Mailing Address:        
SFC Minor Basketball,
#100, 333 Shawville Blvd. SE,
Calgary, AB  T2Y 4H3   
Fax:  1-(866) 804-0905

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CMBA BOUNDARY CHANGES FORUM

May 9th, 2012

An open meeting was held on May 8th, 2012, at the South Fish Creek

Recreation Complex for SFC Basketball families to learn more about 

the CMBA Boundary Changes scheduled for implementation this fall.

Approximately 50 people were in attendance, most from SFC, many 

from Chaparral and a few from neighboring basketball organizations. 

Four memebers of the CMBA Board in attendance provided an

overview of the process undertaken by the CMBA and all present were

provided with the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback. 

BOUNDARY CHANGE PROCESS OVERVIEW:

Consistent with what is posted on the CMBA webiste 

(http://cmba.goalline.ca/), it was reinforced that the key reason for

the CMBA's move to larger zones was to provide more viable pools of 

players in the longer term, creating more competitive balance 

between the zones and stronger organizations.  

The planning and communication process was also highlighted

and Board members ackowledged that, in some instances, there 

could have been more rigorous attempts to keep members 

imformed. 

SUMMARY OF ISSUES:

CMBA Board representatives responded to many concerns, including:

-  Loss of Chaparral and resulting loss of part of our family and critical 

volunteer pool.

-  Large zones means too many players to manage enrollment and 

conduct evalutions. 

-  Geographic spread of zones means too much travel.

-  Less "community" focus.

-  Limited communication regarding the changes during the planning 

process.

-  Failure to address the issues that were provided by SFC Executive. 

OUTCOME:

While the CMBA Board members acknowledged the concerns brought

forward, they reininforced that there was support for the new 

boundaries from all of the other Calgary Communities, these changes 

were now being implemented and our organization needed to 

determine how we could make it work.  After considerable discussion

it was agreed that our top priority was to ensure we could keep our

existing community intact and then focus on finding ways to 

accomodate our new, larger membership for the upcoming season.  

The CMBA Board members present indicated they would consider 

entertaining a motion by our association to have the boundaries

modified provided this change had no negative impact on any other 

zone. 

NEXT STEPS:

May (date to be set in next to weeks) - Herb Hammer (our President)

and Brady Layton (Evaluations Coordinator) will present a motion

to the CMBA Executive to move the Boundary line East of Chaparral,

following the Bow River Valley, so those members will remain in our 

new "Southwest" Zone.  If this motion is supported, the proposed

change will still have to be presented to the CMBA Board for approval. 

June 10th, (time and place to be confirmed) - next scheduled CMBA 

Board meeting to be followed by CMBA's Annual General Meeting.  

More information regarding the AGM will be provided to all CMBA 

members (current registered players and coaches) by the CMBA

a couple of weeks prior to the meeting. 

Any new developments regarding Boundary Changes will be posted on 

our exsiting SFC Basketball website.  Regardless of the outcome of 

our efforts over the next few weeks, we are counting on your patience

and your help.  The size of our organizaiton has increased by 

approximatley 50% and our volunteer base is going to have to 

increase commensurately.

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NEW

UPDATE ON CMBA BOUNDARY CHANGES

(APRIL 27th, 2012)

To All Families of SFC Basketball

As you may or may not be aware, CMBA is in the process of establishing some new boundary changes that are to become effective this fall.  The executive of SFC Basketball have heard some concerns/questions from our members in regards to the proposed changes and how they will effect our current association and we feel that it is important to give all our members a chance to voice their thoughts in a public forum and hopefully receive some answers to the questions/concerns that they have.

The SFC Executive has arranged for a meeting to take place on

 TUESDAY MAY 8th,

7:30 PM 

at the SFC Recreation Complex(Shawnessy YMCA),

Flames/Oilers Meeting Room,

upstairs in the new section of the building,

and we are going to invite the CMBA Excutive, as well as the Boudary Committee, to be a part of this meeting in the hopes that they can answer some of your questions and concrens.  

We would like to invite all of our member families to attend this meeting in order for thier concerns to be heard.  

If possible, could you please RSVP to grues@shaw.ca, if you are planning to attend so that we can ensure that we have sufficient space and informaion for everyone.  IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS OR QUESTONS THAT YOU ATTEND SO THAT WE AS YOUR EXECUTIVE KNOW WHAT THE MEMBERS ARE THINKING IN ORDER TO PROCEED ACCORDINGLY  ON YOUR BEHALF. 

If you have any questoins in regards to this meeting please do not hesitate to contact Cheryl Grue directly.  We as an executive thankyou for your involvment in our community and look forwad to working together with all of you to ensure that SFC Basketball remains a positive and rewarding experieince for all of our children.  

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to meeting with you on May 8th.

Regrds,

Cheryl Grue

CMBA Representive for SFC Basketball

PROPOSED BOUNDARY CHANGES 

You may have noticed that the CMBA website has now posted information on their website regarding the "CMBA New Zone Boundaries."

