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President’s Report

Hi members,

It’s the end of the season. Wow that has come around quick. I hope you all have had a great home and away season and congratulations to all umpires who will be umpiring during the two-day Senior and Junior
Men’s and Female cricket finals campaigns.

Here is the latest news and announcements:

• Upcoming events: We have a number of events coming up at the end of the season and we want you to come. Please do come along as they’re going to be great events!
  • Annual Season Dinner 
    Saturday April 6, WACA Ground – 6pm for a 6:30pm start
    This is our flagship event for the year. Tickets are $50 per member and $30 per guest your want to bring along. Two course meal (dinner and dessert) with a cash bar. We’ll be celebrating all our successes for the year, announcing winners of Umpire of the year for each grade, the Peter McConnell Medal and some new awards too! This event will not only be great for those that have umpired this year but for those who love the sense that we’re family! As one family we’re hoping to see everyone families there with us; they get a gift from the WACUA as a thank you too! RSVP now at https://www.wacua.asn.au/event/annual-season-dinner/
  • Grand Final Breakfast
    Saturday March 30, Mantra on Hay Hotel – 7:30am to 9:30am
    At only $25 per member and/or guest, come enjoy a full buffet breakfast with those umpires who will be umpiring later on that day. This is not an event for just top the town umpires to please come along if you’re not umpiring yourself! Again, we’re all about the one family at the WACUA. RVSP now at https://www.wacua.asn.au/event/grand-final-breakfast/
  • The March of the Penguins 3.0
    Saturday April 13, The Camfield (outside Optus Stadium) – 12pm onwards
    The best umpires pub crawl is back again for another year. This time we’re in East Perth where we’ll start at The Camfield Pub outside the new home of Cricket, Optus Stadium. Following a few drinks there we’ll stick in the area to allow those passionate Eagles fans watch them thrash that other team that never wins in the West! RSVP now at https://www.wacua.asn.au/event/the-march-of-the-penguins-3-0/’
  • Olly Cooley Medal Night
    Friday April 12, WACA Ground – 6:30pm for a 7pm Start
    You should have received an email from the WACA (Gabrielle Leipold) on March 6th inviting you to the Olly Colley Medal Night. This is obviously the night of nights for WADCC/ WACA where they announce the WACUA Olly Cooley Medal winner. Tickets are $40 per member and if you want to bring a guest you’re welcome to do so for the same price. The WACA’s email suggested RSVP’ing to me directly (via email) but the committee would really appreciate it if you can RSVP on our website at https://www.wacua.asn.au/event/olly-cooley-medal-night/
    
• Memorandum of Understanding: The MOU was signed by us and is with the WACA to be accepted be formally accepted by the board and signed. Once their signature is made we’ll be asking for the Match Officials Manager and other delegates at the WACA like Alan Johanson to join the committee at our meetings in the off season to formalise everything, including both parties agreeing on the registration fee. This fee, will be presented to the members at the Annual General Meeting so please provide any feedback to the committee by speaking to any of us or emailing secretary@wacua.asn.au between now and June!
• End of Season Survey: In April, keep your eye out for the end of season survey so we on the committee can receive honest feedback from all member on how this season went. We value this feedback and we use it to shape next seasons

That’s it from me. Go the Eagles!

Cheers,

Trent Steenholdt
WACUA President

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Secretary’s Report

Hi all,

If you haven’t already done so, please make sure you have completed a membership form at www.wacua.asn.au/register. This form must be completed in order for your membership to be approved. If you are unsure about your membership status, please ask me and I can confirm whether we have received your form/payment.

A quick reminder to please RSVP for the upcoming WACUA events if you haven’t already done so, details can be found on the website at https://www.wacua.asn.au/events/These events are a great way to end the season and I encourage you all to attend.

Please see below for the Association’s recent correspondence.

