:49 Bill Phillips: And, um, I was fully expecting by now to hear something that. 01:39:53 Bill Phillips: that US youth soccer. 01:39:56 Bill Phillips: Full-time employees would be employees of the federation. 01:40:01 Bill Phillips: The same as what happened to U.S. club soccer, but there's been nothing more said about that. As a

matter of fact, it's been. 01:40:08 Bill Phillips: been very quiet, and I… I called another state association president today before I got on the call to

hear. 01:40:15 Bill Phillips: Well, to, uh, see if he had heard anything, and they haven't heard anything either, so it's not… 01:40:21 Bill Phillips: It's very quiet right now. 01:40:23 Bill Phillips: Not much… not a lot being said. 01:40:28 Serkan Orsan: And I can give you my two cents, if you want, on this call, because, you know, like Bill has done, I

have had chats with several other state soccer Association executive directors, most recently with Georgia.

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01:40:42 Serkan Orsan: Uh, because they're not, you know, one of the operators either, and, you know, they have SCCL. 01:40:48 Serkan Orsan: Uh, running the operations there, but what… if you look at this slide, what gets clearer? 01:40:55 Serkan Orsan: is what it tells me within the next several years, US Soccer. 01:41:01 Serkan Orsan: Card will be the only card. There won't be any US club soccer or USYS card. 01:41:08 Serkan Orsan: And these players will be identified as U.S. soccer players that can play. 01:41:13 Serkan Orsan: in any environment. And again, I don't know the timeline to this, and again, don't hold anyone to

this, this is my opinion. 01:41:20 Serkan Orsan: As this pipeline keeps working, in my opinion, state soccer associations will continue to offer the

services that they just outlined. 01:41:30 Serkan Orsan: Whether it be state league and Cups, depending on the states that they have. 01:41:35 Serkan Orsan: that particular opportunity. Uh, continue to offer coaching education, continue to offer ODPs, but

they will be the… 01:41:45 Serkan Orsan: support mechanism providing players. 01:41:49 Serkan Orsan: From recreational to maybe recreational Plus players. 01:41:54 Serkan Orsan: To have that pipeline to play at a competitive environment. 01:41:58 Serkan Orsan: Uh, as part of the U.S. soccer, uh, carding philosophy, or, you know, structure. 01:42:04 Serkan Orsan: So we will be the local entity, as we've done in the past. 01:42:10 Serkan Orsan: Not having some type of a national. 01:42:14 Serkan Orsan: Uh, platform at the end that our members maybe continue to play. 01:42:20 Serkan Orsan: But the new comp will be the pathway for them to play. 01:42:25 Serkan Orsan: As our support will come to the communities, as well as coaches, clubs for us to develop them to. 01:42:34 Serkan Orsan: provide those services. 01:42:36 Serkan Orsan: and, you know, as the club accreditation comes into place, I think that will be the second part. 01:42:43 Serkan Orsan: As the clubs are accredited as ABC or 123, I don't know how they will do that. 01:42:49 Serkan Orsan: But then those clubs will be able to offer certain things, and maybe C and D will only offer. 01:42:49 Anne Thompson: Well, here's… here's… 01:42:55 Serkan Orsan: Maybe grassroots or recreational program opportunity. 01:42:59 Anne Thompson: I mean, obviously our members… there's some worry in this for our members, maybe not our

largest members, but certainly our medium and small size members. 01:42:59 Serkan Orsan: Again, that's just my… 01:43:09 Serkan Orsan: Yeah. 01:43:10 Anne Thompson: But the other thing is, is that we then have. 01:43:14 Anne Thompson: Although in the last several years, we've had minimum board. 01:43:17 Anne Thompson: involvement, you know, we used to have regional directors and, you know, and then we had, you

know, had a board member from a region. 01:43:26 Anne Thompson: It looks to me like there's none of that left, and that's another thing to think about. 01:43:31 Anne Thompson: That we have lost every… we will end up losing every… as a state association, we will be… 01:43:39 Anne Thompson: Uh, they will use us to… to support them by their funds, and then they will… 01:43:46 Anne Thompson: Keep us, because we… 01:43:49 Anne Thompson: raise up their… by having successful recreational programs in ODP, so on, will raise up their

future players. 01:43:59 Anne Thompson: But, in the meantime.

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01:44:02 Anne Thompson: Where are we in this picture? And is everybody going, or is only some state associations going? 01:44:11 Anne Thompson: And again, I ask, what happens to USYS? Because I don't, as a board member here, I don't want

to pay them another. 01:44:22 Anne Thompson: Um, fee per player for what's going on. 01:44:27 Anne Thompson: I don't think they've served us at all, and I think they need to decide. 01:44:33 Anne Thompson: What their services are going to be, and if we want to partake of them, if in fact we then become. 01:44:40 Anne Thompson: I don't want to say arm because I hate that. We become, like, a member of a direct member of

