Surfside Board Meeting Minutes April 20, 2023 7:15 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York The Board approved the March 9, 2023 Meeting Minutes. All Board members need to register for USA Swimming (as non-athletes) and complete basic coursework as soon as possible (if they haven’t already done so). Coaching 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...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes March 9, 2023 7:15 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Margo Trone The Board approved the February 9, 2023 Meeting Minutes. All Board members need to register for USA Swimming (as non-athletes) and complete basic coursework as soon as possible (if they haven’t already done so). Coaching All coaches are “in good standing” with their training requirements except for Lelei. John is going to follow-up with her tomorrow. John will purchase starting equipment for future meets. Surfside will be...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes February 9, 2023 7:15 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Kayo Libiano, Margo Trone, Eileen Brown, John York The Board approved the January 12, 2023 Meeting Minutes. All Board members need to register for USA Swimming (as non-athletes) and complete basic coursework as soon as possible (if they haven’t already done so). Coaching Status on coaches “in good standing” with their training requirements: Everyone is up to date except Lelei and Robert. Sean will be reimbursed the $100 deduction for January (finished coursework 1/30/23). John is...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes January 12, 2023 6:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Margo Trone, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez The Board approved the December 6, 2022 Meeting Minutes. Coaching All coaches have signed their 2023 contracts except Lelei and Melissa. John will follow-up with them. Coaches need to be updated on all training or it will impact monthly pay – John, Beth and Melissa are in good standing. John will follow-up with Mary, Sean, Lelei and Robert to be sure this gets done. Coaches must be...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes December 6, 2022 6:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Margo Trone, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown Absent: John York The Board approved the November 8, 2022 Meeting Minutes. Recently, one person has left the Board due to medical reasons. The remaining Board Members agreed that we can take on the extra responsibilities and keep the Board at five people. Surfside bylaws call for a minimum of five people on the Board. The holiday party is coming up on December 9th. We are expecting approximately 65 people....

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes November 8, 2022 6:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Margo Trone, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez, Paula Skorin The Board approved the October 13, 2022 Meeting Minutes. Coaching: There were 28 swimmers at the first Sunday workout. Six swimmers were in the C group, the rest were in the A & B groups. Elisa has created a contract for Coach Melissa and has updated Sean’s contract to reflect the additional hours on Sunday. Mary and Sean will present joint their Co-Assistant Head Coach...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes October 13, 2022 6:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Margo Trone, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown Absent: Rich Fernandez, Paula Skorin, John York The Board approved the September 15, 2022 Meeting Minutes. Workout changes/pool time: The newly created C+ group has been working out at the Redondo pool on Tuesdays and Thursdays 7-8pm. Creating this new group has freed up some space in the 6-7pm time slot for the B and C groups. Survey results showed that 10am Sunday workouts would be popular. As soon as we get...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes September 15, 2022 6:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Paula Skorin, Margo Trone, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, John York The Board approved the August 11, 2022 Meeting Minutes. Membership Status: On September 9th, 20 swimmers tried out and all of them made the team. The majority were placed in the B and C groups. New B swimmers can only swim at Mira Costa for now. There is not room at Redondo Union for more B swimmers currently. We are adding a C+ group at Redondo...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes August 11, 2022 6:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Paula Skorin, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, John York Absent: Rich Fernandez, Margo Trone The Board approved the July 7, 2022 Meeting Minutes. Coaching: Going forward, communication with all coaches will go through Head Coach John. In turn, John will distribute pertinent information to the appropriate coaches. Assistant Head Coach position: We currently have two outside candidates who have expressed interest. Once the job description is finalized, it will be circulated to all the current coaches as well as...

Surfside Board Meeting Minutes July 7, 2022 6:00 pm Present: Elisa Nye, Rich Fernandez, Paula Skorin, Margo Trone, Kayo Libiano, Eileen Brown, Absent: John York The Board approved the June 9, 2022 Meeting Minutes. Coaching: The coaches are continuing to look at reorganizing the B/C groups in hopes of making room for more C swimmers to join Surfside. We now have an additional lane at the Redondo pool on Tuesdays and Thursdays, bringing the total number of lanes to seven for our use. Lelei and Robert’s contracts have been adjusted...