Correspondence out (since last general meeting):

• Email to Daniel Gibbons and Alan Johanson with signed MOU
• Email to Fred Davis regarding MOU
• Email to Daniel Gibbons regarding WACUA member
• Email to Daniel Gibbons regarding WACA subsidy for Annual Dinner
• Email to Daniel Gibbons regarding awards for Annual Dinner

Correspondence in (since last general meeting):

• Email from Daniel Gibbons regarding MOU
• Email from Fred Davis regarding MOU
• Email from Stephen O’Dea in support after February general meeting
• Email from Daniel Gibbons re WACUA Members
• Email from Daniel Gibbons regarding WACA subsidy for Annual Dinner
• Email from Daniel Gibbons regarding awards for Annual Dinner

Ashlee Gibbons
WACUA Secretary

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Treasurer’s Report

Hi everyone,
We’re getting to the pointy end of the season now! As such, our two big events are just around the corner! The grand final breakfast will be at Mantra on Hay this year and they always have a great buffet menu, so please get your RSVPs and payments ($25.00) in as soon as possible.

Our annual dinner is also coming up, and this has a pretty big cost associated with it so we need everyone to get involved and purchase tickets. It’s going to be a great event so don’t miss out.

One event that we recently subsidised that wasn’t originally budgeted for was drinks at the opening of the Test Umpires’ Walk at the WACA. This came to $467.

Here are our current balances (correct at time of writing):
Cheque account: $7 652.65
Savings account: $10 039.39
Cash: $0.00
Total: $17 692.04

I know some keen-eyed umpires will notice that this amount is slightly less than what we had at the start of the season. With the two big costs still to come, it’s looking like we’re going to end up a few thousand dollars down for the season.

Thanks,
Andrew Micenko
WACUA Treasurer

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President’s Report

Good day everyone,

I hope you have had a great festive season and wishing you a great 2019!

At our last general meeting in December we talked about and voted on the MOU! While I’ll talk about the MOU itself a bit later on, it was really disappointing to see that many on the night were surprised we were even talking about the MOU let alone voting on it! In a nutshell, the committee use these Committee Reports (website version this season and the PDF season prior) to keep you informed of the WACUA’s important news, issues and announcements. This is our critical communication channel to you so it’s vitally important that those who want to have their say come prepared with the information already shared.

If you do have a spare hour and you haven’t read these reports, I highly recommend that you read not only this one but the ones prior as I’m sure they will answer a question you probably have! A great example of this is those wanting to know about pay rates for this season or how to collect the merchandise you haven’t got yet!

On a completely different topic, I want to just call out that during our ‘break’ we had our Social T20 match. From the verbal feedback I’ve received I believe this event was a great success and I thank everyone who came down and played or watched. Also thank you to my old man Val and the East Fremantle Cricket Club for hosting the event. I believe this will be a regular event on our calendar. If you were there and have some suggestions to make the day better, let us know at secretary@wacua.asn.au.

Here is the latest news and announcements:

• Back to base drinks 2.0: We’re having another back to base Saturday drinks which is where we put on a bar tab after a days play on Saturday. We’ll announce it at our next general meeting (January 15th) so make sure you’re there to find out more about this!
• Collection of Merchandise: A friendly reminder that those who haven’t got their shirt(s), jacket or bag yet can get these at our General Meetings. Earlier this season (October and November) we offered pick up arrangements elsewhere (my place in Melville) but for the sake of simplicity, and avoiding unnecessary confusion where I was wasting evenings waiting for people who didn’t show we’re now only offering the general meetings as a collection point. If this does not work for you, please contact me at president@wacua.asn.au. If you do plan to email me because you cannot make it to any of the meetings for the rest of the season, as a courtesy to me please don’t make the arrangement for collection/drop off on your own… This has sadly happened a couple of times now and it’s not only rude (well I think it is anyway) but I tend to disappoint when someone expects me to be there with their merchandise and I’m at my in-laws having dinner (this happened last month)!
• Memorandum of Understanding: 

