September 28, 2015

MSHSL Region 2A
Committee Meeting Minutes
Happy Chef Hwy 169 Mankato

Members Present: Bill Adams, Evan Gough, Rob Brandl, Bob Vollbrecht, Wendy Atherton-Stoen, John
Landkamer, Wendy Owens, Amy Lee-Hesse, Steve Wolff, Jeff Vizenor, Biny Claussen
Members Absent: none
The Region 2A committee meeting was called to order by Region Secretary, Sharon Euerle at 10.05 a.m.
on Wednesday, September 23, 2015. Evan Gough made a motion, seconded by Steve Wolff to elect Bill
Adams as chair for 2015-16 & 2016-17. With no further nominations, the motion passed unanimously.
Bill Adams moved and Evan Gough seconded to elect Steve Wolff as the Vice Chair for 2015-16 and
2016-17. Motion carried.
Amy Lee-Hesse moved and Wendy Atherton-Stoen seconded to approve the agenda with the addition of
the drone policy. Motion passed.
Rob Brandl made the motion and Biny Claussen seconded the approval of the May 20, 2015 committee
meeting minutes. Motion passed.
Public Comments: Doug Smith (Mankato Loyola) and Tom Fish (St Peter) addressed the committee with
an East/West speech subsection proposal.
Representative assembly members Wendy Owens moved and Amy Lee-Hesse seconded to elect AD
Steve Wolff, AD Jeff Vizenor and AD John Landkamer to represent Region 2A as Representative Assembly
members for 2015-16 and 2016-17. Motion passed.
The committee directed S Euerle to contact Karla Beck, Principal at St. James, to see if she had interest
in completing the 2 year term of Ted Simon.
After review of the financial statements, reconciliations and check registry, Evan Gough moved and Jeff
Vizenor seconded the approval of the August payment of bills and financial statements. Motion passed.
Steve Wolff moved and John Landkamer seconded to approve the August bank reconciliation as
presented. Motion passed.
Secretary Euerle provided the committee with a three year comparison of the spring activities. Net gain
for spring 2014-15 was $9252.35 as compared to a negative ($117.96) the previous year. She also
shared fair share information. Fair share paid out was $49,928 and fair share in was $63,193
Mileage payback to schools the committee was informed that pay back to the governance schools for
mileage reimbursement for the 2014-2015 year is $119,000 (as per audit). A start up amount for 201516 of $30,599 as directed from the May 20 2015 meeting was retained.
The 2014-15 audit report prepared by the firm of Abdo, Eick, & Meyer was presented and reviewed. Jeff
Vizenor moved and Rob Brandl seconded to approve the 2014-15 audit as presented. Motion passed
unanimously.
John Landkamer made a motion and Rob Brandl seconded the approval of hiring Rob Norman as the
Class 3AAA football coordinator. Motion passed.

S Euerle and committee members Biny Claussen, Amy Lee-Hesse, and John Landkamer provided the committee with information
regarding the fine arts directors/advisors/coaches meeting that was held September 14 at Mankato Loyola High School.
John Landkamer moved and Bob Vollbrecht seconded to approve the administrative subsections and the
Triple A subsections as presented. Motion carried.
Bill Adams made a motion to approve the request of subsection 6 music directors to change the dates of
large group vocal to March 15, 2016 and large group instrumental to March 22, 2016. Seconded by
Steve Wolff. Motion passed.
Evan Gough moved, seconded by Steve Wolff to approve the request of Mountain Lake HS to participate
in Region 3A music events. Motion passed.
John Landkamer moved with a second by Rob Brandl that due to the precinct caucus date, change the
girls quarter final basketball games to Saturday, February 27 at high seeds and the boys subsection
finals to Monday, February 29 using the original venues. Motion passed.
Biny Claussen made the motion to approve the speech coaches subsection realignment request. Motion
died for lack of a second.
The committee approved the request for Section 2AAA football to start the finals at 3:00 p.m. on
October 24.
Amy Lee-Hesse moved and John Landkamer seconded to approve the music advisory recommendation.
Motion passed unanimously.
Biny Claussen made the motion, seconded by Amy Lee-Hesse to approve the speech advisory
recommendation for poetry clarification. Motion passed unanimously.
Motion by Biny Claussen and seconded by Rob Brandl to deny the speech advisory recommendation
asking for an increase in time. Motion passed unanimously.
Steve Wolff moved with a second by Wendy Owens to seed the entire section for baseball eliminating
subsections and to use QRF for seeding purposes. This will begin this spring with no change of dates for
2016. Motion passed.
Wendy Owens made a motion to seed the entire section for softball eliminating subsections and to use
QRF for seeding. This will start this spring and dates will remain the same as scheduled for 2016.
Seconded by Rob Brandl and passed by full committee.
Updated policies were approved as presented. Bob Brandl made the motion, seconded by Biny
Claussen and passed by full committee.
Evan Gough moved, seconded by Bill Adams to approve the tournament host schedule as presented.
Motion passed.
S Euerle shared information pertaining to MSHSL Foundation dollars, fee invoices, 2016-17 calendar and
the Triple A program.
The committee developed a drone policy that begins with the 2015 fall activities. Motion by Jeff Vizenor
and seconded by Biny Claussen to adopt the following policy:
The use of drones is strictly prohibited for all subsection and section events that are administered by
Region 2A. Motion passed.
Motion by Rob Brandl and seconded by Evan Gough to adjourn. Motion passed.
The next meeting will be November 18, 2015 at the Happy Chef, Mankato 10:00 A.M
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon R. Euerle
MSHSL Region 2A Executive Secretary