Reply To: Collecting money for and distributing nbl state jerseys…

[bmiddaugh]

Ok here it goes, and I would like to personally add that Rich did as good a job as humanly possible considering the circumstances. And yes we have had LONG discussions about this whole scenario.

State jersey deposits begin in march of each year on the njbmx.org website. (since, I assume, we are sticking with the “anyone” is allowed to by a jersey, which makes sense to me if you follow my logic below)
(also I believe that jerseys should be a “profit item”, if a jersey costs the state say 40 dollars, they sell for 50, the 10 goes to BETTER THE STATE PROGRAM)
Deposits can be done at ANY state race, and should be heavily promoted as such.
A seperate receipt book should be kept for all deposits for jerseys to easily determine who has given money.
A running tab of who has given deposits should be UPDATED on the njbmx.org website, preferably in a seperate page under the state series topic.
The last time for ALL REMAINING BALANCES to be made on jersey is the weekend of the state championship, this means handing a check in at the race or paying via njbmx.org.
If the state championship is moved to late sept – oct this means that all jerseys will be PREPAID for at that race. You aren’t prepaid you don’t get a jersey. PERIOD.
Then the week following the race it is a simple matter of sending in sizes to the jersey maker and waiting the 4-6 weeks to get the jerseys and hand them out at the awards banquet.
This now means that the state has ALL THE MONEY IT NEEDS to reimburse those going to the presidents cup.
Now….how to easily reimburse that money for the jersey and race.
Simple.
Put the burder of responsibility on those who go to the race.
What does this mean.
Those who go to the presidents cup race show up with their receipt for the race in their hand and get a check for reimbursement right there. I would have to say it should be either a board member or track rep who handles this. Of course this means someone is going to have be allowed the responsibility of writing njbmx checks to those who deserve them.

Most importantly and I CANNOT stress this enough you have to ADVERTISE, ADVERTISE, ADVERTISE what the freaking rules are for stuff like this. NEW people come in and are clueless, seasoned people begin to feel like they DESERVE to be treated a certain way…everyone gets treated the same or IT ALL FALLS APART. Advertise the rules, enforce them equally and that is that.

Oh and for those who would like to hear something funny…this means I would not have gotten a jersey this year as I handed my deposit in at the november state meeting.