As mentioned earlier, we’ve got the Memorandum of Understanding with the WACA up for debate at the moment. The committee last season and this season has worked really hard to get this document together with the WACA as we strongly believe it safe guards some of the key arrangements we have with them that have currently been implemented with no more than a handshake deal. Examples being our ability to negotiate pay rates, the WACA membership incentive program, the WACA supporting the Olly Cooley Medal night, our subsidies for Olly Cooley Medal night tickets, our lump sum payment from the WACA for a WACA hosted event (Grand Final Breakfast), the WACUA membership fee deduction process and our ability to wear WACUA merchandise to grounds on the weekend. All of these at present are not written or signed upon so we’re really lucky that there is a level of trust and more importantly faith that each party does the right thing by each other.

The MOU is there to put in black and white those ‘handshake’ deals and also provide some very important benefits to members. To list a few:

• Increase from $1000 lump sum contribution from the WACA to $1500 for the WACA hosted event.
• Ability for umpires to ‘pause’ their years of service criteria requirement for WACA membership. I.e. Umpires can have a season off due to circumstances like illness, family issues, pregnancy and so on without losing their WACA membership during that period.
• Guaranteed ability for the WACUA committee each season to negotiate better pay rates for the following season.
• Guaranteed payments for games abandoned on the morning of a match but also the ability to retain the better pay-rate if you’re reappointed elsewhere.
• More control to members to pick on-field merchandise they want. E.g. Obtain a white jacket instead of a shirt if you have one already.
• Ability for the WACUA committee to contribute on matters like the Umpires Handbook, Premier Cricket Policies and Procedures.
• Support members in potential grievances with the WACA having proper procedures and guidance to raise such matters with them.

The last aspect I want to touch on is the WA Premier Cricket Registration fee. First and foremost the feedback from last general meeting was there were some that were unhappy with the word ‘consult’ and wanted that to be ‘agree’ when it comes to both parties setting the registration fee figure. I’m happy to report that both parties talked about this and the word has now been changed. Rest assured it was always going to be a mutual agreement between both parties on what that figure would be. Secondly for those who seem to be really worried about this, the registration fee should be seen as nothing more than combining all the current outlying costs you pay to umpire into one fee. I.e. Payments for the Seminar Weekend, your WACUA membership as well as other training and development opportunities like guest speakers, more umpire observers and credit available to buy merchandise would be part of the registration fee. This fee is based off of returning the investment to you!

The fee would be in the range of approximately $90 to $150, confirmed at our AGM meeting each season. That figure includes the current $55 WACUA membership fee. Both parties will obviously meet before this time and flesh out in full what the fee will be and will clearly state what you get from this fee so there are no surprises what you’re expected to pay to officiate in Season 2019-20. Obviously we cannot share this all with you right now as Daniel needs a few more weeks in his new role to flesh out what he would like to do with umpiring next season.

The WACUA committee wholeheartedly support the MOU and the introduction of the WA Premier Cricket Registration Fee as we see this only benefiting our members. That being said we fully appreciate that some may not be convinced of this so for the January meeting we’ll only debate the item (obtain more feedback) and vote on it at a later meeting, depending on the feedback received.

For the latest MOU, see the link below.

For a WA sports comparison, Football West referees are expected to pay $400 to officiate in the State League competition.

That’s it from me. Hope the second half of the season is a great one for you!

Cheers,

Trent Steenholdt
WACUA President

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Secretary’s Report

Hope everyone had a lovely break over Christmas and New Year!

If you haven’t already done so, please make sure you have completed a membership form at www.wacua.asn.au/register. This form must be completed in order for your membership to be approved. If you are unsure about your membership status, please ask me and I can confirm whether we have received your form. 

Correspondence out (since last general meeting):

• Email to Daniel Gibbons regarding MOU.
• Email to Daniel Gibbons and Alan Johanson with proposed Season 19-20 pay rates.
• Email to members whose membership fee is still owing.

