MONTHLY DBOA MEETING MINUTES

Date of Meeting:          November 25, 2024

Time of Meeting:         6:00 pm (Executive Committee) 7:00 pm (Staff)

Location of Meeting:  Parkside High School/Media Center/Salisbury, Maryland

Present at Meeting:    Richard Pullum (VP) Bernell Bowen (Treasurer)               

                                       Ashad Duncan (Assignor) Frank Brown (AL) Walt Stevenson (AL)

                                      Nate McCoy (Interpreter) Larry Farrare (AL)

Absent at Meeting:     Teddy James (President) Excused 

                                      Colette Douglas (Secretary) Excused  

The Executive Meeting of DBOA was called @ 6:14 pm by Richard Pullum.

1. Approval of Agenda

The agenda for the meeting was verbally discussed and approved.

1. Treasurer report: $2521.74 Bank Balance ($292.56 annual DBOA website subscription payment deducted from previous balance of $2814.30)

2. Assignor’s Update Information

3. Interpreter’s Update Information

      2.  Review of Last Meeting Minutes

             No last meeting minutes were provided.

      3.  Consideration and open discussions for new business

                 a. Contracts for VA Schools need to be provided ASAP which will be   

                     by Teddy James (President).

                 b. $25.00 Travel Fee per official who travels to Northampton from Maryland

                 (EXECUTIVE MEETING ADJOURNED @ 6:55 pm)

       4. The General Membership Meeting was called to order by Richard Pullum (VP) @ 7

                 a. All attendees were signed in.

                 b. Treasurer’s Report was given by Bernell Bowen (Treasurer)

                 c. Assignor’s Information and updates were discussed by Ashad Duncan

                     (There will be 3 person crews on all 94 feet floors; reiterated to put in block 

                      out dates on Arbiter; recommended that all officials should have completed 

                      Dragonfly registrations by 11/30/24. Deadline date is 12/3/24.)

                 d. Interpreter’s Updates were given by Nate McCoy which was an open floor       

                     discussions on new and previous rule clarifications. 

The next meeting/agenda will be held @ TBA by Teddy James (President)

MEETING ADJOURNED @ 7:40 pm by Richard Pullum (VP) Submitted by Bernell Bowen

Delmarva Bayside Officials Association 

Exec Board Meeting - Playoff Officials Selection 

5th February 2025 / 7:00 PM / ZOOM Meeting (Official start 7:04PM) 

ATTENDEES 

Teddy James President, Richard Pullum VP, Ashad Duncan Assignor, Bernell Bowen Treasurer, Nate McCoy Interpreter, Frank Brown Member at Large, Walt Stevenson 

Member at Large, Larry Farrare Member at Large. Colette Pettit Secretary (game 

assignment, not in attendance). 

AGENDA New Business 

Selection of officials for playoffs 

NOTES TAKEN 

President began meeting with reading of officials from eligible 

officials roster. The narrowing of the officials gave us 22 officials for the 

playoffs. Of the 22 officials 14 have officiated either playoffs and/or 

received a State semi-final or final game years prior. 8 Officials (should 

they receive a game) are newly playoff selected officials. 

Current Playoff / State Tournament Officials 

1. Rodney Bailey, Bernell Bowen, Frank Brown, William Custis, Colette 

Pettit, Larry Farrare, Larry Hemmeian, Billy Holden, Duran Holder, Teddy 

James, Nathan McCoy, Tony Mumford (Injury?), Dynetta Opher, Richard 

Pullum, & Walt Stevenson. 

2. Newly Playoffs selected Officials: Adrian Bowen, Zamar Collins, Phillip 

Malta, Aaron Sadberry, Frankie Long, Dustin Stokes, and Maurice 

Fountain. 

ACTION ITEMS 

1. Assigner will assign games as they are made available once playoff 

seeding has been completed. 

2. Selection of officials are still needed for Bayside Championship (4 

slots) and for Semi-Finals and Finals of MD State Tournament. 

3. Ashad will be following up on a situation that happened at Mardela HS on 

Tues 2/4/25 - Brief incident involving Dustin Stokes (official, and a parent of visiting t4am North Dorcester. Dustin was not assaulted!

4/10/25
DBOA ZOOM MEETING MINUTES

• Meeting was called to order at 7:00pm.

• Executive Board Members in Attendance  

• Teddy J., Colette P., Richard P., Bernell B., Walt S., Larry F., Nate M., and Ashad D., Frank B.

• Purpose: Appointment of New Assignor for the 25-26 Basketball Season.

Teddy James (President) has appointed Walt Stevenson to the position of Assignor for the 2025-2026 basketball season. This position was vacated by our present assignor at the end of our 2024 season. This appointment will begin on May 1, 2025, with Ashad D. assisting with the transition. An email to all officials will be sent out to inform everyone of the changes.

OTHER BUSINESS:

• The By-Laws will be amended to include consequences and disciplinary actions. The constitution may be amended if necessary. Once the changes are made, the By-Laws and Constitution will be presented to the Body and Voted on. It must be approved with a majority vote.

