Meeting Summary

November 1, 2004

General Meeting Held at 7 PM on Monday, November 1, 2004 at the Everett Elks Club (Apprentice Meeting at 6 PM) SCBOWBO president, Ashley Thomas, gave opening remarks and introduced the board members, assignor, financial advisor and website maintainer. Ashley also encouraged all members with any suggestions, complaints or concerns to directly contact a board member. Ashley thanked outgoing board members, Kevin Erickson and Gunther Hausmann. He also announced that attendance roll call this season will be taken orally by our assignor, Dan Taylor. Larry Kiger introduced the first year apprentice referees. Floor training for apprentice officials will take place on November 3 and November 10 at Valley View Middle School at 6:45 PM. Any veteran officials who could show up to help the training would be greatly appreciated. Kevin Erickson spoke briefly about the website and encouraged all officials to browse the site and give feedback and suggestions. He encouraged referees to post situations on the discussion board. All forms are on the website including the background check form. State Tests were given out to all officials in attendance. The test will not be done as a group in a general meeting this year, however officials are allowed to get together in their own groups and do the test together. Tests are due back to any board member by December 15. Jim Shaw is selling referee equipment and he had shirts, pants, whistles etc. at our first meeting. Dan Taylor gave out rule books to all returning officials as well as new officials who have paid dues. Dan requested that all officials call his new "land line" rather than his cell phone unless it is a game day emergency. Dan's new phone number is 425-339-2120. Recreation basketball games will start in December. If you want to work any of those games, please call Dan by Wednesday for a weekend game. Jason Bradley gave an overview of the two scholarship programs that SCBOWBO administers. 1) Each summer, SCBOWBO provides scholarships to officials to attend summer referee camps. The deadline to turn in a camp scholarship application is March 1. The application forms are on the SCBOWBO website. 2) Each year, SCBOWBO provides two $500.00 scholarships to student athletes at the schools we serve. The scholarships are made possible by donations (to be taken out of paychecks at the end of the HS season) from officials. Donation slips will be given out at a later meeting. Dan Taylor discussed the recreation ball leagues that SCBOWBO assigns for. The three leagues are Marysville Parks and Recreation, CYO and the Puget Sound Traveling League. Any official who wants to work rec ball should call Dan by Wednesday for a Saturday or Sunday assignment. Dan's new home phone number is 425-339-2120. Do not call his cell phone number except for game day emergencies! Rec ball games are paid monthly. Ashley Thomas led a discussion on 3-person officiating and got input from several general members. The board of directors will take that info and make a decision on how 3-person officiating will be implemented in SCBOWBO this season. Details to follow in future meeting notes. Some of the points made during the discussion were as follows: *** Most Districts now have accepted the idea of doing 3-person games during the regular season. *** Doing 3-person during the regular season will help our officials who will be doing district playoff and state tournament games this year. It will also help ALL officials because 3-person is coming and will be implemented at all levels at some point. *** No officials are happy about the three-year pay cut (by the state) for 3-person games, but it is a waste of time and energy to fight that battle because the decision has already been made. *** Three-person officiating is the future of the game and the future is here. *** Our association has always had a very good reputation for quality officials and we need to keep that reputation up by embracing 3-person officiating and getting up to speed on it as soon as possible. Ashley reminded members that the MANDATORY interpreter's meeting takes place next Monday, November 8, at Cascade High School in Everett at 7:00 PM. Pat Kaminske gathered information for this year's service awards. Many thanks to the years of service from these officials who have hit a new "5-year service level": 5 Years: Scott Morris 10 Years: Duane Taylor 20 Years: Jim Shaw 30 Years: Glenn Dunbar 40 Years: Gunther Hausmann Dan Taylor took verbal roll call. Troy Moe administered the attendance raffle and Ron Bradley won a new referee shirt.