Does your association/assignor charge schools/referees

[zm1283]

Our assignor is paid a fee from each school to assign their games, plus a set fee from the association. (Money that comes from officials' dues)

[BillyMac]

Our local board pays a salary of $26,250.00, the number one expense out of our general fund, to our assignment commissioner. This is paid out of our general fund, with the greatest receipts in our general fund coming from our membership dues ($125.00 each member, total dues of $40,625.00 ) and our assignment fees (7% of earnings which generates $35,000.00 to our general fund). Schools only directly pay officials, no money goes from the schools directly to our assignment commissioner.

You couldn't pay me enough to assign games for our local board, even using the Arbiter software. Our assignment commissioner is a class act, is fair, works his butt off, and does a great job. 325 officials. 70 high schools. Boys, girls, varsity, junior varsity, freshman. A couple of dozen middle schools. Twenty game seasons for varsity teams. League playoffs. Schedule changes. Snowouts. Sick officials. Injured officials. Officials that limit, or change, their availability. Local board guidelines to follow for assignments regarding the number, and level, of games that each official is entitled to get assigned based on each official's ratings, and ranking (not an easy job). No thank you. Just give me a ball to toss for jump balls. I don't need, or require, any additional aggravation.

[Multiple Sports]

I assign another sport and we bill our county $76 a game for V and $68 a game for JV (per man). Of that I make 8%. As far as billing referees for arbiter, my qusetion is who owns the arbiter. If the individual assigner does, then I can see him billing you. If it is the association's, then I would think the association would roughly bill you approx $5 for arbiter use (that is what arb charges).

Last year our executive board passed a rule, that allows me to charge the official the assinger's fee ( if i choose to) after your 2nd turnback of the season. This keeps guys from choosing games and forces them to be much more up to gate on closing dates..........

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

I assign another sport and we bill our county $76 a game for V and $68 a game for JV (per man). Of that I make 8%. As far as billing referees for arbiter, my qusetion is who owns the arbiter. If the individual assigner does, then I can see him billing you. If it is the association's, then I would think the association would roughly bill you approx $5 for arbiter use (that is what arb charges).

IMO, we officials should not have to pay the overhead associated with assigning mechanism chosen to be used. The association is already getting a yearly registration fee and the assigner takes 8% of every dollar I make.

[Multiple Sports]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

IMO, we officials should not have to pay the overhead associated with assigning mechanism chosen to be used. The association is already getting a yearly registration fee and the assigner takes 8% of every dollar I make.

And considering you get hundreds of games at Boo Williams, you should have no problem forking over another $5, unless you are over paying for the food at the over priced concessions stand there ............

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

IMO, we officials should not have to pay the overhead associated with assigning mechanism chosen to be used. The association is already getting a yearly registration fee and the assigner takes 8% of every dollar I make.

Why does it matter if it is a separate charge vs. added into the general fee?