Max
You have got to be kidding about giving entries to league secretaries to give to every bowler. League secretaries were given flyers to give to each bowler with their TBA application form at the beginning of the year. How many of you got them.... I doubt very many. Also all league secretaries were given flyers for our Centre association AGM in March and asked to advise all league members. How many were told ... judging by the turnout not many.
A notice board is there for a reason. To give bowlers who are interested in tournaments and TBA matters the information and entry forms. These are usually also copied and available at the desk. If not just ask the staff on the desk and they will copy for you - no problems.
With the entry forms I received in January for AGM notice, state champs, junior nationals, TBA senior, Rachuig and Youth nominations. If I copied these alone and gave to the league secretaries there would have been over 40 pages per bowler x 400 odd registered association members = 16,000 copies @ 5 c per copy = $800 just for these entries alone let alone Association Cup, local Tournaments, National and interstate events for juniors, seniors, open, restricted...... where does it stop. And these are just our bowlers registered at our Centre - what about bowlers who are registered at other Centres - would they also want our league secretaries to give them copies as well. Remember your Local Association secretary, treasurer and executives receive no remuneration. It is entirely voluntary and I for one do not intend standing at a copier doing 16,000 copies, collating these, lugging to the bowl and giving to league secretaries to give to each bowler, the majority of whom do not want/need or have already the documents.
And Rob remember we are not doing a job and the definition of a "job"implies you are being paid to do the task. At our AGM I didn't see anyone putting up their hands to volunteer their services to help run the association. Any volunteers???? You lose time on weekends, can't bowl some events due to attending TBA meetings or running tournaments, have to continually chase league secretaries to provide information to you ie end of May and November averages, list of league bowlers and membership numbers etc (and they are being paid to do their duties) and spend quite a bit of time collating information, copying tournament entries and TBA notices, processing membership forms (especially early in the year) and what do you get in return - absolutely nothing.
Lyn
I can understand the workload involved, and believe me - the work that is put in by so few is enormous. But therein lies the problem -
it is by so few.
I am quite serious about league secretaries being given that responsibility. They are there for the league members in more ways than collecting scores & bowling monies and organising Xmas functions and trophies.
There is also no reason why every bowler should have got 40 odd pages, I for one would not be interested in receiving junior nationals, TBA senior (not quite yet anyhow
), Rachuig or Youth stuff. But I would be interested in receiving what is appropriate to me, ie TBA AGM, restricted info, local tournaments - therefore, it is horses for courses. As far as 5c per page goes, I ask why? Surely TBA has a quality photocopier which can produce them at around 1c each, if not - why not? That some copier could produce any number of forms without having to have someone stand over it, and automatically collate them in the process.
I do appreciate association executives are voluntary and receive no remuneration, but what some of us are getting at is the "job" is only getting half done for what is needed. If it means paying someone to do the work is what is needed to get things done, then let's do that. This is where people with some kind of business and marketing skills are required - if cost is a factor, why not approach someone to help offset that cost? I can think of an easy way to do that...............
I am not having a go at those people like your good self who put the hard yards in, moreso having a go at the lack of system and structure. There are people around who have the necessary skills and experience who are willing to put their hand up to help (and have done so, I have all the emails), and have been knocked back by TBA. Why, I don't know - maybe because their input could be so significant it could upset some of those so tenuously perched on their roost of power.
What we need in this state's administration is a
number of people who have the necessary skills, who can delegate and follow through, and can look outside the square.
Your arguments as quoted are very sound due to the current administrative structure, however, under the current system we are going to be left in exactly the same position as we are now - poor decisions, lack of decisions, poor direction and a tournament/representative team system which leaves us behind many other states.
We must advance, unfortunately where we have so few people contributing and those who are in a position to contribute either being denied the opportunity or unaware of important events such as the AGM (and then as members not being able to vote anyhow), we are behind the eight ball.
Max
