Board Meeting - May 23, 2024

Eileen Brown

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes

May 23, 2024

7:00 pm

 

Present:             Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Jered Lindsay, Ramya Sivasubramanian, Eileen Brown, John York

Absent:            Rich Fernandez

 

  1. The Board approved the April 11 2024 Meeting Minutes.
  1. Pool Situation
  1. No new updates on the Mira Costa pool status. We are hopeful that the school district will hire and train staff soon so that we may return to the pool.
  2. We continue to practice at the Redondo Union pool on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, as well as Sunday mornings.
  3. Practice is at Begg Pool on Wednesday and Friday evenings. When the ocean gets warmer, we will switch from Begg Pool to beach workouts on Wednesday evenings.
  1. Swim Meets
  1. Our next SCSL (South Central Swim League) meet is this Saturday, May 25. We have enough volunteers to time. Kayo and Jared will each bring a Surfside pop-up tent to provide some much-needed shade for the swimmers and families.
  2. The SCSL championship meet will be on June 29-30. We will order t-shirts for all swimmers who sign up by the deadline.
  3. John announced we may have a swim meet at the Redondo pool one Sunday afternoon in July.
  4. The International Surf Festival is the first weekend in August. Every year, Coach John hosts the Youth Swim & Paddle contests. It will be on Saturday, August 3. We are going to promote it to the Surfside members and hope to get a large turnout for this fun event.
  1. 2024 Scholarship Awards
  1. We have received one submission and are going to remind another potential recipient to apply soon.
  1. Coaching
  1. Status on shift from independent contractor to employee
  • John, Elisa, and Rich got an initial overview of the new time-keeping system.
  • Unfortunately, we will not be able to meet our July 1 goal for implementing the new system.
  • John and Elisa are going to meet with each coach individually (in person or on Zoom) to review the new system and how it is going to work.
  • Rich is making progress on the workers’ comp logistics.
  1. Updates on staff
  • All coaches are updated in USA Swimming and are in compliance with all their certifications.
  • Coach Nikki is working with Nicole to be added as a Surfside coach. As soon as that happens, Nikki will get all her required certifications.
  • Melissa has been coaching in Beth’s absence. She also plans to help with the beach workouts this summer.
  • Discussions were had regarding the coach to swimmer ratio.