We, the undersigned, current and previous SEAC families and players and community, are calling on SEAC to give the Equity Funds that remain after the 2024/2025 hockey season to Medicine Hat Minor Hockey to use for the elite stream hockey program in this zone.

At the SEAC AGM on June 10, 2025, the SEAC Board reported that they are not committing to return the remaining equity funds valuing above $143,000 to Medicine Hat Minor Hockey to use for the elite stream of hockey. Since SEAC's inception, all funds raised through player fees, sponsors, camps and other events were earmarked solely for the elite stream of hockey. In the spring of 2025, SEAC made the decision to end their involvement with the elite stream program and the teams have since returned to the control and management of Medicine Hat Minor Hockey. Any surplus funds should follow all of the elite stream teams as a result. SEAC has proposed that they are considering utilizing these funds for other community activities including the development of referees and coaches, scholarships and a variety of other options.

All funds held by SEAC belong with the elite stream teams! Based on the SEAC core values of integrity that encompass being fair and equitable when dealing with members and their families, this money going to Medicine Hat Minor Hockey for rep teams is fair and equitable. If this does not occur, the SEAC Board is violating their core values. Much of the funds within the SEAC program have been gained through players fees, through players and their families working events, sponsors and conditioning and summer camps. Even funds raised through Board sponsored events that did not involve all elite stream players and families, were designated funds for the elite teams.

There is no justification for the SEAC Board to keep any funds that do not go directly to supporting all future elite stream teams as the SEAC Board mandate has now drastically changed. To have this money going elsewhere is a direct violation of the core values and intentions of how these funds accumulated and should be utilized.

It is critical to have these funds returned to Medicine Hat Minor Hockey by July 15, 2025 to provide the necessary support to the elite stream teams for the 2025/2026 hockey season.

If you wish to sign the peitition please do so prior to July 1, 2025. Written concerns can also be submitted to SEAC via seacfinances@gmail.com