Committees & Board Meeting Minutes

Board of Directors

BC Soccer has 14 Board of Directors who are elected by the BC Soccer membership on 2 year terms at the Annual General Meetings.

There are a number of specific positions defined amongst the Board including President, First Vice President, Vice President Youth, Vice President Seniors and Vice President Finance.

There are a number of responsibilities that BC Soccer’s non-profit board of directors have in their roles which include but are not limited to, determining the mission and monitoring focus of the organisation, setting policies, ensuring adequate planning for both strategic and annual operation plan, ensuring appropriate resources are in place to meet needs of the organization and working closely with the Executive Director and the association to staff to deliver against its objectives and deliver high quality services to its membership and participants.

Directors will also be designated to be part of the various standing and operational committees

Board of Directors meetings are held approximately every 6 weeks.


 

Standing Committees

The following Standing Committees are constituted to be advisory to the Board of Directors. The terms of reference and operating procedures are found in the Standing Committee Policy Guide, which shall be kept up to date and published on the Association’s web site for public access.

Finance and Audit

Terms of Reference

Chaired by VP Finance, serves to provide oversight on all financial matters of the Association. Works with Auditors as required during annual audit. Validates and delivers all fiscal reports to every meeting of the Board of Directors, and every general meeting of the membership.

Chair, Chris Appleby
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Ed Kennedy
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Carlos Grosso
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Leanna Napolitano
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Moslin
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Rob Lennox
BC Soccer Staff Member, Jason Elligott
Staff Liaison/Member, Stephen Wurz
 

Nominations

Terms of Reference

Works with the Board and Executive Director to ensure sufficient and appropriate candidates are presented to the membership for elections; provides succession planning guidance to the Board of Directors.

Chair, Roger Barnes
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Leanna Napolitano
Community Member, Frank Rennick
Staff Liaison/Member, Lori D'Andrea

Governance

Terms of Reference

Advisory to the board of directors and supplies support on all matters of governance, and provides recommendations to the board and the membership on Constitutions, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations. Supplies oversight and supports compliance to the membership on internal regulatory matters.

Chair, Aiman El-Ramil
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, TBA
Community Committee Member, Vince Greco
Community Committee Member, Dave Hargraves
Community Committee Member, Laurie Robertson
Community Committee Member, Sean Bujtas
Community Committee Member, Jim Mackie
Staff Liaison/Member, Lori D'Andrea
Staff Liasion/Member, Ryan McQuillan

Risk Management

Terms of Reference

Advisory to the board and supplies SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis on all matters of risk factors including but not limited to fiscal, competitive, commercial, environmental, legal, and human matters.

Chair, Ed Kennedy
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, John Charlton
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Moslin
Community Committee Member, John Reed
Community Committee Member, Ken Serne
Staff Liaison/Member, Lori D'Andrea
Staff Liaison/Member, Lynda Mulder

Membership

Term of Reference

Advisory to the board of directors and supplies support on all matters of membership, including reviewing membership applications for consistency with Association mission, and required compliance with the Associations Constitution, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations.

Chair, Carlos Grosso
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Chris Appleby
Community Committee Member, Floyd Salazar
Community Committee Member, Ed Hardy
Community Committee Member, John Reed
Community Committee Member, Ron Brar
Staff Liaison/Member, Lori D'Andrea
Staff Liaison/Member, Ryan McQuillian

Operational Committees

The following Operational Committees are constituted to be accountable to the board and the membership. The terms of reference and operating procedures are found in the Standing Committee Policy Guide, which shall be kept up to date and published on the Association’s web site for public access.

Competitions

Terms of Reference

Accountable to the board and membership for the operations of all competitions operated by the Association. It works with the membership and staff to support the operation of these competitions. It shall create and support such working committee’s as needed to operate any competition.

Youth
Chair, Don Dancey
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Rob Lennox
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Moslin
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Chris Appleby
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Rob Brown
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Ralph Luongo
Community Committee Member, John Reed
Community Committee Member, Peter Price
Community Committee Member, Doug Ross
Community Committee Member, Andrea Laycock
Community Committee Member, Frank Rennick
Community Committee Member, Matt Holbrook
Community Committee Member, Tim Satterford
Community Committee Member, Bob Sawtell
Staff Liaison/Member, Dan Turvill

Adult
Chair, Rob Brown
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Moslin
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Dancey
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Carlos Grosso
Community Committee Member, Gord Rogers
Community Committee Member, Neil Fuge
Community Committee Member, Bob Sawtell
Community Committee Member, Fraser Sims
Community Committee Member, Laurie Robertson
Community Committee Member, Peter Vrankovich
Staff Liaison/Member, Dan Turvill

Soccer Development

Terms of Reference

Accountable to the board and membership to provide oversight of Soccer Development within the jurisdiction of the Association.

