Surfside Board Meeting Minutes February 8, 2024 7:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez The Board approved the January 11, 2024 Meeting Minutes. Pool Situation We continue to work with some key contacts at the Manhattan Beach School District. The main issue continues to be the district’s lack of both a pool supervisor and lifeguard staff. The district is actively seeking job applicants. We are hopeful that the Mira Costa pool will hire and train staff for us to return by...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes January 11, 2024 7:15 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez The Board approved the December 21, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Pool Situation We continue to work with some key contacts at the Manhattan Beach School District. The main issue continues to be the district’s lack of both a pool supervisor and lifeguard staff. The district is actively seeking job applicants, but it will be another couple of months until staff are hired and trained for us to return...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes December 21, 2023 7:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown Absent: Margo Trone, Rich Fernandez, John York The Board approved the November 27, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Mira Costa High School ongoing pool situation We are continuing to work with some key contacts in the school district. The main issue continues to be the district’s lack of both a pool supervisor and lifeguard staff. The district is actively seeking job applicants, but it will be another couple of months until staff is hired and trained...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes November 27, 2023 6:30 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez The Board approved the October 19, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Mira Costa High School ongoing pool situation We are continuing to work with some key contacts in the school district. The main issue continues to be the district’s lack of both a pool supervisor and lifeguard staff. We have escalated our situation to the Superintendent and are waiting to hear back. Surfside families are strongly encouraged to reach...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes October 19, 2023 5:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez The Board approved the September 7, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Mira Costa High School pool situation The MBX Foundation has not made any progress in hiring a pool manager or lifeguards. It does not look like this will change anytime soon. Until they have these positions filled, the contracts that they are having teams sign to use the Costa pool have a clause that MBX is held harmless...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes September 7, 2023 7:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez The Board approved the August 10, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Mira Costa Pool Management of the pool has changed from the City of Manhattan Beach to the MBX Foundation. The MBX Foundation is in the process of hiring a facilities manager and lifeguards. MBX plans to raise Surfside’s pool rental rates by more than double. Until the staffing has been finalized, MBX would like us to sign an...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes August 10, 2023 7:30 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown Absent: John York The Board approved the July 21, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Survey Results Elisa shared the results with the team via email. John will share the results with the coaches. We are going to do the survey annually and share the results at the summer beach party. Swimming Pool Updates RUHS pool is closed due to flooding in the pump room. The team will do beach workouts in the...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes July 21, 2023 4:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Margo Trone The Board approved the June 8, 2023 Meeting Minutes. 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. Elisa is going to share...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes June 8, 2023 4:30 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Margo Trone, Kayo Libiano The Board approved the May 18, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Coaching There will not be workouts on the weekends during summer. Surfside has an offer of extended hours until 9pm during the week at RUHS. Elisa is going to look into how many lanes we would need to rent and we will discuss again soon. The workout schedule will change at MCHS starting week of June 26. Mondays...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes May 18, 2023 7:15 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez The Board approved the April 20, 2023 Meeting Minutes. Coaching Sunday morning workouts will not occur during summer. We are awaiting coach feedback regarding the potential 2-5pm practice on Saturdays. All coaches are “in good standing” with their training requirements except for John, Lelei and Melissa. John will follow up. John will purchase starting equipment for future meets. John updated the Board on searching for additional coaching...