Volunteer Opportunities
FAQs
Pleasant Hill Baseball Association is an all-volunteer youth Baseball and Softball league. All PHBA families are required to volunteer for either the team-oriented opportunities or the non-team oriented opportunities to complete their League Service Hours (LSH) requirement. The team-oriented opportunities require a parent/adult commitment for the course of the season. The non-team oriented opportunities require a parent/adult commitment of 4 hours per child (maximum of 8 hours for two or more children per family).
To encourage volunteer participation, all families agree at registration to pay a league-determined amount if they fail to complete their League Service Hours. The LSH obligation fee is separate from a player’s annual registration fee, and is only charged if the League Service Hours are not fully met. The LSH obligation fee is $500 per child per family ($1000 max for 2 kids or more per family).
If a player’s League Service Hours are not fully met, an invoice will be sent to the family for the full League Service Hours fee at the end of the season. This LSH fee must be paid before registration in the following year or it will be applied to their next season's registration fee.
It takes a lot of volunteer time to make PHBA successful. Your time is more valuable to our players than your money. However, should you prefer not to volunteer, you may buy out your obligation for $500 per child, with a maximum of $1000 per family.
For Instructional and Intermediate, use this form.
For Pioneer through Western, use this form.
FORMS
Team Umpire Recruitment Incentive (TURI)
The Team Umpire Recruitment Incentive (TURI) is a team fee designed to incentivize a team's parents to support their manager/coaches in filling the team-required volunteer umpire position. The TURI fee is $800.
Each team in Pioneer, American, National, and Western division has a 16-game umpire coverage requirement. To meet that requirement teams are required to supply at least one parent volunteer (1) or up to a maximum of four (4) to be their team umpire(s). Each umpire provided must complete a minimum of four (4) games towards satisfying their personal LSH requirement. Completion of the team's 16-game umpire coverage requirement can be achieved by any combination of numbers per umpire once those umpires have met their 4-game LSH requirement. The umpire requirements can be found on the PHBA Umpires page.
Any team failing to provide at least one umpire on their Team Volunteer form at the time of their team gear bag pickup will be required to pay the TURI Fee to get their team's gear bag. The TURI fee is separate from the Registration fee. Failure to pay the TURI fee at the time of gear bag pickup will result in an invoice sent at the end of the season to the team's parents for their portion of the TURI fee (excluding manager/coaches). Failure to pay their portion of the TURI fee before the next season will result in that amount being applied to the next season's registration fee.
Team umpires who fail to complete their 4-game minimum will be assessed the same LSH obligation fee as parent/adult volunteers who fail to complete their 4-hour League Service Hours commitment. An invoice will be sent to the team umpire at the end of the season. Failure to pay the LSH obligation fee before the next season will result in the LSH fee being applied to next season's registration fee.