Board Meeting - July 21, 2023

Eileen Brown

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes

July 21, 2023

4:00 pm

 

Present:             Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, John York

Absent:            Margo Trone

 

  1. The Board approved the June 8, 2023 Meeting Minutes.
  1. Survey Results – 28 members completed the survey. It appears that the members are very happy with Surfside, especially the coaching and the flexibility of going to practices and meets. The members would like to see earlier practice times at the Mira Costa pool and would like to see more work on technique.
  1. Elisa is going to share a summary report with the team via email.
  2. John will review the members’ feedback with the other coaches.
  1. Coaching
  1. Mira Costa pool will be closed for annual maintenance July 21st – August 2nd. The three workouts during that time that are usually at Costa will be at the Redondo pool instead.
  2. Coach Sean’s last day will be July 25th. Coach Melissa will be leaving in August (date tbd).
  3. John continues to search for a new coach. We are especially interested in a coach for the Sunday morning practices.
  4. We are looking into changing the Sunday morning practices into a strokes and turns technique clinic.
  5. All Surfside swimmers are invited to join the Monday evening beach workouts. Water temperature permitting, John is hoping these beach swims will continue until the Monday after Labor Day.
  6. John will follow up with any coaches that are not in good standing with USA Swimming.
  7. John bought starting equipment for our future home meets. Elisa will get a case for the equipment.
  1. Swim Meets
  1. Sunday, July 16 – Manhattan Beach Dolphins Invitational @ Mira Costa Pool. We had a good turnout and the meet ran smoothly.
  2. Friday, July 21 (tonight) – Dual meet @ SOBA (Hawthorne). Surfside has many swimmers competing.
  3. Sunday, July 23 – Carson Tigersharks Invitational @ Foisia Pool (Carson). There are 18 Surfside swimmers signed up to compete.
  4. Saturday, Aug. 5 – Bay Area Southeast Qualifiers @ Foisia Pool (Carson). Signups just went out to the Surfside members.
  5. We are hoping to get more meets on the calendar for fall, including some USS meets.
  1. Membership
  1. The beach party went well. We will begin to look into possible locations for our holiday party.
  2. Rich and Kayo will meet to see how many swimmers are needed to cover expenses. Results will determine if we need to do some outreach for new members. Most likely, we will hold another tryout in the fall.
  3. Mira Costa pool rates have increased recently. We may need to raise our membership dues at the end of the year.
  1. Website – We will discuss the website and social media when Margo joins us for our next Board meeting.
  1. Banking/Financial – Rich reviewed the July budget update for the Board.
  1. Memorial Scholarship Fund – The presentation at the beach party went well. The Tournat family was there to present checks to this year’s recipients. We will update the website for our 2024 applicants.