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Committees of the West Coast Officials Association
Basketball membership
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Assignments: Board Liaison
Rick Sozzi |
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Charter
: Is responsible for reviewing the contest assignment procedure within the
WCOA, ensuring compliance with requirements on officiating crew composition,
reviewing the game assignments, and advising the Basketball
Bookings commissioners of any possible adjustments that may need to be
rectified prior to the assignments being published
to the membership. This
includes ensuring compliance with requirements on the composition of
officiating crews, reviewing and approving each member official's schedule of
assigned contests, and balance of assignments accordingly. It is
not implied that the Assignment Committee is to make assignments. |
Members - Mike Hegarty, chairman
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Recommendations: Board Liaison Randy Sterns |
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Charter
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Is responsible for
reviewing regular season official's evaluations, compliance with the
criteria established by the FHSAA and the WCOA regarding rank,
attendance in the specified meetings, clinics and eligibility as
based on prior performance in state series events as determined by
the WCOA basketball board. The committee will prepare a list
of officials who will be recommended for State Series assignment and
forward said list to the president of the WCOA as well as the
basketball sports committee for review prior to submittal for
approval to the FHSAA office. Officials on this list must have been
approved by majority vote of the WCOA basketball members present and
voting at a meeting announced for this effort, must be in good
standing both with the FHSAA and WCOA, and must meet all applicable
FHSAA/WCOA qualifying criteria.
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Evaluations: Board Liaison Jim Eckler |
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Charter
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is responsible for
defining those qualified senior officials who are qualified and
willing who shall assist with the
evaluation of member officials within the association. It shall be the goal of
this committee to ensure that each official with two (2) or more years of
experience is evaluated, at least, once during the season and that each first
and second year official is evaluated periodically during the season so that
good officiating skills are developed, reinforced and rewarded by a submittal
of a recommendation to the basketball sports committee that said
official shall be promoted to the next ranking if deemed appropriate. First year officials
will be evaluated periodically during the season, with mini-camps being
offered as possible to re-enforce good officiating skills. |
Members
- Dave Queen, (chairman) , Tyree Brown, Tom Kinney,
Sheri Kaminski
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Grievance: Board Liaison Jim Eckler |
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Charter
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Is responsible reviewing
complaints and appeals from association members through due process
and
will be conducted prior to a scheduled basketball membership meeting
after be scheduled in advance in writing using the form available on
the WCOA basketball web page. No individual grievance committee
member will entertain grievances from members.
Member officials who have
grievances because of penalties or fines may appeal under the provisions of the WCOA
By-laws. The
committee shall review each case and make a recommendation to the Basketball
Board, which will approve it or if rejected, will be in a the form of a written
notification signed by the vice president of basketball which may then be
appealed to the WCOA executive board.
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Members -
Earl
Silas (chairman), Roy
Jones, Mickey Quevedo
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Education/Training: Board Liaisons Randy
Sterns/Rick Sozzi |
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Charter
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Is responsible for
establishing and scheduling new official orientation classes as
necessary in order to acclimate and prepare new officials without
prior affirmed high school or higher basketball experience, which
has been submitted to the WCOA basketball sports committee by said
officials prior organization on the organization letterhead. This
committee will develop and present training materials to the
basketball membership at
afore scheduled
training sessions which are a requirement to qualify for post season
play off tournaments as defined by the FHSAA.
This committee shall
be responsible for the coordination of all training exercises for
beginning, new and current officials. This committee will solicit
mentors from the existing senior membership to function as a 'big
brother' to new officials to provide them a point of contact as well
as a advisor on all basketball related functions or activities. |
Members -
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Recruitment and Retention: Board Liaison Jerome
Smith |
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Charter
: Is responsible for
the active recruiting of new officials as well as maintaining a
positive relationship with prior year officials in order to
encourage those officials to maintain their active status within the
WCOA organization and with officiating as a whole. This committee
will follow up at the conclusion of each basketball season to
determine the satisfaction of the new recruits with their progress
as an official as well as work with them to return the next season
and to become actively involved in additional basketball
officiating.
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Events: Board Liaison Jerome Smith |
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Charter
: Is responsible for
activities involving the whole of the WCOA, residing primarily with
basketball, in the planning and execution of any and all activities
such as banquets, award presentations, events and social activities
that will advance the camaraderie of the WCOA and solidify the
organization as a whole while providing an avenue for recreation and
fellowship outside the actual officiating environment while
promoting involvement of the officiating families with said
activities.
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Elections Committee: Chris Callaway, chairman, James
Orr, Michael Kosiba |
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Charter
: Is responsible for
all elections within basketball, including the solicitation of
candidates for all available positions, the monitoring of
nominations from the floor, the presentation of the candidates to
the membership and the coordination of the election, both from
membership voting in person as well as via absentee ballots. The
committee will be responsible for the tally of the votes, both
absentee and personal, and present the totals at the meeting in
which the ballots are cast. |
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