Highschool hockey officers are again on the ice.
Chris Parsons, the president of the Maine chapter of the Nationwide Ice Hockey Officers Affiliation, confirmed Saturday that officers have accepted a suggestion from the Maine Principals’ Affiliation that will finish an deadlock over fee for video games. Officers returned to the ice in time for ladies’ hockey preseason video games, which began Saturday.
“I believe all of us had the identical purpose in thoughts, which was for the student-athletes to have a season,” Parsons stated. “To lastly get ink to paper and get this season signed and accomplished with, we are able to transfer ahead with this yr.”
MPA Govt Director Mike Burnham stated that the settlement isn’t but official. The MPA and NIHOA reached a tentative settlement on Nov. 4, the NIHOA board accepted it Tuesday, and Burnham signed a brief measure Friday to permit officers to work till the MPA’s interscholastic committee votes on the deal.
Burnham stated the committee is assembly Wednesday, and the deal “is on the agenda.”
“There’s a tentative settlement transferring ahead,” Burnham stated. “The officers have accepted it, and as soon as our administration committee approves it, we’re good to go.”
Officers and the MPA had been engaged in a dispute over per-game funds. The MPA supplied a elevate from $78 per sport to $82, however the NIHOA’s Maine chapter stated officers wished $90 per sport – a 15-percent enhance from the 2021-22 season.
Each Parsons and Burnham declined to present monetary particulars of the pending settlement. Parsons stated the contract can be for 3 years, and was “overwhelmingly” accepted by the officers.
Highschool superintendents on Oct. 24 urged the edges to return to negotiations. With former Lewiston boys’ hockey coach Jamie Belleau serving as a mediator, the 2 events reached the tentative settlement.
“There was loads of negotiation that went into not solely this yr, however future years,” Burnham stated. “The mediation was essential.”
Parsons stated that whereas the negotiations have been prolonged, neither facet was trying to jeopardize the boys’ and ladies’ hockey seasons.
“The method most likely took longer than both facet wished,” he stated. “(However) all of us had the correct state of mind and the correct perspective about attempting to see this factor by means of.”
Burnham stated that even with the MPA’s official vote pending, he’s assured the season isn’t in danger.
“I’m feeling that, by means of this course of, we’re capable of have an ice hockey season,” he stated. “We’ve made sufficient of a transfer that we may try this.”
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