PARENT DUTIES
IMPORTANT - To qualify for a refund of your Parent Duty Bond, please ensure you have your name recorded when you perform your duties
Parents are required to perform duties to assist with the running of our sessions – we can’t hold them without you!
The Centre levies a fully-refundable parent duty bond of $75 per family each season in order to encourage parents to fulfil their parent duties. This bond is part of the registration fee and families are eligible for a duty bond refund after completing all duties for the season.
There are two categories of Duties that contribute toward your duty bond refund:
1. Equipment Set Up/Pack Up Duty and in-session Parent Duties at Mentone Regular Competition Days (our standard sessions)
Performance of either a duty during the session, or helping with set up/pack up counts toward the duty bond refund tally. You must have your name recorded at the start of your duty session (or at the end of pack up) to ensure your contribution is recognised. For a normal season of 15 Rounds plus PB Day, the following number of duties are required per family:
Under 6 - Under 8 = 5 duties per family
Under 9 - Under 17 = 4 duties per family
Notes:
If you have children in both sessions, your family's requirement is the higher number of duties. For example, if you have 2 children, one in U7 and one in U12, you are required to perform 5 duties in total. Don't add the duties together.
These requirements will be reduced if a season is shortened significantly at a ratio of approximately ¼ of available duty sessions for families with 1-2 members or 1/3 of available duty sessions for families of 3 or more.
2. Special Event Duties
You must also perform rostered duties at Mentone Relay Day or Regional/State events if your child participates in these special events. These duties are not counted directly toward the tally of duties for normal sessions, but they do need to be performed to qualify for the duty bond refund. Failure to complete duties at special events may result in the forfeit of your duty bond refund, or in extreme cases your child being excluded from competition.
