[Blackhawk357]

We have the regular MHSA (state) dues you pay to keep your rating (license), each local pool (assn.) may charge their own dues as well. The pools contract with the schools to provide officials. The schools consider this a privilege to the pools and the schedules come and go according to each school's mood at the time of contracting (which promotes politics).

In our particular pool, the president is also the chairman of the assignment committee, and does most of the work. The committee meets to go over the schedule and make any corrections they see fit prior to the season. The pool dues are paid to the chairman to offset phone calls (mostly). There are no other costs to the officials, or pay to the assigner. Dues for basketball are $20 per year. Assignments are given to the officials two weeks in advance, and changes are made to the "master" schedule as the need arises.

We meet every Monday evening where we hold our "study club", make final confirmation of that week's games and provide the next week's games to the officials. Until this past season the girls played in the fall and boys in the winter, so we went through this routine for 6 months (if you do only basketball).

[Edited by Blackhawk357 on Apr 1st, 2003 at 09:52 AM]