[ThickSkin]

Quick question looking for feedback.

I recently moved from a state where they take care of the officials at their contests to a state where the officials are just an after thought. Both areas are rural areas so that excuse is thrown out the window.

When we arrive at contests here (where I currently work) RARELY are we greeted by administration and shown to our dressing room. In fact, during football, they do not have dressing rooms for us. We show up fully dressed for the game. Anyway, we can go an entire game before the janitor or coach brings us our checks and on one occasion we were done working and had to find somebody to get us our game check. Anyway, is there a protocol out there that says the home team administrator should meet the officials and take them to their locker room. There he/she will pay them. At halftime there will be water (even out of a cooler with plastic cups works for me) available etc...

In the previous state I worked, The administrators were wonderful. They met us at the door, some schools had reserved parking for us (I wasn't a big fan of that one but nonetheless), had water for us at half, walked us on and off the floor between games, waited for us after the game to escort us to our vehicles and on some occasions fed us (not that they need to).

Does anyone have any recomendations or steps that they think we could take to make the administrators more aware of our needs, if nothing else for our safety (I have seen two fellow officials verbally attacked while walking to their cars after games). I believe this is a problem and could possibly turn in to something bigger than a verbal assault one day. Does this fall on the Area Director, League Assignor, or State?