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The unofficially-termed Neosho Little League executive board reorganized and expanded its membership Monday night, though other items that were on the agenda will wait until district Little League representatives are present to provide some guidance.
Another meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, at the Civic Center, following the Neosho parks and recreation board meeting. The location was changed from the Lampo Center. At that meeting, local Little League board members hope to adopt a constitution to submit with its charter application up the line to Little League international, as well as approve a boundary map, among other business items.
Provided Neosho’s charter is approved, which district Little League officials have assured is all but a foregone conclusion, player signups for summer tee ball, baseball and softball would likely begin in March and Neosho Little League play would start in April.
About 40 people turned out Monday night to the Neosho Civic to lend a hand in the prep process of affiliating with the international Little League organization. This was a rescheduled meeting from one held earlier this month in which only about a dozen people showed up. At that first meeting, a five-member executive board was picked from the handful of volunteers that were present. Since that time, however, two of those members have resigned. At Monday’s meeting, 11 people were selected out of the significantly deeper pool of volunteers available to serve on the executive board.
Those present voted to elect Steve McLaughlin as board president and Angie Leach as vice-president, which was unchanged from the short-lived original board. The remaining executive board officers were chosen by the other board members. They are: Secretary-James Dumond; treasurer-Chris Senske; player agent-Bryan Williams; safety officer-Willy Sims; coach coordinators-Dave Osborn and Travis Adams; Little League information officer-Valerie Garrett; sponsorship/fundraising manager-Branden Smith; and grounds committee chairman-John Jordan.
Those in attendance agreed by consensus to make the Neosho parks and recreation director, currently John Jordan, an automatic board member, as the Little League ball program would use the city ballfields and would benefit from having a close inside contact.
Absent from Monday’s meeting were Little League district administrators. Neosho city councilman Steve Hart, who has been a vocal advocate for the reemergence of a Neosho Little League, suggested that hammering out the heavier organizational details wait until Little League officials can be present to guide the local group through the process. He assured that those officials would be in attendance at the Jan. 30 meeting.
“I believe going forward that we have to have those people here,” Hart said. “They can lead us through all of this process. And they’ll lead us through it in a quick, decisive way. Until we get those guys here to lead us in the right direction, we’re probably a little lost.”
The unofficially-termed Neosho Little League executive board reorganized and expanded its membership Monday night, though other items that were on the agenda will wait until district Little League representatives are present to provide some guidance.
Another meeting is set for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, at the Civic Center, following the Neosho parks and recreation board meeting. The location was changed from the Lampo Center. At that meeting, local Little League board members hope to adopt a constitution to submit with its charter application up the line to Little League international, as well as approve a boundary map, among other business items.
Provided Neosho’s charter is approved, which district Little League officials have assured is all but a foregone conclusion, player signups for summer tee ball, baseball and softball would likely begin in March and Neosho Little League play would start in April.
About 40 people turned out Monday night to the Neosho Civic to lend a hand in the prep process of affiliating with the international Little League organization. This was a rescheduled meeting from one held earlier this month in which only about a dozen people showed up. At that first meeting, a five-member executive board was picked from the handful of volunteers that were present. Since that time, however, two of those members have resigned. At Monday’s meeting, 11 people were selected out of the significantly deeper pool of volunteers available to serve on the executive board.
Those present voted to elect Steve McLaughlin as board president and Angie Leach as vice-president, which was unchanged from the short-lived original board. The remaining executive board officers were chosen by the other board members. They are: Secretary-James Dumond; treasurer-Chris Senske; player agent-Bryan Williams; safety officer-Willy Sims; coach coordinators-Dave Osborn and Travis Adams; Little League information officer-Valerie Garrett; sponsorship/fundraising manager-Branden Smith; and grounds committee chairman-John Jordan.
Those in attendance agreed by consensus to make the Neosho parks and recreation director, currently John Jordan, an automatic board member, as the Little League ball program would use the city ballfields and would benefit from having a close inside contact.
Absent from Monday’s meeting were Little League district administrators. Neosho city councilman Steve Hart, who has been a vocal advocate for the reemergence of a Neosho Little League, suggested that hammering out the heavier organizational details wait until Little League officials can be present to guide the local group through the process. He assured that those officials would be in attendance at the Jan. 30 meeting.
“I believe going forward that we have to have those people here,” Hart said. “They can lead us through all of this process. And they’ll lead us through it in a quick, decisive way. Until we get those guys here to lead us in the right direction, we’re probably a little lost.”
