Date: June 5th 2009

Coaches,

I have heard that some coaches have concerns about the volunteer policy.

The amount of time that you put in coaching counts as your volunteer time commitment to the club, you do not have to do more.
I know most of you give well more than 100 hours of volunteer time to the club and that is greatly appreciated.

If you have a team of 10 kids plus your own, that means your team parents need to volunteer a total of 50 hours over the season.
About half of those hours will be used to directly help your team and the remaining hours used to help run the club.

If you have an assistant coach, their time is counted as their time commitment.

I hope you find that you will actually have help from parents to set up nets, manage snacks, parties and make phone calls without having to beg them to do it.

My goal since becoming president it to take the work load off of the backs of the coaches and get help from other parents and this volunteer policy helps to accomplish that

When we compare our policies to other clubs, like Centennial, they require two parents from each team to help at their Jamboree, a fundraiser other than just putting a basket together, and the coaches have to line the fields. Parkrose requires all parents to either raise a certain $ amount with fundraising or pay the amount

This policy has worked very well for David Douglas Swim club for many years, and baseball is considering it to. The more people get involved the better the club will run. Nothing runs well when you are short handed, and that is the why the club has had so much trouble for years.

Sincerely

Jim Braet

DDSC Pres.