• All schools will receive Contracts for the up-coming year.

• It was suggested that before the new season, we should have a meeting with some officials concerning incidents which occurred last year. the panel will meet with each one individually.

Even though we are all independent contractors, we All should be on board with no less than $35 for all Rec/AAU games.

Ashad and Teddy has volunteered to reach out to the local leagues (Crown, Kappa, BJ's High School Summer League, and AAU Tournaments, etc.) It was recommended that The Crown pay possibly $50 per game.

DelMarva Basketball Officials Association

Board Meeting 09/08/25

08 SEPTEMBER 2025 / 6:30 PM / PARKSIDE HS MEDIA ROOM

ATTENDEES - Meeting started at 6:43 PM and ended at 8:32 PM

Teddy James-President; Richard Pullum-Vice-Pres; Bernell Bowen-Treasurer; Walt

Stevenson-Assigner; Nate McCoy-Interpreter; Colette Pettit-Secretary; Frank

Brown-Member at Large (M.A.L);

Not in attendance: Larry Farrare-M.A.L.; Ashad Duncan-M.A.L.

AGENDA

Last Meeting Follow-up

1. Walt Meeting with ADs on 9/4/25

2. Arbiter Update / Games assigned aren’t in line with billing

3. JV games Bayside procedures. 4-10-minute quarters running clock,

Overtime mercy rule procedures. Will this mercy rule also apply to

Varsity games? (Point deficit must get back to 25 or less once you reach

35 in the second half.

4. New ADs at Crisfield (Amber Elliot), Washington High?

a. All officials will be required to fill out W-9 for Somerset County

i. Since our last meeting, this has changed.

New Business

Treasurer Report/Follow Up

● $1,072.45. Bernell to do weekly audits of the arbiter, which will help

ensure that we stay in good standing with billing and Governmental

requirements.

● Our current accountant representative has ended their contract with

DBOA. President Ted James brought forth the need to raise our dues.

Bernell, our treasurer, agreed that operational fees and the cost to

provide members with training and materials have also increased.

Interpreter Report/Follow Up

● Good participation from off-season New Official classes

● Nate has suggested to the President that he look into visual/audio

equipment for training purposes during meetings.

● There will be a rating system that all assigned “R” of the game will

have to fill out on the crew that night.

Assigner Report/Follow Up

● Jv games 10 min qtrs running clock, only stopping for timeouts,

injuries, shooting fouls, within the last 1 min clock will stop. JV

games if 35pt lead going into 4th qtr 8 min. Running clock

● The newly adapted mercy rule applies to Var and JV games. If there is a

35 point lead at the beginning of the 3rd quarter or if the score at any

time of the 2nd half of a Varsity or JV contest reaches 35pts the clock

will run for the rest of half/quarter and clock will not resume to start

and stop until lead is decreased by 25pts or less.

● NEW Protocol: A school administrator must be present in the gym at some

point throughout the game. However, prior to the game starting the

assigned “R” must seek out the Admin for that evening and they should

also sign the book as being present in the game. The board has asked

that Walt communicate this back to ADs at the schools.

Secretary Report/Follow UP

M.A.L. Report/Follow Up

President Report/Follow Up

● By-Laws and Constitution updated by 9/29

● The President is to order the rule books before 9/29

● ALL new 1-2 yr officials will be given mechanics manuals

○ ALL others will be charged for theirs.

● Official Classes for 1-2-year officials. There will be requirements for

3-4-year officials to attend classes as well. (Nate/Board to decide who)

● Raising our dues

Motioned Items

● Bernell motioned to have our member dues raised from $30 to $50. Motion

was passed.

● Bernell, our Treasurer motioned to raise the administrative fee that we

charge to schools from $8 to $9. Motion was passed.

● Bernell motioned to go with Orville Penn as the new accountant. Motion

was passed. Before meeting and motion, Orville did submit a letter to

Bernell (MOU- Memorandum of Understanding)

● Motion passed on purchasing visual and audio equipment for the

association.

ACTION ITEMS

1. Constitution and By-Laws review and Approval, and make changes

2. Contracts for ALL schools and DBOA - have ready by 9/29

3. W-9 completed and returned (completed at the meeting)

a. There will not be a need to fill out a W-9 for Somerset County, as

Somerset County schools will now be following the DBOA invoicing

process, as other Bayside schools.

Table Items

4. Community Basketball Programs - contract with Salvation Army? 2yrs $35

per official. (This is for discussion).

5. Game fees for summer basketball.

6. Summer leagues - Crown (girls) Snow Hill (boys)

a. Should we assign through Arbiter? Game fee raised to? How can we

make this into a 3-man camp?

i. Why? Can be used for training for Arbiter

ii. Aide in getting officials trained quicker, more structured

iii. Allows DBOA to be part of the community and can open doors

for other individuals to get into officiating.

NEXT WEEK’S AGENDA

Next Meeting will be Sept 29, 2025, Board 6 p.m. / General 7 p.m.