In the DC Metro Area, to keep the leagues going, each year we increase the price each bowler pays every week due to lineage increase by the house.  That increase could be a dollar or more in some cases. But why not REDUCE the amount that bowlers pay the secretary and treasure each week.  Lets do the math in a typical league

40 teams x 4 bowlers = 160 bowlers
160 bowlers x 0.30 secretary fee = 48.00/week
48.00/week x 32 weeks = 1536.00

Keep in mind that 30 cents per bowler is considered LOW and we still have to pay the treasurer.   There is nothing in the USBC rules that say you have to pay per bowler per week.  You have the latitude to pay a fixed amount thereby saving the league a good bit of money.  What do you think?

That is not bad if you have never been a secretary 40 teams and 5 guys on a team is a ton of work! $48 a week lets say comes out to $16 an hour for 3 hours a week, but there is more work than that with all lineage problems and questions each week and responsibility of taking money to bank each week as well.....I think .30 a week is very reasonable....I have never did a leae bigger than 8 teams though!

Keep in mind that 30 cents per bowler is considered LOW and we still have to pay the treasurer. There is nothing in the USBC rules that say you have to pay per bowler per week. You have the latitude to pay a fixed amount thereby saving the league a good bit of money. What do you think?

Why do you pay the Treasurer? What does that person do for his/her money?

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Dale Williams
Columbia 300 Utah Amateur Staff

In most leagues in Va our secretary and treasurer is combined and held by one person.

Ok go out and buy BLS and do a year of secretary work.  You get what you pay for.  The job is not fun or easy.  There are a lot of headaches to go with it.  You have not lived until you have had a really bad secretary.  One year we didn't get our sanction cards until a week after the league ended back in Texas.

Smash49
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anyone who complains about fees to the secretary/treasurer should offer to do it for less.  i guarantee after one season, you will never complain again.  i have been doing it for a few years now and i get .50 per bowler per week.  with lineage being what it is here in nocal, i basically get to bowl for free.  i often wonder if it is worth it considering the amount of work one has to do.
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Tag Team Coaching success story

75 cents to $1.50/bowler/week....that is just plain robbery...

What's ridiculous is that our sec. rarely does awards, you have to bug and bug her to get her averages in  and the house does her stats and banking.  This year, my partner was voted in President.  He offered to do her April 15 averages because they were late and ended up doing about 8 weeks of awards as well.  After compiling his hours doing that, subtracting 1/2 the projected pay due the treasurer part of the fees, he would have earned $100/hr doing the secretary job.  She did do her awards this year, but they were all late and about 1/2 could not be dispensed at the end of league and she had no time to figure out "most improved".  We've both been secretaries so we do know what it entails, but that was back before computer programs (which she doesn't have).  

Erin