Election

[Emperor Ump]

Being a good umpire is important, so is congeniality, but I want to see someone with the administrative knowledge and fortitude to keep the organization running well, make tough even unpopular decisions, and keep their own act together. Possibly someone who has own or run a small business successfully, because this is exactly what being on the board is, running an operation.

[johnnyg08]

Your best association leader may not be your best umpire and vice versa...ideally your assn' leaders would also be your upper echelon of umpires, but we all know that tends to be the exception as opposed to the rule.

[piaa_ump]

I believe being a good umpire is a must in my opinion, the respect of the group that you can do the job has got to be there...agreed though you dont have to be the best, but you better be up there...

The other thing is committment level... My association just went through an election process where we elected a new assignor and new officers...there were a number of interested people, but after outlining the job requirements and our vision of what the job entailed, there were fewer candidates...

Due to some health issues and job needs we basically operated our summer association the last 2 years with just the Secretary and Treasurer and the assignor operating as the executive committee....

We now have a new President and Vice President and new assignors...Our treasurer and secretary were reelected. I am looking forward to the advances this group will bring...

[gordon30307]

From my experience of being involved in a number of non-profit organizations you want people who are committed to do the work. They may or may not be the best officials in the organization.