ACAC POLICIES

A. PREAMBLE

The purpose of this document is to formalize the training, evaluating & assigning procedures for ACAC games through a coordinated effort between ACAC, ABOA & its Local Assigning Boards.The policies of ABOA & the current ABOA/ACAC contract will apply.

B. ACAC ELIGIBILITY 1. New Officials

Any nominee for inclusion to an ACAC assigning board should have attended one of thefollowing ASAA provincials in the last 3 years:

4A Boys, 4A Girls, 3A Boys, 3A Girls

. Theevaluator(s) at the provincial championship should include in their report to the ABOA EvaluationChair the names of any officials who have the potential to referee at the ACAC level.

Thisinformation should not be included on the individual’s post tournament evaluation.

The nominee

should then be evaluated at an ACAC preseason

game, tournament orequivalent exhibition game by a qualified provincial evaluator or designate.

2. Continuing Officials

An approved ACAC official must attend an

ABOA approved

clinic or camp

once every two years

. It is the

responsibility of the local board

to track this process & include only thosenames on their ACAC list that have met this requirement. An approved ACAC official must

score a minimum of 80%

on the CABO exam or it’sprovincial equivalent in the current year of officiating. The exam should be consistent with therule set used by the ACAC for the current year. The exam will be written under the guidelinesset by ABOA.

C. ACAC LISTSBy September 15

, each ACAC Assigning Board will compile &

submit to ABOA

a list of officials for the current season who are eligible & being considered to referee ACAC games.The

total number of officials

on the list should reflect the maximum number of officialsneeded on the busiest single day of the ACAC regular season in their assigning area

plus

thefollowing additions

. A number of ACAC officials equal to the number of CIS members fromthe local board as well as a small number of replacement officials in case officials areunavailable on any given night.

For example

in the Southern Alberta Board (SABOA) there are6 CIS officials &

two ACAC venues

(LCC & MHC) to assign. Therefore the greatest number of officials needed would be 18. 6 CIS officials plus 12 needed for both ACAC venues. Allowing forofficials who might be unavailable at the rate of 1 official per ACAC venue the total for SABOA should not exceed 20.

Assigning

Boards that need to exceed their number must includean explanation with their list.

An additional 5

alternates

can be included & assigned whennecessary however they are not guaranteed any games.The

final

proposed list of officials will be submitted to ABOA

7 days after the last availablepreseason exhibition games.

This list will be distributed by the Assigning Board to allapproved ACAC officials along with any other pertinent ACAC policies.