U.S. soccer. 01:44:48 Anne Thompson: Um, it's like, then would we buy the services of somebody else? 01:44:53 Anne Thompson: So there's some big things for the board to think about. 01:44:57 Anne Thompson: And if we have any choice, I'm not even… I'm not even sure we do. 01:45:07 Bill Phillips: Yeah, I think, Ann, at this point, it's a waiting game, we're just gonna have to see how this shakes out. 01:45:07 Anne Thompson: Alright. 01:45:15 Anne Thompson: Yeah, well… 01:45:19 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 01:45:21 Anne Thompson: As much as you can find out, I think we should. You know, if we can… 01:45:21 Bill Phillips: Alright. 01:45:26 Anne Thompson: and I know you're looking at other state associations to ask them what they're doing, and I think

that's a good idea, and to talk to them and see how… what they think of it, because. 01:45:35 Anne Thompson: I don't think a lot of it. I really don't. 01:45:39 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, hence why, you know, I'm looking at it from every different angle to make sure that we're

providing the. 01:45:46 Serkan Orsan: Additional benefits that we can to make sure. 01:45:52 Serkan Orsan: That our members are supported. 01:45:55 Serkan Orsan: Uh, regardless of… 01:45:57 Serkan Orsan: The silence out there. 01:46:04 Anne Thompson: Can I also say, since Richard's on… on the call, could he update us about NCSL and… 01:46:11 Anne Thompson: in Newcomp, if he has something to update with, if Richard wouldn't mind. 01:46:17 Richard W. Smith: Sure. Happy to. Um, so for… for Nucob. 01:46:22 Richard W. Smith: We will have a name tomorrow. 01:46:25 Richard W. Smith: I know what the name is, um… 01:46:28 Richard W. Smith: They originally thought about elevation, I did not like that at all. The new name is better, but

we've all been embargoed, so… 01:46:33 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 01:46:38 Richard W. Smith: Tomorrow afternoon, we'll have that announced nationally. There'll be… there'll be a lot of

fanfare on social media. 01:46:45 Richard W. Smith: Uh, and uh… and then I think, uh, probably, uh, Friday… 01:46:51 Richard W. Smith: uh, maybe Saturday, we'll open up our applications in NCSL. 01:46:56 Richard W. Smith: Maybe a little later than that. But we want to get those opened up, and we want to make sure

that there's a national. 01:47:04 Richard W. Smith: Uh, website that's… that's available to point people to, so they can get additional information

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01:47:11 Richard W. Smith: what we've shared, and I think we've probably shared more about New Comp than any

organization in the country. 01:47:18 Richard W. Smith: that presentation that I walked through with you at the last board meeting. And we did that

with our board, and, you know, and I've offered to Matt, and. 01:47:21 Anne Thompson: Mhm. 01:47:27 Richard W. Smith: Others around the state to sit down with them and their, um… 01:47:32 Richard W. Smith: Their members and board members and walk through that as well. 01:47:36 Richard W. Smith: Uh, but so that'll… that'll start up in earnest, uh, tomorrow afternoon, and then… and then, uh,

you know, I think that'll… that'll gain some momentum from there. 01:47:47 Richard W. Smith: Um, other than that, there's not really any update on new comp. Uh, you know, we are… 01:47:54 Richard W. Smith: affecting the transition of VPSL from VPSL to NCSL? 01:48:00 Richard W. Smith: So, uh, you know, in terms of the team-based competition, so that's… 01:48:05 Richard W. Smith: That has happened, um, uh, or is happening right now. 01:48:10 Richard W. Smith: Uh, and John Faircloth, as I mentioned last time, will be an employee of NCSL going forward. 01:48:17 Richard W. Smith: effective, I think, July 1. 01:48:20 Richard W. Smith: We'll do that. Um, I think, um, you know. 01:48:25 Richard W. Smith: This comp- this discussion about the broader, uh, what's happening in the country. 01:48:31 Richard W. Smith: Um, you know, I read this as kind of near-term, mid-term, long-term. 01:48:38 Richard W. Smith: In the near term, uh… 01:48:42 Richard W. Smith: Newcom maybe is a little bit of a pilot project to see, can we put these two organizations

together? 01:48:48 Richard W. Smith: In a way that they can work together and have competition on the field that's… that's… 01:48:53 Richard W. Smith: Together. Um… 01:48:56 Richard W. Smith: but midterm, I think they're anticipating that, uh, we're gonna start. 01:49:04 Richard W. Smith: combining. I think the answer, and what happens to the USYS, I don't think it exists anymore in

the long term. 01:49:12 Richard W. Smith: I think… I think that the idea here, were I to guess, is to fold everything together. 01:49:18 Richard W. Smith: Under US Soccer. 01:49:20 Richard W. Smith: And, you know, there are some flies in the ointment, such as what Maryland is trying to do by

starting a state league. It's the antithesis of what U.S. soccer's trying to do in the country. 01:49:32 Richard W. Smith: And you see in the… in the slides. 01:49:35 Richard W. Smith: that there's a lot of veiled discussion of Maryland and other, uh, other kind of state leagues like

that, that… 01:49:43 Richard W. Smith: Where those that are governing. 01:49:46 Richard W. Smith: the competition and discipline and so forth are also running the league, and you can see that

there's various things that are being said about that. Now, in the short term, they're going to let them do it. 01:49:57 Richard W. Smith: But, um, but I don't see that that's the mid- to long-term plan for U.S. soccer. I think they're

going to step in and say no. 01:50:05 Richard W. Smith: Um, and… and that's… that's how I'm reading these slides. But I think, um, you know, in the… in

the… 01:50:13 Richard W. Smith: In the very near term, they're trying to figure out what does the revenue model look like. 01:50:18 Anne Thompson: Yeah. 01:50:19 Richard W. Smith: Um, because I don't think they intend for the state associations to stick around.

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01:50:25 Richard W. Smith: As… as separate… separately incorporated entities. 01:50:30 Richard W. Smith: I think the intent is to… when I… when they say arm, I think they mean division. 01:50:35 Richard W. Smith: And I don't think they mean all of them. They may not need one. My sister lives in Wyoming.