Correspondence in (since last general meeting):

• Email from Daniel Gibbons regarding MOU.
• Email from Roy Boyd with feedback on MOU.

Ashlee Gibbons
WACUA Secretary

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Treasurer’s Report

Hi everyone, I hope you’ve all had a chance to enjoy the time off over Christmas and New Year. I started off my umpiring in 2019 with Wayne Barron in his 200th game! We were able to ease in to this year with a one-day game that only lasted 41 overs!

The main expenses for the last month were the December general meeting (bar tab/raffle prizes/BBQ) and the T20 game ($550 for bar tab and BBQ). In terms of money coming in, we’ve now received payment from the WACA for everyone who opted in to having their WACUA membership fee deducted from their match payments. I’ve noticed that three people have paid twice – I’ll be getting in touch to try and organise a refund. There are also several people who have not yet umpired, so the WACA was unable to pay their membership fees for them. Likewise, we’ll be in touch with these people.

Here are our current balances (correct at time of writing):
Cheque account: $5632.62
Savings account: $13993.69
Cash: $0.00 (yay, I got to the bank!)
Total: $19,626.31

Happy 2019!
Andrew Micenko
WACUA Treasurer

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President’s Report

Well, it’s already the half way point! Actually I’m lying when I type that because I’m actually writing this report before I go to the Under 19’s Male National Championships this year so it’s still November. That being said I’ll likely update little bits here and there before it goes out with the one week notice in December so it will still all be relevant!

Before I get into it, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Just because I’m worried once again my committee report will be too long and you wont see my well wishes! Hehe. Seriously though, spend the occasion with your loving family and friends, cherish the moments that this time of year tends to create and go into 2019 with a positive and happy vibe. I know that this is will be exactly I’ll be doing while eating as many fruit mince pies I can get my hands on! 

Here is the latest news and announcements:

• T20 Game: The T20 is on December 29th at 2pm (game start). Please be at the ground 1 hour before…. kidding, you’re not umpiring so just get there 5 minutes before but be ready to fetch some balls in the Swan River as you’ll likely be fielding down there because, you know, you were late! Cricket gear is available so you don’t need your own. We’ll have a BBQ going and the Bar (with tab) will also be open Please wear your WACUA Polo shirt! RSVP now at https://www.wacua.asn.au/event/t20-game/
• Memorandum of Understanding: With Daniel taking on the role as Match Officials Manager we’ve seen some great progress with the MOU and both parties are now overall happy with its content. This has been a grind but we’re really thankful to the WACA for allowing us to negotiate what both parties believe is a fair agreement now. With that in mind, the Committee is sharing the document now so that we can vote on enacting it for season 2019-20.

• Pay rates: Season 2019/20 pay rates need to be presented to the WACA before December 31st this year so the Committee has already put together the proposed pay rates. Most game formats under the proposed structure will receive a $10 increase while a small number of games will just get a $5 increase. U15/U17 grand finals are a big beneficiary of our payment balancing system and will see a $15 increase. These pay rates are just proposed and need to be approved by the WACA and its board which we believe they will. Rest assured that unlike this season where we needed to fix some of imbalances that crept in over the years no game format is worse off next season!
• WACA weekly email out: In providing a consistent communication strategy for all umpires we’ll be contributing to the WACA’s email out that Daniel is putting together. Make sure you keep your eye out for them to see all the latest news, events and umpiring milestones from the association!

With the December General Meeting happening on 18th, we’ll have bigger and better raffle prizes, a much larger bar tab and hopefully have the ICC Test Match umpires join us. This meeting should be a great one so don’t miss it! 

Kudos finally to those who are reading this… I should do a joke here to see how many people will come up to me at the meeting and be like, “don’t quit the day job and become a comedian”. Hehe. Okay here it goes anyways:

What is the difference between Cinderella and the Aussies? Cinderella knew when to leave the ball.

Thanks everyone! Have a Merry Christmas, and a blessed New Year!

