1. Service Hours
a. Each family is required to work a minimum of 50 service hours.
b. Families with more than one skater are required to work an additional 10 service hours per skater. However, if the family’s second skater is an Atom, the additional requirement is just 5 hours per skater.
c. Families with a Mite as the oldest skater will have their service hour requirement reduced to 25 hours.
d. Families with an Atom as the oldest skater will have their service hour requirement reduced to 15 hours.
2. Tournament Service Hours
a. A minimum of 25 service hours must be considered “tournament hours”. Tournament hours include high school games and sanctioned tournaments (invitational, regional or state tournaments) hosted at Wildcat Centre.
b. Families of Mite skaters must complete a minimum of 15 “tournament hours”.
c. Families of Atoms skaters do not have a “tournament hour” minimum.
d. Each team will be required to staff the tournament at their level or provide workers if we do not sponsor a tournament at their level. It is the member’s responsibility to arrange for a substitute if the member is unable to work the assigned shifts.
e. The tournament schedule will be posted at the Wildcat Centre and also on the River Falls Youth Hockey website.
3. Service Hours Policies
a. Service hours are not received when working as an “off-ice official (i.e. penalty box, score board operator or announcer) at your child’s home games.
b. Workers must be at least age 18 to work at high school games. In addition, workers must be at least age 18 to work the clock, scorekeeping and the penalty box for any level of game.
c. A list of service hour options is provided at registration.
d. Members that do not satisfy the service hours will be assessed a fee of $10 per hour not worked.
e. A table which lists service hour options is located in the Appendix.
f. You will be required to sign in at the time that you perform your service hours. If you have questions please contact Jody Christensen.
g. Service hours may not be carried into the next year.
4. Service Hours from Donations
a. There are three ways to receive service hour credit or tax credit for items or time donated to RFYHA. Please get the appropriate approval ahead of time (usually a board vote or building committee approval).
i. If donating an item and you would like a receipt for charitable giving tax purposes, you will need to provide an invoice/bill to the treasurer. The treasurer will provide a receipt for the agreed upon value.
ii. If donating an item in exchange for service hours, you must come to a mutually agreed upon value before making the donation. Please ask for approval prior to making the exchange.
iii. If performing labor for a project (i.e. Painting a locker room, etc.), the service will be exchanged hour for hour worked. You must have prior approval before working on the project. There are a couple of ways to get project credit. Using the painting of the locker room as an example:
? Buy the paint and get credit for the purchase price at 1 hour per ten dollars (for $100 of paint, you would receive 10 hours credit) plus the hours for the actual labor. You must submit receipts for your purchases.
? RFHYA supplies the paint and you get credit for hours performing the labor.
