Northern VA Officials Associations

[ilyazhito]

So your commissioners are not the same people as the assignors? It's interesting, because in the DC area, association commissioners are the assignors for the scholastic level, with assistant commissioners or additional commissioners assigning the subvarsity and/or recreational levels.

However, the Commissioners are not the ones in charge of the association, so maybe that allows independent contractor laws to be satisfied. The President and Executive Board run day-to-day activities in their association, and Presidents, Commissioners, and Executive Board Officers are usually elected. However, if a vacancy occurs before an election, the President may appoint a person to fill the vacancy, which is what happened recently in Board 12 when their longtime Commissioner retired a few months after being re-elected.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by ilyazhito

So your commissioners are not the same people as the assignors?

Right. Just like Jeff, I belong to 4 different associations and get HS assignments from about 10 assigners. Add in more for college.

In some areas, "assiciations" are set by the state and control almost everything in their area -- and sometimes officials can only belong to one association.

In others, associations are just a group of officials who like to get together (on a more formal basis that "meet at the bar after Firday's game") and you can belong to more than one and assigning is different.

In some, the state itself does all the assigning.

Some have variations based on sport.

There are 50 states and 52 ways of doing things. All that matters is you understand how it's done in your area (or areas if you work in multiple states).