Orders of Operation & LLC

So let's recap, the derby league had a name - Reedy River Rollergirls, it had a core group of skaters, it had a coach, it had a logo, stickers and t-shirts, now all it needed was to be official! We already met at Roxie Moxie's house to have a little "Derby 101" session and to assign specific jobs to certain skaters, but we needed to be official on paper. We needed to have a structure by which to run and maintain the league - especially if we ever hoped to be an official WFTDA league. We needed to rules to handle all sorts of situations that would arise down the road. Roxie & I reached out to everyone that we could find that was in the same boat that we were. We got some great advice from the Blue Ridge Rollergirls from Asheville on setting up an account to maintain funds and we got our orders of operations from the Palmetto State Rollergirls from Conway, SC the only other league in SC at the time that was just as new as we were. Feara Shera brought a friend to practice one night that just so happened to be a lawyer and offered to help us set up our LLC - free of charge. She looked over the Orders of Operations and told me, "You can't perfect what's already been perfected." and approved. The only thing we had to pay was the filing fee of $100 to file our LLC. We'll at the time we hadn't started taking up due's and all of the merch that we had gotten so far had been donated to us from our very first sponsors Anthony's Graphics (t-shirts), Rob from the Rogue Rollergirls designed our logo and Benji from Juggernaut printed up the stickers. Luckily we received the money from an anonymous donor and two weeks later we were official!