The next SHOA General Membership Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday October 2020 at 7:30pm. The meeting is scheduled to be conducted via Zoom, subject to change.

October 14, 2020 Special Membership Meeting | The Board of Directors has scheduled a Special Membership Meeting for Wednesday 14 October 2020 at 7:30pm via Zoom. An email has been delivered to the membership for the agenda of the special meeting. No other matters will be considered.

This is a reminder that the Annual Election Meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday 30 July 2020 starting at 7:00pm using the GoToMeeting application.

The SHOA By-Laws stipulate that in order to be eligible to vote you must be an Active member by midnight on the eve of the Annual Election Meeting. There are two ways in which a member is considered Active:
1) Worked game assignments for SHOA for a minimum of one year, and worked 100 SHOA assignments in the current fiscal year, and attended 1 general membership meeting excluding the Annual Election Meeting, OR,
2) Worked game assignments for SHOA for one year, attended 2 meetings excluding the Annual Election Meeting and worked 25 or more SHOA assignments.
The SHOA By-Laws also have the following provision:
Members who have an officiating assignment which conflicts with attendance at a membership meeting, shall receive credit for an excused absence, provided that there shall be no more than one (1) excused absence credited per fiscal year.
SHOA held General Membership Meetings on 24 September 2019, 22 October 2019, 19 November 2019, 17 December 2019, 21 January 2020 and 18 February 2020.
You may supply evidence of a game/meeting conflict (i.e. a copy of the game listing in Arbiter) to the Secretary via email Secretary@shoarefs.org

The General Membership Meeting originally scheduled for 28 July has been CANCELED.

The Special Meeting originally scheduled for 23 July has been CANCELED.

Members the virtual Special Meeting to be held via GoToMeeting at 7pm on Thursday 23 July 2020 is for the purposes of discussing By-Laws proposals distributed via email on 4 July.

The delayed 2020 Annual Meeting will take place starting at 7pm Thursday 30 July 2020 via the GoToMeeting app. You will need GoToMeeting in order to attend, the meeting will be virtual only.

An in person General Membership Meeting has been scheduled for 7:30pm Tuesday 28 July at American Legion Post 86 located at 2013 Viers Mill Rd., Rockville, MD 20851

A virtual Special Meeting is scheduled for 23 July 2020 starting at 7:00pm using the GoToMeeting app.

Rinks are re-opening at different phases, dates, and company comfort levels with a limited number of adult games as is usually the case during summer. See their websites for the latest information. The rink schedulers will be putting out information with specifics.

Tier II youth tryouts will trigger most of the youth re-openings, though some youth house programs may open later in the summer. We will post that as soon as we get the information from our clients.

Note:
* Must sign RINK waiver in addition to SHOA waiver.
** Must sign waiver and have temperature checked going in.

Print, sign and bring waiver with you to speed the process in a line.


Maryland
Hagerstown* 6/19 Adult league
Frederick TBD after 6/22
Ice World - TBD early July
Piney Orchard - TBD Fall
The Gardens -- TBD Fall

Virginia
Prince William** 6/15 Adult leagues reform, start after 7/4
The St. James TBD 7/15
Reston TBD July
Ashburn TBD July
Haymarket TBD July