The message reinforces that the changes will be implemented for the upcoming year's basketball season.  The link below will get you to the CMBA Home Page where you will find the announcement as well as the detailed map: 

http://cmba.goalline.ca/

Our association is still opposed to the new zones.  Over the past few weeks, members from our SFC Board have been in contact with representatives of CMBA as well as the basketball communities that have been assigned to join our organization.  We continue to receive feedback from our membership which is, for the most part, unsupportive of the changes and consistent with the position we had outlined to the CMBA President in our recent letter. 

These concerns will be raised in person by our new CMBA Board Representative, Cheryl Grue at the next CMBA Board Meeting on April 15th. Ideally we would like to see the changes amended to accomodate our concerns.  Minimally, we expect to have the implementation delayed until next year.  Please continue to voice your concerns to the CMBA through their general email (cmba@telus.net) and copy

Cheryl Grue (cheryl@rainmaker-gbd.com) if you feel that it would be helpful.  Your comments are making their way to the CMBA Board Memebers and will be critical in demonstrating support for our revisions.

We will post an update here, following the April 15th meeting, as well as more complete information on the the CMBA Annual General Meeting currently scheduled for June 12th.  

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-IMPORTANT INFORMATION

PLEASE READ

NEW BOUNDARY CHANGES FOR THE 2012-2013 SEASON

CMBA will be inplementing new boundary areas for the 2012-2013 Season.  Instead of 

a community system they will be implementing a six zone system.  Despite input given by

SFC BASKETBALL,

all areas south of Highway 22X and EAST of MacLeod Trail 

(CHAPARRAL, WALDEN, HERITAGE POINTE)

will NO LONGER be part of the SFC BASketball Area, and will be moved to a new zone.

If youhave questions or concerns feel free to email CMBA 

cmba@telus.net 

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Congratulations to the following SFC BAsketball Teams that participated in Provincials 

the weekend of Mar. 16th -17th in Edmonton. 

These teams represented us very well and came home with SILVER MEDALS:

SFC Mini Boys A

SFC Mini Girls A

SFC Bantam Girls A 

A huge thankyou goes out to the Coaches, Managers, Parents, Volunteers and especially the players of all our teams for a wonderful season.

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SOUTH FISH CREEK BASKETBALL DOES NOT RUN A SPRING BASKETBALL PROGRAM.

PLEASE VISIT THE CMBA WEBSITE FOR DETAILS REGARDING REGISTRATION FOR SPRING BALL.  

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ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED: 

All age categories are now full. We do not accept any Winter Registration at this time.

(Exception to Juvenile/Junior aged players)

For families that registered online, you were asked once registartion was completed online to print and retain the registration receipt.  This receipt is valid for you child tax credit, and can be submitted for that purpose.  No other reciept will be issued.  If you paid in person by cheque or cash, these tax receipts will be sent to you via the email address received at registration. If you have not received your tax receipt by Feb. 15th, 2012, please contact, lsinclair@shaw.ca

Online Registration for the 2011-2012 Season is now closed, the 2012-2013 Registration Season will begin sometime in June of 2012.  Check back for updates.  

2011/2012 Fees and Age Categories

*  All Junior and Juvenile Divisions will have a shortened season in the fall (seeding round, 1 game per week, and playoffs) between September and mid-November in order to be finished for players to try out for their high school teams.  There will be a break from mid-November to January to allow for high school try-outs.  Junior and Juvenile players who either MAKE their HIGH SCHOOL teams, or wish not to continue to play in the Winter Season, are eligible to a $100.00 refund, these players need to notify the registrar (lsinclair@shaw.ca) in writing, to receive their refunds.  There are no additional fees for those players who continue from the fall season into the winter season.  We will accept registrations for the winter Juvenile and Junior season from players who did not play in  the fall, these players will be subject to a $100.00 registration fee.  

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The SFC Basketball season runs from Sept. to March. 
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 CHILDREN'S FITNESS TAX CREDIT
The Government of Canada will be allowing a non-refundable tax credit of up to $500 paid by parents to register a child
under the age of 16 in an eligible program
of physical activity.
Further information on this initiative can be found on Canada Revenue Agency's
website at www.cra-arc.gc.ca/whatsnew/fitness-e.html

ONLINE REGISTRATION RECEIPTS ARE VALID FOR SUBMISSION FOR THE CHILD TAX CREDIT.  PLEASE RETAIN THIS RECEIPT AS NO OTHER RECEIPT WILL BE ISSUED.  

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South Fish Creek (SFC) is a member community of the Calgary Minor Basketball Association (CMBA) 

Its mandate of providing a safe, enjoyable and fair basketball environment for
boys and girls between 6 and 18 years old,
SFC Minor Basketball currently has close to 500 registrants in its CMBA
and recreational league programs.

South Fish Creek Minor Basketball is an organization operated by a volunteer board of directors. 
The success of our community program is largely attributed to the quality individuals who unselfishly volunteer their time and effort to be a director, coordinator, evaluator, coach, manager or helper.

South Fish Creek communities include:

 Bridlewood, Chaparral, Chaparral Ridge, Evergreen, Evergreen Estates, Heritage Pointe,
Midnapore, Millrise, Priddis, Shawnessy, Shawnee Slopes, Shawville,
Silverado, Somerset, Sundance, Walden

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