New's Years Day

The purpose of this blog is to record what I do as the Sports Boosters football commissioner. I'm thinking ahead to the transition when someone new will take this on. It would be helpful for that person to know what types of things the commissioner does, and it would be nice to know how much effort the job takes.

Last spring My wife and I took this over from Heath Galyon. He was the commissioner for a year after Steve Green had done it for a few years. At this point, I plan on doing this as long as my son wants to keep playing football. Since he is in 3rd grade right now, I may be doing this for another five years!

So, it's New Years Day. I do not have a resolution as to how consistently I will blog anything, but I do resolve to record whatever information I deem important for someone else to know about. So, with that, here it goes:

For the next Sports Boosters meeting, I need to prepare a budget showing the actuals of what was spent last fall. It's in the Boosters by-laws, that a commissioner provides this within three months of the season being over. Right now, I cannot even submit a complete report, because we have two bills outstanding. One is for the referee fees, which is one of the big ones! Hopefully, I will soon hear from Geoff Smith, the Irondale football commissioner. He coordinates the hiring of referees and the billing. He will be sending me a bill for our portion of the games.

I need to know how much money we will have in our account once I pay the referee fee to Irondale. Then, I can decide what if anything we should get for football equipment: shoulder pads, pants. Also, we may be getting a grant from Hennepin County for sports facilities improvements. It's all part of the MN Twins stadium being built. Money has been set aside for helping communities build fields, etc. Sports Boosters put in for an amount of money to be used for putting up lights on the C3 field. With this, we would have another lighted field for teams to practice on. The older kids end up scrounging around for lighted field space once the days start getting shorter. We need to determine how much money the football program can contribute towards the grant money that will come in. So, yeh... I need to figure how much dough I have to work with!