Trent Steenholdt
WACUA President

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Secretary’s Report

If you haven’t already done so, please make sure you have completed a membership form at www.wacua.asn.au/register. This form must be completed in order for your membership to be approved. If you are unsure about your membership status, please ask me and I can confirm whether we have received your form. 

Correspondence out (since last general meeting):

• Email to Life Members and General Members inviting to Life Members’ Breakfast.
• Email to Daniel Gibbons with WACUA Members.
• Email to Daniel Gibbons in regards to the MOU.
• Email to Perth and Tatts with Committee names for membership.

Correspondence in (since last general meeting):

• Email from Daniel Gibbons in regards to the MOU.
• Email from Matthew Hall regarding incident on Facebook.
• Email from Daniel Gibbons regarding payment of WACUA membership fees from the WACA.
• Email from Perth and Tatts responding to membership email.

Ashlee Gibbons
WACUA Secretary

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Treasurer’s Report

Hello again everyone. I hope you are all having enjoyable seasons. We’re nearly at Christmas which means pay day for everyone, including the WACUA. We should soon see membership fees paid to us by the WACA for the people who have elected to have their membership deducted from their match payments.

Upcoming events are the Test Match Breakfast with Life Members (already paid for) and our post-Christmas T20 game, which we’re budgeting $500 for food, drinks, cricket balls and the like. Even if you’re not playing in the T20, be sure to get along and enjoy a warm day out in the sun!

Finally, here are the numbers (correct at time of writing):
Cheque account: $1,543.35
Savings account: $13,967.60
Cash: $108.60
Total: $15,619.55

Thanks,
Andrew Micenko
WACUA Treasurer

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President’s Report

Another General Meeting is around the corner so it’s time for another Committee Report. Please note that due to a conflicting appointment that Ashlee and I have the meeting is being pushed back by a week, so it’s Tuesday November 27th, same time and place!

This season has kicked off with a bang and with only 6 weeks to Christmas, we’re gearing up for our mid-way point. The committee has been smashing lots of goals and we’re really excited to share with you our latest news:

• Test Match Breakfast with the Life Members: It’s that time of year again for our breakfast with the Life Members! Hosted before the start of day three’s play at the Test Match (December 16th) join fellow members for a full buffet breakfast at Mantra on Hay Hotel. Cost for members and partners is $20pp. Please visit https://www.wacua.asn.au/event/life-members-breakfast/ for RSVP and payment information.
• T20 Game: The T20 is on this year! Due to the fact Kent Street Senior High School decided to knock down their change rooms mid cricket season (doh!) we’ve decided to look elsewhere for a suitable venue. While not turf, East Fremantle Cricket Club have kindly offered their ground, clubhouse, bar and kitchen for us to use. If you want to prove the rest of the gang you can still play join us on December 29th at 2pm and try to smack some balls into the Swan River. RSVP now at https://www.wacua.asn.au/event/t20-game/
• Saturday to base drinks: Those who attended our first ‘Saturday to base drinks’ at The Windsor Hotel have seen first hand something new the committee is trying to do to provide more social gatherings for our members to chinwag over a few cold beers. More of these will happen over the course of the season so keep your eyes open!
• Memorandum of Understanding: Our revised version of the MOU went back to the WACA early in November for them to review. We’re hopeful to get their comments and feedback soon so we can meet with them at our December committee meeting.
• Pay rates: Good news, pay rates have now been approved in full. This is an amazing outcome which sees some formats get significant pay increases. A great example of this is Junior Cricket 2-day Grand Finals getting an extra $60! For a full break down of match payments, see https://www.wacua.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WACA-Payrates-20182019.pdf
  
• Annual Season Dinner: Planning for the Annual Season Dinner is well underway with the Committee obtaining plenty of quotes from a number of venues around Perth. This year the dinner will be hosted on the first Friday in April to help boost attendance and make it more suitable for those looking to have a few drinks.
• Merchandise: Orders for season 2018-19 have now officially ended. Instructions on how to get your merchandise have been emailed out but for those who can wait, you can get your goodies at the November meeting. In addition to shirts, jackets and bags, we’ve acquired notebook covers which we’re hopeful will be available at the November meeting. To get your own notebook cover you must attend the meeting, and must buy a raffle ticket, so please come prepared with some lose change!
  