They may not feel like they need a state association in Wyoming. 01:50:46 Richard W. Smith: But they don't need U.S. club soccer and USYS to be doing the same thing in an area. 01:50:53 Richard W. Smith: And so, where those 2 organizations are deemed to have strengths, I think they're likely going to

try and pick. 01:51:00 Richard W. Smith: The strengths from the two organizations and… and… and bring them into a… 01:51:06 Richard W. Smith: try and bring them into a combined organization. So, whereas we may be much better on

coaching education. 01:51:14 Richard W. Smith: Uh, you know, something else that U.S. Club may do better in a particular area. 01:51:21 Richard W. Smith: Um, you know, and try and leverage the strengths to improve the game. 01:51:26 Richard W. Smith: nationwide. 01:51:28 Richard W. Smith: Um, and so that, you know, that's how I'm seeing this. I think it's just… I think it's a real… 01:51:34 Richard W. Smith: Um, challenge to the state association as we think about. 01:51:40 Richard W. Smith: What's… what's next for us? What do we do with the fact that we're an organization that is. 01:51:47 Richard W. Smith: Separately incorporated, that has its own budget and revenues, and is, uh, is looking forward to. 01:51:54 Richard W. Smith: uh, planning the next… you know, we've got a… we've got… I don't know what we have as a

strategic plan, but we've got, you know, thoughts for the future. 01:52:02 Richard W. Smith: Uh, with the organization, and all of those are kind of being challenged without. 01:52:03 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 01:52:07 Richard W. Smith: A really clear picture of where they're headed in terms of… of… of, uh… 01:52:13 Richard W. Smith: national management. Um, I mean, you definitely see it in the margins on the slides. 01:52:19 Richard W. Smith: But not a really good, clear picture. I think they're laying out a timeline for when they're going to

give us additional information. 01:52:25 Richard W. Smith: Uh, about what they're thinking. I think we ought to be participating in these conversations and

not sitting. 01:52:31 Richard W. Smith: Um, and… and trying to protest them from afar. We should be… we should be jumping in and

participating. 01:52:38 Richard W. Smith: So that we can get as much information about it as possible, and be in a position where we can

strategically. 01:52:45 Richard W. Smith: Respond, and maybe influence. 01:52:48 Richard W. Smith: Rather than, um, being on the outside and being hit with things. 01:52:53 Richard W. Smith: Um, it's just my license. 01:52:55 Anne Thompson: how… how do we… how… what's your suggestion on jumping in? I… it doesn't seem like there's a

lot of opportunity. 01:53:02 Anne Thompson: Um, and of course, our biggest worry is income. 01:53:04 Richard W. Smith: In… 01:53:07 Richard W. Smith: Yeah, so, um, Anna will talk to us, this woman, Anna, that we mentioned, uh, Serkan, I think,

mentioned. Anna will talk to us anytime we want. I mean, I think she'd come in to a board meeting if we wanted to. She's eager to get information from. 01:53:22 Richard W. Smith: state associations. I think she's… if she's not the leader of this effort, she's among them, and…

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01:53:31 Richard W. Smith: Person in the future of… 01:53:34 Richard W. Smith: what U.S. soccer is going to try and do to the youth game here. 01:53:39 Richard W. Smith: the, um… you know, there were… ours was not the only Dallas meeting, and… and… 01:53:46 Richard W. Smith: The last Dallas meeting was the one that most of the collective folks targeted as the one that

they would all try and go to, and they basically shouted the U.S. soccer people out of the room. 01:53:57 Richard W. Smith: And, you know, that's all we heard about in Atlanta, because the same people were in the Dallas

meeting that came to Atlanta and talked to us. 01:54:04 Richard W. Smith: And, uh, you know, I sat down with Anna and talked with her about the experience, and Mark

Franklin, uh, who was there as well. 01:54:12 Richard W. Smith: Mark didn't even get to talk about everything he wanted to say about New Comp to provide

information, because he was shouted down, and he finally just left. 01:54:19 Richard W. Smith: Um, and so, you know, I think there's… 01:54:23 Richard W. Smith: I think there's two ways to handle this. It's scream at everybody and tell them that you hate it,

and try and do something that's… that's, um… 01:54:32 Richard W. Smith: that fights it. 01:54:34 Richard W. Smith: Um, for as long as you can hold out with that, or, uh, or, um… 01:54:40 Richard W. Smith: offer to be involved, and to share thoughts, and I mean, you know. 01:54:46 Richard W. Smith: it looks like… I wasn't at this meeting, but it looks like there was a call to… 01:54:52 Richard W. Smith: Um… 01:54:54 Richard W. Smith: To offer… offer feedback, to… to, um, maybe even… 01:55:01 Richard W. Smith: talk about being in the version 1 of local ARM operating model in fall of 2007. 01:55:08 Richard W. Smith: Uh, and, you know, they say opt-in state associations. Uh, so, you know, I think they're… 01:55:16 Richard W. Smith: what I've… what I've seen with U.S. soccer, and I'm frankly a little frustrated by it, what I've seen

from U.S. soccer is, uh. 01:55:23 Richard W. Smith: A reluctance to… 01:55:27 Richard W. Smith: Dictate what's happening. 01:55:31 Richard W. Smith: But a strong… 01:55:33 Richard W. Smith: guiding hand, and I think it has to do with legal issues, but that's kind of how I see the world. 01:55:42 Richard W. Smith: Um, but I… I… 01:55:45 Richard W. Smith: I think they're looking for us to say we'd like to, um… 01:55:51 Richard W. Smith: talk with you about the vision here. We'd like to talk with you in more detail. 01:55:56 Richard W. Smith: About this roadmap that you're working on. 01:56:01 Richard W. Smith: Um… 01:56:01 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, just to piggyback on that, Richard, I have provided that to Anna, as well as, uh… 01:56:07 Serkan Orsan: Chris, um, as… 01:56:11 Serkan Orsan: 51 associations out of 54 has filled out the form that they would participate in some shape or form. 01:56:15 Richard W. Smith: Mm-hmm. 01:56:19 Serkan Orsan: Obviously, on the feedback form, I've also outlined our unique situation, you know, in a positive

way. 01:56:28 Serkan Orsan: Us being one of the state soccer associations having their own fields. 01:56:33 Serkan Orsan: Which is important to the support of, you know, any type of programming that we do, whether it be

coaching, education, as well as ODP.

