Coaches and prospective coaches, join us from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 2:30 p.m. at Lewiston High School, 156 East Avenue, Lewiston on September 9, 2016.
8:30 Breakfast and General Talking
8:55 Welcome and introductions
- Vote on Parliamentarian for the meeting
9:00 Officers’ Reports
- Secretary Lyndsy Denk (Falmouth)
- Approval of Spring Meeting minutes
- Treasurer Kris Deveau (Brunswick)
- Approval of Treasurer’s Report
- Vice President D’Arcy Robinson (Poland)
- President Matt Leland (Lincoln)
- State of the League report / new schools
9:30 Moderator’s reports
- Speech: Pat Spelecki (Lewiston) and Tory Gram (Orono)
- Congressional Debate: Paul Bibeau (Kennebunk)
- Lincoln Douglas: Dan Haskell (Chevrus)
- Public Forum: Joe Pelletier (Bangor)
10:00 Technology committee report
2016-2017 Calendar Finalization
Lunch
Old Business
- Challenges to Speech Pieces at States (setting up a more transparent process, see Spring minutes for initial proposal, reworked proposal to come)
- Judging Requirements at States (see Spring minutes for initial proposal, goal is to work this out at the Fall meeting, any suggestions from those who can’t attend would be appreciated).
- Judge Training Proposal by Moderators
- Vote on adding new events to States / compressing prose and poetry into one event (see Spring minutes for details on this).
New Business
- Possible fundraiser tournament
- Contact new schools
2:30 Adjournment
Post Meeting
- CFL Report: D’Arcy Robinson
- NFL Report: Kris Deveau