TASO

Board of Directors Meeting - February 27, 2012

The next Board of Director’s meeting will be Monday, February
27 from 6:30 to 8:45 pm at Rudy’s BBQ, 20806 I-45 North in Spring, phone
number is 281-288-0916. The Board of Director’s meeting agenda can be viewed
in the Members Area, Meeting Minutes tab of the Chapter website. The meeting
will start promptly at 6:30 pm.
 
 

February 16, 2012 Message

The minutes from the February 6, 2012 Board of Directors Meeting have
been posted on the Meeting Minutes tab in the Members Area. Our goal is to have
the minutes posted within a week of the meeting; however there may be times
when a short delay is unavoidable.
 
Please join me in congratulating our new Parliamentarian, Bobby Wright
and our new Recording Secretary, Mike Walzel. Both men have excellent
credentials and are very enthusiastic about their new positions in the chapter.
 
At the same time I would like to recognize the dedicated work of our
previous Parliamentarian, Bill Taylor and our previous Recording Secretary, Robert Rosales. Both men served the Chapter for four
years and richly deserve our recognition and appreciation for jobs well done.
 
Check the President’s page for additional information.
 
Rudy Guerrero
President
 

February Board of Director's Meeting - February 6, 2012

The February Board of Director's meeting will be held Monday,
February 6 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm at Rudy's Bar B Q (not owned by me although I
wish it were), 20806 I-45 North in Spring, phone number is 281-288-0916. The
meeting agenda is posted on the President’s page in the Member’s
Area. In the near future changes will be made to the website to accommodate posting
the meeting agendas and minutes to the Meetings Minutes page in the Member’s
Area.
 
Rudy Guerrero
President
 

Board of Directors Meeting - January 10, 2012

Good morning to all.
 
The 2012 Board of Directors held their first meeting of the
year on January 10 to begin planning for the 2012 season. One of the
Board’s imperatives for 2012 is enhancing communication through the
Chapter website which is our primary communication tool backed up by ZW email.
To support our communication imperative we intend to have meeting minutes
posted to the website within a week of the meeting so that members can better
understand what the Board is working on and the decisions that are being made.
You can view the DRAFT meeting minutes on President’s page in the
Member’s Area.
 
Communication is a two way street so we are very interested
in your feedback. If you have questions or comments let us know by contacting
your representative or Rudy, Don or Tommy.
 
The next Board meeting will be February 6, 2012. Watch the
website for location and agenda information.
 
Rudy Guerrero
President   
 
 
 

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all members, coaches, and visitors. 

The Board of Directors wishes you and your families a very happy, safe and healthy New Year. We trust that 2012 will be an exciting year of football full of opportunities for teams, players and officials. 

Each New Year provides us the opportunity to reflect on the previous year and make plans for the upcoming year. To that end the first Board of Director's meeting for 2012 will be Tuesday, January 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Rudy's Bar B Q, 20806 I-45 North in Spring, phone number is 281-288-0916. The meeting agenda is posted on the President’s page in the Member’s Area. 

Again Happy New Year from your 2012 Board of Directors Rudy, Don, Tommy, Brent, Mark, John, Chaz, Tom, Angelo, Mike, and Mark.

Chapter Elects New Board of Director Positions for 2012 -2013

On November 7, 2011 the Chapter held its annual elections meeting to fill positions for the 2012 – 2013 Board of Directors.

The following are the new Board members:

President – Rudy Guerrero

Vice President – Don Martinez

Division II Director – John Barker

Division III Director – Chaz Fontenet

Division V Director – Angelo Randerson

These men will take office on January 1, 2012 and will join Tommy Moore, Brent Brooks, Mark Ideus and Tom Russo on the Board.

Additionally Joe Ray was elected Vice President to fill the remaining 2011 term of Justin Springer. 

In his speech Mr. Guerrero spoke of advancing the Chapter by improving communications, training, transparency, and support for Division III, IV, and V members.

In his speech Mr. Martinez spoke of his background in training and program development for which the Vice President is responsible.

Congratulations to each of the new Board members.

 

Houston Chapter TASO Launches New Chapter Website

On July 11, 2011 the Board of Directors approved a project to update the TASO Houston Chapter Website to better support the communication needs of the Chapter members, the coaches, and other visitors. A three phase approach was initiated. The first phase was to select a more robust technology platform, to improve the navigation process, and to update all the basic information that was on the previous website.  

Over the past two months Website design criteria, content organization, and a navigation scheme was developed; security access into Members Area section was developed; an approach to auto- post content by authorized content providers has been designed; and a considerable amount of content has been collected and posted to the website. While substantial work has been accomplished the website is still very much a work in progress as you will note from the several “coming soon” placeholders. Information will be posted to these placeholders on an ongoing basis.

Phase two and three will provide additional information and functionality. A number of features such as member’s pictures and bios, phone directories, video clips for training, electronic surveys, training modules, and other applications are envisioned for the future. 

 As you become familiar with the new website please provide your division representative feedback regarding what you think of the site and how it can be improved to better support you.

The former website will remain live as content is transferred from it to the new website. In the future the former website will be discontinued.