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01:56:33 Richard W. Smith: Mm-hmm. 01:56:41 Serkan Orsan: And any type of, you know, programming, or, you know, could be top soccer, could be anything

grassroots or, you know, state cups. 01:56:49 Serkan Orsan: Uh, travel component for the games. So, I, I know that they're looking at that. I'm keeping a… 01:56:57 Serkan Orsan: close contact, just like you said, and just don't have any further information, so these are helpful. 01:57:03 Serkan Orsan: But, you know, again, as a board, as much as… again, I don't want to disclose everything to U.S.

soccer. 01:57:12 Serkan Orsan: I would like to participate, you know, with the decision-making process as well, as a united front. 01:57:18 Serkan Orsan: With the… as staff and as the board, because I think that's very, very important for them. 01:57:24 Serkan Orsan: Uh, because I think there are associations who are not aligned in terms of how they want to. 01:57:31 Serkan Orsan: either pursue or continue with the efforts of what they see on the board, on the presentations. Like

you said, I was not in the, uh… 01:57:41 Serkan Orsan: The Dallas meeting that people shouted, it was more civil, but I've heard from other. 01:57:48 Serkan Orsan: executive directors, the Friday session was not as, uh, civil. 01:57:52 Richard W. Smith: Right. 01:57:55 Richard W. Smith: Oh. 01:57:58 Richard W. Smith: Just to give an example, with New Comp, what they're… what they're saying in year one is… 01:58:06 Richard W. Smith: to the extent that a USYS team moves over and becomes a US club team. 01:58:12 Richard W. Smith: Because New Comp is a US club property. 01:58:15 Richard W. Smith: Then the state association should get a revenue share. 01:58:21 Richard W. Smith: To make them whole. 01:58:24 Richard W. Smith: Well, Mike Cullena is deciding what the revenue share should be. 01:58:29 Richard W. Smith: Not the state association. And Mike's just, you know, kind of making it up based on his feeling

about what. 01:58:36 Richard W. Smith: The revenue share model, or what the revenue model looks like in a state association. 01:58:42 Richard W. Smith: Um… it… 01:58:45 Richard W. Smith: when I sit on the phone with Mike and talk through this with him, he… he… 01:58:50 Richard W. Smith: Starts to learn things that he didn't know before about how, you know, what, what… 01:58:56 Richard W. Smith: revenue opportunities there are, and where we might lose money that he hasn't thought about.

And, you know, one of the questions I asked him was, what about year two? 01:59:04 Richard W. Smith: And he said, well, we haven't really thought about that, you know? So, you look at slide 10 on

the slides that Serkan set around, and. 01:59:14 Richard W. Smith: You know, they're asking… 01:59:16 Richard W. Smith: Help us understand the financial drivers of the state association. 01:59:23 Richard W. Smith: Right? And they're making decisions. 01:59:27 Richard W. Smith: About us, to us, for us, that, um, we're not… 01:59:32 Richard W. Smith: We don't necessarily have good, um… 01:59:36 Richard W. Smith: Uh, they're not necessarily getting good inputs on, as they're making decisions that will affect us

deeply. 01:59:43 Richard W. Smith: So, anyway, I don't have… I don't… I wish I had more, you know, great, um, advice on. 01:59:50 Richard W. Smith: how I would manage this, but… um… but I, you know, I think… I think, Serkan, you're on the right

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01:59:56 Richard W. Smith: Making sure that we've got a voice and a seat at the table, rather than being dinner. 02:00:04 Serkan Orsan: I agree. 02:00:06 Bill Phillips: Now, Serkan also, um, meets regularly with, uh, USYS. Actually, they canceled the large state meeting. 02:00:14 Serkan Orsan: Luckily. 02:00:14 Bill Phillips: Today, but, um… 02:00:17 Bill Phillips: But yeah, there… there's, um… 02:00:20 Bill Phillips: their regular meetings that take place with US wise leadership. 02:00:24 Bill Phillips: And other state associations, they classify you as large or small state. 02:00:29 Bill Phillips: So… 02:00:30 Serkan Orsan: Yeah, I mean, I will keep you guys posted as soon as I hear something, but it has been quiet on that

front, because I keep tabs with, you know, like I said, Chris. 02:00:39 Serkan Orsan: As well as, uh, Joel. 02:00:44 Anne Thompson: Eh. 02:00:45 JD: Can I make a comment? 02:00:47 Anne Thompson: Yes. 02:00:47 Bill Phillips: Sure, John. Sure, John. 02:00:48 JD: Um, because I… obviously, I am neither a part of this conversation at that level, nor. 02:00:55 JD: An influencer of it. 02:00:57 JD: But I've seen… 02:00:59 JD: Plenty of major organizations do reorganization. 02:01:06 JD: You know, particularly in the government, the military. 02:01:09 JD: And it always comes down to… 02:01:13 JD: People want to know 3 things. They want to know who's going to end up with my people. 02:01:19 JD: Who's going to end up with my authority, and who's going to end up with my budget? 02:01:24 Anne Thompson: Hmm. 02:01:24 JD: And it seems like those 3 things is what U.S. soccer. 02:01:30 JD: Which is coming in… 02:01:33 JD: with the attitude of the Borg, basically saying, this is a zero-sum game. You know, we're going to move. 02:01:41 JD: People, money… 02:01:43 JD: An authority from one organization to another organization. 02:01:49 JD: But they haven't… 02:01:51 JD: explicitly put that on a single piece of paper. They keep putting out. 02:01:56 JD: A lot of goodness phrases that don't really say what's going to happen on the ground. 02:02:03 JD: said, and maybe it's not possible, maybe they are not willing to do it, but I am sure. 02:02:09 JD: That at the highest level, they have already figured out what they want the end game to look like. 02:02:15 JD: They just haven't shared it with us. 02:02:17 JD: Anyway, that's my opinion. 02:02:18 Serkan Orsan: That's what… that's… that's what was… that's why the supporting director probably resigned and

