From: Heather Dobrott [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 10:35 AM
To: council1@garlandtx.gov;
council2@garlandtx.gov;
council3@garlandtx.gov;
council4@garlandtx.gov;
council5@garlandtx.gov;
council6@garlandtx.gov;
council7@garlandtx.gov;
council8@garlandtx.gov;
mayor@garlandtx.gov;
admin@garlandtx.gov; 'Bird, Warren';
MGlenn@garlandtx.gov
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Subject: FW: Garland Soccer Association
Dear all,
Please read the following and see that the issues are addressed. I am still waiting for a copy of the City’s Coordinated Sports Organization Policies and a written record of the investigation that was said to have been completed.
I am a taxpayer in Garland. David Arciniega is a citizen of Sachse. The taxpayers and voters in Garland should expect these serious concerns to be addressed. Please see that a written response is prepared.
Thanks,
Heather Dobrott
Administrator for Realscam.com
From: Heather Dobrott []
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 12:11 PM
To: 'Bird, Warren'
Subject: FW: Garland Soccer Association
Dear Mr. Bird,
I would be happy to pay any reasonable copying cost. Do the City’s Coordinated Sports Organization Policies allow organizations that flout IRS regulations, ignore state laws concerning fiduciary duties, fail to enact proper protocols and procedures to protect children from abuse, and that drive Garland’s taxpayers out of the city to play elsewhere?
Please advise.
Sincerely,
Heather Dobrott
From: Heather Dobrott []
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 2:48 PM
To: 'Bird, Warren'
Subject: FW: Garland Soccer Association
Dear Mr. Bird,
Please kindly send me a copy of or the link to the City’s Coordinated Sports Organization Policies. Please also send me a brief written summary of the results of your investigation.
Thanks for your kind help.
Sincerely,
Heather Dobrott
From: Glenn, Martin [
mailto:MGlenn@garlandtx.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 1:57 PM
To: 'hdobrott@gmail.com'
Subject: Garland Soccer Association
Ms. Dobrott,
Staff have investigated your allegations against the Garland Soccer Association (GSA) that you sent on August 16
th. They found no violation of the City’s Coordinated Sports Organization policies nor the GSA Facility Use Agreement. Please contact the Parks, Recreation & Cultural Arts Department should you have additional concerns for the City of Garland coordinated sports organizations.
Sincerely,
Martin E. Glenn
Deputy City Manager
From: Heather Dobrott []
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 12:35 PM
To: 'Bird, Warren'
Subject: RE: Garland Soccer Association
Dear Mr. Bird,
Thank you for your kind response. I will be happy to provide you with whatever documentation you may need. There are other directors in Garland Soccer that are very concerned with the multitude of issues not being addressed that would be happy to speak with you as well.
Sincerely,
Heather Dobrott
Lead Administrator for Realscam.com
From: Bird, Warren []
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 10:48 AM
To: Heather Dobrott; Parks and Rec
Subject: RE: Garland Soccer Association
Ms. Dobrott,
We will investigate these issues immediately. Thank you for bringing them to our attention.
Warren Bird, CPRP
Recreation Director
Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Arts Department
972-205-2758
www.garlandparks.com
Making Garland an active, fun and inviting city
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From: Heather Dobrott []
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 2:26 PM
To: Parks and Rec
Subject: FW: Garland Soccer Association
From: Heather Dobrott [
mailto:hdobrott@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 11:25 AM
To: mayor@garlandtx.gov;
council1@garlandtx.gov;
council2@garlandtx.gov;
council3@garlandtx.gov;
council4@garlandtx.gov;
council5@garlandtx.gov;
council6@garlandtx.gov;
council7@garlandtx.gov;
council8@garlandtx.gov;
bbabcock@ntxsoccer.org;
dmetivier@ntxsoccer.org;
jcampbell@ntxsoccer.org;
pmcfarlin@ntxsoccer.org;
cquinones@ntxsoccer.org;
jmills@ntxsoccer.org;
gfinch@ntxsoccer.org;
newstips@cw33.com; 'John Sutter';
lrhodes@ntxsoccer.org;
epfarner@ntxsoccer.org;
lhall@ntxsoccer.org;
fhiler@ntxsoccer.org; 'Jesse Harrell';
cmoore@usyouthsoccer.org;
rmartella@usyouthsoccer.org;
news@ktvt.com;
Richard.Ray@foxtv.com
Subject: Garland Soccer Association
The safety of the children participating in Garland Soccer should be examined. How the money belonging to these families is being handled by this charity should also be questioned. The City of Garland should not sign a field use agreement with this organization until it is thoroughly investigated by The City of Garland, the North Texas State Soccer Association and US Youth Soccer.
The following issues in Garland Soccer need to be investigated:
- Garland’s children were harmed by sexual predator Bernardo Mondragon-Guzman. Garland Soccer made numerous promises in the media. “We’re going to do everything we can to protect our children. And if we need to change things, we’ll do, we’ll change things,” David Arciniega blocked every attempt I made to institute proper policies and procedures to keep Garland’s children safe. Garland Soccer has done nothing in response to children being raped.
- A director married to a registered for life, level 2 sex offender with a child victim was letting him handle rosters and other records. This director did not drive and this offender accompanied her everywhere. The president insisted on keeping her on the board knowing the sex offender would be around at every soccer activity possibly putting our children in danger. This clearly violated Garland’s Loitering ordinance.
- This same director and her husband were bragging that they would be meeting the association president, David Arciniega, to discuss construction work for GSA when no open bidding was in progress.
