Vice President's Report
For NSBO Annual General Meeting
April 27, 2003

This basketball season proved once again to be learning experience for me. The opportunities presented to me after assuming this office was valuable in helping to better understand the complexities and diversity of a board such as NSBO.  The variety of duties that come with this office includes dealing with discipline, chairing the awards committee, and taking part in various committees.  There were several highlights to my season including:
- Currently working on rates from NSSAF, ACAA, BNS
- Preparing recommendations for awards for the fall meeting
- Finalizing the criteria for awards
- Member of the three-person committee that selected officials
for the NSSAF tournaments.
Looking back on the 2002-03-basketball season, I would have to say I'm luckier than my predecessors in the vice president's chair. Through the great work of the provincial executive, area supervisors and each and every official in the province, there was not one issue of a disciplinary nature for me to deal with.  I applaud each of you for that and would ask all of you to continue this level of professionalism each and every season.  The one case that had to be dealt with concerning an official in Valley West was turned over to Basketball Nova Scotia. They serve as our appeals board and to my knowledge this has been dealt with.  On the awards front, many of you will find our rules and regulations were vague as to what criteria was in place for each of the awards we support each year. I spent a great deal of time
on this issue after determining a full set of criteria should be created This would allow our membership the opportunity to fully understand the criteria and the thought process behind the committee's selection.  I would hope the document I have provided to the board is appropriate and would be used as a base point for determining awards, prizes and service documents pending their approval by our membership.  Until this past season I had no idea how much work went into
getting officials to NSSAF tournaments. It's not as simple as just applying and going to the tournament as I found out through numerous calls with committee members Reg Jewkes and Jon Hunt.  After many hours of consultations officials were assigned to all eight tournaments. I would be remiss if I didn't thank both of
them for having a vision and sticking to it.  It has always been my goal to help foster NSBO's growth and with that in mind, I will be re-offering for the office of vice
president.

Respectfully submitted


Sam McNeish