South Texas Soccer Referees, Inc.

Keeping You Informed

Thursday, January 5, 2006

All Referees, all Youth and Adult Presidents and Executive Directors.

Happy New Year.

If you haven’t already heard, you should be aware of the Federation’s proposal to reduce the current Board of Directors from 40 to 15 or less members. This proposal will be put forward for adoption by the National Council at the AGM in March, 2006. I expect that there will be some changes and further recommendations in this matter by the National Council, but as you can see below, the present proposal identifies the structure of the Board and its proposed composition.

It is imperative we as referees have representation on this new board. We are 143,000 strong servicing the game at all levels and generate $1M in annual revenues for the Federation. We are a very important intricate part of the Federation and we should have representation.

If you wish for us to continue having this representation, you need to pick up the phone, send an email, pass the word to fellow referees, and get in touch with your youth and adult presidents as well as your state delegates to the convention expressing the importance and need to continue having referee representation. These are the people that will decide on the final composition of the Board.

One position under the heading of "other member" or "at large member" should be allotted to the referees.

CURRENT Proposal to reduce the Board to 15 Members
   Changes in Structure of Board
      3 officers (President, Vice President, Treasurer,)
      2 representative from Youth Council
      2 representative from Professional Council
      2 representative from Adult Council
      3 representatives from Athletes Council
      1 representative from "Other Members"
      2 representatives who are "outside" or "at large" directors (current Board decides on "outside" directors, who are external to the Federation; "at-large" directors are non council specific, cannot come from the Athletes Council)
      Immediate Past President (Ex-officio)
      Secretary General (Ex-officio)

We all need to lobby within our state associations for this and do our share to get the message out.

Angelo N. Bratsis
Service Before Self
USSF NBOD, Referee Representative
Cell: 781-769-0224 Home: 781-769-2336

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