Sports Advisory Board Redux

It appears that adding two words to a sentence in an ordinance requires a super vote; four votes are required. Those two words in the Sports Advisory Board Ordinance are "up to."

§133.2 Membership and Term. The Sports Advisory Board shall consist of such members as are appointed by the Commission from time to time, each appointed for a three (3) year term. The term of the initial members shall be set by the Commission so as to be staggered in order to expire evenly. There shall be up to thirteen (13) voting members of the Board that will consist of: (i) eleven (11) members chosen from any sports organization recognized by the Commission and/or the Parks Board; and (ii) two (2) at large positions. The Municipality and School District will also be able to provide a liaison and staff members, all of whom shall be nonvoting members. Any Parks Board representative shall be nonvoting.

Recommended Action: Move to adopt Ordinance (Bill No. 5-13) by special procedure (roll call taken with four votes required).

In addition, there will be a new appointment to the Sports Advisory Board, replacing the Upper St. Clair resident.

On February 12, 2013, the Commission appointed 13 members to the recently created Sports Advisory Board. The appointee from the Mt. Lebanon Hockey Association cannot serve because he resides in another community. Section 125 of the Administrative Code requires that "members of any board or authority shall be residents of the Municipality." Tonight’s action will appoint the alternate nominee of the Hockey Association to replace the initial appointee.

Recommended Action: Move to appoint Dave Klasnick of 1021 Martin Avenue to fill an unexpired term ending March 31, 2014.

Thank you Readers and Commissioners, for working together to make things right. Take note, School Board Directors.

A closer look at the JMA, YSA, MTL, MTLSD, MTLH, MLAC, TBDC,and any other letters of the alphabet

Fascinating information is pouring in about these groups. I received this link from the July/August 2002 issue of mtl Magazine.  See pages 30 and 31 about fields and YSA. http://ebooks.mtlebanon.org/mtl/mtl-072002/files/31.html  There was talk about turfing Jefferson from the time Smartchan was superintendent ten years ago.  The JMA earned the PASBO (PA Association of School Board Officials) award of achievement, but it doesn't look like PASBO ever reviewed the 990 forms.  According to the article, drainage was already rectified. Lots of interesting information, including The Blue Devil Club and Marcia Taylor's involvement.

I also received more 990's. The Mt. Lebanon Aqua Club does a fiscal year, only their fiscal year is from 1 September to 31 August of the following year. Here are their 990's.
Mt. Lebanon Aqua Club 2008 990
Mt. Lebanon Aqua Club 2009 990
Mt. Lebanon Aqua Club 2010 990

The Mt. Lebanon Hockey Association also reports on a fiscal year basis starting 1 May and ending 30 April the following year. Here are their 990's.
Mt. Lebanon Hockey Association 2009 990
Mt. Lebanon Hockey Association 2010 990
Mt. Lebanon Hockey Association 2011 990

I'm intrigued with all these non-profit groups in Mt. Lebanon - especially the field sports groups.  No one group has $200,000 to contribute towards this scheme to carpet and light Wildcat/Middle fields.  The Soccer Association comes close, with net assets of $179,687 - and MLAC has $131,592.  YSA certainly can't come up with the $200K by themselves - they only have a net worth of $31,918!  They must be counting on contributions from other field sports groups to bring $200,000 to the table.