[bkbjones]

On the pay issue:
It has been our M.O. the past few years to NOT make them pay for the training per se. However, they do not receive a new rule book nor set foot on the field for observation until they sign a contract and pay their $60 association registration fee. The fee includes their association dues and ASA dues. This act also covers them under our L&I rules in WA state should they be injured on the field.

So...they don't pay for the training, but they can't complete ALL the training until they pay their association dues.

Do we have some who show for the classroom and never appear for on the field? Yep. Do some of them take what they've learned and use it somewhere else? Yep. Do some of them just find out they don't like it and just don't come back? Yep. Do I know how many? Nope...but I know it happens.