In addition to the announcements was Dave Campbell’s funeral which many of us attended. I want to thank everyone who came to celebrate Dave’s life.

The big news since our last meeting is the departure of Matthew Hall from the WACA to take on the role with Cricket Australia as the Match Referees Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape umpiring not only in this state but all over Australia so I wish Matthew the best of luck with the new role. With Matthew’s departure and the internal restructure of the Cricket Operations Team at the WACA we see familiar face and fellow WACUA member Daniel Gibbons take on the renamed position of Match Officials Manager. The WACUA are really excited with Daniel’s appointment and also wish him all the best with his new role.

That’s it from me, keep that finger in the pocket! 

Trent Steenholdt
WACUA President

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Secretary’s Report

If you haven’t already done so, please make sure you have completed a membership form at www.wacua.asn.au/register. This form must be completed in order for your membership to be approved. If you are unsure about your membership status, please ask me and I can confirm whether we have received your form. 

Correspondence out (since last general meeting):

• Email to Luke Douglas about Playing Conditions
• Email to Christian Bauer about Andrew attending WADCC Full Council meeting. 
• Email to Matthew Hall about meeting with him about pay rates and other topics. 
• Email out to order Notebook covers. 
• Email out to Ace Promotions to order additional shirts. 
• Email out about umpires supporting the Sock it to Sarcoma round to Lee Westbrook.
• Email out to Matthew Hall on announcement of his new role. 
• Email out to Perth Tatts about changing November meeting. 
• Email to Life Members inviting them to the Life Members Breakfast. 

Correspondence in (since last general meeting):

• Email in about Sock it to Sarcoma round from Lee Westbrook.
• Email from Matthew Hall about meeting with him about Payrates and other issues. 
• Email from CA about changing November meeting date. 
• Email in from Mantra on Hay about Life Members Breakfast. 
• Email in from Alan Johanson about announcement of Matthew Hall’s new role at CA. 
• Email in confirming change of date at Perth and Tatts for November meeting.
• Email in with Invoice for Perth and Tatts. 

Ashlee Gibbons
WACUA Secretary

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Treasurer’s Report

Hello everyone, and welcome to another exciting episode of WACUA Treasury monthly! It’s been a fairly quiet month for me, with only around 20 transactions happening since our last general meeting. The major ones are payments of $560 to Mantra on Hay to secure our booking for the Life Members’ Test Match Breakfast, and $500 to Perth and Tatts Bowling Club to allow us to use their facilities for our meetings.

On Monday 5th November, I filled in for Trent at the WADCC council meeting. There had been some correspondence between the WACUA and WADCC about some confusing playing condition clauses, and I spoke about these in the meeting. As a result, the WADCC has allowed us to suggest some changes to bring the wording of the playing conditions in line with what is happening in practice. The main changes relate to leg-side wides in limited overs competitions and the warning process around waist high non-pitching deliveries. Trent has sent our suggested changes on to the WADCC, so watch this space!

I was also asked at the WADCC council meeting to bring the Sock it to Sarcoma round to the attention of umpires. This round is happening on December 1st and 2nd, and December 9th for the female competitions. Feel free to wear odd socks while umpiring those days, or make a donation to the cause. More information about Sock it to Sarcoma is available at https://www.sockittosarcoma.org.au

Finally, here are the numbers (correct at time of writing):
Cheque account: $2,585.88
Savings account: $13,947.39
Cash: $0.00
Total: $16,533.27

Thanks,
Andrew Micenko
WACUA Treasurer