went to Saudi Arabia for better money. 02:02:26 Richard W. Smith: I think I'm telling you what their plan is, John. 02:02:29 JD: I'm… and I'm listening, I hear when you, when you said U.S. youth soccer is going away, yep, I hear that.

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02:02:29 Richard W. Smith: Maybe. It's… 02:02:36 JD: When you say U.S. Club Soccer owns Newcomp, yep, I hear that. 02:02:41 Richard W. Smith: Mm-hmm. 02:02:42 JD: Oh, so it's… 02:02:44 JD: You know, but also, when I hear Maryland is taking a different path. 02:02:50 JD: You know, are they going to be the leader of other states that take a similar path? 02:02:56 JD: Because it sounds like there is active dissent in the ranks. 02:03:01 Richard W. Smith: Yeah, and you saw they put out the press release, and then they had to pull their press release

back. 02:03:06 Richard W. Smith: Because they… they failed, and… 02:03:09 Richard W. Smith: Now you haven't heard anything from Maryland. 02:03:12 JD: Mm-hmm. 02:03:14 Richard W. Smith: And this was after they leveraged Anna and had her on the call with all the clubs. 02:03:19 Richard W. Smith: To roll out their new league. 02:03:22 Richard W. Smith: And I think she got… I think she got embarrassed. 02:03:26 Richard W. Smith: And Greg had to do some backpedaling. 02:03:32 JD: Yep. As in, not expecting the outcome. 02:03:38 Richard W. Smith: Yeah, I mean, I… 02:03:40 Richard W. Smith: Maryland's acting like this is the Old West, you know, this is the New West, and he's playing the

old games, and I just… I don't… 02:03:50 Richard W. Smith: I don't think it's a smart… 02:03:53 Richard W. Smith: Powerplay here. 02:03:57 JD: So there are some very loud states out there, and I don't know where they're at on this, but, you know, have

you heard from people like New York East? 02:04:07 JD: Which tends to be loud about every little thing. 02:04:10 JD: Or… or CalSouth, or something like that? 02:04:15 Serkan Orsan: I have not. 02:04:18 Serkan Orsan: They were on, you know, not Cal South, obviously. New York was on my East Region call, but

nothing. 02:04:18 Bill Phillips: Um… yeah, I… I… 02:04:22 Bill Phillips: Yeah, you know, the movers and shakers of yesterday are not the same, John. Um… 02:04:28 Anne Thompson: Mm-mm. 02:04:29 Bill Phillips: the states that you're mentioning now, you know, it's the Massachusetts, the Floridas. 02:04:35 JD: Okay. 02:04:35 Bill Phillips: The Ohio's, the Indianas, the Tennessees… 02:04:38 Anne Thompson: No. Texas is a big… 02:04:41 Bill Phillips: Texas, yeah, and others, you know, I didn't hit them all, yeah. 02:04:43 Anne Thompson: Oh, there's, you know, plenty of other big ones, too. 02:04:45 Bill Phillips: Yeah. Yeah. 02:04:48 Bill Phillips: And they're all the large stakeholds. 02:04:50 JD: Okay, so… so they're… they're… they're the large stakeholders, are they… 02:04:51 Bill Phillips: Yeah, yeah.

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02:04:53 Anne Thompson: Oh. 02:04:55 JD: Going along to get along, or are they the ones who are yelling? 02:04:56 Anne Thompson: The thing… the thing about it… 02:04:59 Anne Thompson: Sorry, John. 02:05:00 JD: Because we're all… we're also a… we're also a big state. 02:05:00 Bill Phillips: You guys were talking significantly. 02:05:04 Bill Phillips: Oh, yeah. 02:05:05 Anne Thompson: We… we are the third largest state. 02:05:07 JD: Yeah. 02:05:07 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 02:05:08 Anne Thompson: So we definitely have some clout. 02:05:08 Serkan Orsan: Yep. 02:05:11 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 02:05:11 Anne Thompson: And, you know, I… I… 02:05:16 Serkan Orsan: And that has a field other than, you know, just like Massachusetts. I think we're the second state

that has their own field. 02:05:19 Anne Thompson: Yeah. 02:05:20 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 02:05:23 JD: Yeah, so anyway, I'm not… no. Nothing that I said here is useful other than I'm looking at this from the

perspective of any. 02:05:26 Anne Thompson: Well, actually… 02:05:33 JD: Other large reorganization, and if they think this is a zero-sum game, then there's going to be winners and

losers. 02:05:40 Bill Phillips: Right. 02:05:42 Serkan Orsan: Well, you guys will remember, I think, you know, I brought this to, you know, again, not to hash

something from the past meeting, but… 02:05:42 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 02:05:52 Serkan Orsan: One of the reasons why I wanted to join the consortium was this specific reason, because I know. 02:06:00 Serkan Orsan: That's 17 or 18 states. 02:06:04 Serkan Orsan: have discussions that are privy to them. It's, you know, as they chat and probably share information,