Grassroots Soccer Development Committee
Chair, Don Moslin
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Ralph Luongo
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Moslin
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Rob Lennox
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Leanna Napolitano
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Justus Mirembe
Community Committee Member, Carl Neibel
Community Committee Member,Gilbert Scholet
Community Committee Member, Bill Price
Community Committee Member, Peter Malakoane
Community Committee Member, Steve Hood
Community Committee Member, Ciaran McMahon
Community Committee Member, Ian Knight
BC Soccer Staff Member, Chris Cerroni
Staff Liaison/Member, Paul Turner


High Performance Soccer Development Committee
Terms of Reference

Chair, Carlos Grosso
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Dancey
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Justus Mirembe
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Ralph Luongo
Communinty Committee Member, Ron Brar
Community Committee Member, Matt Holbrook
Community Committee Member, Dave Irvine
Community Committee Member, Jason de Vos (Guest member)
BC Soccer Staff Member, Chris Cerroni
Staff Liaison/Member, Luca Dalla Pace

Referee Committee

Terms of Reference

The goal of the Referees Committee shall be, as an integral part of the National Associations Structure, to advise the Board of Directors with respect to the regulations of referees in British Columbia, and to administer referee activities in British Columbia. The Committee may recommend changes to the Board of Directors regarding BCSA rules and regulations and administrative regulations with respect to referees after consultation with the Governance Committee. The Committee shall administer referees according to requirements of the CSA.

Chair, Rob Lennox
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Rob Brown
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Ralph Luongo
Community Committee Member, Bob Sawtell
Community Committee Member, Tiberio de Frias
Community Committee Member, Peter Dragan
Community Committee Member, Robin Woods
Community Committee Member, Emad Ghashghaee
Staff Liaison/Member, Jose Branco

Judicial

Terms of Reference

Comprised of 3 components, Discipline, Protests, and Appeals. No member of any component may be a member of any other component; except that a chair, who may not be a member of any except discipline, will be appointed to supply oversight of the operation of these committees. Discipline may have board members as members, however, Appeals and Protests must be totally independent of the Board and any matter that it deals with. Each committee shall have a minimum of 3 persons plus sufficient alternates to ensure clear avoidance of conflict of interest, and perceived conflict of interest.

No member of the board of Directors or staff member may sit on either the Protest Committee or the
Appeals Committee.

Chair, Aiman El-Ramly
Community Committee Member, Vince Grecco
Community Committee Member, Jackie Larson
Community Committee Member, Frank Rennick
Community Committee Member, Susan Dhillion
Staff Liaison/Member, Dan Turvill

Working Committees

The following Working Committees are active advisory committees to the Board of Directors.

Awards and Scholarships Committee

Terms of Reference

Chair, Leanna Napolitano
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Dancey
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Don Moslin
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Justus Mirembe
Staff Liaison/Member, Lynda Mulder

 

Regional Tier 3 Soccer Committee

The goal of the Committee is to investigate the viability of establishing a regional tier 3 adult standards based league in BC in line with BC Soccer and CSA Strategic objectives.

Chair, Kjeld Brodsgaard
BC Soccer Board of Director Member, Carlos Grosso
Community Committee Member, Mark de Frias
Community Committee Member, Dino Anastopulos
BC Soccer Staff Member, Chris Cerroni
Staff Liasion/Member, Rob Csabai

Women in Soccer

Terms of Reference
The goals of the Women in Soccer Committee are to oversee and guide the development of the game of soccer in British Columbia as it relates to females.  The Committee will advise the Board of Directors of the Association with respect to the rules, regulations and programming regarding any aspects of the female game.

Chair, Leanna Napolitano
Community Committee Member, Candice Brown
Community Committee Member, Terresa Musgrave
Community Committee Member, Ginger Heartman
Community Committee Member, Debra Pudek
Community Committee Member, Kelly Donaldson
BC Soccer Staff Member, Chris Cerroni
Staff Liaison/Member, Amiee Kapil


 

 

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