[JRutledge]

I am a little confused here.

Are you saying that you a charged a fee based on the entire season, rather than just dues to an association?

I live in Illinois and the officials do not play any kind of fee like that up front that I am aware of. In some areas the conferences have assignors and the schools pay the assignor for assigning those games. The officials do not even have to deal with that personally. If officials live in an area where there is not conference assignor and the schools assign the games, then of course they do not have to pay out anything as well.

I have never heard of such a fee. Then again our associations do not control assigning for the most part either. So that is not something we deal with here.

Peace