there might be some information that. 02:06:14 Serkan Orsan: I am not getting as USYS. 02:06:17 Serkan Orsan: And that was my intention on that particular reason. 02:06:22 Serkan Orsan: But again, you know… 02:06:24 Serkan Orsan: I am close to Chris and Joel. I'm trying to keep tabs with them as much as possible. 02:06:31 Serkan Orsan: But I'm sometimes fearful that that they're not getting the full information from U.S. soccer as. 02:06:40 Serkan Orsan: Quickly as we think they may be. 02:06:45 Anne Thompson: Well, maybe… 02:06:45 Bill Phillips: Yeah, they've always… go ahead, Ann. 02:06:47 Anne Thompson: I was just going to say, maybe it is a plan to have. 02:06:51 Anne Thompson: Anna or somebody from U.S. Soccer come to BYSA. 02:06:56 Anne Thompson: And we get a little idea of…

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02:07:00 Anne Thompson: Their mindset, and then they also find what we need. 02:07:05 Anne Thompson: I think that, that if we want something, we have to go and say we, we, this is. 02:07:12 Anne Thompson: These are the things that will… 02:07:16 Anne Thompson: I mean, I don't even know if there's a choice to go or not. I mean, I can't imagine. 02:07:21 Anne Thompson: if you don't… if you're a soccer state association and you're not a member of the United States

Soccer Federation. 02:07:30 Anne Thompson: I'm not imagining you have much clout in the whole. 02:07:33 Anne Thompson: Um, soccer world because you're without, for one thing, you're without, um. 02:07:39 Anne Thompson: The coaching education models, you know, without the referee business. There's so many things

that they have that we. 02:07:47 Anne Thompson: We not just want, but we need. So, then I think the next thing is, is we have to say. 02:07:55 Anne Thompson: Um, you can't just walk over us, you know, you know. 02:08:00 Anne Thompson: we give you money. I mean, all these large state stakeholders. 02:08:06 Anne Thompson: Pay the Federation a lot of money. 02:08:08 Anne Thompson: Now, I'm thinking it'll probably be more. If we don't pay USYS, we'll probably pay the federation

more. 02:08:17 Anne Thompson: But that's another thing, you know, if you're a member, are our fees going up? 02:08:22 Anne Thompson: There's so many little things, but maybe somebody from the Federation, if we ask specific

questions. 02:08:28 Anne Thompson: Maybe they have answers. 02:08:30 Anne Thompson: Um, I think we should… 02:08:33 Anne Thompson: I think we should think about it, I really do. 02:08:38 Bill Phillips: Okay. I'll, I'll, uh, I'll invite Anna Lavis to join us at the next meeting. 02:08:46 Bill Phillips: Okay. 02:08:47 Anne Thompson: No, I think it would be… it would be wonderful, I mean… 02:08:49 Bill Phillips: Yeah. You gotta remember, you know, and I'm just gonna, um, put this in perspective. How long has

this all been going on for, right? 02:08:58 Bill Phillips: Uh, and we are members of United States Youth Soccer, first and foremost, right? And then the

Federation. 02:09:05 Bill Phillips: And so, we've tried to sort of stay in line with the chain of command and. 02:09:10 Bill Phillips: And funnel our, you know, our… 02:09:13 Bill Phillips: Comments and our questions and our concerns up through the chain of command. 02:09:18 Bill Phillips: And… and that got me nowhere with… with, uh… 02:09:23 Bill Phillips: Uh, the East Region rep. 02:09:26 Bill Phillips: It got me nowhere at the meeting, and um… 02:09:29 Bill Phillips: You know, so… then there was the opportunity to go to Dallas, right? Which Serkan went to Dallas, and

uh… to, again, convey what's going on, and… 02:09:39 Bill Phillips: and voice our concerns, because he's… he's well aware of our concerns. Um… 02:09:45 Bill Phillips: And was that a… I mean… 02:09:47 Bill Phillips: Was that a productive… 02:09:50 Bill Phillips: Meeting for you there? 02:09:52 Bill Phillips: In the way of getting more information, yeah, so…

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02:09:52 Serkan Orsan: No. 02:09:54 Serkan Orsan: It was just direct information providing, here's what we're gonna do. 02:09:56 Bill Phillips: Yeah. Yeah. 02:09:59 Bill Phillips: So… so we'll try this… yeah. 02:09:59 Serkan Orsan: If you want to be part of it, fill your… fill your feedback form. 02:10:03 Bill Phillips: Yeah. Fill out my feedback form. Um, that's… I've been told that twice. Hey, fill out your feedback form.

Um… 02:10:11 Bill Phillips: So we'll… we'll… we'll invite Anna Lavis, and uh, we'll go that route and see where that takes us. 02:10:19 Anne Thompson: At least it's a start. I think that it would be a good start at actually starting at the top, so… 02:10:25 Bill Phillips: Absolutely. I mean, you know, to what Richard said about decisions being made, I would have… 02:10:26 Anne Thompson: Oh. 02:10:32 Bill Phillips: Thought that, you know, that they would have done maybe. 02:10:36 Bill Phillips: A little more thorough job of… 02:10:40 Bill Phillips: Of talking with state associations and finding out, you know, what the needs are and that sort of thing

before all these sweeping decisions were made, versus. 02:10:50 Bill Phillips: Here it is, now give me your feedback. 02:10:50 Serkan Orsan: Mm. 02:10:53 Bill Phillips: Um, seems like… 02:10:53 Serkan Orsan: Well, that's exactly what I… what I said to Anna during the meeting. I said. 02:10:58 Serkan Orsan: You know, you guys should have done the pathway strategy before the new comp. You guys put the

