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President
Barry Weiner
Treasurer Ken Noland
Travel Vice President John Ricca
Referee Assignor Emilio D'Andrea
The Bloomfield Soccer Club
provides the local
community with a consistent recreation and travel youth
soccer
program. An organization of parent volunteers, the club
promotes youth soccer that is geared for the player who wants to
learn, train and play the game of soccer at various levels of
competition.
Our Recreational in-town program includes boys and girls from the
kindergarten to high school age groups. All players receive a soccer jersey and participation
award.
The travel program includes boys and girls ages U-8 through U-19 as
part of the Mid-New Jersey Youth Soccer Association League (MNJYSA).
Consisting of Fall and Spring seasons, child participation includes
professional training, league competition and tournament matches.
The club devotes its energies towards progressive childhood
development promoting physical fitness, good sportsmanship, and
teamwork, through the enjoyable participation in the sport of
soccer.
The club does not discriminate and provides financial aid for
members unable to afford participation fees.
BLOOMFIELD SOCCER CLUB
CONSTITUTION
December 1, 2002 - Updated July 2011 - October 4, 2011
ARTICLE I - Purpose
1. The Club is intended to promote the interests of youth
soccer in Bloomfield. Within the limitations of financing and
leadership, the Club is intended to create and supervise such
programs as may encourage and include youngsters from Bloomfield in
Soccer and its related activities.
2. The Club is responsible for providing for the High School’s
annual soccer awards banquet.
ARTICLE II - Membership
1. Anyone paying the annual dues shall be considered to be a member
in good standing of the Club. The dues should be paid by
September 1st of any calendar year.
ARTICLE III – Club Officers
1. The major officer holder of this Club shall be the president. The
president shall have the responsibility of advancing the operation
and activities of the Club to best realize those objectives
determined by the executive board to be best interests of the
Bloomfield Soccer under the Club's authority.
2. The president along with the executive board shall vote on
officers to the club as they see and shall vote on officers to fill
any vacancies which may occur.
3. The president shall call or authorize meeting of the board or any
other members of the soccer community as he sees fit.
4. The president shall preside at all meetings of the Club.
5. The board shall work with the president to achieve Club
objectives and shall report to him on the progress in the
performance of their duties.
6. The president shall create such committees as are necessary to
further the objectives of the Club.
7. The Vice-President shall assume the powers and responsibilities of
the president in his absence.
8. The Treasurer and Secretary shall perform those activities
normally related to such offices.
9. Club decisions shall be arrived at by a majority vote of the
board.
10. No moneys shall be paid out by the Club except with the approval
of the president or treasurer and at least one other board member.
ARTICLE IV – Term of Officers
1. The term for officers of the Club shall be for one year. The term
shall begin at the conclusion of the awards banquet and expire at
the conclusion of the banquet on the following year.
2. A nominating committee shall be selected during the month of
November or when deemed necessary in any year. Such committee shall
compose a slate of candidates for office for the following year.
Such candidates shall be elected to office during the course of a
general membership meeting and are chosen by a majority vote of all
attending Club members.
ARTICLE V - Players Rules and Regulations
1. All players must be properly registered in the league in which
they wish to participate as well as Registered in the Club to become
eligible to play on a Club travel team.
2. It shall be Club policy that each player plays with his/her age
group for both traveling and in-town soccer. Any deviation from this
policy must be granted by the soccer board executive committee when
an expressed appeal is requested by the player parent/guardian.
3. Any player who misses a game or practice without a valid excuse
in advance may be subject to a one game suspension.
a. The coaching staff of the team involved shall decide whether such
excuse is valid or invalid. The decision of the coaching staff shall
be final.
4. Fines assessed to players on the traveling teams will be paid by
the player involved.
5. Players will be expected to uphold the high standards of this
organization at all times, both on and off the field.
6. It shall be the board policy that any coach who is red carded or
fined by the League or Club shall reimburse the Club for said fines.
ARTICLE VI - Coaches
1. It shall be the responsibility of the Executive Board, or those
members so designated by the Board, to select the coaching staffs
for the various Club youth teams. Such coaches are responsible for
their actions to the Board and the Board may remove or replace such
coaches at its discretion.
2. A coach may designate someone to conduct a practice or coach a
game in his absence. This must be done with discretion and such
substitute’s responsibilities clearly defined, beforehand, by the
absent coach.
ARTICLE VII - Coaches Regulations
1. All coaches shall be expected to uphold and support the
standards, reputation and all of the policies set by this
organization at all times. Any coach deemed to be in violation of
this section may be removed at the discretion of the Executive
Board.
2. Fines assessed to coaches on the traveling teams will be paid by
the coach involved.
