MAYS Annual General Meeting Agenda

November 5, 2006 6:00pm

Auburn Elks

754 Southbridge St

Auburn, MA 01501

1. Sign-in and pickup blank passcards
2. Welcome
3. Mass Youth News
4. Treasurer’s Report
5. Spring 2006 Registration Packet Review and Distribution:
6. Constitution and By-Law Changes:
1. Constitution IV. Government
   Expand the number of Registrars from 6 to 7 – splitting the duties of the Registrar U10 into Registrar BU10 and Registrar GU10.
2. Constitution IV. Government
   Remove Corresponding Secretary (schedules and newsletters are now on-line).
3.  Constitution IV. Government
   Add Sportsmanship Director to the BOD.  Duties to include developing and sponsoring sportsmanship activities, reviewing sportsmanship incidents as directed by the MAYS President.

d.      Constitution VIII. Placement Board
Change  -  The Placement Board shall consist of the President, who shall be chairman, and the BOD, one non‑Board member of the league, and a representative from Fall leagues appointed by each Fall league.

5. Bylaw III Player, Team, and Club Eligibility
   U18 frozen roster pertains to post-season matches, not regular season matches.
   Minimum players for a game U10=4 players, U12=5, U14 and older=7.
6. Bylaw X Officials
   Remove item C - U10 home team referee assignment requirement.
7. Bylaw XII Postponements (to replace items 1, 4, and 5)
   Reschedule requests must be submitted to the MAYS President by the Club/Town Rep.  Reschedule requests for games during the first 2 weeks of the season must be received by the MAYS President one week prior to the game date.  All other reschedule requests for games beyond week 3, must be received no later than 7 days after the first date of games for the age group of the teams impacted by the request.  Only one request per team will be allowed.  The acceptable reasons for requesting a reschedule is for school event, religious event which prevents a team from fielding the minimum number of required players.
8. Bylaw XVI Scores
   Scores are reported by the referees and posted on the website.  Score corrections/updates to be handled by the MAYS Vice President.
9. Bylaw XX Meetings
   Remove item B Final Meeting requirement.
10. Bylaw XXI Divisional Placement of Teams
    add new proposal (see attached) to replace item A, C, & G.
11. Bylaw XXI Divisional Placement of Teams
    Remove Coach notification from item D.
12. Bylaw XXI Divisional Placement of Teams
    (add to item B) The bottom 2 teams in division 1 from the previous season will be relegated to division 2 for the following season. The top 2 Division 2 teams from the previous season will be promoted to division 1 for the following season.  Any division 2 team with greater than 60% of the games resulting in a loss from the previous season will be relegated to division 3.
13. Bylaw XXVIII Ejections and Suspensions
    Add to section A, item 9. Additional duration of suspensions may be issued as determined by the MAYS President for any incident at a MAYS match, or any post-season match (i.e. MAYS or MTOC).
14. Operational Guidelines
    Field Sizes for U10, U12, U14 and older
15. Operational Guidelines
    Scheduling U14s play first, U12s second, U10s end of day
6. Nominations and Elections
1. President
2. Treasurer
3. Registrar U16, U18, U19
4. Registrar Girls U14
5. Registrar Girls U12
6. Registrar Girls U10 (if item 6a above is approved)
7. Sportsmanship Director (if item 6c above is approved)
7. Other
8. Adjourn

M.A.Y.S. League Team Placement Proposal

 

Division 1 placement for teams having any three placement criteria.

 

            U10        4 multi-rostered players

                           6 returning (second year) players

                           3 teams in same age group

                           Majority of games won by more than 5 goals per game

                           Won 7 or more games last spring

                           Won 6 or more games during fall season

 

            U12        5 multi-rostered players

                           8 returning (second year) players

                           8 school players

                           3 teams in same age group

                           Majority of games won by more than 5 goals per game

                           Won their conference last spring or made playoffs

                           Won 6 or more games during fall season

 

            U14        6 multi-rostered players

                           8 returning (second year) players

                           8 school players

                           3 teams in same age group

                           Majority of games won by more than 5 goals per game

                           Won their conference last spring or made playoffs

                           Won 6 or more games during fall season

 

            U16        8 returning (second year) players

                           8 school players

                           2 teams in same age group

                           Majority of games won by more than 5 goals per game

                           Won their conference last spring or made playoffs

                           Won 6 or more games during fall season

                       

Division 2 placement

            For teams having less than three placement criteria.

 

Division 3 (non-MTOC, or Town Rec Travel group) placement

            Open to any team.

 

Changes to a team’s roster after placement, that would have put a team in a higher division, will be cause for a team’s removal from playoffs.

 

Notification of appeals: Only the club rep will be notified by the MAYS League.  It is the responsibility of the club rep to notify the affected coaches.

 

Team eligibility for playoffs:  75% of players must be from the same town as the club they’re playing on, regardless of whether or not a player’s town has a team in their age group.  A club is considered to be representing a town or school district as submitted to the MAYS League.  In no case is a club to be considered as representing a county or counties.