LMBA AGM 2024

Lumsden Minor Ball Association (LMBA) AGM 2024

Jan. 16/24 @ 7pm River Park Meeting Room

Attendance: 17 - Public

Board Members: Kyle, Kaelene, Darryl, Kristen, Jamie, Jenn, Mark, Blake, Jeff, Mike and Brad

Missing: Sheldon & Ben

Financials: Darryl Babey - Treasurer

As of Nov. 2023

• $16,976.18 cash
• Income - Donations - $17,187.55

Diamond Maintenance: Ben Engen - Facilities Manager/Kyle Hope - President

• see attached document from Ben with all details
• question from public: could we look into a better washroom facility for 7^th Ave diamonds, porta-potty doesn’t cut it
• Mark will look into options, trailer style, mobile unit
  • ask town where we can put it
  • if they will help with costs
  • maintenance of it

Registrations - Kaelene Hansen - Secretary/Kristen Attwood - Registrar

• Made the switch from Goalline to Ramp Interactive
• Costs are about the same as Goalline
• More user friendly
• Will be able to connect to Baseball Regina and Regina Minor Softball
• Baseball Sask and Softball Sask help out with cost of each registration
• So far so good.
• Only complaint was some couldn’t get on to registration from their laptop, mobile worked great
• Website looks good, easy to maintain and mobile web page looks good too.
• Registration closed for U11 and older Jan. 15
• Open for U9 and younger until Mar.31
• Registration are up for Softball and about the same for Baseball

Player Evaluations - Mike Kish - Evaluations Coordinator

• RBI will be conducting evaluations this year at their facility
• Softball - Jan. 18 & 25
• Baseball - Feb. 9 & 17
• Times to be announced

Umpires - Jenn Schindelka - Umpire Coordinator

• Extreme Shortage of Umpires
• Lots of young umpires not
• Lost 5 senior umpires
• We will be hosting baseball clinic in Lumsden
• Hoping to host a softball clinic as well
• Looking at making a parent from each team take umpire course so we have someone in case we can’t fill a position for a game - Board will discuss at meeting 

2023 13U AA Provincials

• Hosted on July 21-23 weekend
• Huge success, so many compliments on River Park, Town of Lumsden
• 13U Lumsden Cubs organizing committee did an amazing job, have great notes for next time
• Board Members - Sheldon, Kyle, Jenn, Jamie etc. were there helping out where they could
• Didn’t make money, but learned a lot about how to run a tournament
• Public question - could we block off more campsites?
• Softball? Maybe, harder would have to use both River Park and 7^th Ave

2024 Clothing

• Teamed up with 22Fresh for some stylish clothing
• $5 from each item sold will come back to LMBA
• Open from Jan. 5 - Feb. 5
• Question from public - could we open again in the spring?
  • Yes and Teams once formed could have their own online store
• 22Fresh is great to work with
• Used them last season for 15U AA Cubs Provincial/Western Run
• Question from public - will the blue clothing be available to purchase
  • Teams have the option to order the Blue style through Allied Printers if they choose

Diamonds

• We need more Diamonds
• Currently have 3 at River Park, 2 at 7^th, 2 at Buena Vista, 1 at Regina Beach, 1 at Bethune, 3 in Craven.
• Craven diamonds are rough shape and so many mosquitos
  • made a deal with CAA to buy them a lawnmower if they would maintain diamonds
• Bethune main diamond is in great shape
• Earl Grey has nice diamonds and would love for us to use them, no cost, great canteen
  • Jamie has a contact for Earl Grey

Equipment & Jerseys - Mark Johnston (Taking over Softball Equipment from Brad Sigmeth)

• Jeff Foster - VP Baseball & Equipment/Jerseys for Baseball

• Softball will need more younger age jerseys will so many girls this year
• Jerseys for Baseball - use same ones from last year
• Going forward - we will buy the one use, t-shirt style, every kid takes home
  • most older teams get custom jerseys made
  • gets rid of the headache of collecting at the end of the season

RMSL Update: Brad Sigmeth - VP Softball/RMSL Liaison

• Divisions are back to A & B, not AA & A
• RMSL is forming a new division for U11 A
  • mandating that Lumsden and White City have a U11 A team this season
  • We will have 4 teams in U11 - shouldn’t be a problem
• U9 - White Butte would like to have a little league again with us, possibly a few more teams

Questions from Public - noted and will be addressed at meeting following AGM

Call out for new board members - need treasurer, social media, Softball senior coordinator, evaluations coordinator

• Aileen Martin will handle Social Media, not as a board member.
• Thank you, Aileen!

Kyle thanked everyone for coming/great turn-out

Adjourned at 8:30 PM