cart before the horse. 02:11:04 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 02:11:05 Serkan Orsan: It's, you know, you guys are doing a competition, whereas, you know, you tell, as a coach, you tell

your players fundamentals first, and then the competition. 02:11:14 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 02:11:14 Serkan Orsan: You guys put competition first before the fundamentals, and they've accepted that, but… 02:11:18 Bill Phillips: Yeah. 02:11:19 Serkan Orsan: You know, again, the acceptance does not, you know, solve the problem. It's been created already,

so… I think that the only… 02:11:28 Serkan Orsan: positive aspect is, you know, coming up with this anticipated timeline based on what they think if

the state soccer associations will partner with them to. 02:11:39 Serkan Orsan: Let them know what we can help with and, you know, like Ann said, you know, I can provide you the

deck that we prepared, Bill. 02:11:46 Serkan Orsan: You can send it to Anna and say, hey, here's who we are, what we have, and we want to talk to you

on the next call. 02:11:56 Bill Phillips: Yeah, and um, you know, we're fortunate one way, because Richard was, and NCSL was selected as a

direct operator, so we're probably privy to a lot more information than. 02:12:05 Anne Thompson: Hi. 02:12:08 Bill Phillips: Than some of the other state associations in that way. 02:12:08 Anne Thompson: Mm-hmm. 02:12:10 Anne Thompson: Right, I think that's true, too. 02:12:11 Bill Phillips: However…

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02:12:14 Bill Phillips: New comp, as he mentioned just a few moments ago. 02:12:18 Bill Phillips: is, you know, under the guise control administration of U.S. club soccer. 02:12:25 Bill Phillips: And so, um, obviously we're focusing a lot of this conversation on what's happening with new comp,

but. 02:12:34 Bill Phillips: New comp doesn't benefit USY… VYSA. 02:12:42 Bill Phillips: I mean, that's… that's my opinion, so I'm just telling you, that's… that's it. Other than the fact that. 02:12:47 Bill Phillips: You know, if we're able… which, as we're told, if we've got teams that. 02:12:53 Bill Phillips: are coming to NCSL, and there'll be… 02:12:56 Bill Phillips: Um, registering with the state association again. 02:13:00 Bill Phillips: Uh, that's beneficial, obviously. 02:13:03 Bill Phillips: Um, and uh… 02:13:06 Bill Phillips: But we'll see, again, how this all shakes out. I'm not… I mean, none of us are, um… 02:13:12 Bill Phillips: Excited when we hear things about the fact, you know, the notion that state associations might be

going away. 02:13:18 Bill Phillips: That doesn't excite any of us. 02:13:21 Bill Phillips: So… 02:13:23 Bill Phillips: Alright, um… 02:13:26 Bill Phillips: I guess I'll, uh, I'll believe it when I see it. 02:13:30 Bill Phillips: All right. Well, is there any, uh… any new business to come before us this evening? 02:13:38 Anne Thompson: Oh, me! I have a little thing. Um, uh… 02:13:38 Bill Phillips: I did. 02:13:40 Bill Phillips: Okay, hopefully it's good news. 02:13:43 Anne Thompson: Yeah, it's general news, let's put it that way. Um, Bill asked me to be the chairman of the

nominating committee, um, for the, um. 02:13:53 Anne Thompson: This is the… at the annual meeting is when our new board members are elected. 02:13:58 Anne Thompson: So, I'll be calling the current board members that are running, I mean, that are currently holding

the position that is up for election, to ask you if you are wanting to serve again. 02:14:09 Anne Thompson: Um, and then, obviously, putting some information out to the membership that we are holding

an election. 02:14:17 Anne Thompson: So, if you have anything to add to me, or if you want to just call me if you know your term is up,

and you want to call me and say, before I call you. 02:14:24 Anne Thompson: That would be great, too. I was going to ask you, Serkan, is it possible… and I would like it just for

me, if nobody else wants it. 02:14:35 Anne Thompson: If you'd put my phone number on the board list of boards, there's only an… their only thing there

now is an email. 02:14:42 Serkan Orsan: Okay, sure. 02:14:43 Anne Thompson: And I was thinking that if the board members, and whoever wants to put their phone numbers

on, and I would put my phone number there. 02:14:51 Serkan Orsan: Absolutely. 02:14:52 Bill Phillips: I just, you know, I would say that if you do that, you're subjecting yourself to probably some unwanted

spam calls, but yeah, okay. 02:15:01 Anne Thompson: use… well, maybe. I don't know, I mean, if… 02:15:04 Bill Phillips: I just know that I get…

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02:15:04 Anne Thompson: If there's any issues, if the board doesn't feel like that's comfortable, then I… I don't have to. 02:15:11 Bill Phillips: Well, no, you know, I mean, don't you have everyone's cell phone number, and could you send them a

text message, or do you not… 02:15:11 Anne Thompson: I was just thinking… 02:15:16 Anne Thompson: Me, I don't have… no, I don't have everyone's cell phone numbers. 02:15:19 Bill Phillips: I do, and I would be happy to facilitate that introduction to your cell phone number. But if you want to

put your cell phone number up there, that's fine. 02:15:28 Bill Phillips: I just know that, you know, I get the typical scam emails just from my email address being out there. 02:15:35 Anne Thompson: No. 02:15:35 Bill Phillips: My phone number was out there, I… 02:15:37 Bill Phillips: Who knows what I'd get? 02:15:37 Anne Thompson: Well, let me think about it, Serkan, and I'll see. But anyway, um, if you don't know my email. 02:15:40 Serkan Orsan: Okay. 02:15:43 Anne Thompson: I mean, my… you can email, I'll send you my phone number. I'd tell it to you right now, if you