ARTICLE VIII - Grievances and General Behavior
1. At no time shall a parent express a grievance related to coaching
judgment to any member of a coaching staff. Any complaints from
parents, players, or coaches must be submitted to a member of the
Executive Board in writing. Resolution of any complaint will be
swift and definite, within seven days of receipt of such complaint.
2. Expressing a complaint directly to a member of a coaching staff
will result in automatic suspension of the parent’s child for the
next game and a possible expulsion from the program.
3. The Executive Board shall have the power to suspend or remove
from this organization, any member whose conduct or behavior is
detrimental to soccer or the Club, both on and off of the field. It
shall be the responsibility of any Club officer involved to report
any action which warrants such a decision to the President as soon
as possible.
4. Fines assessed to parents of the traveling teams will be paid by
the parent involved.
ARTICLE IX – Amendments
1. Amendments to this Constitution will be considered to be in
effect when they have been agreed to by a majority of the Board
Members. Such Board now consists of the President, Travel VP,
In-Town VP, Treasurer, Secretary, plus members at Large.. Additional
positions may be created with the consent of the existing Board
members.
ARTICLE X
No volunteer director or volunteer officer (as defined in the Act)
shall be personally liable to this corporation or its members for
monetary damages for a breach of such director's or officer's
fiduciary duty; provided however, that this paragraph shall not
eliminate or limit the liability of a director or officer for any of
the following:
a breach of the director's or officer's duty of loyalty to the
corporation;
acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
a transaction from which the volunteer director or volunteer officer
derived an improper personal benefit;
an act or omission that is grossly negligent; or
an act or omission occurring before the filing of these Articles.
Further, so long as it is tax exempt under §501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the corporation assumes
all liability to any person other than the corporation or its
members for all acts or omissions of a volunteer director incurred
in the good faith performance of the volunteer director's duties
occurring on or after the date these Articles are filed. However,
the corporation shall not be considered to have assumed any
liability to the extent that such assumption is inconsistent with
the status of the corporation as an organization described in said
§501(c)(3).
In addition, the corporation assumes all liability to any person,
other than the corporation, for all acts or omissions of a
nondirector volunteer if all of the following are met:
the volunteer was acting or reasonably believed he or she was acting
within the scope of his or her authority;
the volunteer was acting in good faith;
the volunteer's conduct did not amount to gross negligence or
willful and wanton misconduct;
the volunteer's conduct was not an intentional tort; and
the volunteer's conduct was not a tort arising out of the ownership,
maintenance or use of a motor vehicle for which tort liability may
be imposed.
If the State Act is amended after the filing of these Articles to
authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of
directors, officers or volunteers of nonprofit corporations, then
the liability of directors, officers and volunteers, in addition to
that described in this Article, shall be assumed by the corporation
or eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the
State Act as so amended, except to the extent that such assumption
is inconsistent with the status of the corporation as an
organization described in said §501(c)(3).
No amendment or repeal of this Article shall apply to or have any
effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director,
officer or volunteer of this corporation for or with respect to any
acts or omissions occurring before the effective date of any such
amendment or repeal.
The corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party to
or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or
completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative, or investigative, formal or informal (other than an
action by or in the right of the corporation), by reason of the fact
that the person is or was a director, officer, or nondirector
volunteer of the corporation, or, while serving as a director,
officer or nondirector volunteer of the corporation, is or was
serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer,
partner, trustee, employee, nondirector volunteer or agent of
another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, or other enterprise, whether for profit or not, against
expenses (including actual and reasonable attorney fees), judgments,
penalties, fines, and amounts paid in settlement actually and
reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action,
suit, or proceeding, if the person acted in good faith and in a
manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
best interests of the corporation or its members, and with respect
to any criminal action or proceeding, if the person had no
reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any action, suit, or proceeding by judgment, order,
settlement, conviction, or on a plea of nolo contendere or its
equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the
person did not act in good faith and in a manner that the person
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the corporation or its members and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his or
her conduct was unlawful.
The corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party to
or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or
completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to
procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the
person is or was a director, officer or nondirector volunteer of the
corporation or, while serving as a director, officer or nondirector
volunteer of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of
the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee,
nondirector volunteer or agent of another foreign or domestic
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, or other enterprise,
whether for profit or not, against expenses (including attorney
fees) and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by the person in connection with the action or suit, if the
person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation or its members. However, indemnification shall not be
made for any claim, issue, or matter in which the person has been
found liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that
the court in which the action or suit was brought has determined on
application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view
of all circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and
reasonably entitled to indemnification for the reasonable expenses
incurred.
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