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ECAC Officiating Payment Service Update

ECAC’s Official Payment Service was supposed to make the first payment to officials for the 2007 season on October 10, 2007. According to ECAC, quite a few of their subscribing institutions did not fund ECAC by October 10, 2007. Consequently, ECAC failed to meet their first scheduled payment deadline.

ECAC is currently reviewing their accounts and will provide a revised payment schedule and plan. We will post updates here as they become available.

Ejection Procedures

As a reminder, if you are the ECAC assigned referee and have to terminate the game or eject a player, make sure you fill out and submit the ECAC ejection/termination online form. In addition, you have to fill out and submit the Supplemental Ejection report. If the ejection is for fighting, you must notify the Region 2 coordinator, Neil Edkins via email. You can download these forms and view these links in the Library and Documents section of our web site.

ECAC Game Site Conflicts

Since the ECAC assigning process here in the NY Metro area does not generate email reminders, conflicts will happen, we recommend the assigned referee contact the home team’s athletic administration department by phone, confirm the game site and contact the other assigned officials with the latest information. Remember, voice messages or email must be confirmed by the recipient. Everyone is responsible to positively confirm all pre-game communications.

ECAC Officiating Payment Service for 2007

The ECAC serves as a paying agent for subscribing schools to pay the assigned soccer officials. The schools using this service for men’s and women’s soccer in the metro New York City area for the 2007 season are:

Adelphi University, C.W. Post University, City College of New York (CCNY), Dowling College, Farmingdale University, Hunter College, Manhattanville College, Molloy College, University of New Haven, New Paltz, NYU, Nyack College, Old Westbury, Southern Connecticut State University, St. Joseph’s College (Patchogue), St. Thomas Aquinas College, SUNY Purchase, SUNY Maritime College (Men only), Western Connecticut State University, York College.

This list is subject to change. Payments are scheduled for October 10, 2007 and November 16, 2007.

ECAC Assignment Fees for 2007

We received the following information from ECAC regarding their assignment fees for the 2007 season:

Officials are urged to confirm their assignments, asap. Assignment fees are due in the ECAC office by August 15, 2007. Checks received after the due date will be subject to a $15 late penalty. Please send your check or money order (made payable to the ECAC) to Karen Roberts, ECAC Soccer, PO Box # 3, Centerville, MA 02632 in accordance with categories below and the actual number of game assignments (on the ECAC web site and Alan Wharton’s AssignByWeb site) you have been given on the release date, Monday, July 23, 2007.

Games Assigned	Fee
1-5 games	$40
6-10 games	$65
11-15 games	$85
16-24 games	$100
25 or more games	$150

ECAC Assignments To Be Released By July 27

The latest information from ECAC indicates their assignments for the upcoming soccer season will be released on their web site no later than July 27, 2007.

ECAC Assigning Web Site is Live

The new ECAC Official assigning web page is now live. The ECAC recommends you log on and immediately change your user name and password. Your default user name is your social security number and the default password is the last 4 digits of your social security number.