- $8,000.00 of “missing funds” has no proper documentation as the board is routinely denied documentation by David Arciniega.
- Garland Soccer Association president, David Arciniega, lied to the GSA member coaches about those “missing funds” claiming there was ongoing litigation between the software provider, Jevin and the payment processor, Corduro. 2 years later no litigation is on record anywhere.
- A former Coach and director were brought up on phony charges when the player pool placed children of the correct age with their coaching parents. Why would children be placed on teams competing against their own parent's teams?
- The president, David Arciniega, runs this organization like a dictatorship and flouts the GSA, North Texas State and US Youth Soccer by-laws.
- State law concerning fiduciary duties is not being followed.
- Elections in Garland Soccer have been rigged for years.
- Arciniega filed a No Confidence Petition in an attempt to remove a director who spoke on behalf of a candidate running against him. Members are afraid to vote their conscience.
- The number of players and coaches are dropping as folks leave unhappy with their experience in Garland Soccer.
- Garland Soccer has lost almost all of its interleague play with neighboring associations. Richardson, Wylie and Chamber Classic have left Garland Soccer. Plano Soccer will not invite us to join them all. The U13 and up depend on interleague to have enough teams to play in their correct age groups.
- The coaches are shut down at meetings and their voices are not heard.
- The Garland Soccer Association is operated in a shroud of secrecy even though it is in fact a 501 c 3 charity and should be completely transparent.
- Members of the association and the public have not been welcomed to the board meetings.
- Board meeting agendas, board meeting minutes and board member reports are kept secret.
- GSA has no Ethics Committee as North Texas State requires as Arciniega refuses to form one.
- GSA has no A & D Committee as required by the by-laws as David Arciniega refuses to allow one to be formed. The A & D process is completely broken and as protocol and procedures are totally flouted all of the hearings are illegal.
- David Arciniega and Kim Verity refused to issue A & D decision letters in direct violation of North Texas rules which places Garland Soccer NOT in Good Standing.
- A hearing that was called to decide the placement of a child that was placed on his own father's team by the player pool was called by David Arciniega without informing this coach that the placement of his child was being decided.
- The Garland Soccer website is not in Spanish though there have been numerous requests over the years for that to happen as much of GSA’s player base is simply not being served.
- Garland Soccer puts kids in soccer that are in danger themselves and a danger to others as there is no TOPSoccer program in place for kids that would benefit from it. I was working to form a league for special needs players before Arciniega pushed me out. Now, that has been dropped and these wonderful kids are not being served.
Garland Soccer is totally corrupt! How did David Arciniega get elected to the NTSSA state board when he totally mismanages Garland Soccer and does not deal honestly? I should not have had to file suit to get the issues in Garland resolved for our kids and coaches.
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11.1.1
All Member Associations are directed to form their own ethics committee and to hold hearings--WITH THE PARTIES HAVING THE RIGHT TO BE PRESENT--on alleged violations of the Code of Ethics when properly submitted.
Page 60 GSA Bylaws and League rules.....
Revised February 2015
2.1.3
Good Standing of Member Association
To be in good standing in the Association, a Member Association
must meet all of the following requirements:
(1-4 redacted)
5.
Member Associations will provide equitable and prompt hearing and appeal procedures to guarantee the rights of individuals to participate and compete and insure due process to the
accused. In all hearings conducted, the parties shall be accorded:
a.Notice of all specific charges or alleged violations in writing and
possible
consequences if the charges are found to be true;
- b.Reasonable time between receipt of the notice of charges and the hearing within which
to prepare a defense;
- c.The right to have the hearing conducted at a time and place so as to make it practicable
for the person charged to attend;
- d.A hearing before a disinterested and impartial body of fact finders;
- e.The right to be assisted in the preparation of one’s case at the hearing;
- f.The right to call witnesses and present oral and written evidence and argument; Notice
of all specific charges or alleged violations in writing
- g.The right to confront witnesses, including the right to be provided the identity of
witnesses in advance of the hearing if requested;
- h.The right to have a record made of the hearing if requested in advance, with all costs
to be paid by the requester;
i.
A written decision, with the reasons for the decision, based solely on the evidence of
record issued in a timely fashion and including appeal rights and procedures.
j.
Notice of any substantive and material action of the hearing panel in the course of the
proceedings.
- k.Equality concerning communications and no ex parte communication is permitted between a party and any person involved in making a decision or proceduraldetermination except to provide explanations involving procedures to be followed.
Honor all orders of suspension of persons issued by this Association or one of its Member Associations.
6.Member Associations will, at all times, recognize the authority, rules, rulings, constitution and
bylaws of the Association, which comply with the authority of the United States Soccer
Federation, and its National Associations of which North Texas State Soccer Association is a
member.
7.
Failure to comply with one or more of the Subsections 1–6 Section 2.1.3, will result in the Executive Committee determining the Member Association is not in good standing. Failure to
be in good standing is further defined as meaning players and teams registered through the
Member Association will not be allowed to participate in any tournament/event sponsored or
sanctioned by NTSSA, nor will they be certified to play outside of the NTSSA in any games,
tournaments or other competitions for which they might have been otherwise eligible. The
Member Association may not vote on any matter at any meeting of the Association while it is
not in good standing.
8.A Member Association failing to meet any requirements of good standing for a period of sixty
(60) days shall have its territory declared open and
shall not be entitled to vote or to any protection, services or competitions of this Association.
Thanks,
Heather Dobrott
Administrator for Realscam.com
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