have a place to write it down. If you're running. 02:15:51 Anne Thompson: Um, if your position is up for election. 02:15:55 Anne Thompson: Um… 703. 02:15:58 Anne Thompson: 9634583. 02:16:03 Bill Phillips: Alright. 02:16:04 Anne Thompson: Okay. 02:16:09 Bill Phillips: All right, um, any other new business to come before us this evening? 02:16:16 Bill Phillips: Hearing none. Okay. Uh, anything for the good of the game before we adjourn? 02:16:23 David Glass: I've got something quickly. 02:16:24 Bill Phillips: Yes, David? Yes. 02:16:26 David Glass: Yeah, and I missed the… well, I was in the second half of the last meeting, so I didn't really get a

chance to share about this, but… 02:16:33 David Glass: Um, you know, you all know that we had received the Get on the bus grant. 02:16:38 David Glass: Um, the last two seasons, and… 02:16:42 David Glass: this year, this spring season, we did not receive funding, and, you know, Tim had let us know that we

weren't going to be able to. 02:16:50 David Glass: Uh, to receive any funding, and so, you know, we were trying to decide, do we offer the school

programs or not? 02:16:57 David Glass: And the feedback was from parents that they really liked it, that they liked the fact that they could get

their kids at the end of the day. 02:17:05 David Glass: And that their students really wanted to play with their friends, so… 02:17:10 David Glass: Anyway, I just want to give everybody an update, so… 02:17:13 David Glass: In the fall, with the grant, we had 5 teams. Uh, this spring, we have 7, so we added. 02:17:20 David Glass: U8 teams at each of the schools, and we've hired teachers, and I think a point I want to make that. 02:17:28 David Glass: as a board, we can share with other clubs is we're not really offering after-school programs. We are

running our club through the schools. We… 02:17:38 David Glass: have hired teachers, they practice at school, they play in our league on Saturdays. 02:17:43 David Glass: And, um, we actually had to, uh, add an additional U10 team at ECOF.

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02:17:50 David Glass: And now we're looking to go into other schools. I've had 2 clubs in the area come and ask me about it,

so… 02:17:56 David Glass: Um, often we talk about school programs and how do we partner with schools and, you know, for

looking at ways to grow the game. 02:18:03 David Glass: Um, this is something that, you know, as a smaller club, we can try some out-of-the-box kind of things,

and it has been… 02:18:10 David Glass: I would say, you know, wildly successful in terms of, um, just. 02:18:15 David Glass: We've, you know, we've got teams, we've had no problem getting the coaches, you know, we hire

teachers, and when we added a team at ECOF, we had 3 teachers that all wanted the one position that we were adding. 02:18:27 David Glass: So, um, so I'll share that. And then the other kind of unique thing that we're doing is we were one of

those clubs in the fall that… we weren't down much, but we were down a little bit. 02:18:36 David Glass: And we were really concerned about just the anxiety over ICE. We're 75-80% Latino. 02:18:42 David Glass: And our registration was very low January, February. So, you know, our early registration, we had, like,

20 kids, and then even in our regular registration, it was very low. 02:18:53 David Glass: So, one thing we did was we made our U6 program free, and we have 28 kids. 02:19:00 David Glass: 4- and 5 year olds that are signed. So, about 10% of the players playing in First Touch are playing for

free. 02:19:06 David Glass: And we think that's going to pay off big dividends. The parents… the catch is, we don't provide a

coach, the parents are the coaches. 02:19:13 David Glass: We think that's going to help when they turn to U8 that we've got a bunch of parents who are used to

being out on the field playing red light, green light, and. 02:19:22 David Glass: Simon says, and all that with their… their kids. So, um, just want to share that good of the game may

help some other clubs. 02:19:29 Serkan Orsan: Oh, David, that's a great point. I actually read that, and Chloe's gonna be reaching out to you,

because we're gonna do a story on that. 02:19:35 Serkan Orsan: Uh, and as I, you know, talked to Chloe, we had a meeting today because we're… I'm meeting with a

videographer on Friday to create some opportunities to get some more testimonials that are. 02:19:49 Serkan Orsan: More like edited video that we can post these things as kind of like on social media, like 2-minute

snapshots of. 02:19:58 Serkan Orsan: things like this, and testimonials that people are talking about, what we're providing as VYSA, and

support these activities, and then make sure that these things are heard on our social media, too. 02:20:13 David Glass: Sounds good. 02:20:15 Serkan Orsan: So be on the lookout for that. 02:20:17 David Glass: Okay. 02:20:21 Bill Phillips: Alright, anything else for the good of the game? Good of the game? 02:20:25 Bill Phillips: Hearing none. All right. Motion to adjourn? 02:20:30 Tom: So moved. 02:20:30 Anne Thompson: Ah. 02:20:32 Bill Phillips: Alright, seconded. 02:20:34 David Glass: So… 02:20:35 Bill Phillips: Very good. Just a reminder, next meeting is May the 20th via Zoom. 02:20:40 Bill Phillips: Until then, uh, we'll see you, and uh, thanks for all you do. Have a good night. 02:20:45 David Glass: And I…

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02:20:45 Anne Thompson: Thanks. Bye, you guys. 02:20:47 Serkan Orsan: Good night, everyone. Thank you.

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Board of Directors Meeting Minuntes May 20, 2026 | Attendance, motions, and approvals highlighted Motion and Approval Summary Time

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