MLPS approves spring 2017 sports pairing for baseball, softball, golf with MLC, CPS
Members of the Mountain Lake Public School (MLPS) School Board gave their stamp of approval to a 2017 sports pairing agreement tying together MLPS, Mountain Lake Christian (MLC) and Comfrey Public School (CPS) for the spring sports of boys baseball, girls softball, boys golf and girls golf during a Monday, February 13 special meeting. The vote of approval was unanimous.
The agreement has been “in the works” for over a month, with revisions taking place on January 9, January 25, January 27, February 9, February 10 and February 13.
The only issue raised at the Monday meeting was the official listing of the team name. In the end, board members elected by their vote to have it stand as Mountain Lake Area-Comfrey (MLA-C) Wolverines.
The agreement is contingent on approval by MLC and CPS.
According to CPS Board Chair Pete Samuelson and CPS Superintendent/Principal Kirsten Hutchison, who were both in attendance at the MLPS School Board meeting Monday night, the agreement will be acted upon by the CPS School Board at its regular Tuesday, February 21 meeting.
Points in the agreement include:
- The team nickname and mascot will be Wolverines.
- The team song will be “Across the Field” (The Ohio State University Fight Song).
- The team colors will be maroon and silver.
- The official team uniforms will be printed with the mascot name.
- The fiscal host for the program will be MLPS.
- The total pairing program costs to MLC and CPs will be $250 per student/per activity for this school year.
- In addition, an annual student activity fee will be charged to parents. The student activity fee is not subject to the terms and conditions of the pairing agreement. The activity fee is reviewed and approved by the MLPS Schools Board during the summer prior to the start of each school year. For example – the 2016-2017 activity fees are $35/per activity for students in grades, 7 and 8 and $50/per activity for students in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12. An annual per family activity maximum cost of $170 per year has been established.
- Transportation arrangements related to the practice site will be by individual schools. For example – if the practice site is at Munson Field in Mountain Lake, MLC and CPS will arrange for the transportation of their students to the practice site as needed. If the practice site is at the CPS athletic complex, MLPS and MLC will arrange for the transportation of their students to the practice site as needed.
- MLPS will hold the coaching supervisory, referee, personnel, event contracts and agreements for paired sports activities.
- Each school will be responsible for supervision of the events on their property under the direction of the school’s Activities Director or the school’s appointed site supervisor.
- Practices and games will occur at the MLPS facilities. Practices may occur at the pairing member sites (gym and fields) with prior permission from the administration. A minimum of one or two home softball games and one or two home baskeball games will be played at the CPS athletic complex. Those games may be varsity, junior varsity or junior high events, depending on the situation, with the decision reached in consultation with coaches, athletic director and administrators.
- MLPS is responsible for providing a band, with a combined MLPS/MLC/CPS band considered if convenient.
- The agreement is effective through the end of this school year.
- Pairing Committee meetings wil lbe chaired on a rotating basis by a designee from a member school.
- A meeting with the joint Pairing Committee member schools must be held in June 2017 to review the progress of the agreement.
